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Clueless, Some Like It Hot

Those two for sure. Bringing Up Baby and Holiday for me as well (not to be confused with THE Holiday, which I only liked half of).

Aside from Clueless... I think the odds of me liking a romcom have a LOT to do with whether it's black and white.

I usually really like Katharine Hepburn but her character in Bringing Up Baby was too obnoxious IMHO

I wouldn't call Clueless black and white. It's a re-imagining of a literary classic and fairly meaty for such a light-hearted romp.

God tier:
Moonstruck
French Kiss
Pride and Prejudice (2005v)
A Room With a View
*although these are arguably outside the standard genre fare

Not God tier but have watched multiple times:
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days
Dirty Dancing (because the music)
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo + Juliet (Baz's)
Shakespeare In Love
The Notebook (because it's just hot hot hot)

Never saw the Baz Romeo and Juliet, was that version actually a comedy??

no, it was just unreasonably pretty by virtue of the actors and the costuming.

And set and cinematography and music and the insanely good casting for Mercutio, the Nurse, and the Friar

Haha no, I guess my mind got on the Shakespeare train and went more romance than comedy.

Which is funny because talk about a het romance where they barely even know each other and everything goes wrong for the drama.

Looking at your list, I feel like the ones I have enjoyed in the past are not standard romcoms at all: Dirty Dancing is explicitly a summer fling sexual awakening, Shakespeare in Love ends with them permanently separated. Other ones I've liked are My Best Friend's Wedding (he is marrying someone else, she tries and fails to sabotage it) and 10 Things I Hate About You (Shakespeare again, they spend most of the movie with one of them trying to get together and the other one hating it then vice versa, they only sort it out right at the end).

AYRT yeah same. And I forgot about 10 Things! I've watched that one multiple times as well.

I liked How To Lose a Guy for the same reason as 10 Things. They became invested by intentionally trying to NOT be invested.

Annie Hall, Coming to America, the Quiet Man

Clueless and Much Ado about Nothing are just about it.

Dave
Defending Your Life
Twelfth Night (1996)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Does Grosse Pointe Blank count as a romcom??

Movies:

10 Things I hate About you.
Pride and Prejudice - all versions, movies, book, TV series.
Emma.
How to Loose a Guy in Ten Days.
13 Going on 30.
A Tourists Guide to Love.
Clueless.
The Holiday.
Enchanted.
Hitch.
Crazy Rich Asians.
Wish You.

TV shows, this is gonna be a looooooot of K-Dramas as imo they Get rom-coms/romance best these days.

Business Proposal.
Are you Human.
Hotel Del Luna -top fave 5eva.
Crash Landing on You.
Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryun.
Welcome to Samdalri.
Emma - BBC version.
Bridgerton.
It’s Okay to not be Okay.
My Secret Romance.
Touch Your heart.

So bad but I loved them:

The Princess Switch movies.
Marry Me - yes JLo is not much of an actor but dammit I found it cute.

SA.

I got excited to share some of my fave romance stuff I forgot that Wish You is queer, oops. :P

Oooh I'm down with your list, and it's funny you say that because I almost listed Bound in mine although it's neither het nor comedy. ;)

Re: Het romantic coms you actually enjoyed?

(Anonymous) - 2026-04-06 00:57 (UTC) - Expand

Only one of these really qualifies as a romcom, IMO, but the others are at least romantic movies:

Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Dirty Dancing
Clueless
The Sound Of Music

I somewhat enjoy While You Were Sleeping. If it weren't a Christmas movie would I ever rewatch it? Probably not. But it's good enough to get rewatched every third Christmas or so.

And ok, my ultimate guilty pleasure: I actually kind of enjoy the first two Twilight movies.

Baby Boom
Dirty Dancing
50 First Dates
Last Holiday
Crazy Rich Asians
About A Boy
Basically all Sandra Bullock romcoms, but particularly Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice, and The Lost City

Is Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead a romcom? If so, add that to the list!

So, I Married an Axe Murderer
Last Christmas
The Tall Guy

I almost want to include 2005's Daredevil movie, but I'm probably the only person on the planet who would count that movie as a romcom.

*2003's Daredevil movie.

I really loved The Lake House, although it might be more that I associate it with a particular friend and good memories.

10 Things I Hate About You made me fall in love with Heath Ledger. That one is amazing.

Last Christmas
While You Were Sleeping
The Cutting Edge
Paperback Hero
The Proposal
Much Ado About Nothing (nothing beats Kenneth Branagh cawing like a bird!)

Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Much Ado About Nothing
As Time Goes By
While You Were Sleeping
Miranda (British comedy series)

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