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List of interracial romance films

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This is a list of interracial romance films.

Films

The films in this list satisfy the following requirements:

A professional critic or film scholar has identified it as an interracial romance film.
The film has been released.
The film is feature length (e.g. not a segment from an anthology).
The film features a romantic relationship, not just partnering, between people of different races.
The film's inclusion or casting of interracial romance is not incidental.
The film is not about romance between species or fictional races (e.g. Star Trek, The Twilight Saga, Shrek, The Little Mermaid).

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Title	Director	Summary	Year	Notes	References
The Bronze Bride	Henry MacRae	A Canadian fur trapper takes a Native American woman as his bride, a union that meets with much disapproval when they return to civilization.	1917
The Forbidden City	Sidney Franklin	A Chinese princess betrothed to the Chinese Emperor is sentenced to death when she secretly marries an American diplomat and becomes pregnant.	1918
The Heart of Wetona	Sidney Franklin	The mixed-race daughter of a Comanche chief falls in love with a young engineer. When the young man deserts her, she turns to a white Indian agent who marries her.	1919
Broken Blossoms	D. W. Griffith	A young Londoner abused by her alcoholic father, a Limehouse District prizefighter, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.	1919		^[1]
Othello	Dimitri Buchowetzki	The treacherous Iago plots to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy. Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.	1922
The Toll of the Sea	Chester M. Franklin	While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.	1922
The Ten Commandments	Cecil B. DeMille	An American man loves a Chinese woman.	1923
Piccadilly	Ewald André Dupont	A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen of a London nightclub, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.	1929
Cimarron	Wesley Ruggles		1931
Bird of Paradise	King Vidor	A Polynesian girl falls in love when an American sailor visits to her island, however, she is promised to a prince on a nearby island.	1932
Black Pearl	Michał Waszyński	A Polish sailor returns home from Tahiti with a native girl and a fortune in sacred pearls. He is seduced by a married woman, unaware she is part of a plot to steal his riches.	1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen	Frank Capra	A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love during the Chinese Civil War.	1933
Princess Tam Tam	Edmond T. Gréville	A French writer traveling in Tunisia becomes infatuated with a local girl and invites her back to his country where she is introduced to Parisian high society.	1935		^[1]
Ramona	Henry King		1936
God's Step Children	Oscar Micheaux		1938
Duel in the Sun	King Vidor		1946		^[2]
Pinky	Elia Kazan	An African-American nurse who was born light-skinned and passes for white in the North returns to her Southern hometown. She and a white Northern doctor are in love, but she eventually turns down his offer of marriage in order to stay and help her community.	1949		^[1]^[3]^[4]
Broken Arrow	Delmer Daves	A dramatization of the story of a white man Tom Jeffords and his interactions with the Apache nation including falling in love with and marrying Apache girl named Sonseeahray.	1950		^[5]^[6]
The Wild North	Andrew Marton		1952
Othello	Orson Welles	Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.	1952	Won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952.
