Introduction

Movie gains popularity by successfully immersing viewers into affective contents under an emotion perception and elicitation process. Film genre sets the tone of a movie to shape key emotional context during the storytelling procedure. In romantic and family movies, character relationship is a key contextual factor guiding the whole storyline, which is expected to evoke a sense of being moved in the audience.

Romantic and Family Movie Database consists of 1029 movie clips excerpted from 10 romantic and family movies. We provide annotations including character relationship type, character relationship status, perceived emotions, induced emotions, and degree of being moved.