The 33 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time

You’ll fall hard for these.

When we were given the delightful and serious task of rank the top 33 romanticcomediesin movie account , our two priorities were to verify each accounting entry on the leaning was ( 1 ) a genuine romance and ( 2 ) legitimately funny . That mean rewatching our favorites , catching up on unsighted spots , and making tough calls free-base on our definition of " read-only storage - com . " You wo n’t findPretty in PinkorSixteen Candles(for the doubtful romance ; for Long Duk Dong ) , noLove and BasketballorLove Jones(wonderful romances , both of them , but they ’re romanticdramas ) , and noLegally BlondeorBring It On(hilarious comedies that we adore , but the romances are n’t at the essence of either ) .

It ’s possible that your preferred flick wo n’t be on this list , but if you ’re a fixed storage - com fan , we fuck that you already love at least half of these movies — and we assure you ’ll love the repose .

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33.How to Marry a Millionaire(1953)

Three wizardly pic stars — Marilyn Monroe , Betty Grable , Lauren Bacall — top this rom - com as three charming ladies with a very obvious goal ( see the claim ) . Even if you detest the pre - feminist political relation of the office , the trio ’s single - mindedness and cagey conning are a ball . Luckily , in their pursuit of money , models Schatze , Pola , and Loco — thosenames — all terminate up finding and bumbling their way to love .

32.Boomerang(1992)

This Eddie Murphy rom - com is like a fourth dimension ejector seat of dark Hollywood in 1992 : Martin Lawrence ! Eartha Kitt ! Chris Rock ! David Alan Grier ! Everyone ’s there . The gravid cast of fiber givesBoomerangplenty of laugh - out - loud funny moments — in special , every secondment that Grace Jones ' Strangé is on sieve — but the romance all falls on young Halle Berry and her longing glances . Sure , you have to buy into the idea that Halle Berry is the " plain one " ( because she has short hair , and Robin Givens has long tomentum ) , but once you take the mental saltation , you ’ll be rooting for her to forgive Murphy ’s reformed rake at the remainder .

31.Earth Girls Are Easy(1988)

Valley little girl Valerie ( Geena Davis ) takes the visual aspect of three aliens bring down in her pool with relative cool . It help that they ’re played by Damon Wayans , Jim Carrey , and Jeff Goldblum . The romance spark off between then - dating Davis and Goldblum , two marvellous drinks of water that ’ll make you think in intergalactic making love , thanks in no short part to a inoffensive , hellatrippy sex activity scene . Earth missy Are Easyis the definition of daffy , sappy playfulness .

30.My Best Friend’s Wedding(1997)

In this upside - down version of a rom - com , the bitchy good friend trying to ruin the family relationship of the well-chosen couple is the maven of the flick . One of the most rejoicing scene in all of film history is when Julia Roberts attempt to humiliate Cameron Diaz bymaking her do karaoke(a moment those of us with tremendous vocalizing voices fear at our core ) , and rather , Diaz has the whole bar clapping and tattle along . For the rest of the pic , we root on for Diaz and the unhappily tedious Dermot Mulroney to live on happily ever after , at first just to spite Roberts , and then because of how much their lovemaking for one another shines through .

29.Hitch(2005)

How is this movie on this list when Will Smith ’s Hitch is a pickup creative person ? Some of the scene where Hitch report his " rules " to Kevin James are cringeworthy , but the actual coaching—“Listen to woman when they talk ! " " await for the signaling someone wants to be kissed!"—is applicable . Will Smith ’s fiber even saves Eva Mendes ' character from a humans hitting on her when she clearly just wants to be alone ! This dating - superhero moving picture also has an awe-inspiring emotional essence , a welcome realization that the rules and games of coaching are simply a direction around the integral vulnerability of romance .

28.27 Dresses(2008)

The " always a bridesmaid , never a Saint Bridget " floor vibrate with those of us with our own closets full of bridesmaids dresses , and those clothes are key to two pivotal comedic moments — when our lead , Jane , models her 27 , and when the 27 former St. Brigid are force to do the same — in Katherine Heigl ’s major contribution to the musical style . The female relationships in this movie are as important as the amorous ones : Judy Greer gives the often thankless bitchy best friend role humor and humanity ; and we both have it away and hate Malin Akerman as the baby bridezilla just looking for commendation , which feel true to life . The real emotional reverberance of this pic comes from thealmostunforgivable things that both Heigl ( who betrays her sister ) and James Marsden ( who betrays Heigl ) do to masses that they lie with , how they forgive themselves , and how they are forgive .

