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15 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time


 

Romantic comedies usually showcase a love story where two people overcome adversity to obtain their happily ever after. People watch romantic comedies to improve their mood and also see how people deal with different emotions so that they may learn to navigate through their feeling as well. 

Watching these movies increases bonding in families, improves communication, and can improve intimacy and trust in families. 

Here are the 15 best romantic comedies of all time. 

1. Mother’s Day  

Mother’s Day is a romantic drama comedy that was released in 2016. The movie follows different characters and their relationships with their mothers as Mother’s Day gets closer. There is an adopted child that sets out to find her birth mother, there is a single mum of two sons and a widower with two daughters and siblings whose parents are racist homophobes. In the end, there is a couple that falls hopelessly in love. 

All these storylines are different and connected in one way or another. The movie is very funny and will have you laughing from start to finish.   

2. The Change-Up

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This one is a fantasy romantic film that was released in 2011. It is a story about two friends, one is a responsible career and family guy while the other is a carefree actor with no family. One night they urinate at a wish fountain wishing they had each other’s lives.   

They wake up the next morning having switched bodies and the city council has taken the fountain away. Will their family members believe them? Watch to find out how each fits into the other’s life. 

3. Valentine’s Day 

Valentine’s Day is a star-studded romantic comedy movie that was released in 2010. The film has different storylines about different people that are connected in one way or another. These couples and singles break up and make up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day. It is a good movie that may renew your faith in love as the different situations unfold.  

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4. Crazy Rich Asians    

Crazy Rich Asians is a romantic comedy-drama film that was released in 2018. The story is about a young guy that is from a wealthy family in Singapore but travels to America and while there falls in love with a girl from a modest family who does not know just how influential the guy is back in his homeland.  

Will the rich family accept their son’s bride? The movie has very funny scenes. Watch it and enjoy. 

5. The Switch  

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The Switch is a romantic comedy film that was released in 2010. It is the story of a young woman who is in her 30s and hasn’t found love. She is ready to start a family and so she opts to find a sperm donor. At the fertility center, they find her a match but her longtime friend who she ‘bro-zoned’ isn’t too happy about the whole thing.  

She throws a fertility party. Her friend who is too drunk finds the sperm by the sink, accidentally spills it, and replaces it with his. Find out what happens when the truth finally comes out.   

6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall  

This romantic comedy movie was released in 2008. It is the story of a guy who is a music composer for a TV show in which his girlfriend is the lead actress. She ends their 5 years relationship out of the blues and moves on to date a rock star.

The guy decides to go on vacation to Hawaii, to try and heal his broken heart. Unfortunately, he runs into his ex on the island as she is on vacation with her new boyfriend.  Will he forget his ex and fall in love again? Watch the movie to know how it goes. 

7. Couples Retreat   

Couples Retreat is a romantic comedy movie that was released in 2009. It is a story of four couples that go to a couples retreat resort on a half-price package, with their main interest being using the resort’s facilities and not necessarily working on their marriages.   

When they got there, they were told that couples therapy at 6 am every morning was compulsory and anyone who didn’t attend would be kicked off the resort. Watch to see how their week’s stay at the resort affected their marriages. 

8. Just Go With It  

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Just Go with It is a romantic comedy film that was released in 2011. The story is about a doctor who lies about being in a sad marriage to sleep with women and avoid commitment at the same time.

On the one day he finds a woman that he likes and wants to change his narrative, it gets complicated when the woman wants to meet the doctor’s wife to get her blessing. He organizes with his secretary to act as his wife and matters get complicated when the kids get in the mix and now the long lie starts where they all have to just go with it. 

9. Always Be My Maybe 

This American comedy was released in 2019. The movie is about two childhood friends who cared deeply for each other until they drift apart after a brief teenage fling. Life places them on different paths and while one is a big-time chef, the other still plays in a band in his neighborhood. 

When they reconnect 16 years later will their love conquer all the obstacles stopping them from being together? Watch this romantic comedy to know how the story ends. 

10. Four Christmases 

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This Christmas comedy film was released in 2008. The story is about a couple that avoids spending Christmas with family by going aboard and doing things on their own. They are both from dysfunctional and broken families and are not keen on getting married or having children.

When the weather makes it impossible to fly, they cancel their plans. They are forced to spend the holidays with each of their divorced parents and annoying siblings plus their kids.  

11. Crazy Stupid Love 

Crazy Stupid Love is a romantic comedy that was released in 2011. It is the story of a divorced man who is having trouble moving on after the breakup. While at the bar one night throwing a pity party and licking his wounds, a young womanizer takes notice and takes it upon himself to teach the divorced guy how to hit on women. His confidence and dressing get boosted and he can talk to different women. He even gets lucky a few times.

All is fun and games until the womanizer picks up the divorced man’s grown daughter from the bar one night and the two fall in love. Watch this comedy to see if they get her father’s approval. 

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12. Friends With Benefits 

This is another 2011 romantic comedy movie. It is a story about two young platonic friends that agree to not ruin their friendship by having feelings for each other. Then they agree to just have sex but not be emotionally attached. They both fall for each other but will not agree, which ruins their friendship.

Watch to find out what happens in the end. 

13. Just Married 

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This Hollywood romantic comedy was released in 2003. It is a story about a guy that hits a girl with a ball on the beach and that is how they meet and fall in love. Amidst strong opposition from her family, the two get married and leave for their honeymoon.

A series of bad things and misunderstandings affect their relationship until the honeymoon is cut short. Will they fight for their love? Watch this movie to find out more.  

14. The Break-Up 

The Break-Up is an American romantic comedy-drama movie that was released in 2006. It is a story about a couple that is going through problems and they breakup shortly after buying a condo together.

With non of them willing to move out of the house, they agree to remain roommates,  even though they resent each other and will hurt each other at every turn. Eventually, the condo is put up for sale. Will this couple forgive each other and give it another try? Watch the movie to find out. 

15. 50 First Dates 

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50 First Dates is a romantic comedy-drama movie that was released in 2004. The story is about a guy who falls in love with a girl who got into an accident and developed amnesia. He is so in love that he is willing to go on 50 first dates just to be with the girl.  

He later devises a way by recording all the events of the day and putting it in a videotape that she can play back first thing every morning. Do they live happily ever after? Watch this movie to find out.  

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