The Best Romantic Comedies to Watch on Netflix

When you’re in the mood for love, these are the best romantic comedies to Netflix and chill with. 

Spend your night revisiting the Julia Roberts classic Notting Hill or take a chance on something more recent like Randall Park’s 2023 directorial debut Shortcomings.

This list features 33 films currently streaming on Netflix that show love in all its many-splendored forms, from across the decades, in a range of languages, with protagonists of varying ages, and some even in animated fashion. But, from Anyone But You to Nappily Ever After, it’s the humor that makes these lovey-dovey movies stand out.

Here are the best rom-coms on Netflix right now.

13 Going On 30 (2004)

After a disastrous 13th birthday party, Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) wakes up to discover that she’s now 30 years old and doesn’t necessarily like the person she’s become. It’s only once she reconnects with her childhood best friend (played by Mark Ruffalo) that she starts to get back to herself.

Watch 13 Going on 30 here

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)

Lara Jane Covey (Lana Condor) spends most of her time writing secret love letters to her crushes, never expecting to actually send them. When those notes end up in the hands of those boys she’s loved, she enlists Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo), the most popular guy in school and a letter recipient, to pretend to be her boyfriend in this delightful adaptation of Jenny Han’s novel of the same name.

Watch To All the Boys I've Loved Before here

Shortcomings (2023)

After breaking up with his long-time girlfriend, Ben (Justin H. Min) embarks on a journey of self-discovery through dating in Randall Park’s charming directorial debut.

Watch Shortcomings here

Set It Up (2018)

To get some much-deserved time off, overworked and underpaid assistants Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Anyone But You’s Glen Powell) team up to play matchmaker for their truly miserable high-powered bosses (played by Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) in this amusing throwback.

Watch Set It Up here

Always Be My Maybe (2019)

Ali Wong and Randall Park star in this laugh-out-loud comedy about two former childhood friends who find themselves falling in love, whether they want to admit it or not.

Watch Always Be My Maybe here

The Half of It (2020)

The shy and introverted Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) has a way with words, so she readily agrees when her high school’s football star Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) asks her to write his crush Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire) a love letter for him. The only problem is, she has feelings for Aster, too, in Alice Wu’s tender teen take on Cyrano de Bergerac.

Watch The Half of It here

The Perfect Find (2023)

After ending a long relationship, Jenna (Gabrielle Union) finds herself back on the market. Following some truly horrible first dates, the 40-year-old meets Eric (Keith Powers), a kind and talented videographer who seems too good to be true. And he might be: her new love is not only 15 years her junior, but he’s also the son of her new boss and longtime frenemy (played by Suits’ Gina Torres).

Watch The Perfect Find here

The Incredible Jessica James (2017)

Everybody loves Jessica James (played by Shrinking star Jessica Williams), but the charismatic playwright is having trouble finding Mr. Right—who may or may not be Bridesmaids’ charming Chris O’Dowd—in this whimsical rom-com that encourages women not to sell themselves short.

Watch The Incredible Jessica James here

Alex Strangelove (2018)

Alex Truelove (Daniel Doheny) is dating Claire (Madeline Weinstein), but his feelings for Elliot (Antonio Marziale) have him questioning his sexuality in this rom-com that nails the awkwardness of teenage self-discovery.

Watch Alex Strangelove here

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)

To honor her mother’s dying wish, eight-year-old Anjali (Saba Saeed) sets out to reunite her father (Shah Rukh Khan) with his college best friend in this big-hearted Bollywood musical that proves it’s never too late to let someone know you love them.

Watch Kuch Kuch Hota Hai here

Nappily Ever After (2018)

With a successful boyfriend, a high-powered advertising job, and her long straightened hair, Violet (Sanaa Lathan) believes she is the picture of perfection. But when things in her life start to go awry, she wonders if she’s wrapped up too much of her self-worth in her hair in this modern fairytale about falling in love with your authentic self.

Watch Nappily Ever After here

A Tourist’s Guide to Love (2023)

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Type-A travel industry exec Amanda (Rachael Leigh Cook) jets off to Vietnam to take her mind off of things. Once there, she meets a sensitive tour guide named Sinh (Scott Ly) who encourages her to throw away the guidebook and trust her instincts. When her ex (Ben Feldman) shows up to apologize, she is forced to decide whether she wants to go back to her old life or imagine a brand new one.

Watch A Tourist's Guide to Love here

Entergalactic (2022)

The beautifully animated visual companion to Kid Cudi’s 2022 album of the same name tells the story of visual artist Jabari (Cudi) and photographer Meadow (Jessica Williams) falling in love in New York City. Think a truly cosmic When Harry Met Sally.

Watch Entergalactic here

Someone Great (2019)

Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) just landed her dream job in California, but she doesn’t feel much like celebrating after her boyfriend of nine years breaks up with her. Luckily, her two best friends (played by DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow) are there to help her let loose and find some closure in Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s delightful directorial debut.

Watch Someone Great here

The Lovebirds (2020)

Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani go from lovebirds to possible jail birds in Michael Showalter’s action-packed rom-com about a couple who, in the midst of breaking up, find themselves the unwitting accessories to a murder. Now they have to solve the crime in order to save themselves—that’s if they can manage not to kill each other first.

Watch The Lovebirds here

Crazy About Her (2021)

A one-night stand leads Adri (Álvaro Cervantes) on a wild goose chase to find Carla (Susana Abaitua), who he believes is the girl of his dreams. When he discovers she is a patient at a mental health center, he has himself committed in this offbeat Spanish rom-com that handles mental illness with empathy and care.

