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5 romance movies on Netflix from the ’90s for some of that old school love

By Sabrina Reed

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: Actors Nia Long and Larenz Tate speak onstage during the 2010 BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on June 27, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: Actors Nia Long and Larenz Tate speak onstage during the 2010 BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on June 27, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) /
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 17: Honorees Bernadette Speakes, Theodore Witcher, Larenz Tate, Lisa Nicole Carson, Nia Long, Leonard Roberts and Isaiah Washington accept the Classic Cinema Tribute for ‘Love Jones’ onstage during BET Presents the American Black Film Festival Honors on February 17, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 17: Honorees Bernadette Speakes, Theodore Witcher, Larenz Tate, Lisa Nicole Carson, Nia Long, Leonard Roberts and Isaiah Washington accept the Classic Cinema Tribute for ‘Love Jones’ onstage during BET Presents the American Black Film Festival Honors on February 17, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) /

Welcome to A Week at the Movies with FanSided Entertainment! Today we’re indulging in teen and romance movies here at Netflix Life. While we’re all about the teen rom-com which is making a resurgence on the streamer, we also love our ’90s films.

It’s a truth that should be universally acknowledged that millennials and Gen-X look back on that time fondly and we’re dragging Gen Z’s into its nostalgic power with us. To be honest, the ’90s are arguably a golden age for the romance movie genre, particularly when it comes to rom-coms.

More than one Hollywood icon boasts a ’90s romance or two as a legendary role on their filmography. Prime examples being Nia Long and Julia Roberts. It was a time when women did it for themselves, fashionably, in big cities, looking for love in all the wrong and right places. And, so were the men.

The music was cool, the vibes were on point and a sax solo wouldn’t be out of place as love crooned through the atmosphere. So, if you’re looking for a movie to take you back to that time or let you melt into what the romance genre had on offer in the ’90s, then we have a list of five romance movies on Netflix for you to indulge in.

They’re classics and, though they may not be timeless, they’ve certainly cemented their place in the hearts of movie lovers over the decades.

Romance movies on Netflix: Love Jones (1997)

Let the record show that love is a messy, messy business and that attraction and feelings have nothing on trying to figure out whether someone is on the same romantic page as you. It’s the perfect fuel for a romance movie like Love Jones.

Nina Mosley (Nia Long) is a photographer who’s fresh out of a relationship with a man she’s not sure she’s over. Hence why she’s not trying to indulge Darius Lovehall’s (Larenz Tate) advances, even if she does share a mutual attraction with the poet.

Darius, however, isn’t willing to give up on what he feels for Nina. The two don’t dance around each other for long before they give into the spark between them, setting them on a romantic course that’s brought abruptly to a halt by the reappearance of Nina’s ex in her life.

There’s a choice to be made, one that Nina’s pretty sure she already knows the answer to, but giving someone your heart unabashedly is terrifying. It’s the kind of nerve-wracking and potentially heartbreaking decision that makes people do stupid things. Including making a poor choices to push another to prove themselves.

Of course, playing games only leads to disappointment, and while Nina and Darius do have something together, it could turn into ruin if neither of them choose to be honest about their feelings and what they want.

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