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5 Underrated Pinoy Romance Movies You and Your Bae Can Watch Online Now
These underrated romance movies will bring you ~kilig~ moments!
By: Yoorekka Team | February 09, 2023
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.
In these situations, staying at home may be one of the best options. 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 underrated romance movies.
1. Dito at Doon (Here and There)
Stream on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/ph-en/)
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 one. 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 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/)
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
True love will always find a way back, or maybe not. 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 romance 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/)
Witness how Dee’s (Janine Gutierrez) and Edong's (Pepe Herrera) love flourishes.
Images: MAVX Productions
Loved Kita Kita? Then you’ll surely love Ikaw by Marla Ancheta. Ikaw tells the story of Dee (Janine Gutierrez), a Manila-based real estate broker, and Edong (Pepe Herrera), an unambitious simple-minded coconut farmer. They 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 underrated romance movie may seem like a typical rich-girl-poor-boy love story, but it is a feel-good one, but wait til its ending for its unexpected plot twist.
4. Elise
Stream on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/ph-en/)
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 romance movie will make us reminisce about our first love, a young puppy love, and much more.
5. Moments of Love
Stream on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/)
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 underrated romance movie by Mark Reyes, proves it. 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 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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