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.
5.8/10
Freddie Prinze Jr stars as a high school favourite who makes a bet with a fellow classmate that he can turn mousy, bespectacled Rachael Leigh Cook int... Read more
6.6/10
The celebrated first feature from independent black filmmaker Spike Lee, a brazenly comic foray into sexual politics. Tracy Camilla Johns stars as Nol... Read more
6.4/10
Raucous romantic comedy starring Jay Baruchel as an average guy stuck in a dead-end job as an airport security guard, who can't believe his luck when... Read more
6.4/10
Raucous romantic comedy starring Jay Baruchel as an average guy stuck in a dead-end job as an airport security guard, who can't believe his luck when... Read more
6/10
Ed Burns became an overnight celebrity with his micro-budget 'The Brothers McMullen'. His follow-up is another sprightly comedy starring himself, this... Read more
7.2/10
A gem of a film about a witty housewife, bored with the hum-drum routine of suburban life, who jumps at the chance to rediscover herself when she join... Read more
7.9/10
What can a husband do when the woman he loves leaves him for no reason at all? In this case he has it all on tape - his obsessive camcorderings of the... Read more
6.4/10
Steve Martin stars in and adapted the screenplay from his own novella about shopgirl Mirabelle (Claire Danes); she's depressed, underpaid, in debt and... Read more
7.8/10
Six very different women work together in an elegant boutique in Rome in this quintessentially Italian soap opera. Through their daily struggles with... Read more
6.5/10
Melanie Lynskey came back to NZ to make this light-hearted romantic drama about a competition (famously held in Lower Hutt back in the '80s) where fol... Read more