11 Best Romance Movies Streaming Right Now on Prime Video

Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore lead an incredible cast in this rom-com about a meddling mother who just wants the best for her daughters, especially her wayward youngest, for whom she places a personal ad to find the right man. Meddling moms are a dime a dozen in rom-coms, but Keaton takes it to extremes in Because I Said So. Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, and Colin Ferguson also star.

For awhile there, the romance genre was defined by something best described as sick-teens-in-love movies (i.e. The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl). As the collective tolerance in that phase waned, a lot of people missed out on Me Before You, a more grown-up story about Lou (Emilia Clarke), a caretaker hired for Will Traynor (Sam Calflin), a once-successful banker and active sportsman who was paralyzed after being hit by a motorcycle. As the two work together, they slowly fall in love, something Will tries hard to resist. We don’t need to tell you to prepare yourself. This one will hit hard.

Speaking of sick-core movies, the one that started it all for the millennial generation also remains the best of them. Based on the tearjerker by author Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember tells the unlikely love story between Landon Carter (Shane West), a bad boy in school, and quiet preacher’s daughter Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore). He agrees to date her to prove a point to his friends, but ends up falling in love with someone he can only have for a moment in time. She has terminal cancer, so they set out to fulfill her dreams before it’s too late. It’s the kind of achingly romantic movie that irrevocably changes how you see the world. It is also why we have nearly a dozen Sparks adaptations. So everybody thank the trailblazers that are Landon and Jamie.

Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling give absolutely searing performances in this frank, honest story about a middle-class couple grappling with whether their relationship can survive a life they feel is lacking. Williams received an Oscar nomination for her role as a nurse trying to get more out of her husband and her own existence, while they both received Golden Globe nominations. Blue Valentine is not the easiest to watch, but Williams and Gosling have some of the best chemistry you will see onscreen.

Based on a true story, Firebird is a passionate and dangerous love story that follows Sergey (Tom Prior), a young soldier and aspiring actor, who risks everything to be with Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii), a sexy, enigmatic ace fighter pilot newly assigned to a Soviet Air Force base during the Communist reign in the 1970s. At a time when same-sex relationships could lead to death, this forbidden romance is as fiery as its title bird and as tragic as you would expect for a war movie. Bring your tissues for this one because it is a doozy!

You had us at hello, Jerry Maguire. When Tom Cruise isn’t jumping out of airplanes or testing the boundaries of death for the Mission: Impossible movies, he takes a few sojourns into quieter fare, and one of the best examples is this 1996 film about a sports agent who must reinvent his life after he loses his job and has to start over with only one client. But the real centerpiece of this film is his relationship with one of the only people who believes in him, a single mother (Renée Zellweger) and her adorably bespeckled son (Jonathan Lipnicki). It also happens to be one of the most quoted movies of all time, between “You had me at hello” and “Show me the money!”

Talk about a special relationship! In Red, White and Royal Blue, Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the President of the United States (Uma Thurman), takes his enemies-to-lovers friendship with Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), the grandson of the king of England, to the next level in this rom-com with global political implications. From steamy polo matches to tender trips to Paris, this queer love story from director Matthew Lopez and author Casey McQuiston sure makes history, huh?

Four Weddings and A Funeral, Richard Curtis’ 1994 film, is about a friend group who constantly find themselves guests at a series of social gatherings has influenced generations of romance films that followed it. But there’s nothing like the original, which stars Hugh Grant as a playboy who finds himself drawn to an American woman (Andie MacDowell) living in London. Unfortunately, one of the four weddings mentioned in the title is hers, at least that is the plan. Funny, a little dark, and utterly romantic, the film is a classic for a reason.

Solène (Anne Hathaway), a single mother stuck escorting her daughter and her friends to Coachella, finds herself in the trailer of the world’s most eligible popstar, August Moon lead singer Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine). When they two can’t deny their attraction to one another, they tumble into a globe-trotting relationship that awakens them to the possibilities of love and the sacrifices they will have to make to hold onto it. In other words, The Idea of You is the kind of Coachella fever dream people would die for!

A grifter gambles his way onto a ship and seduces a young woman away from a life of privilege before he drowns. OK, fine. That may be an oversimplification of James Cameron’s iconic film Titanic that redefined Romeo & Juliet-style romances. But let’s be honest, we all know the story: Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) books last-minute passage on the greatest passenger ship in history, only to find himself falling in love with Rose (Kate Winslet), a first-class passenger with enough baggage to sink their burgeoning relationship—if an iceberg doesn’t do it first. As epic a romance as you can get.

Ever wanted to know how hot it has to be melt a tennis racket? Just ask Luca Guadagnino, who absolutely scorched the court with this love triangle for the ages. Challengers follows Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), a tennis prodigy who finds herself in a romantic tug-of-war between two best friends and fellow tennis greats, Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O’Connor). The film got plenty of headlines for its threesome make-out scene, but that was only the serve for what was to come. Windstorm confrontations, sexual tension between Art and Patrick, and the iron-fist with which Tashi ruled over her “little white boys,” this film will go down as the GOAT of sports romances.