27.The Holiday(2006)

Two romances for the terms of one : English Kate Winslet , trying to get over a broken heart and soul , barter family at Christmastime with Californian Cameron Diaz , who ’s endeavor to reckon out why she does n’t seem to have a heart . One of the best scenes in this moving-picture show is when Winslet arrives in LA , attend Diaz ’s home , and jumps up and down around the menage — the way we ’d act if life suddenly throw off us in a Nancy Meyers movie base . Winslet , as always , is great in this movie , but this is Diaz at her height : awkward , dying , adorable , and someone with whom you want to drink a feeding bottle of vino ( ideally with both of you wearing one of the stark - for - wine-colored - drinking cardigans she wear in this movie ) . Diaz has the better of the two romances — no offense , Jack Black , but you ’re no Jude Law — but the subplot with Winslet and the aged neighbour tug at your heartstrings .

26.My Man Godfrey(1936)

This is one of those classical storey about a female child who recruits a hobo to help vie against her baby in a scavenger Richard Morris Hunt , only to have the yob open her middle to see beyond her own trivial worries . My Man Godfreyhinges on the chemistry of Carole Lombard and William Powell , which is specially surprising consider that thespian divorced in existent life a few years prior . But it ’s likely just that familiarity and friendship that imbues the dyad with an easiness that makes their characters — one punishingly practical , the other fantastically frivolous — so merriment to observe together .

25.Imagine Me & You(2005)

This jewel of a moving picture is your Graeco-Roman British rom - com with a lesbian braid . opine Me & Youhits all of the honorable writing style figure without allowing anyone to devolve into a two - dimensional gillyflower character . The erratic St. Brigid who come down out of dear on her wedding party solar day , the lesbian florist , the clueless married man , and his dirtbag sound friend all feel like real multitude , and you spend the whole movie wanting them all to be happy . The destruction , when Piper Perabo stand on top of a car stuck in dealings to spirt over Lena Headey for the world to find out , is one of the swooniest public declarations of love we ’ve ever seen .

24.Strictly Ballroom(1992)

There ’s a rationality why dance flick have been pop since the dawn of motion picture : " memorize how to trip the light fantastic " collage are the image of romance . Baz Luhrmann ’s Australian craze classic manages to be amazingly touching and flat - out uproarious all at once , with wild costume , ludicrous situations , and deadpan use of the mockumentary format hiding express joy behind gag that you ’ll only find on a rewatch . Warning : there ’s no way to watch this movie without want to dance the pasodoble with an Australian . We dare you to strain .

23.Desk Set(1957)

Katharine Hepburn plays the smartest women in the elbow room ( heck , in the whole Federal Broadcasting Company ) in this lighthearted romance . And it ’s exactly what Spencer Tracy ’s character loves about her . There ’s a whole scene where you may really see Tracy ’s gruff deportment unfreeze when faced with Hepburn ’s intellect . The doer , whose chemical science lasted through nine films and a 26 - year affair , are so effortlessly comfortable that they seem romantically intertwined the moment they meet;Desk Set ’s perks — supply by Phoebe and Henry Ephron , parents of Nora — come with waitress for the moment when they give away that themselves .

22.13 Going on 30(2004)

While13 buy the farm on 30is typically called the " female edition ofBig , " it has more going on thanks to tricky time travel , strange medium political sympathies , and the fact that her salutary champion aged up and out of her life . We ’re fall guy for movies where people give back back into the independent characters ' spirit — Sweet Home Alabamajust barely missed out on this list — and Jennifer Garner ’s geniality and Mark Ruffalo ’s deplorable puppy eye crush us every time.13 pass on 30also has a whole succession where Garner and Ruffalo dance to Michael Jackson ’s " Thriller , " which does not pass enough in real life .

21.Obvious Child(2014)

We fall hard forObvious Childstar Jenny Slate , who ’s hilarious and lovely and implausibly lovable , even if she does n’t see herself that way . By put a potential twain through the emotional clone of an miscarriage , the picture show pulls off two splendid rom - com tropes : establish Jenny Slate ’s character Donna a means to come into her own , a personal journeying that push her to be a good artist ( she ’s a stand - up comic ) , and giving our potential leading man ( the live - as - hell Jake Lacy ) a chance to step up and show himself worthy . The motion-picture show accomplishes both with an aching sweetness .

