10 Most Romantic Disney Movies

Disney has made some of the best romantic movies that have made people believe in love again. These range from a prince falling in love with someone not from a royal background, to a girl falling in love with a monster and making him human again with her affection.

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True love is an important element in Disney movies, and they highlight how something real always leads to everlasting happiness. Some of the most romantic Disney movies have everything from the perfect couple to a struggle that leads to them uniting and living happily ever after. Fall in love with these romantic Disney films.

10 Tarzan

• Director: Kevin Lima, Chris Buck
• Starring: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Alex D. Linz, Rosie O'Donnell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Lance Henriksen, Wayne Knight
• Release Year: 1999

Tarzan tells the unique story of the titular character, who was raised by animals after his parents died. He doesn’t know that he is a different species from those he lives with until a lost woman, Jane, appears. The duo is poles apart, with Tarzan being a simple person who doesn’t understand selfishness, and Jane being a civilized, educated young woman.

Their relationship has friction because Jane wants Tarzan to come with her, while the hero wants the couple to stay in the forest. In the end, just when it seems the story will be heartbreaking, Jane decides to stay with the hero.

9 Tangled

• Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
• Starring: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy
• Release Year: 2010

Tangled is the story of Rapunzel, a young girl who is imprisoned in a tower by Gothel. The evil woman wants Rapunzel’s magical hair to keep her young. As destiny would have it, Rapunzel meets a thief and escapes the tower with him. Rapunzel is different from most of Disney’s usual heroines, who are waiting for their prince and want a happily ever after.

The character is more interested in having fun, as she has been stuck and isolated in a tower for her whole life. She does develop feelings for the thief, and as luck would have it, he is fatally wounded by Gothel. The ending is a happy one, and the two lovers live happily ever after as their love has them ending up saving one another.

8 The Princess And The Frog

• Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
• Starring: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Cody, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard
• Release Year: 2009

The Princess and the Frog is a typical Disney romantic movie where a couple falls in love, but the situation keeps them apart, and eventually, they end up together. The irresponsible Naveen shows up in New Orleans to marry Charlotte La Bouff after he’s cut off from his family's money. Unfortunately, Dr. Facilier, an evil voodoo witch doctor, turns the prince into a frog and gets his butler to pose as the prince.

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Naveen sees Tiana dressed in a princess gown, so he asks her to kiss him. However, Tiana isn't a princess, so the young woman is also cursed and turns into a frog. The duo goes on a journey to break the curse and they fall in love in the process. Naveen still decides to marry Charlotte as the money will be useful for both, but in the end, true love prevails.

7 The Little Mermaid

• Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
• Starring: René Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards, Buddy Hackett, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, Ben Wright, Samuel E. Wright
• Release Year: 1989

The movie tells the tale of Ariel, a mermaid who is curious about humans and falls in love with a prince after saving him. She trades her voice with a sea witch to become human so she can go to her beloved. Ursula, the sea witch, makes a deal with Ariel that she will remain human if she receives a true love’s kiss within three days. If she fails, she will return to her mermaid form and belong to Ursula.

Ariel meets the prince again and the two bond even with the mermaid having lost her voice and the couple almost kiss. Of course, it wouldn't be a classic Disney movie without some hurdles along the way. After some drastic series of events, the loving couple eventually gets their happily ever after, despite all the odds and all their differences.

6 Enchanted

• Director: Kevin Lima
• Starring: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel, Susan Sarandon
• Release Year: 2007

Enchanted is a unique take on a Disney fairytale love story where the movie starts in an animated version, but the characters end up in the real world. Giselle is a young girl who lives in the forest and dreams of living happily ever after with a prince. She meets Prince Edward, but things are never so simple in Disney, so she ends up in the real world.

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There, Giselle meets Robert, and the two slowly but surely bond. While Edward follows Giselle so she can return and the two can marry, his evil stepmother arrives and wounds the young maiden fatally. Edward’s kiss doesn’t work to wake her, but Robert saves Giselle with his true love’s kiss, proving that love knows no bounds.

5 Cinderella

• Director: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
• Starring: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, James MacDonald, Luis van Rooten
• Release Year: 1950

Cinderella is the classic damsel in distress who finds her true love despite the evil planning of her stepmother and stepsisters. The heroine walks into the grand ball, and the prince instantly falls in love with her, but before the duo can change names, she must hurry away. The fairy godmother had warned her that the magic that turned her into a mesmerizing figure would end at midnight.

She ran away but left behind a glass slipper, which the prince used to find the only girl she would marry. Her stepmother locked her in the attic so the prince wouldn’t find her, but as luck would have it, she escaped. In the end, Cinderella lived happily ever after with her true love, away from the slaving that her stepmother forced her to endure.

4 Beauty And The Beast

• Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
• Starring: Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti, Jo Anne Worley
• Release Year: 1991

Beauty and the Beast is the best example of how love changes monsters and makes them more humane. An arrogant prince is cursed by an enchantress who turns him into a beast and his servants into household objects. She tells him his curse can only be broken if he falls in love, and the person should reciprocate.

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As luck would have it, Belle, a young and innocent girl, comes into the life of the beast. She reluctantly lives in his castle to save her father, but the duo end up falling in love. The beast is on the verge of death when she admits her love for him and saves him. It's another great example of love transcending looks and differences.

3 Sleeping Beauty

• Director: Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark
• Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, Bill Thompson
• Release Year: 1959

Sleeping Beauty is one of Disney’s most beloved classics and tells the story of a princess who is cursed at birth to die when she turns 16. A trio of fairies save and raise the princess by changing her curse so that she can fall into a deep sleep instead of dying, with true love’s kiss saving her from her horrible fate.

As fate would have it, the princess living as a peasant meets the very prince she was betrothed to. Neither knows the identity of the other, but they still fall in love, but the princess's destiny causes her to fall asleep. The heroic prince fights all odds and a dragon to return to the prince and awaken her with true love’s kiss.

2 Hercules

• Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
• Starring: Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, James Woods, Susan Egan
• Release Year: 1997

Hercules takes a different approach to the infamous demigod who has performed various marvelous feats in the different iterations he’s appeared in. In this tale, Hercules is the son of Zeus and Hera, who is stripped of his immortality but retains his superhuman strength. The hero defeats many monsters and even falls in love with Meg.

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The couple experiences the common betrayal trope, with Meg working for Hades. However, she proves her love when she saves Hercules and dies. The titular hero proves his heroics once more by going to the underworld and recovering his beloved's soul.

1 Aladdin

• Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
• Starring: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried. Douglas Seale
• Release Year: 1992

Aladdin tells the tale of the titular character, a street rat and thief, who meets the mesmerizing Princess Jasmine one fateful day. The two develop a unique bond before Aladdin is captured, and the princess is told he was beheaded. This is far from the truth, as Aladdin is led to a cave of treasures where he finds a magical lamp. A genie resides inside the lamp and grants Aladdin three wishes. The young lover wishes to become a prince to woo Princess Jasmine.

Aladdin returns to the kingdom as Prince Ali, but the princess isn’t interested in him until she finds out he’s the same ordinary boy she met on the streets. This shows that she didn’t fall for him because he claimed to be a rich prince, but instead fell in love with the good-natured ordinary fellow.

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