We've put together a list of quality rom coms that will ensure you enjoy your movie viewing experience - we promise!
The Big Sick
The ‘anti rom-com’, as it has been dubbed, was one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2017 - and shock horror, it’s romantic AND funny! Based on the real-life story of Pakistani comedian Kumail and grad student Emily, this is a story of love, culture, health and family - with a lot of laughs in between. Get your hands on a copy of The Big Sick.
2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Judd Apatow classic that led Russell Brand and Jason Segel into superstardom has just the right amount of mush, humour, vulgarity and pizzazz to make it onto our Top 10.
3. Love Actually
The all-star cast is the pinnacle against which all modern rom-coms have been measured. Beloved around the world, this movie has enough laughs, witticisms and storylines to keep you invested...and maybe shed a tear or two...
4. Miss Congeniality
She’s beauty and she’s grace, she’s Miss United States...Who can resist the goofy and lovable Sandra Bullock as Grace, the federal FBI agent with admirable skills for the law, but primitive skills when it comes to her latest undercover identity - as a contender for the Miss United States Beauty Pageant!
5. Music and Lyrics
Two of the genre's favourite players get together in this romantic comedy about love, music and...plants? The classic stars Hugh Grant as washed up singer/songwriter Alex Fletcher, who just needs one hit for new pop sensation Cora. Trouble is, he can’t think of anything, until his ‘Plant Waterer’ Sophie (Drew Barrymore) comes up with lyrics that can’t get out of his head...and neither can she…
6. How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
One the guys and girls can have a laugh at, see why the world fell in love with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in this loveable classic. Hudson stars as Andi Anderson, a magazine columnist writing a story on how to lose a guy in 10 days. Trouble is, the guy she picked has his own bet - on how to get a woman to fall in love with him in 10 days. This can only go badly…
7. The Rewrite
Hugh Grant is back, this time as a washed up screenwriter (do we see a pattern here?) who reluctantly takes on a gig as a college tutor to make extra cash while gaining ideas for a screenplay. Along the way, he is struck by single mother Holly (Marisa Tomei) who may just be able to change his life in more ways than one…
8. My Best Friend’s Wedding
An oldie but a goodie, this rom-com focuses on anti-hero Jules (Julia Roberts), a food critic who has realised she is in love with her best friend. Trouble is, she only decided this when he told her he is engaged to someone else…
9. How To Be Single
Whether you’re in a couple or relationship, there’s no shortage of laughs in this rom-com with the motto- if you’re not having fun being single, then you’re not doing it right!
10. Titanic
It didn’t hold the highest grossing film record over 12 years for nothing! The epic love story tells the tale of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet), young lovers set apart by class on the doomed voyage of the R.M.S Titanic ship. Our hearts will go on…
The ‘anti rom-com’, as it has been dubbed, was one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2017 - and shock horror, it’s romantic AND funny! Based on the real-life story of Pakistani comedian Kumail and grad student Emily, this is a story of love, culture, health and family - with a lot of laughs in between. Get your hands on a copy of The Big Sick.
2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Judd Apatow classic that led Russell Brand and Jason Segel into superstardom has just the right amount of mush, humour, vulgarity and pizzazz to make it onto our Top 10.
3. Love Actually
The all-star cast is the pinnacle against which all modern rom-coms have been measured. Beloved around the world, this movie has enough laughs, witticisms and storylines to keep you invested...and maybe shed a tear or two...
4. Miss Congeniality
She’s beauty and she’s grace, she’s Miss United States...Who can resist the goofy and lovable Sandra Bullock as Grace, the federal FBI agent with admirable skills for the law, but primitive skills when it comes to her latest undercover identity - as a contender for the Miss United States Beauty Pageant!
5. Music and Lyrics
Two of the genre's favourite players get together in this romantic comedy about love, music and...plants? The classic stars Hugh Grant as washed up singer/songwriter Alex Fletcher, who just needs one hit for new pop sensation Cora. Trouble is, he can’t think of anything, until his ‘Plant Waterer’ Sophie (Drew Barrymore) comes up with lyrics that can’t get out of his head...and neither can she…
6. How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
One the guys and girls can have a laugh at, see why the world fell in love with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in this loveable classic. Hudson stars as Andi Anderson, a magazine columnist writing a story on how to lose a guy in 10 days. Trouble is, the guy she picked has his own bet - on how to get a woman to fall in love with him in 10 days. This can only go badly…
7. The Rewrite
Hugh Grant is back, this time as a washed up screenwriter (do we see a pattern here?) who reluctantly takes on a gig as a college tutor to make extra cash while gaining ideas for a screenplay. Along the way, he is struck by single mother Holly (Marisa Tomei) who may just be able to change his life in more ways than one…
8. My Best Friend’s Wedding
An oldie but a goodie, this rom-com focuses on anti-hero Jules (Julia Roberts), a food critic who has realised she is in love with her best friend. Trouble is, she only decided this when he told her he is engaged to someone else…
9. How To Be Single
Whether you’re in a couple or relationship, there’s no shortage of laughs in this rom-com with the motto- if you’re not having fun being single, then you’re not doing it right!
10. Titanic
It didn’t hold the highest grossing film record over 12 years for nothing! The epic love story tells the tale of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet), young lovers set apart by class on the doomed voyage of the R.M.S Titanic ship. Our hearts will go on…
