What romantic comedy should i watch tonight

Buy, rent or watch 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. This musical comedy is inarguably one of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' finest. The humour's charming, the art deco set is stunning and there's tangible sexual tension in the dance scenes. Buy, rent or watch 'Top Hat'. They fall in love, obvs. This s-set Woody Allen film tells of a woman Mia Farrow who falls in love with a character Jeff Daniels who steps out of the screen at the cinema, only to find herself also being wooed by the actor playing said character also Jeff Daniels.

Buy, rent or watch 'The Purple Rose of Cairo'. This cult hit also stars Ru Paul. Buy, rent or watch 'Gold Diggers of '. A baby-faced John Cusack stars as a wannabe kick-boxer who falls for a straight-A student. The fastest and funniest screwball comedy of them all. What do you think? Buy, rent or watch 'His Girl Friday'. Boy meets girl. Well, actually, boy meets several girls and, um, well, things, erm, get fairly awkward. Then boy meets the girl and after much flirting, some killer gags and Hugh Grant at his most charmingly bumbling and foppish… well, you know the rest.

A strong supporting cast and a tear-jerking funeral scene give it all extra heart. Buy, rent or watch 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. Talk about office politics. Shirley MacLaine plays the lift girl he has his eye on.

Buy, rent or watch 'The Apartment'. Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra star in the coolest musical on the block. Ben Stiller plays a former high-school nerd who hires a private investigator to track down his high school crush Mary Cameron Diaz.

Buy, rent or watch 'There's' Something About Mary'. Henry Fonda is a fabulously rich snake expert who falls into the clutches of sexy gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck in this ferociously funny battle of the sexes. Buy, rent or watch 'The Lady Eve'. Not only does the film never mention the age gap between the two romantic leads, but Jewison is loose-handed with genre, adding sprinkles of magical realism to what is otherwise a kitchen-sink comedy about two New Yorkers who fall in love.

But nature, wise locals and Roger Livesey as a young naval officer get in the way in this near-perfect loch-side romance. They have hair all over their bodies. Instead of a heart, a handbag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. Buy, rent or watch 'The Shop Around the Corner'. The ultimate screwball comedy, this story of a down-to-earth gal, a dippy scientist and a stray big cat named Baby is sheer, ridiculous fun from start to finish.

This is largely thanks to Julia Roberts spitting her witty lines with fiery intensity. Buy, rent or watch 'Pretty Woman'. Nobody can be so happy without being punished. Buy, rent or watch 'Ninotchka'. Emily V. Buy, rent or watch 'The Big Sick'. Buy, rent or watch 'Clueless'. The original Hollywood romcom, this whipsmart road movie about an heiress on the run and the sleazy reporter who picks up her trail scandalised America in the s.

It went on to win a bunch of Oscars, though, so all was clearly forgiven…. Buy, rent or watch 'It Happened One Night'. The film that made Audrey Hepburn a star. And she was never better, playing a tomboyish European princess who goes missing from a royal tour of Rome and falls for a tabloid hack. Buy, rent or watch 'Roman Holiday'. This sweet and moving Swedish coming-of-age tale tells of two teenage girls, bored out of their minds by life in their small town, who gradually come to realise the best thing going for them is each other.

This vinegar-sharp satire about a society dame torn between two equally appealing suitors is steeped in Old-Hollywood elegance and fiery, proto feminist irony. Katharine Hepburn was never more bullishly brilliant. Buy, rent or watch 'The Philadelphia Story'. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine. With its strange, dreamlike tone and moments of sudden violence, Paul Thomas Anderson delivers an indie romcom like no other: the story of an angry, mixed-up man-child and a woman with her head in the clouds.

Buy, rent or watch 'Punch-Drunk Love'. Buy, rent or watch 'Groundhog Day'. But at its heart, this is a giddily funny romance. Buy, rent or watch 'A Matter of Life and Death'. This comes in handy when he misses his chance with a charismatic American girl Rachel McAdams and goes back to the night they first met to start their relationship off right.

But what begins as a delightful, grounded, and romantic romp soon turns emotional, as About Time slowly reveals itself to be a father-son story at heart. But things go awry when Alex meets—and then cannot stop thinking about—an out-and-proud gay high school graduate named Elliot.

Things come together a little too perfectly in the climax, but in these times we live in, a movie this concerned with accepting the things that make you different deserves nothing less than a happy ending. The plot follows two beleaguered assistants Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell who decided to set up their bosses Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs , respectively in order to just get some precious free time away from their demanding jobs.

However, with all their scheming, they start to fall for each other. The movie follows Scott Pilgrim Cera , a sweet if slightly selfish and misguided young man who falls for delivery girl Ramona Flowers Winstead. Looking for a break from the typical rom-com tropes, e. Sure, it may not feature a bumbling, toothy Hugh Grant, but Chungking Express — which has a bifurcated structure, centering on two heartbroken men — is certainly more realistic.

Ditto for Julie Delpy and her flaws though her singing voice is anything but flawed. The last half-hour of this film never fails to crush me with its emotional rawness. Of course, love triumphs in the end. This is the smash that gave us Sandra Bullock the movie star, and when it came on cable a week or two ago, I was happy to see it holds up — and is funnier, broader, and shtickier than I remembered.

Miss Congeniality is a classic, too, by the way. This film the version with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine is more like a satirical dramedy than traditional rom-com, but its a near-perfect romance. It begins with a somewhat sleazy setup to get ahead at work. Right from the opening scene, I felt proud and satisfied when the matriarch cleverly responds to racism against her family.

Plus, the costumes are so glamorous! Whenever I want to momentarily escape my adult responsibilities and reminisce, I see what funny teen love stories Netflix has to offer me. This is definitely in my top five for teen movies. I suppose I tend to be cynical when it comes to love, and this movie certainly fits the bill for people like me.

The scene during which the three get stoned together is peak comedy-in-a-romantic-comedy. Plus, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair play her friends — the perfect recipe for fun.