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas	Lew Landers		1953
His Majesty O'Keefe	Byron Haskin		1954
The Purple Plain	Robert Parrish	A pilot of the Royal Air Force falls in love with a Burmese woman during the Burma Campaign of World War II	1954		^[7]
White Feather	Robert D. Webb	A white boy marries a Native American woman.	1955		^[8]
House of Bamboo	Samuel Fuller		1955		^[9]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	Henry King		1955
Seven Cities of Gold	Robert D. Webb		1955
The Indian Fighter	Andre De Toth	A trail scout leads a wagon train bound for Oregon through hostile Indian territory and unwittingly gets involved with the daughter of a Sioux chieftain.	1955
The Black Tent	Brian Desmond Hurst		1956
Giant	George Stevens		1956
The Halliday Brand	Joseph H. Lewis		1957
War Drums	Reginald Le Borg		1957
Island in the Sun	Robert Rossen		1957	Hollywood's first interracial kiss	^[10]^[11]^[12]
Run of the Arrow	Samuel Fuller		1957
Band of Angels	Raoul Walsh	A young woman, raised as white by her father, a wealthy plantation owner, discovers after his death that she is half black. After she is sold in New Orleans, she and her owner fall in love.	1957
Sayonara	Joshua Logan	Two U.S. Air Force pilots fall in love with a pair of Japanese women.	1957	Won four Academy Awards	^[1]^[13]
Touch of Evil	Orson Welles		1958		^[14]
China Doll	Frank Borzage	During World War II, a white American pilot gets drunk one night and unintentionally buys a young Chinese woman from her destitute father.	1958
Kings Go Forth	Delmer Daves		1958		^[13]
Night of the Quarter Moon	Hugo Haas	A newlywed husband's family objects that his wife is mixed'race.	1959		^[15]
The World, the Flesh and the Devil	Ranald MacDougall	In a post-apocalyptic world, a black man and a white woman appear to be the only survivors. Then a white boy shows up.	1959		^[16]
Hiroshima, mon amour	Alain Resnais		1959
I Spit on Your Graves	Michel Gast		1959
The Crimson Kimono	Samuel Fuller		1959
Another Sky	Gavin Lambert		1954
Shadows	John Cassavetes	A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white boy, who is unaware of her race.	1959		^[17]
The World of Suzie Wong	Richard Quine	A foreigner falls for a Chinese prostitute in Hong Kong	1960
My Baby is Black!	Claude Bernard-Aubert		1961
Flame in the Streets	Roy Ward Baker		1961
Bridge to the Sun	Etienne Périer	A biographical film about the marriage of Gwen Harold and Japanese diplomat Hidenari "Terry" Terasaki leading up to World War II.	1961	Nominated for one Golden Globe.
West Side Story	Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins	A white boy and Puerto Rican girl falls in loves.		1961	^[11]^[18]
A Majority of One	Mervyn LeRoy	A Jewish-American widow from Brooklyn falls in love with a millionaire businessman while touring Japan.	1961	Won Golden Globes for "Best Motion Picture" (Musical/Comedy) and "Best Film Promoting International Understanding".
All Night Long	Basil Dearden	A modern-day version of William Shakespeare's Othello set in the jazz scene of Swinging London.	1962
Diamond Head	Guy Green	A family drama set on a Hawaiian plantation.	1962		^[14]
A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson	A whitebread young English girl becomes pregnant by a black sailor, befriends a homosexual, and gradually becomes a woman.	1961	Four BAFTA awards
One Potato, Two Potato	Larry Peerce	A white divorcee marries an African-American.	1964		^[19]
A Patch of Blue	Guy Green	A blind teenage girl is befriended by a black office worker who she eventually falls in love with.	1965		^[20]
Othello	Stuart Burge	Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.	1965
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer	A young woman surprises her liberal parents by bringing her African-American fiancé to visit.	1967	Winner of two Oscar Awards	^[3]^[11]^[18]
The Story of a Three-Day Pass	Melvin Van Peebles	A black U.S. soldier spends the weekend in Paris with a French shop clerk.	1968
Joanna	Michael Sarne	An English art student enjoys a string of lovers in Swinging London eventually becoming the mistress of a black nightclub owner.	1968
100 Rifles	Tom Gries	An African-American lawman reluctantly becomes involved in a Yaqui rebellion against the Mexican government.	1969
The Liberation of L.B. Jones	William Wyler	A wealthy African-American funeral director is murdered by his wife's lover, a white police officer.	1970
The Landlord	Hal Ashby	A privileged WASP becomes landlord of an inner-city tenement building and begins a relationship with a black nightclub dancer.	1970		^[11]
The Grasshopper	Jerry Paris	An African-American ex-football player falls in love with a Las Vegas showgirl. When she is sexually assaulted by a wealthy patron, he viciously beats her attacker and the two are forced to go on the run.	1970
The Hawaiians	Tom Gries	In Hawaii around the end of the 19th century, the black sheep of a prosperous white family marries a mentally unstable Hawaiian. Later, his son falls in love with the daughter of one of his Chinese immigrant workers.	1970
