6 best ROM coms on HBO and Max at the moment (April 2025)

He’s just not in you is based on a book that is itself based on a line of dialogue from an episode of Sex and the city. The vast origin story of the film feels relevant for the plot, with a large ensemble cast of interconnected characters. Every pair (or trio or quartet) includes one person who has been invested much more in the relationship than the other – an imbalance with which almost every viewer can relate.

The binding thread is gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin), A hopeless romantic who constantly chases disabled men. If she meets Alex (Justin Long)A distant bartender, he starts to give her advice about interpreting signals from boys. In the meantime, their friends and colleagues are stuck in their own romantic complications. The impressive cast includes Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Connelly, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore And Kevin Connolly.

ABBA + Meryl stripe + Stunning Greek island vistas = perfection. This film version of the Jukebox -musical is a sparkling, bustling affair about Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a young woman who desperately wants to learn to learn the identity of her father before her marriage to heaven (Dominic Cooper). But her mother Donna (line) does not know exactly who Sophie’s father is. There are three candidates – Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Account (Stellan Skarsgård) or Harry (Colin Firth). Certainly she will know her father as soon as she meets him, Sophie invites all three men to the wedding.

What follows is a Farcical romantic comedy full of fantastic choreography, funny dialogue and a sweet message about true love – for a partner but also for yourself. Christine Baranski And Julie Walters Are very wonderful as Donna’s best friends and former band members who help her while she balances her unexpected reunion with her three exes and the upcoming wedding of her daughter.

Crazy rich Asians Was groundbreaking for the mainstream -lightningers who placed it in Asian (especially Chinese) characters and actors. It contains stars like Constance Wu” Michelle Yeoh” Gemma Chan And Awkwafina In a love story about class, wealth and culture.

Rachel (Wu) is a professor in the New York Economics, luckily in love with Nick Young (Henry Golding). When Nick Rachel brings to Singapore for the wedding of his best friend, Rachel discovers that Nick’s family is part of the rich High Society of Singapore. Nick and Rachel are not only constant in public interest, Nick’s mother Eleanor (Yeoh) has incredibly high expectations about whom her son should marry. Rachel, as an American from the middle class, does not meet any of those expectations.

Rachel has to fight for love and the future she wants in this film, which contains a fantastic fashion, striking institutions and a soundtrack with music from Asian artists such as Jasmine Chen. Rachel is a fascinating, recognizable protagonist who will root you for every step.

A charming study into love in the midst of mental health problems, Silver Linings Playbook is a must-see romantic comedy that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. Pat (Bradley Cooper) recently completed a stint in a psychiatric facility after a violent episode when he caught his ex-wife Nikki (Brea Bee) cheat him. Desperate to reconcile, Pat comes in with his parents, Patrizio Sr. and Dolores (Robert de Niro And Jacki Weaver).

He meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), A widow who also has to deal with psychological problems. She encourages Pat to compete with her in a ballroom dance competition to prove to Nikki that he has changed. Unfortunately Patrizio Sr.’s gambling problem and obsession with the Eagles ensure that he puts pressure on his son and drives a wedge between him and Tiffany. (Patrizio believes superstitious that Pat’s attention to Eagles games is needed to win the team.)

The voltage is almost constant in this pressure cooker of a film, but it still manages to make laughs. Lawrence, the Niro and Cooper make deeply poor characters extremely sympathetic, while the family dynamics is complex and recognizable. If you ever feel that your family is about to expel you from the deep, this film is for you.

Toula (Nia Vardalos) is a shy, uncomfortable woman who has always felt like an outsider in her loud, exuberant Greek -American family. When she falls in love with Wasp-Y teacher Ian (John Corbett), She is struggling to let her family accept him. During the film she learns to stand up for herself and the man she loves, but she also learns to appreciate the rich culture that makes her family unique. It is a heart -warming, hilarious story.

Although he is more than twenty years old, My big big Greek wedding The most profitable ROM-Kom of all time remains. The script, written by chief actress Vardalos, is immediately quotable and emotionally resonating. What is even more important is that the romance of Toula and Ian are endlessly endearing. The film produced two sequels in 2016 and 2023, but the original remains the best of the couple.

Based on the best-selling novel from 1996, follows this sharp and hilarious Rom-Com Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger), A normal “Singleton” with the habit of ending in ridiculously uncomfortable situations, while documenting her search for self -improvement in a wine -drenched diary. Caught between self -satisfied married friends and the pressure to turn 30, Bridget navigates the chaos of modern femininity with humor and heart.

Things get even messier when she starts a flirt with her charming villain from a boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), and continues to cross paths with the tense but strangely endearing Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), who cherishes an inexplicable resentment against Daniel. Loosely inspired by Jane Austenclassic novel Proud and prejudice” Bridget Jones’s Diary is an entertaining chronicle of the growth of the title heroine, the first impressions incorrectly rated and realizes that love is rarely going according to plan.