Watch Crazy About Her here

Happy Anniversary (2018)

For fans of 500 Days of Summer: an inventive rom-com starring Ben Schwartz and Noël Wells as a couple who spend their third anniversary reassessing the best and worst moments of their past in order to decide whether they have a future together.

Watch Happy Anniversary here

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021)

Yui “Cherry” Sakura is a bashful boy who only speaks through his poetry. Yuki, a.k.a. Smile, is a social media influencer who dons a mask in order to hide her braces. A missing record brings these loners together in this quirky anime film about learning to communicate.

Watch Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop here

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

Whether or not you know about Prague, it’s hard not to relate to Noah Baumbach’s wry Gen X rom-com about a group of aimless, but articulate college graduates (played by Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, and Parker Posey) trying to find someone they can commit to.

Watch Kicking and Screaming here

Wedding Season (2022)

Asha (Pallavi Sharda) and Ravi (Suraj Sharma) are tired of being set up on blind dates by their parents, who just want them to get married already. To get them off their backs, they pretend to be in a relationship that will span the length of the busy summer wedding season. But when the two find themselves really falling for each other, they must decide whether it’s just a fling or something more serious.

Watch Wedding Season here

Duck Butter (2018)

Nima (Alia Shawkat) and Sergio (Laia Costa) meet at a bar and end up going home together. They hit it off and quickly decide they don’t want the night to end. In hopes of speeding up the dating process, they spend the next 24 hours getting to know each other in this intense indie romance about what it means to really commit to someone.

Watch Duck Butter here

Tramps (2016)

When a down-on-his-luck chef (played by Callum Turner) delivers a mysterious briefcase to the wrong person, he and his getaway driver (Grace Van Patten) must team up to fix his mistake and save their lives in this tense indie that is Before Sunrise meets Good Time.

Watch Tramps here

Look Both Ways (2022)

Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart stars in this Sliding Doors-esque rom-com about a young woman who finds herself wondering what her life would have been if she didn’t get pregnant when she was a senior in college.

Watch Look Both Ways here

Out of My League (2020)

Marta (Ludovica Francesconi) has a severe form of cystic fibrosis and knows that she may not have much time left. She decides to shoot her shot with a gorgeous stranger she’s been lightly stalking. But when he falls for her, she has to decide whether it's really worth continuing this love affair. Fans of The Fault In Our Stars will appreciate this Italian rom-com sure to make you reach for the tissues.

Watch Out of My League here

Miss Congeniality (2000)

The perfect date is watching this action-packed rom-com starring Sandra Bullock as an unkempt and unrelenting FBI agent who goes undercover as a beauty queen in order to stop a bombing attempt on the Miss United States pageant. Bullock’s laugh-out-loud performance might convince you anything is possible—even world peace. 

Notting Hill (1999) 

I’m just a journalist standing in front of a reader asking them to watch this heartwarming romance in which a Hollywood movie star (Julia Roberts at the peak of her powers) falls in love with a bumbly British bookstore owner (Hugh Grant at his most endearing), turning both their lives upside down in ways they never imagined. 

Definitely, Maybe (2008)

When Deadpool meets How I Met Your Mother, you get Definitely, Maybe, a sticky-sweet romance in which Ryan Reynolds plays a recently divorced dad who, at his young daughter’s urging, tells the story of how he fell in love with her mom. But there’s a twist. She must guess which of dear old dad’s former love interests—played by Rachel Weisz, Isla Fisher, and Elizabeth Banks—is really her mother. 

Anyone But You (2023) 

Loosely inspired by Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, this zany and insanely popular rom-com casts Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell as two singles who briefly came together for a magical one-night-stand that ended badly. Soon after, they must try and play nice when their besties get engaged and set a wedding in Australia. High jinks ensue, often to the sounds of Natasha Bedingfield.

About Time (2013)

Keep the Kleenex handy for Richard Curtis’ emotionally devastating film about a man (Domhnall Gleeson) who discovers that the men in his family have the ability to time travel. With this newly acquired skill, he decides to go back in time to improve his love life. But what he soon realizes is that fixing the mistakes of his dating past puts the happily ever after he so covets at risk.

The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love (1995)

In the endearing coming-of-age indie, rebellious loner Randy (The L Word’s Laurel Holloman) and cool rich girl Evie (And Just Like That’s Nicole Ari Parker) find themselves falling in love despite what their friends, family, and small town may think. In 1995, the film felt ahead of its time in its portrayal of young queer love. Thirty years later, it still feels just as groundbreaking.

Love in Taipei (2023)

An unexpected trip to Taiwan leads a sheltered young American woman, played by Ashley Liao, on a journey of self-discovery in this feel-good rom-com based on Abigail Hing Wen’s bestselling YA novel, Loveboat, Taipei. 

How to Be Single (2016) 

After graduating from college, Alice (Dakota Johnson) decides to dump her longtime boyfriend and embrace the single life. With a little help from her friends—her raunchy co-worker (Rebel Wilson) and her pragmatic older sister (Leslie Mann)—she hits the dating scene and discovers what it is she really wants from a partner.

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)

This sweet and silly rom-com starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as an Icelandic duo trying to win the titular international song competition has everything: certified bangers, ghost Demi Lovato, and (possibly) murderous Icelandic elves. It also has a lot of heart, which makes it the kind of movie that you’ll want to share with someone you love.