They've played lovers on the silver screen.

Now the question is, are Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves embarking on a real-life relationship?

The pair left a restaurant together on Monday night in Beverly Hills, and were spotted sharing an intimate series of kisses and hugs.

Rumbled: Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves break away from one another after sharing an intimate embrace outside a restaurant in Beverly Hills on Monday

Theron, who split from her boyfriend of six years Stuart Townsend earlier this year, also appeared to have her hands wrapped around Reeves and under his jacket.

But when they realised they had been caught in the act, they came over all camera shy and broke off contact.

Celebrity website TMZ posted video footage of their long goodbye and of them getting touchy-feely with each other.

Life imitating art? The couple got between the sheets for Sweet November (2001)

Theron, 34, and Reeves, 45, played lovers in the weepy 2001 drama Sweet November.

They also appeared in the 1997 movie The Devil’s Advocate.

Reeves has never married. His girlfriend Jennifer Syme was killed in a car accident in April 2001, two years after the couple's baby was stillborn.

All over: Charlize split from boyfriend Stuart Townsend earlier this year, pictured here in 2004