The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two people meet, banter with each other, but despite an attraction obvious to the audience do not become romantically involved because of some internal factor (on the surface, they do not like each other) or an external barrier (one is romantically involved with another person, for instance). At some point, after various comic scenes, they are parted for some reason. One partner or the other then realises that they are perfect for each other, and (often after some spectacular effort, sometimes termed the Grand Gesture, and/or incredible coincidence) they meet again, they declare undying love for each other, and disappear off into the sunset together.
Of course, there are innumerable variations on this basic plotline. It is not even essential for the two lead characters to end up in each other's arms: "My Best Friend's Wedding" (pictured) is a good example.
Only "Romantic Comedies" can be scrolled below. "Romance", "Romantic Dramas" or "Romantic Classics" sections may also prove fruitful.
5.9/10
Ed (Jay Mohr) and Alice (Julianne Nicholson) are a young couple in love when, just two months shy of their nuptials, Alice decides she needs a few mor... Read more
6.7/10
Dodge Petersen's (Steve Carell) wife has just left him - after learning that an asteroid will destroy all life on Earth in just three weeks. Hitting t... Read more
6.7/10
Adapted from Neil Simon's play Chevy Chase is a novelist abducted by criminals and made to be the fall guy for a bank robbery. After his arrest he es... Read more
7/10
One of the finest Doris Day/Rock Hudson pairings casts Rock as a hypochondriac so sure of impending death that he's trying to fix wife Doris up with a... Read more
5.8/10
Simon (Joel Edgerton) is living a comfortable but unfulfilling life in the suburbs, with his wife (Danielle McCormack), two kids,and a sex-life on hol... Read more
6.9/10
After a chance meeting and a spontaneous date, Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) exchange phone numbers, sort of. He scrawls on a five... Read more
5.6/10
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. In this much-anti... Read more
5.6/10
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. In this much-anti... Read more
4.4/10
The fun, the fashion, the friendship: this bombastic film brings it all back as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kri... Read more
Aka "The Missionaries", "Tu veux... ou tu veux pas?". Patrick Bruel is Lambert, an ex-sex addict turned marriage counsellor who hires the sultry, sex-... Read more