Best Rom-Coms To Watch

Romantic Comedies may be clichés but are interesting to watch for a good laugh and to shed some tears. Watching the couple unite in the end is always heartwarming. Rom-coms are nice to watch and the teen drama one often brings nostalgia. Rom-coms have been made for a long time. There are many classics that are too nice. Some of those cute and nice rom-coms are listed below that you may add in your to-watch list for a good time.

1. Sixteen Candles

Samantha faces a lot of embarrassment and humiliation on her sixteenth birthday when her parents conveniently ignore her and the answers she wrote for private quiz lands into wrong hands and follows up a night of confusion and realizing feelings.

Initial release: May 1984
Director: John Hughes

2. The Breakfast Club
Five high school students, all with different mindsets come together in detention on a Saturday morning. As time passes by, their egos fade and they become close buddies resulting in the formation of The Breakfast Club.

Initial Release: 1985
Director: John Hughes

3. Clueless
Adapted from Jane Austen's famous novel, Emma and turned into a teen drama/romance, Cher, a high school student copes up with teen years and its problems. She helps a new student Tai become popular and tries to play the matchmaker. On this journey, she discovers her own feelings.

Initial Release: 1995
Director: Amy Heckerling

4. 10 Things I Hate About You

Adapted from a play by William Shakespeare called The Taming of the Shrew and turned into a teen drama includes high schooler Cameron can't date Bianca until her sister Kat gets a boyfriend. So Cameron gets a bad boy Patrick paid to charm Kat and take her out. What will happen when Kat gets to know about the system? And is Bianca really into Cameron or is he gonna have his heart broken?

Initial Release: 31 March 1999.
Director: Gil Junger

5. 13 Going On 30

Jenna Rink is a 13-year-old girl who wants to be popular so she invites a popular clique of girls to her party by doing their homework. But is tricked and humiliated. Jenna desires to be 30 years old and miraculously the next day she wakes up as a 30-year-old woman.

Initial Release: 23 April 2004
Director: Gary Winick

6. She's the Man

Viola cannot play football any more as the girl's team was dissolved and she wasn't allowed to play in the boy's team. So she disguises herself as her twin brother and attends school as him so she could play football. But her secret cannot be hidden for long. It's inspired by William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night.

Initial Release: 8 March 2006
Director: Andy Fickman

7. Friends with Benefits

Jamie, a headhunter in New York, gets Dylan Harper to take a job at GQ magazine. They soon become friends but things get complicated after the individually jaded lovers add sex to their relationship but the only thing they fear is feelings coming between.

Initial Release: 2011
Director: Will Gluck

8. Set It Up

This movie is a Netflix original. Two overworked and stressed assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

Initial Release: 12 June 2018
Director: Claire Scanlon

9. Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel is happy to go with her longtime boyfriend, Nick, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. She's stunned to learn that Nick's family is extremely wealthy and rich and that he's considered as one of the country's most eligible bachelors. Thrust into the spotlight, Rachel must now cooperate with jealous socialites, quirky relatives and something far and more worse - Nick's disapproving mother.

Initial Release: 2018
Director: Jon M. Chu