5 Underrated Filipino Romantic Movies to Watch Online with Your Bae

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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