Top 10 Best Rom-Coms and Romantic Movies of 2026 — Which One Gets Your Vote?

William Shakespeare's marriage to his wife Agnes is tested by the loss of their son Hamnet, a grief that ultimately lays the groundwork for Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal play the couple in this gripping adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel. Director Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) won the Golden Globe for Best Drama with it.

Emily Bader and Tom Blyth play best friends who vacation together every year, until their feelings begin to shift. Brett Haley directs this When Harry Met Sally-inspired rom-com full of charm and chemistry. Emily Henry's novel gets a playful, sun-drenched adaptation.

Emerald Fennell (Saltburn) gives Emily Bronte's classic a bold, contemporary makeover full of obsessive love and revenge on the Yorkshire moors. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi play Catherine and Heathcliff, with a soundtrack partly created by Charli XCX. A romantic drama that deliberately clashes with the genre's stately expectations.

Shy Colin meets the charismatic biker Ray at a pub and is instantly captivated, leading to an intense dominant-submissive relationship. Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård star in this unconventional love story from A24. Director Harry Lighton doesn't shy away from tackling desire and surrender head-on in his debut film.

Years after a devastating mistake, Kenna tries to rebuild her life in the town where she once lost everything, only to stumble into an unexpected new love. Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers star in this adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestseller. Hoover co-wrote the screenplay herself, the first time she has done so for one of her own books.

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a newly engaged couple whose relationship is put to the test when an unexpected twist completely derails their engagement party. Director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself) blends embarrassing comedy with steadily mounting discomfort. A24 delivers a rom-com with an edge.

A secret relationship between two coworkers threatens to spiral completely out of control once the rest of the office catches wind of it. Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein star in this spicy, R-rated workplace comedy. The screenplay comes from two Ted Lasso veterans.

Jill processes the death of her sister Isabelle by leaving voicemails on her old phone number, unaware that the number now belongs to a stranger. Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson star in this warm, surprising love story. What begins as grief processing blossoms into an unexpected romance.

Joe and Angela's marriage is already on the rocks when they invite their mysterious upstairs neighbors over for a dinner that spirals completely out of control. Olivia Wilde directs and stars, alongside Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton. A24 delivers a painfully relatable evening that grows steadily more uncomfortable.

On the one night a year when singles can legally hit on each other, Allie and Owen keep running into one another. Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner star in this romantic comedy from Will Gluck (Anyone But You). A frantic night through New York where desire and coincidence go hand in hand.

A lovesick musician gets the wrong number for his dream girl and teams up with an ambitious psychology student to track her down. Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn star in this British rom-com, with Minnie Driver in a supporting role. A silly search that turns the whole campus upside down.

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return after nearly thirty years as the Owens sisters in this long-awaited sequel, based on Alice Hoffman's novel The Book of Magic. Joey King and Dianne Wiest rejoin the cast as the family tries to break a centuries-old curse. The film deliberately leans into the warm nostalgia of the 1998 original.

A biology PhD student pretends to date a gruff professor to keep her own love life believable, and that fake romance quickly becomes uncomfortably real. Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman star in this adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's bestseller. "Fake dating, real chemistry" is exactly what this rom-com leans on.

After their father's death, sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood must find their place in the world again, torn between sense and sensibility in matters of love. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles play the sisters in this new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic. Director Georgia Oakley gives the story a modern, sensitive reading without abandoning the nineteenth-century setting.