Dreams of Glass	Robert Clouse	Two California teenagers, a Japanese-American girl and a fisherman's son, secretly keep their budding romance a secret from their parents.	1970
The Great White Hope	Martin Ritt	A fictionalized account of the turbulent relationship between African-American boxer Jack Johnson and his first wife, New York socialite Etta Terry Duryea.	1970		^[21]
Little Big Man	Arthur Penn	White boy is captured, raised by Cheyenne, falls in love with An American Indian woman.	1970		^[5]
The Omega Man	Boris Sagal	White army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race and in the meantime falls in love with the African-American survivor Lisa.	1971		^[22]
Honky	William A. Graham	Two high school students, a wealthy African-American girl and poor white teenager, begin a relationship.	1971
Georgia, Georgia	Stig Björkman	An African-American nightclub singer falls in love with a U.S. Army deserter while performing in Stockholm.	1972		^[23]
Together for Days	Michael Schultz	An African-American radical activist and a white woman experience a variety of reactions when their family and friends discover their relationship.	1972		^[24]
Heavy Traffic (animation/live-action)	Ralph Bakshi	A young New York cartoonist (played by Joseph Kaufmann) has surreal fantasies which include a romance with a female African-American bartender (Carole).	1973
Magnum Force	Ted Post	Dirty Harry is hit on by his Asian American neighbor Sunny (played by Adele Yoshioka) and this leads to a physical relationship and possible romance. Sunny asks "What does a girl have to do to go to bed with you?" and, after blinking twice, Harry Callahan replies "Try knocking on the door". Screenwriter John Milius, has said that this part of the film is in the script because Eastwood received a lot of fan mail from Asian women that included sexual propositions.	1973
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	The film revolves around the romance that develops between Emmi, an elderly German woman, and Ali, a Moroccan migrant worker in post-World War II Germany.	1974
Arabian Nights	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Nur-ed-Din searches for his missing African slave girl/ lover Zummurrud. Also the subplot of Prince Tagi and Princess Dunya.	1974
Mandingo	Richard Fleischer	A white slave master shows more affection for his black slave lover than his wife, who responds by seducing a male slave.	1975	Golden Screen Award
Aaron Loves Angela	Gordon Parks, Jr.	A teenage couple, an African-American and a Puerto Rican, live in the slums of New York City.	1975		^[25]
The Human Factor	Otto Preminger	An MI6 official becomes the focus of an internal investigation when a mole is suspected of leaking information to the South African apartheid government.	1979
My Beautiful Laundrette	Stephen Frears	Focuses on the same-sex romance between a young Pakistani man and a street punk white man.	1985
The Karate Kid Part II	John G. Avildsen	The main character, who is white, falls in love with a Japanese girl.	1986
Soul Man	Steve Miner	A white man who takes tanning pills to appear black to get a college scholarship falls in love with the black woman who was supposed to get the scholarship he took from her.	1986
The Squeeze	Roger Young		1987
La Bamba	Luis Valdez		1987		^[11]
China Girl (1987 film)	Abel Ferrara	An Italian boy and Chinese girl falls in love.	1987
Hairspray	John Waters	Teenager Tracy Turnblad becomes the hero in trying to get a TV dance show integrated in 1962 Baltimore, while a romantic relationship between Penny Pingleton and Seaweed is sparked.	1988
Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed	Coline Serreau	A French comedy about a business owner who is framed during a food-poisoning scandal and turns to help from a cleaning woman.	1989
Pummarò	Michele Placido		1990
Letters from Alou	Montxo Armendáriz	A Senegalese immigrant in Spain writes a series of letters of his adventures; he falls in love with a woman there, but is eventually deported.	1990		^[26]^[27]^[28]
Come See the Paradise	Alan Parker	A New York Irish-American labor union organizer falls in love with his employer's daughter. Set during the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.	1990		^[29]
Flirting	John Duigan	The sequel to The Year My Voice Broke, an Australian boy becomes hopelessly in love with an African exchange student.	1991		^[30]
Jungle Fever	Spike Lee	A successful African-American architect has an affair with his Italian-American secretary.	1991		^[3]^[11]^[31]
Mississippi Masala	Mira Nair	An African-American man and an Indian immigrant begin a relationship despite the disapproval of both their families.	1992		^[11]^[18]^[31]
Indochine	Régis Wargnier		1992
One False Move	Carl Franklin	An African-American woman, in the company of fugitives, returns to her hometown where her ex-lover is the local sheriff.	1992
The Lover	Jean-Jacques Annaud	In 1950s French Indochina, a French teenage girl has an affair with a wealthy, older Chinese merchant.	1992	Nominated for Best Foreign Film at Awards of the Japanese Academy in 1993.
