102 Romantic Comedies to see
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1.
Pretty Woman
(1990)
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love. (119 mins.)
Director: Garry Marshall
2.
Love Actually
(2003)
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. (135 mins.)
Director: Richard Curtis
3.
The Holiday
(2006)
Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love. (138 mins.)
Director: Nancy Meyers
4.
Last Holiday
(2006)
Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman (Queen Latifah) decides to sell off all her possessions and live it up at a posh European hotel. (112 mins.)
Director: Wayne Wang
5.
The Beautician and the Beast
(1997)
A New York cosmetologist mistakenly thought to be a science teacher is offered a job to teach the children of an Eastern European dictator. (105 mins.)
Director: Ken Kwapis
6.
Beastly
(2011)
A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love. (86 mins.)
Director: Daniel Barnz
7.
10 Things I Hate About You
(1999)
A new kid must find a guy to date the meanest girl in school, the older sister of the girl he has a crush on, who cannot date until her older sister does. (97 mins.)
Director: Gil Junger
8.
13 Going on 30
(2004)
A 13 year old girl plays a game on her 13th birthday and wakes up the next day as a 30 year old woman. (98 mins.)
Director: Gary Winick
9.
27 Dresses
(2008)
After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with. (111 mins.)
Director: Anne Fletcher
10.
50 First Dates
(2004)
Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day. (99 mins.)
Director: Peter Segal
11.
About Time
(2013)
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think. (123 mins.)
Director: Richard Curtis
12.
Along Came Polly
(2004)
A buttoned up newlywed finds his too organized life falling into chaos when he falls in love with an old classmate. (90 mins.)
Director: John Hamburg
13.
As Good as It Gets
(1997)
A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.. (139 mins.)
Director: James L. Brooks
14.
So I Married an Axe Murderer
(1993)
A San Francisco poet who fears commitment has a girlfriend who he suspects may not be who she appears. (93 mins.)
Director: Thomas Schlamme
15.
Better Off Dead...
(1985)
A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier. (97 mins.)
Director: Savage Steve Holland
16.
Blast from the Past
(1999)
A romantic comedy about a naive man who comes out into the world after being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years. (112 mins.)
Director: Hugh Wilson
17.
Caveman
(1981)
A cave-man seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cave-woman. (91 mins.)
Director: Carl Gottlieb
18.
Chalet Girl
(2011)
Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. (97 mins.)
Director: Phil Traill
19.
The Devil Wears Prada
(2006)
A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine. (109 mins.)
Director: David Frankel
20.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
(2008 Mini-Series)
An aspiring supervillain must balance his career and his pursuit of a beautiful do-gooder. (42 mins.)
21.
Ella Enchanted
(2004)
Ella is under a spell to be constantly obedient, a fact she must hide from her new step-family in order to protect the prince of the land, her friend for whom she's falling. (96 mins.)
Director: Tommy O'Haver
22.
Enchanted
(2007)
A princess, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer. (107 mins.)
Director: Kevin Lima
23.
Bruce Almighty
(2003)
A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world. (101 mins.)
Director: Tom Shadyac
24.
Evan Almighty
(2007)
God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood. (96 mins.)
Director: Tom Shadyac
25.
Failure to Launch
(2006)
A thirtysomething slacker suspects his parents of setting him up with his dream girl so he'll finally vacate their home. (97 mins.)
Director: Tom Dey
26.
Fools Rush In
(1997)
After a one night stand with Isabel, Alex realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions. (109 mins.)
Director: Andy Tennant
27.
For Love or Money
(1993)
Doug is a young man who works all day as a concierge at a luxurious hotel, saving money to make his own business... (96 mins.)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
28.
For Richer or Poorer
(1997)
A real estate hustler and his wife hide from the IRS among the Amish. (115 mins.)
Director: Bryan Spicer
29.
Four Christmases
(2008)
A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas. (88 mins.)
Director: Seth Gordon
30.
Funny Farm
(1988)
When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy... (101 mins.)
Director: George Roy Hill
31.
The Game Plan
(2007)
An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has an 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. (110 mins.)
Director: Andy Fickman
32.
