Love is in the air on Netflix. As the season changes to fall, it’s time to stay inside and watch a rom-com. One of the most famous rom-coms of the last 20 years, The Notebook, is now streaming on Netflix. If you don’t feel like watching The Notebook for the hundredth time, stream one of the service’s original rom-coms, including Hit Man, A Family Affair, and Mother of the Bride.
The rom-coms don’t stop there. Netflix has an entire section dedicated to romance, which includes several subgenres — rom-com, emotional, holiday, adventure, and family. If you need a recommendation, try watching one of these three rom-coms: a tender father-daughter story, a TV show with millennial icons, and a 2000s staple.
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Nobody Wants This (2024)
Nine times out of 10, this article will only include movies. This is the rare exception that a TV show deserves a spot in this guide. Millennials, this is our time. Kristen Bell, aka the title character in Veronica Mars, and Adam Brody, aka Seth Cohen in The O.C., join forces for a television show that satisfies your rom-com wishes.
Joanne (Bell) is an agnostic woman who hosts a dating and sex podcast with her sister (Justine Lupe). Noah (Brody) is a progressive rabbi who recently ended his relationship with his Jewish girlfriend. Joanne and Noah meet at a dinner party and spark a connection. Bell and Brody are so good together that you’ll look past several familiar rom-com tropes. Everybody wants this show.
Stream Nobody Wants This on Netflix.
Jersey Girl (2004)
In 2004, Kevin Smith wrote and directed his first movie outside of his View Askewniverse. Jersey Girl is a sweet romantic dramedy about a father’s relationship with his young daughter. Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) is a widowed father who lost his wife after she gave birth to his daughter, Gertie (Raquel Castro). A depressed Ollie buries himself in his work, but soon loses his job as a public relations expert.
Years later, Ollie lives in New Jersey with Gertie, who is now in elementary school, and his father (George Carlin). After a successful presentation, Ollie is inspired to seek a PR job in New York City. Is Ollie willing to sacrifice his new life to recapture his past? If Gigli hadn’t tanked Affleck’s reputation, Jersey Girl would have been viewed more positively. Give it another chance.
Stream Jersey Girl on Netflix.
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Putting Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant in a rom-com is a cheat code. The two stars are experts in the genre, so naturally, their chemistry is on point in Two Weeks Notice. Lucy Kelson (Bullock) is a progressive environmental lawyer who fights for all the underdogs. She’s compassionate, caring, and thoughtful. On the other end of the spectrum is George Wade (Grant), a billionaire real estate mogul and womanizer.
Lucy meets George while working to protect a community center. Impressed by her résumé, George offers to hire Lucy as his new legal counsel. Lucy reluctantly takes the job, believing his money can help save the center. She soon realizes that George needs help in all aspects of his life and gives her two weeks’ notice. Yet, this relationship has a spark that might be worth saving.
Stream Two Weeks Notice on Netflix.