The Bodyguard	Mick Jackson	A white bodyguard (Frank) and the African-American singer he is assigned to protect form a romantic relationship.	1992
Zebrahead	Anthony Drazan	Relationship between two inner city teenagers in Detroit.	1992	Won Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006.	^[32]
Made in America	Richard Benjamin		1993
The Wedding Banquet	Ang Lee	A Taiwanese-American man who's in a relationship his gay white lover reluctantly marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and help her obtain a green card.	1993		^[30]
The Ballad of Little Jo	Maggie Greenwald		1993
A Bronx Tale	Robert De Niro	An Italian-American boy, Calogero falls in love with an African-American girl, Jane.	1993		^[32]^[33]
The Joy Luck Club	Wayne Wang	Relationship between four young Chinese-American women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China.	1993	Winner of the Young Artist Awards in 2004.	^[11]
Double Happiness	Mina Shum	A Canadian-born Chinese girl falls in love with a white university student.	1994	Winner of Best Canadian Feature Film at Toronto International Film Festival in 1994.	^[34]
Foreign Student	Eva Sereny	A young French college student studies in America and falls in love a black teacher.	1994		^[32]
Corrina, Corrina	Jessie Nelson		1994
The Jungle Book	Stephen Sommers	Mowgli-who is Indian-and Kitty-who is British-are childhood friends who later become lovers.	1994
Talking About Sex	Aaron Speiser		1994
Bleeding Hearts	Gregory Hines		1995
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love	Maria Maggenti	Randy and Evie have an interracial teenage lesbian romance.	1995		^[35]^[36]
Jefferson in Paris	James Ivory		1995
The Affair (1995 film)	Paul Seed		1995
Pocahontas (animation)	Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg	Pocahontas, a Powhatan Indian woman (voiced by Irene Bernard) falls in love with John Smith, a white settler in 17th century Virginia	1995		^[37]
Madame Butterfly	Frédéric Mitterrand		1995
Othello	Oliver Parker		1995		^[18]
The Watermelon Woman	Cheryl Dunye		1996		^[11]
Fools Rush In	Andy Tennant		1997		^[30]^[38]^[39]
Fakin' da Funk	Tim Chey	A Chinese teenager whose adoptive parents are black falls in love with a black girl.	1997		^[30]^[32]^[40]
Cinderella (1997 film)	Robert Iscove	A more ethnically diverse take on the Cinderella tale. Cinderella (played by Brandy) is Black, while the Prince is of Asian descent. Also, the King is white while the Queen is also Black.	1997
Chinese Box	Wayne Wang	Romance between a Western reporter and a Chinese woman during the return of Hong Kong to China.	1997	Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1997.	^[41]
One Night Stand	Mike Figgis	A black Los Angeles commercial director has an affair with a white woman in New York. (He is married to a Chinese-American woman and his lover is engaged to his gay friend's brother.)	1997
Tomorrow Never Dies	Roger Spottiswoode	James Bond partners with a Chinese spy to stop a media mogul from starting World War III.	1997		^[41]
Jackie Brown	Quentin Tarantino	The title character is a black drug-smuggling flight attendant who is wooed by a white bail bondsman.	1997		^[30]
Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson	A black man, Buck marries Jessie St. Vincent, a white woman and she gave birth to their biracial child.	1997
Heaven's Burning	Craig Lahiff		1998
Restaurant	Eric Bross	A romance develops between two waiters, both aspiring to enter the entertainment industry.	1998	Jury Award winner for Best Drama at the Atlantic City Film Festival in 1999.
Bulworth	Warren Beatty	A white senator pursues a romantic relationship with a young black activist.	1998		^[42]
Besieged	Bernardo Bertolucci		1998
Next Time	Alan L. Fraser		1998	Won the "Hollywood Discovery Award" and "Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Award" at the Hollywood Film Festival in 1998.
The Breaks	Eric Meza		1999
Row Your Boat	Sollace Mitchell		1999	Won "Audience Choice Award" at the Stony Brook Film Festival in 1999.
