Best Romantic Comedies of Recent Time - Top Romantic Comedies

Released in 2012

Directed By: David O. Russell

Starring: Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence

Pat (Cooper) has been in treatment for bipolar disorder for the last eight months. Tiffany (Lawrence) is also having some issues herself and the two develop a strange friendship based off of their similar neurosis.

Released in 2011

Directed By: Dennis Dugan

Starring: Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston

Danny Maccabee (Sandler) is a successful plastic surgeon, who uses his sob stories to get women in bed. The only woman that truly knows who he is.. is his office manager Katherine (Aniston). When Danny uses one of his lies to hook the woman of his dreams, he needs Katherine to help him with his lies.

Released in 2005

Directed By: Andy Tennant

Starring: Will Smith, Kevin James, and Eva Mendes

Alex "Hitch" Hitchens is a date doctor. He helps shy nice guys fall in love with the women they dream of.

Released in 2009

Directed By: Ken Kwapis

Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Ginnifer Goodwin, Justin Long, and Drew Barrymore

We follow the ensemble cast through their various relationships and see how they intertwine with one another.

Released in 2010

Directed By: Garry Marshall

Starring: Jennifer Garner, Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Alba and Anne Hathaway.

The movie runs through various relationships on Valentine's Day.

Released in 1995

Directed By: Amy Heckerling

Starring: Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd

Cher Horowitz (Silverstone) is a spoiled little rich girl who always get her way. Cher is often playing match maker for others but can never find someone who is right for her.

Released in 1999

Directed By: Gil Junger

Starring: Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles

Cat (Stiles) is a bratty, stubborn, and strong willed girl, who doesn't bother with boys or dating. When Patrick is hired to take Cat out he may be in over his head.

Released in 2002

Directed By: Marc Lawrence

Starring: Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant

Lucy (Bullock) is an attorney who runs into billionaire George Wade (Grant) when she is trying to stop his company from destroying a beloved building. George hires her on the spot. However, Lucy soon discovers that George needs help in all aspects of his life.

Released in 2003

Directed By: Donald Petrie

Starring: Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson

Andi (Hudson) and Ben (McConaughey) find themselves making a bet with their co-workers... Andi makes a bet to lose a guy in 10 days and Ben makes a bet that he can make any woman fall in love with him. The two end up together, not sharing their bets with the other.

Released in 2006

Directed By: Peyton Reed

Starring: Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn

Gary (Vaughn) and Brooke (Aniston) live together in a great apartment and have been dating for some time, however, when their differences come between them they break up but both refuse to move out of the apartment.

Released in 2008

Directed By: Michael Patrick King

Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Kim Catrall, and Cynthia Nixon

This is a continuation of the television series following Carrie Bradshaw and her friends lives as they move through their relationships in New York City.

Released in 2007

Directed By: Judd Apatow

Starring: Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl

Alison is a straight laced and uptight career woman has just been given a promotion. While out drinking she hooks up with Ben (Rogen) a stoner and they have sex. Eight weeks later, Alison discovers she is pregnant!

Released in 2009

Directed By: Nancy Meyers

Starring: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin

A single mother begins having an affair with her ex-husband who she divorced ten years ago when he cheated on her.

Released in 2004

Directed By: Peter Segal

Starring: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore

Henry Roth (Sandler) meets Lucy (Barrymore) in a café and has a connection with her. However, Lucy has suffered from memory loss and wakes up thinking each day is a year ago.

Released in 2000

Directed By: Nancy Meyers

Starring: Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt

Nick Marshall (Gibson) works as an advertising exec. He is a man's man, but when he falls in his shower and is electrocuted he is suddenly able to read women's thoughts.

Released in 2002

Directed By: Andy Tennent

Starring: Reese Witherspon, Josh Lucas, and Patrick Dempsey

Melanie (Witherspoon) left her small hometown to become a designer in New York City. While in the city she becomes a successful designer and become engaged to the mayor's son. However, Melanie is still married to her high school love back in her hometown.

Released in 1997

Directed By: James L. Brooks

Starring: Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt

Melvin Udall is best-selling novelist with OCD. It is very hard for Melvin to create relationships. When his waitress(Hunt) from his favorite restaurant quits her job to work closer to home to care for her sick son, Melvin offers to pay for her son's medical bills if she returns back to her old job.

Released in 2009

Directed By: Anne Fletcher

Starring: Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds

Margaret Tate (Bullock) faces being deported back to Canada, but decides to force her assistant (Reynolds) to marry her in exchange for a promotion.

Released in 2001

Directed By: Sharon Maguire

Starring: Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth

Bridget Jones is in her early thirties and still single, and very worried about becoming a spinster. When she meets Daniel Cleaver (Grant) she thinks she has finally found the "one." However, the "one" may be one of the last people she could possibly imagine.

Released in 2002

Directed By: Joel Zwick

Starring: Nia Vardalos and John Corbett

"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is the highest grossing romantic movie ever, despite never reaching number one at the box office. It is about a Greek woman, whose family is very greek. But she falls in love with a non-Greek man.