Every romantic comedy movie streaming on Max in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Max’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Max US
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChaplin's physical comedy transforms romantic fumbling into poetry—desire expressed through slapstick mishap rather than words.
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSilent cinema's most devastating romantic gesture: a blind woman's touch reveals love needs no sight to recognize truth.
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Directed by Stanley Donen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film weaponizes Hollywood's transition to sound as romantic obstacle, making technical incompetence the perfect metaphor for emotional vulnerability.
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChaplin's pantomimed courtship transcends dialogue, proving physical comedy can convey romantic longing with heartbreaking delicacy.
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChaplin's pathos peaks when romantic jealousy meets physical comedy—heartbreak rendered through tramp vulnerability and tent-scene desperation.
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDark comedy hijacks wartime urgency—theatrical troupe's romantic subplots thrive in the gap between tragedy and absurdity.
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Directed by Michael Powell
✦ MovieMuse AI takePowell and Pressburger fuse ballet sequences with romance, making artistic passion itself the ultimate love triangle competitor.
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
✦ MovieMuse AI takePhysical comedy ascends: a clerk's building climb becomes love's ultimate vertical metaphor, stakes matched to vertical heights.
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Directed by David Lean
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLean captures the ache of passionate restraint—two ordinary people choosing duty over desire in a single transformative tea-shop encounter.
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Directed by Michael Powell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDecades-spanning romance reframes through memory and parallel timelines—Powell's technique proves love's persistence outlasts historical upheaval.
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNeon-soaked melancholia and fractured chronology capture romantic desperation as urban isolation—Wong Kar-wai's style *is* the longing.
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Directed by Jacques Demy
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDemy's pastel mise-en-scène and integrated musical numbers transform a doomed romance into achingly beautiful visual poetry.
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Directed by Éric Rohmer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntellectual debate substitutes for seduction—Rohmer's dialogue-driven philosophy proves rigorous conversation can be foreplay.
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
✦ MovieMuse AI takeOzu's generational comedy hinges on the parent-child role reversal, where the father's progressive ideals crumble against his emotional conservatism—the genre's core tension.
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Directed by Jacques Demy
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMusical numbers and color explode Demy's geometric romance—choreographed love becomes visual architecture of desire.
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
✦ MovieMuse AI takeYuasa's surrealist afterlife journey reframes rom-com earnestness through trippy animation and uncompromising emotional vulnerability.
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
Directed by David Lean
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDaughters' rebellion against paternal control transforms marriage resistance into feminist romantic victory.
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Directed by François Truffaut
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGodard's New Wave sensibility captures how a woman's liberated sexuality destabilizes two men's friendship more than any plot device could.
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
Directed by Éric Rohmer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSummer indecision and flirtation capture romantic uncertainty as genuine—Rohmer refuses to resolve genuine ambivalence.
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.
Directed by Ted Wilde
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLloyd's physical comedy transforms courtship into slapstick conquest, proving romantic triumph requires not grand gestures but resourceful, bumbling persistence.
The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.
Directed by Greg Berlanti
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film treats coming-out-as-romance as equally valid, centering emotional intimacy and authenticity over heteronormative meet-cute conventions.
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
✦ MovieMuse AI takeShinkai pairs Tokyo's neon-soaked beauty with high-school tenderness, making weather metaphor indistinguishable from emotional tempest.
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChaplin's immigrant vulnerability transforms New World hardship into romantic opportunity—displacement breeds emotional authenticity.
A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
✦ MovieMuse AI takeYuasa's anarchic visual style mirrors romantic infatuation's surreal logic—reality bends when desire enters the frame.
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
Directed by Jean Renoir
✦ MovieMuse AI takePastoral countryside tempts Parisian daughter toward illicit passion—one perfect day crystallizes romance's impossible duration.
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Directed by Sam Taylor
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKeaton's protagonist pursues romance through self-improvement rather than luck, establishing the romantic comedy's earnest faith in personal transformation earning love.
An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
Directed by Glenn Ficarra
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe mid-life-crisis divorce pivot reframes rom-com renewal as mutual rediscovery, not betrayal—earned second chances over tidy resolutions.
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
Directed by Marcel Camus
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLloyd's underdog-seeks-acceptance plot became the template, but his earnest physical comedy grounds romantic ambition in genuine vulnerability.
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDel Toro locates profound intimacy in silent communication—proving romantic connection transcends species, speech, and Cold War ideology.
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Directed by Whit Stillman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWhit Stillman's apartment salon resurrects drawing-room comedy's architecture: wit and ideological combat replace physical comedy as seduction mechanism.
A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.
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