Geek Charming
(2011 TV Movie)
To win a school popularity contest, a high school diva permits a film club classmate to record her popular life, but the film starts documenting her decline instead. (94 mins.)
Director: Jeffrey Hornaday
33.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
(2009)
While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends. (100 mins.)
Director: Mark Waters
34.
The Girl Next Door
(2004)
A teenager's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love. (108 mins.)
Director: Luke Greenfield
35.
Groundhog Day
(1993)
A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again. (101 mins.)
Director: Harold Ramis
36.
Grumpy Old Men
(1993)
A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street. (103 mins.)
Director: Donald Petrie
37.
Grumpier Old Men
(1995)
John and Max resolve to save their beloved bait shop from turning into an Italian restaurant, just as its new female owner catches Max's attention. (101 mins.)
Director: Howard Deutch
38.
Happy Gilmore
(1996)
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house. (92 mins.)
Director: Dennis Dugan
39.
Hello, Dolly!
(1969)
A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder... (146 mins.)
Director: Gene Kelly
40.
High Spirits
(1988)
When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the... (99 mins.)
Director: Neil Jordan
41.
Hitch
(2005)
While helping his latest client woo the fine lady of his dreams, a professional "date doctor" finds that his game doesn't quite work on the gossip columnist with whom he's smitten. (118 mins.)
Director: Andy Tennant
42.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(2003)
Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure" magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made. (116 mins.)
Director: Donald Petrie
43.
Jerry Maguire
(1996)
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him. (139 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
44.
Joe Somebody
(2001)
When Joe is beat up by a co-worker in front of his daughter on "Bring Your Child To Work Day", he decides to fight back. (98 mins.)
Director: John Pasquin
45.
Julie & Julia
(2009)
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. (123 mins.)
Director: Nora Ephron
46.
Just Go With It
(2011)
On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much-younger girlfriend. (117 mins.)
Director: Dennis Dugan
47.
Just Like Heaven
(2005)
A lonely landscape architect falls for the spirit of the beautiful woman who used to live in his new apartment. (95 mins.)
Director: Mark Waters
48.
Just Married
(2003)
A young newlywed couple honeymoon in Europe, where obstacles challenge their ability to sustain the marriage. (95 mins.)
Director: Shawn Levy
49.
A Knight's Tale
(2001)
After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight. (132 mins.)
Director: Brian Helgeland
50.
Legally Blonde
(2001)
When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined. (96 mins.)
Director: Robert Luketic
51.
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
(2003)
Elle Woods heads to Washington D.C. to join the staff of a congresswoman in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing. (95 mins.)
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
52.
Letters to Juliet
(2010)
Sophie dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the "Secretaries of Juliet". (105 mins.)
Director: Gary Winick
53.
The Man with Two Brains
(1983)
Steve Martin comedy about brain transplantation. (93 mins.)
Director: Carl Reiner
54.
Mannequin
(1987)
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life. (90 mins.)
Director: Michael Gottlieb
55.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
(2014)
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival. (116 mins.)
Director: Seth MacFarlane
56.
Miss Congeniality
(2000)
An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event. (109 mins.)
Director: Donald Petrie
57.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
(2005)
A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other. (120 mins.)
Director: Doug Liman
58.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
(2006)
When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell. (95 mins.)
Director: Ivan Reitman
59.
No Strings Attached
(2011)
A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it's not long before they learn that they want something more. (108 mins.)
Director: Ivan Reitman
60.
The Nutty Professor
(1996)
Grossly overweight professor Sherman Klump, desperate to lose weight, takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love. (95 mins.)
Director: Tom Shadyac
61.
One Crazy Summer
(1986)
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers. (93 mins.)
Director: Savage Steve Holland
62.
The Other Woman
(2014)
After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been betraying. And when yet another love affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot revenge on the three-timing S.O.B. (109 mins.)
Director: Nick Cassavetes
63.
Overboard
(1987)
A cruel but beautiful heiress screws over a hired carpenter, who later is the first one to find her when she gets amnesia. Looking for a little revenge he convinces her that she's his wife. (106 mins.)
Director: Garry Marshall
64.
Parenthood
(1989)
The Buckman family is a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse. (124 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
65.