20.Brown Sugar(2002)

The Latinian language sneaks up on you in the jest - out - loud funnyBrown Sugar . You know the motion picture ’s best champion , hip - record hop journalist Sidney ( Sanaa Lathan ) and book exec Andre ( Taye Diggs ) , will get together somehow , despite the marriages and unrequited longing and unfulfilling study view . But director Rick Famuyiwa demand his time getting there . Sometimes we have to mature to be suitable of one another . Also , Mos Def and his AMAZING os zygomaticum are in this . Yeah yeah yeah , Queen Latifah and Boris Kodjoe are there too , in okay form , but Mos Def . MOS DEF .

19.Love Actually(2003)

interrelated vignettes have become a modern rom - com figure , butLove Actuallywas the first , and , thanks to bookend scene dress in Heathrow Airport , the interwoven pic with the most nitty-gritty . The stories inLove Actuallyare vary enough in tone — some are hopeful ( such as Hugh Grant ’s select minister of religion and adorable Natalie ) , some are semisweet ( ugh , Sarah and Karl ) , and all are centered around the weirdly connected tingly feel we get around the holidays where the blank space between us seems a little small . The few moments thatraise an eyebroware equilibrize out with many more that make us go " awwww ! "

18.Coming to America(1988)

Why do we jazz this unconvincing pick ? The timelessness of an " I feign to be a provincial so she would fall in beloved with the military man , not the prince " story ; the innocence and humor Eddie Murphy brings to the role of the prince ; the nosey New Yorkers view and add their two cents during a competitiveness on the metro ; Murphy and Arsenio Hall ’s raiment of characters , all performed with a wink to the audience ; and everything about James Earl Jones as a king . But , as always with a story like this , we have a go at it that Shari Headley ’s Lisa falls in love with the man she thinks is a goat herder , even though she ’s already dating the heir to the Soul Glo fortune . And in the end , she gets both the manandthe prince .

17.Moonstruck(1987)

This is not a movie to find out on an empty stomach . Between the pasta , the bakehouse overflowing with bread , the egg in the yap , the steak , and all the wine-coloured , Moonstruckis as much about the romance between your lip and a nearby Italian eating place . The star - crossed lover are n’t too sorry either . Moonstruckis tamp with speeches on love , include Nicolas Cage ’s madcap declaration to Cher that prompts the famous " snap out of it ! " series of slaps . The truthful romance , when our swooning curve through the thirstiness , comes from the silent weeping and hand holding on their date to the opera .

16.Pretty Woman(1990)

Pretty Womanbelongs on this inclination for the " full-grown mistake . HUGE . " shopping conniption alone . Two thing we ’ve all fantasized about in one unadulterated collage : revenge on someone who has wronged you , and a shopping fling . But even apart from the wish - fulfilment joys of this movie , we also get a genuine relationship between two people who fight their making love for one another , a groovy female friendship , and a fantastic last declaration of love . Julia Roberts make you express mirth along with her , sympathize with her , and barrack for her ; is n’t that what we all look for in a read-only storage - com heroine ?

15.Down with Love(2003)

In this underappreciated read-only storage - com , Renee Zellweger ’s Barbara Novak write a book of account calledDown with Love , about women see and dismissing adult male much the same way of life homo have done for years , and single - handedly jump-start the intimate gyration around the world . Ostensibly a parody of quirky sex - romp comedies from the sixties , over - stylized product design and costuming , innuendo - filled dialogue , and a taste of mod politics makeDown With Lovea moving picture that could only be made in the present . Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger are evenly matched in their metaphorical battle of the sex activity , but Sarah Paulson and David Hyde Pierce make for an even fizzier , funnier span , even as the emotional stakes and ridiculous disguises become increasingly wild .

14.Bride and Prejudice(2004)

Bollywood read-only memory - coms are racy and deserve a lean of their own , so we harbour back here . But we had to make elbow room forBride and Prejudice , a rare crossover moment . Yes , it ’s yet anotherPride and Prejudiceadaptation , but this modern narrative hunkers down and complicate the romance with intercultural dialogue , expectations about arranged man and wife , and the distinctive Austenian sexual love of humiliate her characters by pointing out their , well , prejudice . The dance sequence do n’t suffer , either .

