If you are the kind of person who cannot get enough of great romantic comedy movies and you also have a Paramount+ subscription, you do not have to look much further. A good number of the best movies on Paramount+ fall under the category of stories about love, but with a helpful dash of humor to keep things fun and grounded. Check out our own picks for some of the best romantic-comedies you can watch streaming on Paramount+ right now, below.
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
A woman working as an assistant at a London book publisher (Renée Zellweger) becomes involved in a complicated love triangle with her employee (Hugh Grant) and her long time friend (Colin Firth) – all of which she chronicles in her own journal.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: Zellweger gives an Academy Award-nominated performance (her first) in the title role of Bridget Jones’s Diary – director Sharon Maguire’s acclaimed comedy based on the novel by Helen Fielding, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis.
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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003)
A successful columnist (Kate Hudson) who bets that she can make a man break up with her within 10 days tests her theory on an advertising executive (Matthew McConaughey) who, unbeknownst to her, believes he can make a woman fall in love with him in the same amount of time.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: McConaughey and Hudson have such great chemistry in How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days that we would love to see them in another romantic onscreen pairing someday.
Stream How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days on Paramount+.
Roman Holiday (1953)
A dissatisfied princess (Audrey Hepburn) finds the excitement she has been looking for when she meets an American reporter (Gregory Peck) while on a tour of Rome
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: You’ll fall in love with Hollywood legends Hepburn and Peck while watching them fall for each other in director William Wyler’s fun, international classic, Roman Holiday, which is one of several rom-coms rated more than 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Sirens (1994)
A young minister (Hugh Grant) and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) are sent to visit the estate of an artist (Sam Neill) of a painting deemed blasphemous. Their encounter with the models who live there spring newfound feelings within each of them.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: From writer and director John Duigan, Sirens is an entertaining, thought-provoking, and wonderfully acted exercise in provocation and self-discovery.
The Switch (2010)
After reconnecting with his best friend (Jennifer Aniston) after seven years apart and meeting her son (whom she conceived via artificial insemination), a lovelorn man (Jason Bateman) comes to the realization that, due to a drunken mistake, he is the child’s father.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: Also starring Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, and Juliette Lewis, The Switch, is a charming and slightly raunchy comedy that comments on the crazy things that unrequited love may do to a person.
Stream The Switch on Paramount+.
Love, Rosie (2014)
A young woman (Lily Collins) and her lifelong best friend (Sam Claflin) realize their feelings for each other a little too late, which sets off a years-long chain reaction of regretful choices and missed opportunities.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: Based on the novel by Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie is a classic friends-to-lovers rom-com, freshened up by winning performances and engaging and realistic twists and turns.
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Barefoot In The Park (1967)
The marriage between a reserved young attorney (Academy Award winner Robert Redford) and a free-spirited woman (Academy Award winner Jane Fonda) is put to test when issues regarding their new Manhattan apartment make their differences especially apparent.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: From the creative mind of the iconic Neil Simon, director Gene Saks’ Barefoot in the Park is an uproariously funny and refreshingly honest meditation on what a couple can go through after the honeymoon is over.
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The Lost City (2022)
When a disgruntled romance novelist (Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock) is kidnapped, her absent-minded cover model (Channing Tatum) tries to prove he can be a real hero by rescuing her, setting them on a wild adventure way above their pedigree.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: In a time when action-packed romantic-comedy movies are making a comeback, The Lost City is one of the most satisfying of the bunch, thanks to Bullock and Tatum’s chemistry, Daniel Radcliffe’s scenery-chewing villain role, and an adventurous Brad Pitt.
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Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
A happy-go-lucky socialite (Audrey Hepburn) becomes acquainted with her New York City apartment building’s latest tenant (George Peppard) and the pair develop a friendship that could become more, if not for their own secretive pasts putting the relationship at risk.
Why it’s a good option for rom-com fans: While George Axelrod’s screenplay does take more than a few liberties from Truman Capote’s original novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Mickey Rooney’s performance as Holly Golightly’s Japanese landlord, Mr. Yunioshi, has (to put it lightly) not aged well, the result is still an irresistible comedy — featuring Hepburn’s stirring performance of the Academy Award-winning original song, “Moon River” — from director Blake Edwards.
Stream Breakfast at Tiffany's on Paramount+.
While there are a lot of audiences these days who may prefer to get their romantic-comedy movies on Netflix or perhaps seek out other funny love stories on Max, one cannot deny that the selection for Paramount+ subscribers is certainly worth falling head over heels for.
