List of interracial romance films

This is a list of interracial romance films.

Films

The films in this list satisfy the following requirements:

Title Director Summary Year Notes References
The Bronze Bride Henry MacRae A Canadian fur trapper takes a Native American woman as his bride, a union that meets with much disapproval when they return to civilization. 1917
The Forbidden City Sidney Franklin A Mandarin princess betrothed to the Chinese Emperor is sentenced to death when she secretly marries an American diplomat and becomes pregnant. 1918
The Heart of Wetona Sidney Franklin The mixed-race daughter of a Comanche chief falls in love with a young engineer. When the young man deserts her, she turns to a white Indian agent who marries her. 1919
Broken Blossoms D. W. Griffith A young Londoner abused by her alcoholic father, a Limehouse District prizefighter, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences. 1919
Othello Dimitri Buchowetzki The treacherous Iago plots to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy. Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. 1922
The Toll of the Sea Chester M. Franklin While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship. 1922
Piccadilly Ewald André Dupont A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen of a London nightclub, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder. 1929
Bird of Paradise King Vidor A Polynesian girl falls in love when an American sailor visits to her island, however, she is promised to a prince on a nearby island. 1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen Frank Capra A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love during the Chinese Civil War. 1933
Black Pearl Michał Waszyński A Polish sailor returns home from Tahiti with a native girl and a fortune in sacred pearls. He is seduced by a married woman, unaware she is part of a plot to steal his riches. 1932
Imitation of Life John M. Stahl African-American daughter of housekeeper and a white suitor.
Remade in 1959 		1934   [1]
Princess Tam Tam Edmond T. Gréville A French writer traveling in Tunisia becomes infatuated with a local girl and invites her back to his country where she is introduced to Parisian high society. 1935
God's Step Children Oscar Micheaux 1938
Duel in the Sun King Vidor 1946
Pinky Elia Kazan A African-American nurse who was born light-skinned and passes for white in the North returns to her Southern hometown. She and a white Northern doctor are in love, but she eventually turns down his offer of marriage in order to stay and help her community. 1949   [1]
Broken Arrow Delmer Daves A dramatization of the story of a white man Tom Jeffords and his interactions with the Apache nation including falling in love with and marrying Apache girl named Sonseeahray. 1950   [2]
The Wild North Andrew Marton 1952
Othello Orson Welles Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. 1952 Won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952.
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas Lew Landers 1953
His Majesty O'Keefe Byron Haskin 1954
The Purple Plain Robert Parrish 1954
White Feather Robert D. Webb 1955
House of Bamboo Samuel Fuller   1955   [3]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Henry King 1955
Seven Cities of Gold Robert D. Webb 1955
The Indian Fighter Andre De Toth A trail scout leads a wagon train bound for Oregon through hostile Indian territory and unwittingly gets involved with the daughter of a Sioux chieftain. 1955
The Black Tent Brian Desmond Hurst 1956
Giant George Stevens 1956
The Halliday Brand Joseph H. Lewis 1957
War Drums Reginald Le Borg 1957
Island in the Sun Robert Rossen 1957   [4][5]
Run of the Arrow Samuel Fuller 1957
Band of Angels Raoul Walsh A young woman, raised as white by her father, a wealthy plantation owner, discovers after his death that she is half black. After she is sold in New Orleans, she and her owner fall in love. 1957
Sayonara Joshua Logan 1957 Won four Academy Awards [6]
Touch of Evil Orson Welles   1958   [7]
China Doll Frank Borzage During World War II, an American pilot gets drunk one night and unintentionally buys a young Chinese woman from her destitute father. 1958
Kings Go Forth Delmer Daves 1958   [6]
The World, the Flesh and the Devil Ranald MacDougall In a post-apocalyptic world, a black man and a white woman appear to be the only survivors. Then a white man shows up. 1959   [8]
Hiroshima, mon amour Alain Resnais 1959
I Spit on Your Graves Michel Gast 1959
The Crimson Kimono Samuel Fuller 1959
Another Sky Gavin Lambert 1954
Shadows John Cassavetes A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white man, who is unaware of her race. 1959   [9]
The World of Suzie Wong Richard Quine A foreigner falls for a Chinese prostitute in Hong Kong 1960
My Baby is Black! Claude Bernard-Aubert 1961
Flame in the Streets Roy Ward Baker 1961
Bridge to the Sun Etienne Périer A biographical film about the marriage of Gwen Harold and Japanese diplomat Hidenari "Terry" Terasaki leading up to World War II. 1961 Nominated for one Golden Globe.