13.Splash(1984)

Are you a millennial name Madison ? If so , you in all probability owe it toSplash . In the ultimate fish - out - of - water narration , Daryl Hannah is a mermaid who save Tom Hanks ' life , then tracks him down to New York City , where he promptly falls in love with her . There ’s so much to lie with in this movie , but the supporting cast raise the whole thing , including John Candy as the fluff asshole , but loyal brother , and Eugene Levy as the wickedness , then penitent , nautical biologist .

12.10 Things I Hate About You(1999)

Julia Stiles ' Kat was a misandrist before her time . In this sluttish adaptation ofTaming of the Shrew , you love Heath Ledger ’s Patrick for his charm , and even more so , how much he genuinely cares for Kat . ( Here ’s what a hero looks like : Patrick reject to kiss Kat because she was too intoxicated . ) A petite Joseph Gordon - Levitt being adorable in the secondary romance , Shakespeare - addicted chum who nod to the source textile , and that one aspect where innocent light-haired Bianca punches the bully in the face ( three times ! ) make this a rom - com where you stand up and cheer .

11.While You Were Sleeping(1995)

While You Were Sleepingtakes an incredibly convoluted situation and it hue it with tangible fondness and feeling . Sandra Bullock spare her jam ’s aliveness by pulling him off the train tracks , then meet his category while order calf love is stuck in a comatoseness ! Her longing to be part of a crime syndicate is so bare and endearing , it dwarfs her wacky rom - com error of masquerading as the guy ’s fiancée . Worth nothing : This is also yet another pic about a woman choose between two brothers ( Sabrinabeing the first ) . Hollywood !

10.My Big Fat Greek Wedding(2002)

Whatever your feelings on marriage and hymeneals , for sure cultures they are about one matter : combine families , a note value that butts heads with the very American ideal of romance . Toula ( Nia Vardalos ) might suffer and fall in sexual love with Ian ( John Corbett ) on her own , but her marriage is something her whole family is a part of . Which makes the most amatory import ofMy Big Fat Greek Weddingnot the wedding or even the courting , but when Ian gets christen in a kiddie kitty at Toula ’s church . ascertain her future hubby chagrin himself , Toula mumbles to herself , " I ’m not worth this . " Her chum turns to her and sound out , " Yes , you are . " No surprisal , this remainsthe highest - gross rom - com of all prison term .

9.Sabrina(1954)

While the 1995 remake has Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford , the original Audrey Hepburn version pop with the smallest , most screaming moments ( the woman could crack an egg ) . Hepburn plays the girl of a wealthy humanity ’s chauffeur who ’s in love with one of his sons , a serial playboy . ineffective to catch his tending , she decides to end it all , until the other brother ( play by Humphrey Bogart ) stops her . ostentation - forward a few years , when Hepburn take from culinary school in France as a beautiful , charming sophisticate . Everyone notices . A passion triangle emerges , complicated by the the playboy brother ’s approaching wedding and Bogart ’s glowering , broody , afraid - of - his - own - feelings hang - ups . The ache inSabrinais compellingly painful .

8.Much Ado About Nothing(1993)

Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson were theBrangelinaof the ' ninety ( Emmeth ? Kenma ? ) . The story of their veridical - life story split will crush you even more after you watch them play the idealistic version of Beatrice and Benedick in Branagh ’s version of one of Shakespeare ’s best romantic comedies . Their backchat is always right on the border between love and detest , and when they at long last intromit their love for one another , we smile and sigh , just like the Bard would want us to do .

7.You’ve Got Mail(1998)

Of of course Nora Ephron render up twice on this listing — though we admit to having a near - unimaginable time choose between this andSleepless in Seattle . We settled onYou’ve Got Mailbecause not only does it give us that trademark bittersweet ache of " but will they work out ? ! " that only a really great read-only memory - com can deliver , but the cinema is also much funnier . Remade from Ernst Lubitsch ’s rattling 1940 rom - comThe Shop Around the Corner , itself based on a 1937 Hungarian fun , Ephron ’s script give Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan a opportunity to banter like they ’re penetrate out their words on a keyboard , their charm at full force . While the net chatroom jest have become out-of-date , Hanks ' gag about Starbucks gild providing citizenry with an individuality prevails today .

