The Best Romantic Movies of All Time

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KIGALI50 We’ve all been there. You settle in, open Netflix, and proceed to scroll for 40 minutes until your food is cold and you’re almost too tired to watch anything, nothing you got.

It’s the paradox of choice: thousands of options, but nothing feels "right."

But when you find the perfect romantic movie, it’s magic. Whether you need to ugly cry over a tragic love story, laugh until your side hurt, or just restore your faith in humanity with a feel-good classic.

The film listed on this article can completely shift your mood. So, stop the doom-scrolling. I’ve done heavy lifting for you.

From timeless tear-jerkers to modern masterpieces, here is your ultimate, curated guide to the best romantic movies of all time| organized exactly by how they’ll make you feel better.

60. Forgetting Sarah (Marshall 2008)

Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation to deal with the recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know, Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.

59. Dirty Dancing (1987)

During the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.

58. My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding.

57. 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 agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.

56. Palm Springs

Two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.

55. Sing Street (2016)

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

54. 500 Days of Summer                                            

After being dumped by the girl he believes to be his soulmate, hopeless romantic Tom Hansen reflects on their relationship to try and figure out where things went wrong and how he can win her back.

53. Something's Gotta Give

swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.

52. The Notebook

An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.

51. Sleepless in Seattle

A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.

50. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

49. Crazy Rich Asians

This contemporary romantic comedy based on a global bestseller follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.

48. 10 Things I Hate About You

A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays a mysterious boy, Patrick, to charm Kat.

47. Notting Hill

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.

46. Much Ado About Nothing

lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.

45. Top Five

A comedian tries to make it a serious actor when his reality television star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her television show.

44. Atonement

Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

43. Groundhog Day

A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day, and the day keeps repeating until he gets it right.

42. Bridget Jones’s Diary

Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.

41. Punch-Drunk Love

Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.

40. Brokeback Mountain

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

39. Breakfast at Tiffany's

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

38. Silver Linings Playbook

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

 

37. The Worst Person in the World

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

36. Amélie

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, Amélie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love.

35. A Star is Born

Musicians help a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

34. In the Mood for Love

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

33. Licorice Pizza

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

32. Harold and Maude

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

31. The English Patient

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

30. West Side Story

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

29. Titanic

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

28. Pride and Prejudice

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?

27. Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.

26. Her

In the near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

25. Your Name

Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

24. Shakespeare in Love

The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

23. High Fidelity

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

22. Four Weddings and a Funeral

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

21. There's Something About Mary

A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.

20. Past Lives

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

19. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories for ever.

18. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

France Cinéma On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

17. Say Anything

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

16. It Happened One Night

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

15. Manhattan

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

14. The Big Sick

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

13. An Affair to Remember

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

12. When Harry Met Sally...

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

11. About time

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.

10. Call Me by Your Name

In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.

09. The Graduate

disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

08. Before Sunrise

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.

07. Gone with the Wind

sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

06. The Philadelphia Story

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

05. La La Land

While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.

04. The Apartment

Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

03. Annie Hall

levy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

02. Before Sunset

Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.

01. Casablanca (1942)

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

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