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15 Best Netflix Original Romantic Comedy Movies in History

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Nazarii Verbitskiy

TV Shows & Movies - June 28th 2026, 19:00 GMT+2

15. The Wrong Missy (2020)

The Wrong Missy starts with a simple texting mistake that spirals into a vacation from hell. David Spade’s Tim invites the “perfect” woman to a company retreat, only to realize he’s brought the wildly unpredictable Missy instead. Lauren Lapkus goes full chaos mode, turning every situation louder, stranger, and harder to control. It’s messy and over-the-top, but still sneaks in that classic rom-com idea that the wrong person sometimes shows up at exactly the right time. | © Netflix

Cropped Irish Wish — 14. Irish Wish (2024)
Irish Wish drops Lindsay Lohan into Ireland with a wedding, a wish, and a man she probably should have picked first. She plays a woman so loyal to her best friend that she lets the wrong guy slip away, then wakes up magically engaged to him and realizes the fantasy is messier than expected. The Irish countryside looks genuinely lovely, and Lohan carries the whole thing with enough warmth that the thin plot stops mattering as much as it should. Not every rom-com needs to reinvent anything. sometimes the setting and the lead are doing enough work on their own. | © Netflix

Cropped When We First Met — 13. When We First Met (2018)
When We First Met follows a guy who gets to magically relive the night he met his dream girl, trying every version of that evening to win her over. The time loop setup sounds like wish fulfillment, but the movie keeps pulling the rug out by showing how the problem was never really the night itself. Adam DeVine carries most of the emotional weight here and lands it better than the premise deserves. What sticks is the quiet argument underneath the comedy: that chasing a fixed idea of someone usually means missing what is actually in front of you. | © Netflix

12. Your Place or Mine (2023)
Your Place or Mine follows two best friends who swap lives for a week and slowly realize they might be in love. Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher have decent individual charm, but their chemistry on screen feels oddly flat for a romance built entirely on that connection. The whole movie hinges on them being perfect for each other, and the audience can see the ending from the first five minutes. It is watchable, comfortable, and completely forgettable by the next morning. | © Netflix

11. A Family Affair (2024)
A Family Affair pulls off something genuinely weird: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron play a couple with real chemistry while his character dates her daughter. The age gap and the family drama are the whole joke, and the movie leans into the awkwardness without trying to talk you out of it. Joey King holds the whole thing together as the daughter watching her romantic life and her home life crash into each other. | © Netflix

10. Alex Strangelove (2018)
Alex Strangelove starts as a standard teen rom-com about a guy trying to lose his virginity before graduation. Then it pivots into something more honest when Alex meets a gay guy at a party and everything he thought he knew about himself starts to crack. The girlfriend is sweet, the situation is awkward, and the film earns real credit for not treating his confusion as a punchline. It lands somewhere between funny and genuinely uncomfortable in the best way. | © Netflix

9. Nappily Ever After (2018)
Nappily Ever After starts with a breakup and ends somewhere much more interesting than another relationship. Sanaa Lathan shaves her head on camera, and that one scene carries more weight than most rom-coms manage in two hours. The movie is really about a Black woman unlearning the idea that her worth depends on being perfect for someone else. Romance shows up, but it earns its place instead of running the whole show. | © Netflix

8. Love Hard (2021)
Love Hard opens with a premise that could have gone very wrong very fast. A woman flies across the country to surprise a guy she met on a dating app, only to discover he used someone else's photos. Instead of punishing her for being naive, the movie gets genuinely interested in what both of them actually want. Jimmy O. Yang carries a lot of it on charm alone, and the Christmas setting gives the whole thing a warmth that sneaks up on you. | © Netflix

7. The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
The Incredible Jessica James is loud, fast, and built entirely around Jessica Williams doing whatever she wants. She plays a broke playwright in New York who is not over her ex but will absolutely not admit it, and the whole movie just lets her be messy and funny without asking her to soften either. Boone Shephard, played by Chris O'Dowd, keeps up surprisingly well, and their back-and-forth never turns into the usual will-they-won't-they slow crawl. The movie knows exactly how good its lead is and gets out of her way. | © Netflix

6. The Half of It (2020)
The Half of It flips the usual rom-com setup by making the love triangle genuinely messy and unresolved. Ellie Chu is a quiet, brilliant Chinese-American teen who ghostwrites love letters for a jock, then slowly realizes she has feelings for the same girl he is chasing. The film is less interested in who ends up together and more interested in what it means to really know someone. That refusal to wrap everything up neatly is exactly what makes it land differently than most Netflix romances. | © Netflix

5. Someone Great (2019)
Someone Great opens with a breakup, not a meet-cute, and that choice sets the whole tone. Jenny gets dumped by her long-term boyfriend the same night she lands her dream job, so she drags her two best friends into one last wild night in New York City. Gina Rodriguez carries it with real energy, and the friendship between the three women ends up mattering more than any romance does. The movie understands that losing a relationship and finding yourself on the other side of it can look a lot like a party. | © Netflix

Cropped Love at First Sight 2023 — 4. Love at First Sight (2023)
Love at First Sight takes a strange premise and somehow makes it work. Two strangers meet at an airport, get separated, and spend the rest of the movie trying to find their way back to each other. What sets it apart is the narrator. An omniscient voice tracks statistics and probability in real time, turning fate into something you can actually argue with. Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy sell the awkwardness so naturally that the gimmick never feels like a gimmick. | © Netflix

3. Always Be My Maybe (2019)
Always Be My Maybe follows two childhood friends who fall apart, reunite sixteen years later, and realize the timing might finally be right. Ali Wong and Randall Park wrote the script themselves, which explains why the chemistry feels real instead of manufactured. The movie earns most of its reputation from one scene: Keanu Reeves playing an absurd, self-important version of himself that completely steals the film. That cameo alone made this one of the most talked-about Netflix comedies the year it dropped. | © Netflix

2. Set It Up (2018)

*Set It Up* works because it invests in the friendship between its two leads before it invests in the romance. Harper and Charlie are overworked assistants who scheme to set up their nightmare bosses, and the plan keeps backfiring in ways that feel earned rather than forced. Zoey Deutch carries most of the charm here. She's the reason the whole thing stays warm even when the plot goes exactly where you expect it to. | © Netflix

To All the Boys Ive Loved Before — 1. To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

*To All the Boys I've Loved Before* turned a classic fake-dating premise into something that actually felt fresh. Lana Condor carries the whole thing on her shoulders, and her chemistry with Noah Centineo made him a household name practically overnight. The secret letters going public is the kind of plot engine that should feel cheap but somehow lands because Lara Jean's awkwardness feels completely real. Netflix had a genuine crowd-pleaser on its hands, and the audience responded loud enough to earn two sequels. | © Netflix

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Netflix basically rebuilt the rom-com from the ground up, churning out crowd-pleasers that turned unknown leads into stars and gave the genre a second life. Some are gloriously cheesy, others genuinely charming, and a few you've probably rewatched more than you'd admit. Here are the 15 best Netflix original romantic comedies ever made.

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Netflix basically rebuilt the rom-com from the ground up, churning out crowd-pleasers that turned unknown leads into stars and gave the genre a second life. Some are gloriously cheesy, others genuinely charming, and a few you've probably rewatched more than you'd admit. Here are the 15 best Netflix original romantic comedies ever made.