Romance (disambiguation)

Last updated October 17, 2025

Romance is emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings.

Common meanings

Romance languages, a subgroup of the Italic languages
- Romance studies, an academic discipline studying the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language

Romance comics, genre of comics of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the main characters

Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
- Romantic comedy
- Romantic thriller
Romance (1920 film), silent film, directed by Chester Withey
Romance (1930 film), starring Greta Garbo
Romance (1936 film), an Austrian film starring Carl Esmond
Romance (1983 film), a Bollywood film produced and directed by Ramanand Sagar
Romance (1986 film), Italian drama film directed by Massimo Mazzucco
Romance (1999 film), directed by Catherine Breillat
Romance, a 2001 Indian Malayalam-language film, starring Shakeela
Romance (2011 film), animated
Romance (2013 film), Telugu-language comedy film directed by Darling Swamy

Adventure tales
- Gaslight romance, another name for gaslamp fantasy, featuring fantasy set at a time of approximately 19th-century technology
- Planetary romance, a genre of science fiction consisting of adventure tales on exotic planets
- Ruritanian romance, a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe
- Scientific romance, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction
Chivalric romance literature, a branch of medieval and medievalist literature
Literature of Romanticism, a movement from the late 18th century that broke away from neoclassicism and which emphasized nature, the imagination and emotions
Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
Romance (prose fiction), a type of novel, especially, but not necessarily, a historical novel, and distinct from genre-fiction love romances
Romance literature (disambiguation)
Romance novel, a genre of novel which emerged in the 20th century, directed at women readers, that focuses on romantic love, with many sub-genres:
- Amish romance, also known as "bonnet rippers"
- Contemporary romance
- Historical romance, a 20th-century genre fiction version of the historical novel
- Paranormal romance
- Regency romance
- Fantasy romance

"Romance" (guitar piece), also known as "Romance Anónimo", a Spanish instrumental guitar piece of anonymous origin
"Romance", by Claude Debussy
"Romance", by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1983 album Salute
"Romance", by Mike Oldfield from his album Light + Shade
"Romance", the second movement of the suite Lieutenant Kijé (Op. 60) by Sergei Prokofiev
"Romance", by R.E.M., originally released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Made in Heaven
"Romance", from the musical The Desert Song
Romance in C major, Op. 48, for violin and orchestra by Camille Saint-Saëns
Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven) in G major, Op. 40
Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) in F major, Op. 50
"Romance" by Marc Ribot from his 1994 album Shrek
"Romance" (Buck-Tick song), 2005 single by Buck-Tick
"Romance" (Yoasobi song), 2021 single by Yoasobi

Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
- Romance (meter), a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads
- Romancero, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them
- Russian romance or Russian Gypsy song, a type of sentimental art song with hints of Gypsy influence that was developed in Imperial Russia
- Scandinavian romanser, classical art songs, equivalent to the German Lied
Romance (band), rock band from London
Romance Tour (disambiguation)