Colorz of Rage	Dale Resteghini		1999		^[43]
The Annihilation of Fish	Charles Burnett		1999
Liberty Heights	Barry Levinson	A Jewish white man falls in love with a black girl at a recently desegregated school.	1999		^[32]^[39]
The Secret Laughter of Women	Peter Schwabach		1999
Unbowed	Nanci Rossov	Set after the Civil War, a defiant Native American man and a high spirited Black woman fall in love while attending college.	1999	Won "Best Film" at the American Indian Film Festival in 1999.
Romeo Must Die	Andrzej Bartkowiak	A Romeo and Juliet story set between African American and Asian families.	2000		^[44]
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce	Chi Muoi Lo	A comedy-drama about a Vietnamese brother and sister raised by an African American couple.	2000		^[44]
Mission: Impossible 2	John Woo	Ethan Hunt, a white man, has a romance with Nyah, a black woman, as they try to recover a virus.	2000		^[30]^[44]
O	Tim Blake Nelson	Retelling of Othello with modern high school students.	2001		^[18]
Save the Last Dance	Duane Adler	A teenage white girl (played by Julia Stiles) from the Midwest and an African-American teenage male from South Side Chicago fall in love though their mutual love of dancing.	2001		^[45]
Crazy/Beautiful	John Stockwell	Nicole Oakley, the spoiled, rich, out-of-control daughter of congressman Tom Oakley, meets a working class Mexican-American straight-A student, Carlos Nuñez, resulting in a clash of cultures, values, and a love affair.	2001		^[32]
Jump Tomorrow	Joel Hopkins	A young Nigerian man on the verge of being in an arranged marriage, suddenly questions his situation after an encounter with a stunning Latin woman, who is also about to be married.	2001
Monster's Ball	Marc Forster	After a family tragedy, a white racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American widow (played by Halle Berry) of the last prisoner he executed.	2001		^[18]
The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson	A white woman, Etheline marries a black man.	2001
Far From Heaven	Todd Haynes	Housewife has flirtation with her African-American gardener	2002		^[3]
Bend It Like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha	Jess (played by Parminder Nagra), a young woman whose Sikh parents moved from Uganda to London, defies their traditional expectations to play football and begins a romantic relationship with her white coach.	2003		^[46]
Holes	Andrew Davis	Camp Green’s background is a story of the main characters’ ancestors, told in flashbacks throughout the film. Kate is a Caucasian schoolteacher whose love for Sam, an African-American onion salesman leads to tragedy when the town persecutes them for their love.	2003		^[47]^[48]
Bollywood Queen	Jeremy Wooding	A British Indian take on Romeo and Juliet in which Geena, a young Gujarati woman, and Jay, a young Scottish man, fall in love while trying to keep their relationship a secret from their rival families.	2003
Love Actually	Richard Curtis	Two characters central to the plot get married in the beginning of the film. The bride is white (played by Keira Knightley) while the groom (Peter) is African-British.	2003
The Haunted Mansion (2003 film)	Rob Minkoff	A mixed-race woman seemingly poisons herself, and her white fiance hangs himself in grief.	2003
Guess Who	Kevin Rodney Sullivan	Romantic comedy about an African-American girl (Theresa) introducing her white fiancé (played by Ashton Kutcher) to her parents.	2005		^[30]^[49]
The White Masai	Hermine Huntgeburth	Based on an autobiographical novel, a white German woman falls in love and has a child with a Masai man.	2005
Romancing the Bride	Kris Isacsson	Romantic comedy about a confused bride, Melissa, who wakes hand-cuffed to a Mexican stranger who claims to be her husband; she has no recollection of the marriage after having consumed a Mexican "moonshine" drink and having forgotten the events that occurred the previous night.	2005
Something New	Sanaa Lathan	Romantic comedy about an African-American woman falling in love with her Caucasian landscape gardener.	2006		^[18]^[30]^[39]^[50]
Falling for Grace	Fay Ann Lee	Romantic comedy about a relationship between a Chinese (raised in America) woman and a white American based on a quid pro quo.	2006
Rome & Jewel	Charles T. Kanganis, Neil Bagg	Musical take on Romeo & Juliet with a black man and white girl.	2006		^[51]
Lakeview Terrace	Neil LaBute	Thriller about a LAPD sergeant who terrorizes his new next-door neighbors because they are an interracially married couple.	2008		^[52]
