# The best romantic comedies of all time

The romantic comedies that top the lists of Zenda, Sector Cine and the American Film Institute, from classic Hollywood to the 2000s.

- 81 votes · 16 items
- Oct 4, 2025 · Mateo Ospina
- https://even.best/en/l/535/the-best-romantic-comedies-of-all-time

## Top 15

1. **When Harry Met Sally...** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — Rob Reiner, 1989. Can men and women be friends? The diner scene is film history.
2. **The Apartment** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Billy Wilder, 1960. Jack Lemmon lends his flat to his bosses; Oscar for Best Picture.
3. **Roman Holiday** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — William Wyler, 1953. Audrey Hepburn as a princess on the run on a Vespa.
4. **The Shop Around the Corner** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Ernst Lubitsch, 1940. Two clerks who hate each other but exchange anonymous love letters.
5. **Bringing Up Baby** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Howard Hawks, 1938. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and a leopard.
6. **Notting Hill** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Roger Michell, 1999. A London bookseller and film star Julia Roberts.
7. **It Happened One Night** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Frank Capra, 1934. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; the first film to win the 'Big Five' Oscars.
8. **Annie Hall** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Woody Allen, 1977. Alvy and Annie in New York; Oscar for Best Picture.
9. **Sleepless in Seattle** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Nora Ephron, 1993. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meet at the Empire State Building.
10. **The Philadelphia Story** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — George Cukor, 1940. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart (Oscar) at a high-society wedding.
11. **Bridget Jones's Diary** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Sharon Maguire, 2001. Renée Zellweger between Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.
12. **Groundhog Day** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Harold Ramis, 1993. Bill Murray relives the same Groundhog Day.
13. **You've Got Mail** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nora Ephron, 1998. A modern remake of The Shop Around the Corner with Hanks and Ryan.
14. **As Good as It Gets** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — James L. Brooks, 1997. Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt both won Oscars.
15. **(500) Days of Summer** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Marc Webb, 2009. Tom and Summer, told out of chronological order.
16. **Love Actually** (-3 · ▲0 ▼3) — Richard Curtis, 2003. Ten love stories in Christmas-time London.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.