12 Romantic Comedies Set to Sweep You Off Your Feet This Year

The quirky indie movieElsewhere slipped under the radar this year, but it's available through video on demand. The story follows Aden Young as Bruno, a man still mourning the death of his wife. When his in-laws evict him, he moves back in with his parents and meets their new tenant, Marie (Parker Posey), who takes him by surprise.

Release date: Jan. 24

Lara Jean Song Covey and Peter Kavinsky are back in the To All the Boys I've Loved Before sequel, baby! But this time, there's trouble in paradise when Lara Jean reconnects with her childhood crush John Ambrose while working at a retirement center.

Release date: Feb. 12

Insecure's Issa Rae and Atlanta's Lakeith Stanfield (who is secretly in everything) star in the sweet Valentine's Day flick The Photograph. In the film, Rae plays Mae Morton, a woman who discovers a photograph in her estranged late mother's safe-deposit box, which then leads to a romance with Stanfield's Michael Block.

Release date: Feb. 14

Following in Gwyneth Paltrow's footsteps, Anya Taylor-Joy portrays the title character in the 2020 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. While fancifully playing matchmaker, Emma Woodhouse doesn't realize she's starting to fall for her neighbor George Knightley, who is played by Johnny Flynn.

Release date: Feb. 21

Part rom-com and part murder mystery, The Lovebirds feature Issa Rae (again!) and Kumail Nanjiani as a couple who are basically on cloud nine . . . until a man takes over their car and runs over a biker. Just watch the trailer, which goes from gooey to bonkers in less than 30 seconds.

Release date: April 3

Keen on another romantic musical comedy? Featuring Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ice Cube, and Bill Pullman, The High Note is being marketed as a love story set in the Los Angeles music industry.

Release date: May 8

Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, a film that's inspired by The New Yorker, is currently being promoted as a romance, comedy, and drama. We don't know how much of the film will have those classic rom-com elements, but the cast is stacked nonetheless — keep an eye out for performances from Benicio Del Toro, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, and many others!

Release date: July 24

SNL's Kristen Wiig and her Bridesmaidscowriter Annie Mumolo star as BFFs in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. As the title suggests, the pair hit up Vista Del Mar in Florida, where they get caught up in romance as well as a villain's diabolical plan to kill everyone in town.

Release date: July 31

In Happiest Season, Kristen Stewart plays Abby, a woman planning to propose to her girlfriend (Mackenzie Davis) at her parents' annual holiday party, only realizing her girlfriend hasn't come out to her conservative family yet. The cast is pretty stacked, featuring performances from Ana Gasteyer, Dan Levy, Aubrey Plaza, and more.

Release date: Nov. 25

Right off Hustlersand the Super Bowl, Jennifer Lopez will star in Marry Me as a pop star who finds out that her husband-to-be cheated on her, so she picks a random guy (Owen Wilson) from the audience to wed instead. There's going to be a soundtrack from Lopez and Colombian singer Maluma as well!

Release date: TBA

Riverdale's Lili Reinhart stars in this teen romance film based on Krystal Sutherland's novelOur Chemical Hearts. She plays a high-school transfer student who meets the editor of her school paper on the first day of school. (And of course, they learn a thing or two about love!)

Release date: TBA

The Prom is yet another one of Ryan Murphy's upcoming projects on Netflix. This time, he'll be taking the reins as director for this musical comedy starring Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Meryl Streep, Andrew Rannells, and Keegan-Michael Key. The premise of the story is that a group of musical-theater veterans devote themselves to helping a lesbian couple in Edgewater, IN, go to prom.

Release date: TBA