The 43 Best Romantic Movies (& 5 to Avoid!)

The best romantic movies of all time for an epic movie night! We’ve included the classic chick flicks, rom coms, and must-see romantic comedies!

   

If you’re like us, you’re a sucker for a great romantic movie or rom-com! There is nothing better than getting a pizza, bottle of wine, and enjoying a classic love story with your girl friends!

We’ve noticed that it’s getting harder and harder to find a well-made, well-written romantic movie though. 

It seems like every new “romance” has a death or illness as the main story, and while you’ll see a few of those on our list, we do like a variety. I mean, not every night is a sob-fest night, and Nicholas Sparks can sometimes shove it where the sun don’t shine in our books (I mean – how dare you with #11’s ending!!!)

We hope you’ll enjoy watching and sharing your opinions about all of these movies!

We actually put together a FREE Romantic Movies Checklist that you can print and play along….because we also know what’s it’s like trying to pick a movie out.

Sometimes you’re mind just blanks and you end up watching Die Hard with your husband again.

Now you’ll have a list of movies you want to see at your finger tips!

Our Top 5 Best Romantic Movies

While the rest of our list is organized by favorite to least favorite, we couldn’t figure out a real order for these 5. 

They’re all SO good!

1. About Time
2. Love Actually
3. Crazy Rich Asians
4. Age of Adaline
5. When Harry Met Sally

Tried & True Romantic Movies

If you’re looking for a classic romantic movie or romantic comedy, you can’t go wrong with these!

1. Pretty Woman
2. Bridgette Jones’ Diary
3. Sweet Home Alabama
4. You’ve Got Mail
5. Just Go With It
6. The Holiday
7. Ghost
8. The Big Sick
9. The Proposal
10. While You Were Sleeping
11. A Walk to Remember
12. A Star is Born
13. Titanic
14. P.S. I Love You
15. Crazy Stupid Love
16. Hitch
17. Dirty Dancing
18. Lake House
19. 50 First Dates
20. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
21. Wedding Planner
22. Serendipity
23. Overboard
24. Beauty & the Beast
25. Sleepless in Seattle
26. Roxanne
27. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Only on Netflix)

Classic Romantic Movies

If you’re looking for a classic, these 5 are our favorites!

1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Pride and Prejudice (With Colin Firth)
3. Sabrina (The Original)
4. Casablanca
5. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
6. Roman Holiday

An Affair to Remember (though sad) and Pillow Talk (though silly) almost made the list.

Romantic Movie Listeners Loved (But We haven’t Seen).

When we were putting this list together, we asked our friends and podcast listeners what their favorite romantic movies were.

We haven’t seen these 3, but they were suggested more than once!

1. Bed of Roses
2. Notting Hill
3. Wicker Park (though after seeing the cover, we may just go with Just Like Heaven again – it’s good!)

Honorable Mentions

When we asked around, these 3 movies popped up often as well. 

The reason we ranked them only as honorable mentions is because we’ve seen them, and they’re not our favorites.

With that said, they aren’t as bad as Runaway Bride.

1. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. The Vow
3. The Wedding Date

Track How Many You’ve Seen with Our FREE Romantic Movies Checklist 

And now….without further ado….

The 5 Romantic Movies We Absolutely Hate

We know this will be controversial. 

And we’re okay with that.

We absolutely can’t stand how stalker-ish Ryan Gosling is, how a woman tries to steal someone’s fiancé, or just how depressing the last two movies are.

Sorry, not sorry — here are the 5 romantic movies to avoid:

1. The Notebook
2. Something Borrowed
3. My Best friend’s Wedding
4. Hope Floats
5. Message in a Bottle

We couldn’t even say they fell into just kind-of-duds like Maid in Manhattan. They left us feeling angry after wasting 1-2 hours on them.

Do you agree with our list? What are your favorite romantic movies?

We’re already planning a second list of the “Pretty Good Romantic Movies” to come!

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Track How Many You’ve Seen with Our FREE Romantic Movies Checklist 

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