6.The Princess Bride(1987)

We bet that most of the people reading this can recite the bulk of this movie by heart , but still do n’t mean of it as a rom - com . The stand cast ofThe Princess Bride — Andre the Giant , Billy Crystal , Mandy Patinkin — have the most memorable lines , and some of the most comedic moments are physical slapstick . But the love between Cary Elwes ' Westley and Robin Wright ’s Buttercup is what bond this whole escapade / fancy / funniness / romance together .

5.Notting Hill(1999)

In an appeal to nerdy char everywhere , Hugh Grant plays a London bookstore owner who falls in honey with far-famed American actress Julia Roberts ( who more or less play herself ) . allow ’s be honest : we all wanted to move to London and ghost bookstall for our own Hugh Grant after seeing this movie . There are many hilarious moments throughoutNotting Hill , all made funnier by Grant ’s square face , but the wacky Welsh roommate present in his underclothing for the paparazzo bump off . Grant and Roberts have the predictable battle of a common man date an A - lister plow , but their at - first tentative , then enduring dear for one another make us root for them to live merrily ever after .

4.Roman Holiday(1953)

A rom - com image that we see over and over again is the " escapism from your liveliness and accidentally come down in love " story . Roman Holidaydoes the story just . Audrey Hepburn is the princess of an unnamed country on a European tour . In Rome , overwhelmed , overscheduled , and feeling box in , she get away her royal quarter and meets Gregory Peck , a reporter scheduled to question her the next day . They continue to have a perfect movie daylight for come down in dearest : they sit a scooter through the city ; she impulsively cuts her hair ; they go dancing ; she starts a brawl . The first and last few scenes of the movie are almost empty of negotiation . Hepburn and Peck ’s facial expressions make us express joy and fill us with yearning for what could be .

3.Bridget Jones’s Diary(2001)

There ’s a lot you’re able to say aboutBridget Jones ’s Diaryto legitimize its rom - com canonisation : it ’s an adaptation ofPride and Prejudice(perhaps one of the secure ones ) , it gives us Colin Firth ’s side-whiskers , and it ’s unrelentingly fishy . A pernicious celebration of exposure is the movie ’s veridical charm . Renee Zellweger ’s Bridget is blemished in a sweet , conversant , veritable room — inept at public speaking , nervous in societal situations . Her pain in the neck often comes from her undervaluing herself or her disinterest in playing amatory games , such as when she straightaway - up asks Hugh Grant ’s character Daniel Cleaver if he loves her . ( GIRL . ) Through Bridget ’s diary voiceovers , we have sex her sterling battle is the knowingness of her own narrative arc . Everything is going to shit , nothing will ever switch , and thing can only get worse – at least in her nous . The humor and romance of the movie arrive when she ’s turn up — to her everlasting surprisal — ill-timed .

2.Clueless(1995)

We ’ve rewritten our case forCluelessthree multiplication , and it still does not feel like a effective enough tribute to the glory that is Amy Heckerling ’s utter retelling of Jane Austen’sEmma . How can we pay tribute to a movie that tangle Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd in 100 paltry Word ? More than 20 years after its debut , we still freak out out when Dionne unexpectedly gets on the state highway . We ’re still rolling with the homies . We still covet Cher ’s wardrobe . But more than anything else , we still smile when Cher realizes that she loves Josh , and we treasure whatCluelesshas to say about love and friendship .

1.When Harry Met Sally…(1989)

We all know the big scenes in this movie : the " Can work force and women be friends ? " conversation in the car , the fake climax , the discharge through the streets of New York on New Year ’s Eve . But our favourite scene of this Nora Ephron - penned movie , just ahead of all the adorable old duo who tie for secondment , is a pocket-size one : Harry , upset because he see his ex , peck a engagement with Sally in their friends ' apartment . Sally prognosticate him on it , and halfway through her recitation of how he ’s an asshole , you see his face variety . He wait for her to terminate , then says , " I ’m no-account . " A lilliputian picture that makes you deal about and believe in these two hoi polloi , and spend a penny the terminal takings , whichWhen Harry Met Sally … rearing from begin to end , all the more rewarding .

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