West Side Story Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins   1961   [5][10]
A Majority of One Mervyn LeRoy A Jewish-American widow from Brooklyn falls in love with a millionaire businessman while touring Japan. 1961 Won Golden Globes for "Best Motion Picture" (Musical/Comedy) and "Best Film Promoting International Understanding".
All Night Long Basil Dearden A modern-day version of William Shakespeare's Othello set in the jazz scene of Swinging London. 1962    
Diamond Head Guy Green A family drama set on a Hawaiian plantation. 1962   [7]
A Taste of Honey Tony Richardson A plain young English girl becomes pregnant by a black sailor, befriends a homosexual, and gradually becomes a woman. 1961 Four BAFTA awards
One Potato, Two Potato Larry Peerce A white divorcee marries an African-American. 1964   [11]
A Patch of Blue Guy Green A blind teenage girl is befriended by a black office worker who she eventually falls in love with. 1965   [12]
Othello Stuart Burge Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. 1965
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Stanley Kramer A young woman surprises her liberal parents by bringing her African-American fiancé to visit. 1967 Winner of two Oscar Awards [1][5][10]
The Story of a Three-Day Pass Melvin Van Peebles A black U.S. soldier spends the weekend in Paris with a French shop clerk. 1968
Joanna Michael Sarne An English art student enjoys a string of lovers in Swinging London eventually becoming the mistress of a black nightclub owner. 1968
100 Rifles Tom Gries An African American lawman reluctantly becomes involved in a Yaqui rebellion against the Mexican government. 1969
The Liberation of L.B. Jones William Wyler A wealthy African American funeral director is murdered by his wife's lover, a white police officer. 1970
The Landlord Hal Ashby A privileged WASP becomes landlord of an inner-city tenement building and begins a relationship with a black nightclub dancer. 1970   [5]
The Grasshopper Jerry Paris An African American ex-football player falls in love with a Las Vegas showgirl. When she is sexually assaulted by a wealthy patron, he viciously beats her attacker and the two are forced to go on the run. 1970
The Hawaiians Tom Gries In Hawaii around the end of the 19th century, the black sheep of a prosperous white family marries a mentally unstable Hawaiian. Later, his son falls in love with the daughter of one of his Chinese immigrant workers. 1970
Dreams of Glass Robert Clouse Two California teenagers, a Japanese-American girl and a fisherman's son, secretly keep their budding romance a secret from their parents. 1970
The Great White Hope Martin Ritt A fictionalized account of the turbulent relationship between African American boxer Jack Johnson and his first wife, New York socialite Etta Terry Duryea. 1970
Little Big Man Arthur Penn White boy is captured, raised by Cheyenne, falls in love with Cheyenne woman. 1970   [2]
The Omega Man Boris Sagal White army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race and in the meantime falls in love with the African-American survivor Lisa. 1971
Honky William A. Graham Two high school students, a wealthy African-American girl and poor white teenager, begin a relationship. 1971  
Georgia, Georgia Stig Björkman An African-American nightclub singer falls in love with a U.S. Army deserter while performing in Stockholm. 1972
Together for Days Michael Schultz An African-American radical activist and a white woman experience a variety of reactions when their family and friends discover their relationship. 1972
Heavy Traffic Ralph Bakshi A young New York cartoonist has surreal fantasies which include a romance with a female African-American bartender. 1973
Mandingo Richard Fleischer 1975 Golden Screen Award  
Aaron Loves Angela Gordon Parks, Jr. A teenage couple, an African-American and a Puerto Rican, live in the slums of New York City. 1975   [13]
The Human Factor Otto Preminger An MI6 official becomes the focus of an internal investigation when a mole is suspected of leaking information to the South African apartheid government. 1979
Soul Man Steve Miner After his family decides to take his money for college away from him, a rich kid pretends to be African-American to win a minority scholarship offered by Harvard University, only to discover that upon getting there that he has fallen for another student, who was supposed to be the actual recipient of the scholarship. 1986    
The Squeeze Roger Young 1987
