The Best Romantic Movies on Netflix That Will Make You Feel Like Love Isn't Dead

Someone Great

Gina Rodriguez stars in this charming romantic comedy as Jenny, a music journalist bracing for a new beginning on the West Coast after a devastating break-up with her longtime boyfriend Nate (Lakeith Stanfield). Jenny’s last night out in New York with her best friends leads to some startling realizations about the love story she’s mythologized, making for a bittersweet story about heartbreak and self-love.

Moonlight

In this Best Picture winner directed by Barry Jenkins, we meet an unforgettable young man named Chiron, who grew up Black, poor, and queer in a rough Miami neighborhood. Chiron’s tumultuous journey to manhood is underpinned by a slow-burning romance with a classmate, who comes back into his adult life years later in a sweeping story of love and longing.

Howards End

James Ivory’s sweeping adaptation of E.M. Forster’s inimitable classic novel stars Helena Bonham Carter as Helen Schlegel, a spirited young intellectual rebuffed by Paul Wilcox, the scion of a wealthy family. Helen’s sister Margaret (Emma Thompson) grows close to Paul’s ailing mother, who bequeaths the family home to Margaret upon her death, but the will soon disappears—until Margaret falls for her late friend’s widower (Anthony Hopkins). Romantic, passionate, and teeming with remarkable performances, Howards End is a sumptuous investigation of class, privilege, and gender.

About Time

Get it—it's a movie about time, but it's also about time. Ok, we'll let the joke tell itself. Domhall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams star in this time travel romance about a man who discovers men in his family can travel through time. He attempts to go back to solidify the relationship with a woman he loves, but he soon finds out... love is not something to be toyed with.

50 First Dates

What if the woman of your dreams was kind and beautiful and funny... but forgot who you were every morning that she woke up. Yikes. Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler star in this romantic comedy about a couple who experience just that. But don't think it's serious. This is 2000s Sandler, after all.

Killers

Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher front this comedy about a couple who seem plenty fine with the somewhat mundane married life they've carved out for themselves. That is, until she finds out he was a hitman in a past life. Details like that do tend to throw a wrench into an otherwise healthy relationship.