Best Romance movies of 1996 that are award winners or nominees

The English Patient(1996)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.



Jerry Maguire(1996)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.



Breaking the Waves(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.



The Nutty Professor(1996)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.



Tin Cup(1996)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.



Emma(1996)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman.



Everyone Says I Love You(1996)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.



The Portrait of a Lady(1996)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.



The Mirror Has Two Faces(1996)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.



One Fine Day(1996)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.



Ridicule(1996)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.



The Evening Star(1996)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious ...