14 Must-Watch Rom-Com Movies on Hulu Right Now (June 2026): ‘Mr. Deeds’ and More

Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) is a chill, working-class dude who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire and writes greeting card slogans in his spare time. His life suddenly changes when he inherits a controlling interest in a media company left by a recently deceased relative he’s never even met. His slice of the pie is worth a lot of money, and all he has to do is fly to New York and sell his shares to the company’s no-good chief counsel, Cecil Anderson. Reporter Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) thinks Deeds is up to no good and poses as a naive Midwestern school nurse to get closer to him. But Babe and Deeds get a little too close, and their burgeoning love affair distracts them from Cecil’s attempt to steal Deeds’ fortune.

A remake of the Frank Capra classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Deeds is more Adam Sandler bro-comedy than Capra-corn. His Longfellow is nice but also slightly psychotic – he doesn’t think twice before brutally beating a robber who attempts to steal Babe’s purse. It’s everyone around Sandler who makes the movie worth watching, though, particularly Ryder as a Lois Lane-like reporter and John Turturro as Longfellow’s loyal butler. It doesn’t hold a candle to the original, but this Deeds has enough going for it to go to town with if you’re craving a no-frills rom-com to stream.

Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) is a once-successful screenwriter who has fallen on hard times. Almost out of cash, he reluctantly accepts an offer to teach a writing course at a fancy New England college. Openly scornful of his students and teaching responsibilities, Keith makes more enemies than friends on campus. He’s about to leave – or be fired – when he meets Holly (Marisa Tomei), a fortysomething single mother who piques his interest. They develop feelings for each other, but has Keith already dug a professional hole too deep to get out of?

If The Rewrite had been released a decade earlier, it would’ve been a box-office hit and a cable staple. But 2014 was a trough year for theatrical rom-coms, and the film is pretty much forgotten about today. While it’s no Annie Hall, it has enough good things going for it, like Grant in full rascal mode and a luminous Tomei as an overworked parent who has every reason to be cynical but instead chooses to be open and optimistic. They’re ably supported by Allison Janney as a fellow professor who loathes Keith and veteran character actress Caroline Aaron as Keith’s pushy literary agent.

After an asteroid devastates the world’s population and turns many cold-blooded animals into monsters, the rest of humanity flees underground to survive. Joel (Dylan O’ Brien) is among the survivors, and even after seven years he still thinks about his girlfriend, Aimee (Jessica Henwick). Determined to reunite with her, he embarks on a quest to find her at all costs. That might include his life, as Joel comes across mutated crabs, giant toads and a band of pirates more dangerous than any creature that’s roaming the devastated Earth.  Even if Joel manages to survive and find Aimee, is she the same person he fell in love with?

Love and Monsters has obvious sci-fi and action elements, but at its heart it’s a love story about two people who want to cling to a relationship that might be as extinct as the human race. O’Brien is getting his flowers right now with Twinless and Send Help, but he’s in fine form here as a lovestruck hero who doesn’t want to face a harsh reality many guys experience, even without an apocalypse that forces the issue. 

Can you be happily married and still feel unsatisfied with your life? That’s the question Jeff and Karen Gaffney (Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher) ask themselves as they take care of their two kids and repeat the same work-play-sleep routine they’ve been stuck in for years. That’s why they’re ecstatic when Tim and Natalie Jones (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot) move in next door. The Joneses are everything the Gaffneys want to be: drop-dead attractive, sophisticated and interesting. But Jeff and Karen soon find out their new friends harbor a secret — they’re spies, and their next targets are the Gaffneys. Life just got a lot more interesting for the previously bored-as-hell couple, but is this new life of danger and intrigue what they really want? 

Rom-coms about married couples are rare, which is why Keeping Up with the Joneses is so enjoyable to watch. Galifianakis and Fisher are totally believable as a couple who love each other but want more out of life. As for Hamm and Gadot, if you had to live next to impossibly gorgeous assassins who want to kill you, there’s no better pair than them. It’s not a classic, but Keeping Up with the Joneses is too good to be ignored.

Divorced single mother Emma (Sally Field) is looking to start over in small-town Arizona, where she ends up striking up a strong friendship with the local pharmacist, an older man named Murphy (James Garner). While the friendship has inklings of becoming something more, it remains platonic due to their age difference. However, when Emma’s ex-husband Bobby (Brian Kerwin) rolls into town looking to take her back, it might just be the catalyst Emma needs to realize her true feelings for Murphy.

It’s very possible that you’ve never heard of Murphy’s Romance, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a great movie that’s simply been slept on. What sets it apart is that it tackles an age-gap relationship, approaching the subject with warmth, care and humor. While a bit of a slow-burn, the story consistently stays engaging due to the fantastic chemistry between the actors. Murphy’s Romance is a small and restrained but no less significant romantic comedy.

This modernized take on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew stars Julia Stiles as abrasive but intelligent teenager Kat Stratford. It’s this acerbic personality that keeps the boys away from Kat, which is a problem for her younger sister, Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), who isn’t allowed to date anyone until Kat has a boyfriend first. When new student Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls desperately for Bianca, he schemes to get handsome bad boy Patrick (Heath Ledger) to date Kat and get around their father’s (Larry Miller) overprotective rule.

While Kat’s brand of feminism was seen by some as “extreme” at the time, her character is now regarded as a refreshing subversion of female expectations and a progressive take on typical high school movie stereotypes. This unconventional approach has allowed 10 Things I Hate About You to endure as one of the best romantic comedies ever. It’s mature and emotionally resonant, yet still manages to be funny.

