romanticshort films

The flutter and the fall. Shorts about wanting someone, in all its forms.

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Romance
Paint Me Blue

A Painter and a Muse fall in love, create art, and escape reality

19 min · atmospheric · intimate
Romance
Always for the First Time

Memories of love and trauma intertwine in ways she never saw coming

19 min · intimate · romantic
Documentary
The Tides That Bind

A doc about Clint who finds messages in bottles and tracks down the senders

21 min · heartwarming · nostalgic
Comedy
Love Less Likely

A cursed woman, a mouthy teen, and a bunch of dead guys

16 min · entertaining · romantic
Romance
L+T

A woman makes a heart-breaking love confession to a stranger in a bar

18 min · dark · intimate
Romance
The Night We Called It A Day

Two ex-lovers reunite for one last gig, confronting past wounds and lingering desires

14 min · emotional · intimate
Comedy
Things I’ve Made My Roommate Do

I've parked my car in the friend zone...again

25 min · quirky · romantic
Drama
GhostofYou.

Miranda struggles to move on as fragments of her past love resurface

6 min · intimate · nostalgic
Comedy
Topical Cream

A fake-woke millennial falls in love with a talking bottle

9 min · hilarious · romantic
Romance
Love, 9 to 5

A bouncer, who has just got broken up with, has a shift on Valentine’s Day

15 min · entertaining · intimate
Romance
Requiem (With A Side of Fries)

A divorcing couple enjoy a final dinner together

16 min · emotional · heartwarming
Romance
A Best Man

Everything goes smoothly for the Best Man

12 min · dark · intimate
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romanticshort films

The flutter and the fall. Shorts about wanting someone, in all its forms.

Hand-picked Curated Free to watch
Filter by genre
Romance
Paint Me Blue

A Painter and a Muse fall in love, create art, and escape reality

19 min · atmospheric · intimate
Romance
Always for the First Time

Memories of love and trauma intertwine in ways she never saw coming

19 min · intimate · romantic
Documentary
The Tides That Bind

A doc about Clint who finds messages in bottles and tracks down the senders

21 min · heartwarming · nostalgic
Comedy
Love Less Likely

A cursed woman, a mouthy teen, and a bunch of dead guys

16 min · entertaining · romantic
Romance
L+T

A woman makes a heart-breaking love confession to a stranger in a bar

18 min · dark · intimate
Romance
The Night We Called It A Day

Two ex-lovers reunite for one last gig, confronting past wounds and lingering desires

14 min · emotional · intimate
Comedy
Things I’ve Made My Roommate Do

I've parked my car in the friend zone...again

25 min · quirky · romantic
Drama
GhostofYou.

Miranda struggles to move on as fragments of her past love resurface

6 min · intimate · nostalgic
Comedy
Topical Cream

A fake-woke millennial falls in love with a talking bottle

9 min · hilarious · romantic
Romance
Love, 9 to 5

A bouncer, who has just got broken up with, has a shift on Valentine’s Day

15 min · entertaining · intimate
Romance
Requiem (With A Side of Fries)

A divorcing couple enjoy a final dinner together

16 min · emotional · heartwarming
Romance
A Best Man

Everything goes smoothly for the Best Man

12 min · dark · intimate
For filmmakers

Have a short film?
Share it with the world.

Klipist is where short films find their audience. Hand-curated, independently run, watched in 190 countries. If you’ve made something great, we want to see it.

Submit your film
Curator’s note

The best romantic short films, free to watch.

Romance is the rare thing a short film can hold whole. A look, a confession, one last night together, the entire arc of wanting someone in about the time it takes a coffee to go cold. These films are hand-picked, complete, and free to watch. Love stories with nothing padded and nothing wasted.

The Night We Called It A Day reunites two ex-lovers for one final gig and every wound that comes with it, and L+T watches a woman make a heart-breaking confession to a stranger in a bar. One Night Stand traces a whole relationship from its first night to its last, while Love Less Likely tangles a cursed woman, a mouthy teen and an unlikely shot at love.

The best romantic short films know that brevity is its own kind of romance. Annie Waits sits with a woman still holding out for the one, and The Lost Weekend pushes a heartbroken man into the strange new world of online dating. Requiem gives Bella Ramsey a forbidden love worth fighting for, and our editors keep a ranked list in the best romantic short films collection. Each film here is an editor's pick, streaming free in 190 countries with no sign-up. Press play, and fall a little.