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5 Underrated Filipino Romantic Movies to Watch Online with Your Bae

These romantic underrated Filipino movies will bring you ~kilig~ moments!

By: Yoorekka Team | February 09, 2023
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Feel the kilig (romantic excitement), pain, joy, excitement, and love when you take your loved one on a romantic movie date home with these underrated romance movies.

Images: TBA Studios, Spring Films, MAVX Productions Facebook Pages

Giving and receiving flowers, gifts, and Valentine’s cards, dining out, and going to the usual date spots during Valentine’s day can sometimes be stressful, especially when you and your loved one are studying, working, or even miles apart, but a cozy night in watching Filipino romantic movies can be the perfect way to connect.

In these situations, staying at home may be one of the best options and watch these underrated Filipino movies. You can still feel love is in the air when you take your beloved on a romantic movie date at home and binge-watch these best underrated romance movies.


1. Dito at Doon (Here and There)

Stream on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/ph-en/)


Filipino Romantic Movies

On a scene, Caloy (JC Santos) teaches Len (Janine Gutierrez) how to cook sinigang.

Images: TBA Studios Facebook Page

If you and your partner started your romance during the pandemic, you’d surely relate to this movie, a Filipino romantic movie. Dito at Doon, a film by JP Habac starring Janine Gutierrez and JC Santos, shows how two people with different backgrounds began an online romance. This Filipino underrated romance movie started when the two main characters had a heated argument online. With their setup, will their love endure and flourish once taken offline?


2. Meet Me in St. Gallen

Stream on Netflix (*https://www.netflix.com/ph-en/)


Underrated Filipino Movies

After several years, Jesse (Carlo Aquino) and Celeste (Bella Padilla) met again in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on a snowy day.

Images: Images: Spring Films Facebook Page

Maybe true love will always find a way back, or maybe not. This underrated Filipino romantic movie, Meet Me in St. Gallen revolves around the story of Jesse (Carlo Aquino) and Celeste (Bella Padilla). The two characters met at a coffee shop on bad days when they both needed company. After an unforgettable date, they never had a chance to meet again. After several years, Jesse and Celeste accidentally met and tried rekindling their love. This one of the best-underrated Filipino movies proves that if it is meant to be, it will be, and maybe fate made two people meet only to breathe life into life.


3. Ikaw

Stream on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/ph-en/)


Best Underrated Romance Movies

Witness how Dee’s (Janine Gutierrez) and Edong's (Pepe Herrera) love flourishes, an underrated Filipino romantic movie.

Images: MAVX Productions

Loved Kita Kita? Then you’ll surely love Ikaw by Marla Ancheta. This movie is a must-binge film to watch with your partner if you’re finding one, and also one of the Philippine’s best underrated romance movies. Ikaw tells the story of Dee (Janine Gutierrez), a Manila-based real estate broker, and Edong (Pepe Herrera), an unambitious simple-minded coconut farmer. The two-main characters here were schoolmates before and started on the wrong foot, but as soon as they get to know each other more, their connection turns into love. This romantic underrated Filipino movie may seem like a typicalstory of a Filipino romantic movies.


4. Elise

Stream on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/ph-en/)


Filipino Romantic Movies

Elise and Bert met once again after several years.

Images: Screen capture from Elise’s trailer, Regal Entertainment Inc. Facebook Page

Young puppy love, and the fickleness of the universe, are what this underrated romance movie is all about. Elise tells the story of Bert (Enchong Dee), a guy who never got over her childhood crush, Elise (Janine Gutierrez), who left him when he was 12. However, when Bert and Elise cross paths again, Bert has difficulty acknowledging that he is still in love with Elise, his first love. This underrated film, is one of the best Filipino romantic movies, will make you reminisce about first love, puppy love, and much more.


5. Moments of Love

Stream on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/)


Underrated Filipino Movies

Divina (Iza Calzado) and Marco (Dingdong Dates), years apart, communicate thru the same telephone in the 2006 movie, Moments of Love.

Images: Screen capture from Moments of Love on Youtube, Jem Remillete

Love knows no boundaries—even time, and this romantic underrated Filipino movie by Mark Reyes, proves it. This movie, Moments of Love tells the story of two people from different timelines; Divina (Iza Calzado) from 1957 and Marco (Dingdong Dantes) from 2006. Feel kilig as these two protagonists fell in love with each other, in this underrated Filipino romantic movie, using a time-machine-like telephone and gave meaning to the timelessness of love.


Staying at home this Valentine’s season isn’t bad, especially when you take your beloved on a movie marathon with these best-underrated romance movies.


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