Paul
(2011)
Two British comic-book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51. (104 mins.)
Director: Greg Mottola
66.
Peggy Sue Got Married
(1986)
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. (103 mins.)
Director: Francis Coppola
67.
The Perfect Man
(2005)
Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy... (100 mins.)
Director: Mark Rosman
68.
The Prince and Me
(2004)
At college Paige meets Eddie, a fellow student from Denmark, whom she first dislikes but later accepts, likes, and loves; he proves to be Crown Prince Edvard. Paige follows him to Copenhagen, and he follows her back to school with a plan. (111 mins.)
Director: Martha Coolidge
69.
The Princess Bride
(1987)
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride. (98 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
70.
The Princess Diaries
(2001)
Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her 16th year. (115 mins.)
Director: Garry Marshall
71.
The Proposal
(2009)
A pushy boss (Sandra Bullock) forces her young assistant (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada. (108 mins.)
Director: Anne Fletcher
72.
Real Genius
(1985)
Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a laser. (108 mins.)
Director: Martha Coolidge
73.
RED
(2010)
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants. (111 mins.)
Director: Robert Schwentke
74.
Serendipity
(2001)
A couple reunite years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together. (90 mins.)
Director: Peter Chelsom
75.
She's Out of My League
(2010)
An average Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and the influence of his friends and family begin to pick away at the relationship. (104 mins.)
Director: Jim Field Smith
76.
She's the Man
(2006)
When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks in London, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguises herself as him, and proceeds to fall for one of her soccer teammates. Little does she realize she's not the only one with romantic troubles, as she, as he, gets in the middle of a series of intermingled love affairs. (105 mins.)
Director: Andy Fickman
77.
Short Circuit
(1986)
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes. (98 mins.)
Director: John Badham
78.
Sixteen Candles
(1984)
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. (93 mins.)
Director: John Hughes
79.
Sky High
(2005)
Set in an era where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young William Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being. (100 mins.)
Director: Mike Mitchell
80.
Sleepless in Seattle
(1993)
A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. (105 mins.)
Director: Nora Ephron
81.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
(2010)
Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin's descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana le Fey. (109 mins.)
Director: Jon Turteltaub
82.
Splash
(1984)
A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is. (111 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
83.
Summer School
(1987)
A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students... (97 mins.)
Director: Carl Reiner
84.
Sweet Home Alabama
(2002)
A young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation. (108 mins.)
Director: Andy Tennant
85.
There's Something About Mary
(1998)
A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from highschool, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster. (119 mins.)
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
86.
This Is 40
(2012)
Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart. (134 mins.)
Director: Judd Apatow
87.
Two Weeks Notice
(2002)
A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him. (101 mins.)
Director: Marc Lawrence
88.
The Ugly Truth
(2009)
A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests... (96 mins.)
Director: Robert Luketic
89.
Vamps
(2012)
Two female vampires in modern-day New York City are faced with daunting romantic possibilities. (92 mins.)
Director: Amy Heckerling
90.
Warm Bodies
(2013)
After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world. (98 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Levine
91.
We Bought a Zoo
(2011)
Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. (124 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
92.
Zookeeper
(2011)
A group of zoo animals decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zoo keeper find love -- without opting to leave his current job for something more illustrious. (102 mins.)
Director: Frank Coraci
93.
Wedding Crashers
(2005)
John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary. (119 mins.)
Director: David Dobkin
94.
Weird Science
(1985)
Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that. (94 mins.)
Director: John Hughes
95.
The Wedding Ringer
(2015)
Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in need. (101 mins.)
Director: Jeremy Garelick
96.
The Wedding Singer
(1998)
Robbie, the singer and Julia, the waitress are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other. (95 mins.)
Director: Frank Coraci
97.
What Women Want
(2000)
After an accident, a chauvenistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking. (127 mins.)
Director: Nancy Meyers
98.
White Christmas
(1954)
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. (120 mins.)
Director: Michael Curtiz
99.
Yes Man
(2008)
A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year. (104 mins.)
Director: Peyton Reed
100.
You've Got Mail
(1998)
Two business rivals hate each other at the office but fall in love over the Internet. (119 mins.)
Director: Nora Ephron
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