37 of the Best Rom-Com Movies to Stream on Netflix

Starring Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon, Your Place Or Mine revolves around two best friends, Peter and Debbie. They’re total opposites in both personality and living arrangements—Debbie lives with her son in Los Angeles, enjoying her routine life, while Peter is going wild in New York. Circumstances lead to them swapping houses for a week, opening up their minds to new ways of living and potentially creating enough change for them to finally meet each other halfway.

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This rom-com leans slightly on the dramatic side, following the life of Jenna (Gabrielle Union), a talented yet unfulfilled fashion editor searching for a professional breakthrough. She crosses paths with Eric (Keith Powers), who works as an exterminator, but who has the charisma of a leading man. Romance is difficult with their contrasting lives and Jenna grapples with the idea of finding happiness outside old definitions of success. The film is a heartfelt exploration of self-discovery, love, and pursuing one’s own version of a perfect life.

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Mira Ray, played by Priyanka Chopra, is coping with the loss of her fiancé when she decides to send a few romantic texts to his old phone number. It turns out the digits have been reconnected to a journalist named Rob Burns, played by Outlander’s Sam Heughan. Rob is moved by how vulnerable and expressive Mira is over text and wants to find the mysterious writer. Who better than to help him than Celine Dion? Seriously, he’s helped by Celine Dion.

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Hadley (Haley Lu Richardson) and Oliver (Ben Hardy) meet like many people do—at complete random. But their chance meet-cute isn’t at a bar or bookstore, it’s on an airplane from New York to London, meaning the time they have together is brief and in passing. It’s all the time they need to know they’re in love, but they lose track of one another in customs. Will destiny bring these two lovers together again? On the same plane and hopefully in first class?

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Based on the 2015 Katherine Center novel of the same name, Happiness For Beginners stars comedian Ellie Kemper across from the alluring Luke Grimes. Kemper plays Helen, a 32-year-old woman who is one year out from her divorce. She decides to sign up for a wilderness survival course at her brother’s urging. Anything to shake things up. And it sure does shake things up. Her experiences in nature and with Grimes’s character, Jake, change how she sees herself and the end of her marriage, and potentially even shows her the path to love again.

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Corporate assistants Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell) have had enough of the late hours and ridiculous requests. Realizing they’re in the same unhappy boat, the two hatch a plan to get their over-demanding bosses Kristen (Lucy Liu) and Rick (Taye Diggs) to fall in love. What could go wrong? As it turns out, plenty—and then they start catching feels for each other.

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What if you could go back in time to un-friend-zone yourself? That’s exactly what Noah (Adam Devine) tries to do after finding a magical photo-booth time machine that transports him to the Halloween party where he first met Avery (Alexandra Daddario). Can he change the course of history, or will he be forced to watch her marry someone else?

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When Wesley (Nasim Pedrad) sends the ultimate drunk email to her new boyfriend, she and her friends (Anna Camp and Sarah Burns) set off to Mexico to try to delete it from his phone before he reads it. Things get more complicated once Wesley runs into Sean (Lamorne Morris), a guy that ended things on their very first date. Maybe hijinks in Mexico are all it takes to rekindle a spark…

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Leilani (Issa Rae) and Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) fell in love on their first night out together, but four years later it seems like they can’t have a conversation without arguing. In the middle of them calling it quits, a man hijacks their car and kills a biker…on purpose. Now they’ve taken on finding out just who the biker is, and why he deserved to be run over (and over and over). Amid the chaos, they might find each other again, too.

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Jack (Sam Claflin) wants his sister’s (Eleanor Tomlinson) wedding to go off without a hitch, and he also wants to reconnect with a crush (Olivia Munn). But with uninvited guests, awkward encounters, and a weird drug going around, there’s many ways this day can go wrong—and we get to watch and laugh as it all plays out.

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Sasha Tran (Ali Wong) and Marcus Kim (Randall Park) were childhood best friends-turned-sweethearts who fell out after a fateful night made things painfully awkward. Fast forward 15 years later when Sasha, a big-time chef, runs into Marcus—who’s still in the same place she left him. She’s successful and unforgiving, and he’s too comfortable settling. If only they weren’t still in love.

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A-student Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) writes papers for her classmates in exchange for cash to help pay the bills. Things get complicated when Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) asks her to ghost-write his love letters to Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire), the girl Ellie has a crush on, too.

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If you love beach scenes, beautiful views, and a good playlist, this is the movie for you. Erica’s (Christina Milian) fiancé Jason (Jay Pharoah) left her a year ago, and the album she’s worked so hard for has just been destroyed, literally. She’s booked a beautiful resort for a working vacation, but when a cute guy named Caleb (Sinqua Walls) saves her from drowning, she realizes he’s Jason’s older brother…and wedding guest.

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There’s nothing more romantic than wine—even when you’re hard at work. When importer Lola (Victoria Justice) travels to Australia to land her dream wine label, she finds herself trying to get on the owner’s good side by working at a local sheep farm. It doesn’t hurt that a hunky ranch hand (Adam Demos) is right by her side.

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Class president Alex Truelove (Daniel Doheny) has everything planned out: He plans to go to Columbia with Claire (Madeline Weinstein), who he’s sure is his future wife. Feeling like the last virgin in high school, an unsettling question about his nonexistent sex life makes him realize he’s the only one who believes in taking things slow in the relationship. Meeting Elliott (Antonio Marziale) makes him question his plans—and dream of so much more.

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Loosely based on Iliza Shlesinger’s life, Shlesinger plays Andrea, a semi-famous comedian who falls for the perfect guy (Ryan Hansen) on a plane ride home. Then she realizes that he lies about everything. In this reverse romantic comedy, Andrea finds truth and friendship while uncovering just how far a guy might go to get the girl.

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Is anyone else tired of answering the “why are you single” question at every family gathering? Sloane (Emma Roberts) and Jackson (Luke Bracey) might have found the perfect solution in being each other’s plus one for every event—until real feelings get involved.

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Similar to Holidate, this sweet film follows Peter (Michael Urie) as he tries to avoid his family’s judgment during Christmas. In an effort to hide his single status, he convinces his best friend Nick (Philemon Chambers) to fake a relationship with him. But as most rom-coms go, fake feelings can turn very real, very fast.

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For another festive and cute holiday pick, try Love Hard. When Natalie (Nina Dobrev) surprises her online boyfriend for the holidays, she discovers she’s been catfished—big time. After meeting the real guy behind the profile, Josh (Jimmy O. Yang), she learns there’s much more than meets the eye when it comes to love.

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We had to round out the Christmas rom-com portion of this list with Lindsay Lohan’s much-anticipated return to acting. Lohan plays Sierra, a newly-engaged heiress who suffers from amnesia after a skiing accident. When she wakes, she finds herself being cared for by lodge owner Jake (Chord Overstreet)—and her life will never be the same.

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