Best Romance movies of 1993 that are award winners or nominees

The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



The Age of Innocence(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.



Sleepless in Seattle(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.



The Remains of the Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.



Benny & Joon(1993)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.



Poetic Justice(1993)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 45

In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.



Dave(1993)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 28

To avoid a potentially explosive scandal when the U.S. President goes into a coma, an affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance is put in his place.



Shadowlands(1993)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.



Beethoven's 2nd(1993)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Beethoven, the St. Bernard dog, becomes a father, but his girlfriend Missy is dognapped, and his puppies are in danger of the same fate.



Much Ado About Nothing(1993)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.