Our Family Wedding	Rick Famuyiwa	An African-American man plans to marry a Mexican-American girl, but they must meet each other's families.	2010		^[18]
My Last Day Without You	Stefan C. Schaefer	German executive meets a young African American female musician who exposes a new side of NYC to him.	2011
Belle	Amma Asante	Period drama set in the 18th century about Dido Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a black former slave and a white British naval officer, who is raised by her wealthy great-uncle, but struggles to find her place in society.	2013		^[53]
A Madea Christmas	Tyler Perry	A black schoolteacher tries to hide from her mother that she is married to a white man.	2013		^[54]
House of Secrets	Bianca Lawson	A newly divorced black woman tries to figure out who has been breaking into her house given to her by her ex-husband	2014
Dr. Cabbie	Jean-François Pouliot	An Indian doctor turned cab driver falls in love with a pregnant white Canadian woman	2014
Infinitely Polar Bear	Maya Forbes	A caucasian father struggling with bipolar disorder tries to win back his African-American wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.	2014
5 Flights Up	Richard Loncraine	A long-time married couple (African American male/Caucasian female) who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.	2014
Born to Be Blue	Robert Budreau	A partly fictional biopic about Chet Baker, focusing on his romance with (and engagement to) an African American actress in 1960s Los Angeles.	2015		^[55]
Focus (2015 film)	Denise Di Novi	Will Smith and Margot Robbie; Nicky (Will Smith), a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess (Margot Robbie) under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved.	2015
Bazodee	Todd Kessler	The dutiful Indian daughter of a deep-in-debt businessman is about to marry a wealthy Londoner when a chance encounter with local Trinidadian singer sets things askew.	2015		^[56]
Black	Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah	A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang.	2015
The Big Short	Adam McKay	A white man, Michael Burry, and his Asian wife.	2015
Sophie and the Rising Sun	Maggie Greenwald	A white Southern woman falls in love with a Nisei man on the eve of Pearl Harbor.	2016		^[57]
A United Kingdom	Amma Asante	A white British woman marries Seretse Khama, a black African chief.	2016		^[58]
Loving	Jeff Nichols	The real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who spent nine years fighting their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, up to the Supreme Court which, in 1967, reaffirmed their right to marry.	2016		^[1]^[59]
Get Out	Jordan Peele	A black man visits his white girlfriend's town and family, but not everything in the town is as it seems.	2017		^[60]
The Big Sick	Michael Showalter	Based on the real life story of how Pakistani-American Comedian Kumail Nanjiani met his wife, in which he plays himself. Kumail falls in love with and dates Emily after she heckles him, but they break up when Emily finds out his family want an arranged marriage with a Muslim girl. However, Emily falls into a coma due to a brain infection and Kumail meets and spends time with Emily's family during her recovery.	2017		^[61]
Everything, Everything	Stella Meghie	A black girl falls in love with a white boy who lives next door.	2017
The Greatest Showman	Michael Gracey	Inspired by the story of P. T. Barnum's creation of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, and the lives of its star attractions, including a white aristocrat and African-American trapeze artist.	2017		^[62]
The Chinese Widow	Bille August	In the 1940s, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed Americans' morale. A young white pilot was saved by a young local asian widow. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they fell for each other and a tear-jerking love story went on between the two.	2017
Love, Simon	Greg Berlanti	A white teenage boy whose anonymous online pen pal is an African-American Jewish teenage boy	2018		^[63]
Running for Grace	David L. Cunningham	A mixed-race orphan uses his blazing speed to deliver medicine to the coffee pickers in the mountains of 1920s Hawaii. Young love soon blossoms when he begins a forbidden romance with the white daughter of a plantation owner.	2018		^[64]
Where Hands Touch	Amma Asante	A black girl of a German mother and a French African soldier falls in love with a young German soldier during World War II.	2018
