The 96 Best Rom-Coms, According to the Students Of My Rom-Com Class

A list that is very subjective, constantly growing, and...does not include exclusively romantic comedies, per se.

I have had the pleasure, recently, to be teaching a screenwriting class about the art of the romantic comedy. This class discusses the genre through the lens of the filmographies of Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron, two women I consider masters of the form. But we do no exclusively discuss these women — there’s a lot out there to love when it comes to romance.

During the first session for each run of the class, I ask each student to tell me some of their favorite of the genre. Below are their responses — varied in tone, subject, sub-genre, and even, at times, in whether they’re romantic comedies at all. All parentheses next to the listings are the students’ own comments on their choices.

I love this list. It’s also a great viewing rec resource for the next time you’re looking for something to discover or revisit.

Have at it :) I would love to hear your comments on the below. And if you’d like to sign up for the class, we have two sessions coming up you can learn about here.

1. 10 Things I Hate About You 

2. 13 Going On 30

3. About Time

4. Addicted to Love 

5. Almost Famous

6. Always Be My Baby

7. Amelie

8. Austenland

9. Because I Said So

10. Before Sunrise

11. Before Sunset

12. Bend It Like Beckham

13. Better Off Dead 

14. Bridesmaids

15. Bridget Jones 

16. Broadcast News

17. Brown Sugar 

18. But I'm a Cheerleader

19. Center Stage 

20. Clueless 

21. Coming To America 

22. Crazy Rich Asians

23. Crazy Stupid Love

24. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ)

25. Down With Love

26. Eat Pray Love

27. Emma (2020)

28. Enough Said

29. Fire Island

30. Four Weddings and a Funeral

31. Friends With Benefits

32. Harold and Maude

33. Heartburn

34. Hitch

35. How To Be Single 

36. How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days

37. I Love You, Man

38. Insecure

39. It's Complicated 

40. Jaane tu Ya Jaane Na 

41. Jerry Maguire

42. Just Wright

43. Legally Blonde

44. Long Shot

45. Love & Basketball

46. Love Life Season 2 

47. Lovesick

48. Made Of Honor

49. Maid In Manhattan

50. Miss Congeniality

51. Moonstruck

52. My Best Friend's Wedding 

53. Never Have I Ever 

54. New Girl 

55. Notting Hill

56. Obvious Child 

57. Ocean's Eleven ("if we are really stretching that definition")

58. Palm Springs

59. Paris Blues 

60. Playing House

61. Plus One

62. Pretty Woman

63. Princess Bride

64. Princess Diaries

65. Princess Diaries 2

66. Roman Holiday

67. Room With A View ("debatable but also: debatable!")

68. SATC 

69. Say Anything

70. Set It Up

71. She's All That 

72. She's the Man

73. Silver Linings Playbook

74. Sleeping With Other People

75. Sleepless in Seattle

76. Sliding Doors

77. Someone Great

78. Something's Gotta Give

79. Starstruck

80. The 5 Year Engagement

81. The Best Man

82. The Big Sick

83. The Birdcage 

84. The Half Of It

85. The Holiday 

86. The Hook-Up Plan

87. The Parent Trap

88. The Philadelphia Story

89. The Shop Around the Corner

90. The Worst Person In the World

91. To All The Boys I've Loved Before

92. When Harry Met Sally

93. While You Were Sleeping 

94. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

95. You're the Worst 

96. You've Got Mail