La Bamba Luis Valdez   1987   [5]
Hairspray John Waters Teenager Tracy Turnblad becomes the hero in trying to get a TV dance show integrated in 1962 Baltimore, while a romantic relationship between Penny Pingleton and Seaweed is sparked. 1988  
Mama, There's A Man in Your Bed Coline Serreau A French comedy about a business owner who is framed during a food-poisoning scandal and turns to help from a cleaning woman. 1989
Pummarò Michele Placido 1990    
Letters from Alou Montxo Armendáriz A Senegalese immigrant in Spain writes a series of letters of his adventures; he falls in love with a woman there, but is eventually deported. 1990   [14][15][16]
Come See the Paradise Alan Parker A New York Irish-American labor union organizer falls in love with his employer's daughter. Set during the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. 1990    
Flirting John Duigan The sequel to The Year My Voice Broke, an Australian boy becomes hopelessly in love with an African exchange student. 1991   [17]
Jungle Fever Spike Lee A successful African-American architect has an affair with his Italian-American secretary. 1991   [1][5][18]
Mississippi Masala Mira Nair An African-American man and an Indian immigrant begin a relationship despite the disapproval of both their families. 1992   [5][10][18]
Indochine Régis Wargnier 1992    
One False Move Carl Franklin An African-American woman, in the company of fugitives, returns to her hometown where her ex-lover is the local sheriff. 1992    
The Lover Jean-Jacques Annaud In 1950s French Indochina, a French teenage girl has an affair with a wealthy, older Chinese merchant. 1992 Nominated for Best Foreign Film at Awards of the Japanese Academy in 1993.
The Bodyguard Mick Jackson A white bodyguard and the African-American singer he is assigned to protect form a romantic relationship. 1992  
Zebrahead Anthony Drazan Relationship between two inner city teenagers in Detroit. 1992 Won Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. [19]
Made in America Richard Benjamin 1993    
Wedding Banquet, TheThe Wedding Banquet Ang Lee A Taiwanese-American guy and his gay white lover. 1993   [17]
The Ballad of Little Jo Maggie Greenwald 1993    
The Joy Luck Club Wayne Wang Relationship between four young Chinese-American women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China. 1993 Winner of the Young Artist Awards in 2004. [5]
Double Happiness Mina Shum A Canadian-born Chinese girl falls in love with a white university student. 1994 Winner of Best Canadian Feature Film at Toronto International Film Festival in 1994. [20]
A Bronx Tale Robert De Niro 1993   [19][21]
Foreign Student Eva Sereny A young French college student studies in America and falls in love a black teacher. 1994   [19]
Corrina, Corrina Jessie Nelson 1994  
Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, TheThe Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love Maria Maggenti Randy and Evie have an interracial teenage lesbian romance. 1995   [22][23]
Bleeding Hearts Gregory Hines 1995  
The Jungle Book Stephen Sommers 1994  
Talking About Sex Aaron Speiser 1994
Jefferson in Paris James Ivory 1995  
Pocahontas Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg   1995   [24]
Madame Butterfly Frédéric Mitterrand 1995    
Othello Oliver Parker 1995   [10]
Watermelon Woman, TheThe Watermelon Woman Cheryl Dunye   1996   [5]
Fools Rush In Andy Tennant   1997   [17][25][26]
Fakin' da Funk Tim Chey A Chinese teenager whose adoptive parents are black falls in love with a black girl. 1997   [17][19][27]
Chinese Box Wayne Wang Romance between a Western reporter and a Chinese woman during the return of Hong Kong to China. 1997 Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1997. [28]
One Night Stand Mike Figgis A black Los Angeles commercial director has an affair with a white woman in New York while he is married to a Chinese-American woman and she is engaged to his gay friend's brother respectively. 1997  
Tomorrow Never Dies Roger Spottiswoode James Bond partners with a Chinese spy to stop a media mogul from starting World War III. 1997   [28]
Jackie Brown Quentin Tarantino The title character is a black drug-smuggling flight attendant who is wooed by a white bail bondsman. 1997   [17]
Heaven's Burning Craig Lahiff   1998    
Restaurant Eric Bross A romance develops between two waiters, both aspiring to enter the entertainment industry. 1998 Jury Award winner for Best Drama at the Atlantic City Film Festival in 1999.