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (film)	Susan Johnson	A Korean-American teenage girl and a white teenage boy begin dating after he reads her letter.	2018
Candy Jar	Ben Shelton	A black high schooler falls in love with his white rival on the school debate team	2018
The Hate U Give (film)	George Tillman Jr.	An African-American girl, Starr Carter and her white boyfriend, Chris Bryant.	2018
Blockers (film)	Kay Cannon	A biracial (Indian and white) girl, Kayla Mannes and her white prom date, Connor Aldrich.	2018
The Darkest Minds	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	A white boy, Liam Stewart falls in love with a black girl, Ruby Daly.	2018
The Sun Is Also A Star	Ry Russo-Young	As part of an experiment, a teenage black girl falls in love with an Asian-American medical student within a day whilst her family faces deportation	2019
Blinded by the Light	Gurinder Chadha	Inspired by the true story about the life of Sarfraz Manzoor, a British Pakistani teenager falls in love with a White British teenager girl since they have a common love of Bruce Springsteen	2019	Drama
Waves (film)	Trey Edward Shults	An African-American boy, Tyler was in love with Alexis, who's half Mexican and half white girl and his sister, Emily falls in love with a white boy, Luke.	2019
All the Bright Places (film)	Brett Haley	After meeting each other, two teenagers struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their pasts. They discover that even the smallest moments can mean something. The main character is white, while her love interest is mixed.	2020
The Lovebirds	Michael Showalter	A couple (South Asian man & African American woman) experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery.	2020
All My Life (2020 film)	Marc Meyers	Based on the true story of Solomon Chau and Jennifer Carter, a young couple that rushes to put their wedding together after Solomon is diagnosed with liver cancer. Jennifer is white, while Solomon is of East Asian descent.	2020
On the Rocks (film)	Sofia Coppola	A married couple of a white wife and black husband.	2020
Words on Bathroom Walls	Thor Freudenthal	A white boy, Adam Petrazelli and his black girlfriend, Maya Arnez.	2020
Ali & Ava	Clio Barnard	Ali is a taxi driver of Pakistani descent, living with his soon-to-be ex-wife. Ava is a teacher who lives in very white working class Holme Wood, near her adult children. Both, lonely for different reasons, find friendship initially through shared affection for one of Ava's students, then attraction over a shared love of music, then the reality of familial entanglements and prejudices stacked against them.	2021
Boogie (2021 film)	Eddie Huang	A Chinese-American basketball phenom in Queens, New York, Alfred "Boogie" Chin struggles to balance the pressure from his traditional parents to earn a scholarship to an elite college over chasing his NBA dreams. Along the way, he begins a romantic relationship with an African-American classmate named Eleanor.	2021		^[65]
Love Hard	Hernán Jiménez	A young woman travels to her online crush's hometown for Christmas, but discovers she's been catfished. The main character is white, while her love interest is Chinese-American.	2021
West Side Story (2021 film)	Steven Spielberg	A white boy and Puerto Rican girl falls in loves.	2021
Bodies Bodies Bodies	Halina Reijn	An African-American girl, Sophie and her Eastern European girlfriend, Bee.	2022
Bones and All	Luca Guadagnino	A biracial (black and white) girl, Maren Yearly falls in love with a white boy, Lee.	2022
Nope (film)	Jordan Peele	An Asian man, Ricky "Jupe" Park and his white wife, Amber Park.	2022
Something from Tiffany's	Daryl Wein	A black man who falls in love with a white woman at Christmas.	2022
You People	Kenya Barris	A Secular Jewish man, Ezra and his black Nation of Islam wife, Amira are in love.	2023
Asteroid City	Wes Anderson	A white man, Schubert Green and his Asian wife, Polly Green.	2023
Killers of the Flower Moon (film)	Martin Scorsese	Ernest Burkhart, a white murderer and his Native American wife, Mollie Kyle.	2023
Bottoms (film)	Emma Seligman	A black girl, Josie and her biracial (white and Asian) girlfriend, Isabel.	2023
Somebody I Used to Know	Dave Franco	Ally is White and her ex-boyfriend Sean, is Black.	2023		^[66]
Black Tea	Abderrahmane Sissako	Aya is Black and her love-interest Cai, is Chinese.	2024	World premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in Competition.	^[67]

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List_of_interracial_romance_films

List of interracial romance films

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