The sprawling but tight-knit Portokalos family worries for Toula (Nia Vardalos), who is still unwed at 30 years old. That all changes when Toula meets Ian Miller (John Corbett), a handsome teacher who is, distressingly, not Greek, but causes Toula to fall in love with him. While Toula struggles to get her overbearing, judgmental family to accept Ian (as their wedding fast approaches), Toula also learns more about her own cultural heritage and identity as a Greek American woman.

Big-hearted, winsome and with a cast that embodies a wide array of eccentricities, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a beloved and enduring rom-com for its relatable themes pertaining to family, its gentle humor and its exploration of embracing one’s cultural roots. 

Ben (Jack Quaid) and Alice (Maya Erskine) have been friends since college and are now in their late twenties, navigating the reality of everyone around them getting married. With Alice having recently left a relationship and Ben getting rebuffed by his crush, the pair agree to be each other’s permanent wedding dates during a particularly busy summer of weddings. Of course, the two unlucky-in-love singles find their platonic wedding dates becoming something more as the summer goes on.

Critics felt that Plus One managed to breathe new life into the romantic comedy genre, with fresh faces like Quaid and Erskine who balance the heart and the humor with ease. Their well-matched chemistry, in addition to the film’s buoyant narrative and emotional stakes, makes Plus One a fantastic recent entry into the rom-com canon. Plus One both embraces and subverts genre expectations, creating something that’s both new and familiar.

A rom-com about divorce? It works better than you’d expect. Jane (Meryl Streep) and Jake (Alec Baldwin) have been divorced for decades. But when a celebratory drink after their son’s graduation turns into an unexpected hookup, they find themselves beginning an affair. To make matters worse, Jake is married to the woman he cheated on Jane with (Lake Bell), while Jane has just started seeing a sweet architect named Adam (Steve Martin).

It’s a love square that’s as tangled and tumultuous — and full of hilarious miscommunications — as can be. Nancy Meyers directs this witty and nuanced comedy, which lives up to her reputation for telling funny and emotional stories against gorgeous backdrops.

Directed by Leslye Headland of Russian Doll, Sleeping with Other People shares a similarly twisted sense of humor. It follows Jake (Jason Sudeikis) and Lainey (Alison Brie), two New Yorkers who first met in college during a one-night stand. Over a decade later, their paths cross again at a support group for sex addiction, and they decide to become platonic friends.

Each helps the other navigate their romantic pitfalls, without realizing they’re falling in love along the way. Sleeping with Other People is honest, full of relatable emotional entanglements and hilarious performances from Brie, Sudeikis and the supporting cast. 

This underrated rom-com had the misfortune of being lost in the shuffle of 2020 movie releases due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it stars the fabulous Geraldine Viswanathan (Thunderbolts*, Blockers) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) as unlikely collaborators on an unusual art project. Lucy (Viswanathan) is fired from her assistant job at a New York art gallery on the same night as a brutal breakup, leaving her heartbroken over her ex. Unable to part with the mementos of her lost relationship, Lucy decides to create a space where people can leave memorabilia from past relationships—essentially a gallery of broken hearts.

It just so happens that Nick (Montgomery) is looking for a gimmick to save his failing boutique hotel. Together, they create a place where people can display their keepsakes from breakups past. The publicity for their Gallery of Broken Hearts gets hot — and so does the chemistry between the two leads.

The Broken Hearts Gallery has a witty script, a diverse cast and a real insight into the experience of heartbreak. Don’t break our hearts by skipping this movie.

No Hard Feelings is one of those comedies where the premise is deeply disturbing, but the great writing and talented cast sell it so well that you find yourself laughing anyway. In this romantic comedy, down-on-her-luck waitress Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) is facing bankruptcy after having her car repossessed. Desperate for a new car, she answers an unusual Craigslist ad posted by wealthy parents Allison and Laird Becker (Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick).

The Beckers are worried about their 18-year-old son Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) starting college in the fall, as he is shy, awkward and inexperienced. So they hire Maddie to “date” Percy, without giving him any idea what’s happening. (See? Told you it was disturbing.)

But as Maddie’s over-the-top attempts to seduce Percy turn into a real friendship, Maddie begins to open up about her complicated past while Percy learns to stand on his own two feet. There’s hilariously shocking physical comedy (a naked fist fight occurs — we won’t reveal the participants) and a warm sweetness that will move and surprise you.

Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother, The Penguin) star in the genre-bending romantic comedy Palm Springs. While attending a wedding in Palm Springs, Nyles (Samberg) and Sarah (Milioti) get stuck in a time loop, forced to relive the day of the wedding over and over again. Meanwhile, another wedding guest named Roy (J.K. Simmons) blames Nyles for being trapped in the time loop as well and is constantly seeking revenge by killing him (which resets the loop). 

As Nyles and Sarah grow closer, secrets about their lives before the wedding are revealed. Will they be able to move forward together, or will they stay stuck in the past? Milioti and Samberg are charming and funny actors with great chemistry, and you’ll find yourself rooting for them despite their flaws. Palm Springs feels like the perfect millennial interpretation of Groundhog Day.

A modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Fire Island follows a found family of gay men who take a summer trip to the titular island every year. When Howie (Bowen Yang of Saturday Night Live fame) meets the rich and charming Charlie (James Scully) at a party, Howie’s best friend Noah (Joel Kim Booster, who also wrote the film) is determined to get them together. But Charlie’s judgmental friend Will (Conrad Ricamora, who is adorably dorky in the “Mr. Darcy” role) seems to get in the way at every turn. 

The movie shows how wealth and social class can still come into play in present-day relationships, while maintaining the original story’s themes of miscommunication and first impressions. The supporting cast is hilarious and includes Margaret Cho and Yang’s Las Culturistas co-host Matt Rogers.