If hard-pressed, yes, we think these are the best romance movies of the 21st century (so far). Each one of these films will make you swoon, laugh or cry, and probably a combination of all three. And we sincerely hope we haven’t offended too many vampires by omitting both Only Lovers Left Alive or The Twilight Saga.īut what remains is, we feel, a rich assortment of romances from a variety of perspectives. It seems like The Fault in Our Stars had just a few too many faults. The same goes for feel-good Disney flicks like Enchanted and WALL-E, superhero blockbusters like Wonder Woman and Spider-Man 2, and Oscar-winners like The Shape of Water and Lost in Translation. So before we get started, let’s offer up our sincerest apologies to the celebrated Gosling Triad The Notebook, Crazy Stupid Love, and La La Land just barely missed the cut. No matter how we assembled it something noteworthy got left out. Whittling the list down to 25 was an agonizing process, like assembling a puzzle that came with way too many pieces. That means there’s a lot of competition for the best romantic movies of the 21st century. It doesn’t matter if it’s a horror movie, an action movie, a biopic or a conventional rom-com it seems like Hollywood doesn’t even know how to tell a story that doesn’t have a little love in it. After all, practically every movie has a romantic subplot of one kind or another. Narrowing down the greatest love stories, of any era, may very well be a fool’s errand.

Best romance movies from 2017