Bulworth Warren Beatty A white senator pursues a romantic relationship with a young black activist. 1998   [29]
Besieged Bernardo Bertolucci 1998    
Next Time Alan L. Fraser 1998 Won the "Hollywood Discovery Award" and "Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Award" at the Hollywood Film Festival in 1998.
The Breaks Eric Meza 1999
Row Your Boat Sollace Mitchell 1999 Won "Audience Choice Award" at the Stony Brook Film Festival in 1999.
Colorz of Rage Dale Resteghini 1999   [30]
The Annihilation of Fish Charles Burnett 1999    
Liberty Heights Barry Levinson A Jewish white guy falls in love with a black girl at a recently desegregated school. 1999   [19][26]
The Secret Laughter of Women Peter Schwabach 1999  
Unbowed Nanci Rossov Set after the Civil War, a defiant Native American man and a high spirited Black woman fall in love while attending college. 1999 Won "Best Film" at the American Indian Film Festival in 1999.
Romeo Must Die Andrzej Bartkowiak A Romeo and Juliet story set between African American and Asian families. 2000   [31]
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce Chi Muoi Lo A comedy-drama about a Vietnamese brother and sister raised by an African American couple. 2000   [31]
Mission Impossible II John Woo Ethan Hunt, a white man, has a romance with Nyah, a black woman, as they try to recover a virus. 2000   [17][31]
O Tim Blake Nelson Retelling of Othello with modern high school students. 2001   [10]
Save the Last Dance Duane Adler A teenage girl from the Midwest and an African-American teen from South Side Chicago fall in love though their mutual love of dancing. 2001   [32]
Crazy/Beautiful John Stockwell Nicole Oakley, the spoiled, rich, out-of-control daughter of congressman Tom Oakley, meets a working class Mexican-American straight-A student, Carlos Nuñez, resulting in a clash of cultures, values, and a love affair. 2001   [19]
"Monster's Ball" Marc Forster After a family tragedy, a white racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American widow of the last prisoner he murdered. 2001   [10]
Far From Heaven Todd Haynes Housewife has flirtation with her African-American gardener 2002   [1]
Alfie Charles Shyer White British guy and African-American girlfriend of his best friend. 2004   [17][33]
Guess Who Kevin Rodney Sullivan Romantic comedy about an African-American girl introducing her white fiancé to her parents. 2005   [17][34]
Romancing the Bride Kris Isacsson Romantic comedy about a confused bride, Melissa, who wakes hand-cuffed to a Mexican stranger who claims to be her husband; she has no recollection of the marriage after having consumed a Mexican "moonshine" drink and having forgotten the events that occurred the previous night. 2005
Something New Sanaa Lathan Romantic comedy about an African-American woman falling in love with her Caucasian landscape gardener. 2006   [10][17][26][35]
Rome & Jewel Charles T. Kanganis, Neil Bagg Musical take on Romeo & Juliet with a black guy and white girl. 2006   [36]
Lakeview Terrace Neil LaBute Thriller about a LAPD sergeant who terrorizes his new next-door neighbors because they are an interracially married couple. 2008   [37]
Our Family Wedding Rick Famuyiwa An African-American guy plans to marry a Mexican-American girl, but they must meet each other's families. 2010   [10]
Belle Amma Asante Period drama set in the 18th century about Dido Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a black former slave and a white British naval officer, who is raised by her wealthy great-uncle, but struggles to find her place in society. 2013   [38]
Born to Be Blue Robert Budreau A partly fictional biopic about Chet Baker, focusing on his romance with (and engagement to) an African American actress in 1960s Los Angeles. 2015[39]

Notes

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