Paste's The 100 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time

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As a genre, the romantic comedy has had pretty sharply defined highs (the 1940s and 1980s) and lows (1990s-2000s) based on viewer appetite and studio competence, but thanks to this thing we call “the human condition,” hope-laden fables showing how two people can, indeed, find and cherish one another despite all obstacles will never stay out of fashion long—no matter how soulless and cynical the industry. Whether because we are young and naïve, not-so-young and searching, or old and grumpy with a soft spot (or wistful memory), there’s always an appetite for fascinating meet-cutes, resolved comedies of errors and melted gruff exteriors. So no matter your particular poison when it comes to scripted takes on love and relationships, let Paste’s list of the 100 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time provide you just what the doctor ordered.

List published April 2013. Updated and expanded in October 2018, updated Feb 2022.

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  1. 54 -

    Appropriate Behavior

    2014 — a.k.a. Appropriate Behaviour, in 3 top lists Check
  2. 92 -2

    Boy Meets Girl

    2014, in 1 top list Check
  3. 67 -

    But I'm a Cheerleader

    1999, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 89 -2

    Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi

    1958 — a.k.a. That Which Runs Is a Car, in 2 top lists Check
  5. 93 -2

    Desk Set

    1957, in 1 top list Check
  6. 76 -

    Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

    1995, in 5 top lists Check
  7. 27 -

    The Goodbye Girl

    1977, in 4 top lists Check
  8. 83 -1

    Hors de prix

    2006 — a.k.a. Priceless, in 1 top list Check
  9. 51 -

    Houseboat

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  10. 72 -

    How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    1998, in 1 top list Check
  11. 75 -

    Jeffrey

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  12. 82 -1

    Kissing Jessica Stein

    2001, in 1 top list Check
  13. 22 -

    L.A. Story

    1991, in 1 top list Check
  14. 25 -

    Love & Basketball

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
  15. 88 -2

    The Major and the Minor

    1942, in 3 top lists Check
  16. 86 -1

    Obvious Child

    2014, in 1 top list Check
  17. 62 -

    Pretty in Pink

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 41 -

    The Prizefighter and the Lady

    1933 — a.k.a. Every Woman's Man, in 1 top list Check
  19. 48 -

    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  20. 15 -

    Sabrina

    1954, in 5 top lists Check
  21. 98 -2

    Serendipity

    2001, in 1 top list Check
  22. 39 -

    Sleeping with Other People

    2015, in 1 top list Check
  23. 77 -

    Some Kind of Wonderful

    1987, in 1 top list Check
  24. 66 -

    Something Wild

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  25. 99 -2

    Sweet Home Alabama

    2002, in 2 top lists Check
  26. 94 -2

    To All the Boys I've Loved Before

    2018, in 1 top list
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    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 43 -

    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
  29. 16 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  30. 12 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
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    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
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    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  33. 6 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  34. 10 -

    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 22 top lists Check
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    Beauty and the Beast

    1991, in 19 top lists Check
  36. 84 -1

    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    2010, in 6 top lists Check
  37. 45 -

    There's Something About Mary

    1998, in 11 top lists Check
  38. 49 -

    Juno

    2007, in 12 top lists Check
  39. 26 -

    Punch-Drunk Love

    2002, in 12 top lists Check
  40. 70 -

    Lars and the Real Girl

    2007, in 1 top list Check
  41. 63 -

    Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    2008, in 1 top list Check
  42. 28 -

    Knocked Up

    2007, in 4 top lists Check
  43. 46 -

    Enchanted

    2007, in 3 top lists Check
  44. 31 -

    Four Weddings and a Funeral

    1994, in 13 top lists Check
  45. 78 -

    While You Were Sleeping

    1995, in 2 top lists Check
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    The 40 Year Old Virgin

    2005 — a.k.a. The 40-Year-Old Virgin, in 5 top lists Check
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    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
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    The Princess Bride

    1987, in 19 top lists Check
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    How to Marry a Millionaire

    1953, in 3 top lists Check
  50. 81 -1

    The Wedding Singer

    1998, in 3 top lists Check
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