10 Best Rom-Com Meet-Cutes

What is a rom-com movie without a meet-cute? These are some of the best movie rom-com meet-cutes that will have you rushing to rewatch the scenes.

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There’s nothing like a classic romantic comedy to help unwind at the end of a long day, and the words timeless, light, and bittersweet are often associated with such movies. Hailed as one of the best fictional mediums for eternalizing the perfect marriage of romance and humor, rom-coms are an enduring genre in the history of film.

A rom-com doesn’t really begin until the moment two romantic interests cross paths. In other words, a chance meeting is how it all begins. It’s cute, romantic, sweet, and sometimes unusual. As it turns out, there’re quite a number of enchanting ways to make two people meet.

10 The Elevator And The Smiths – 500 Days Of Summer

An offbeat romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer is mostly about the projection of fantasies onto another person and unrequited love. This not-a-love story begins when Summer Finn and Tom Hansen first meet in a conference room. She’s the boss’s new assistant, freshly moved from Michigan, and likes being on her own.

Tom falls in love with Summer the moment he sees her, and even more when she sings The Smiths lyrics in the elevator. 500 Days of Summer is a tug of war between expectations and reality and the breaking of Tom’s reverie by his little sister: “Just because she likes the same bizarro crap you do doesn’t mean she’s your soulmate.”

9 A Meet-Cute About Meet-Cutes – The Holiday

Only in a thousand years does a woman from Surrey meet a famous screenwriter from the Golden Age of Hollywood who tells her about meet-cutes. In The Holiday, Iris (Kate Winslet) offers her elderly neighbor, Arthur (Eli Wallach), a ride home and he describes their meeting as “some meet-cute.” She asks and he explains:

“It’s how two characters meet in a movie. Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in, and they both go to the same men’s pajama department. And the man says to the salesman, ‘I just need bottoms.’ The woman says, ‘I just need a top.’ They look at each other, and that’s the meet-cute.”

8 The School Assembly – To All The Boys: Always And Forever

When Lara Jean from To All the Boys: Always and Forever wishes she and Peter Kavinsky had a meet-cute, the latter makes it come true by helping her recall the first time their eyes met. The meet-cute happened in 6th grade at the school assembly when a young Lara Jean, sitting in front of Peter, was called up on stage to receive an attendance award.

In a flashback sequence, Peter helps untangle Lara Jean’s long hair caught in the chair. She smiles at him, and his heart does a somersault in his chest. LJ and Peter’s meet-cute is a nod to who they would become to each other someday in the future.

7 10 Downing Street – Love Actually

Although Love Actually is mostly about heartwarming meet-cutes, Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) and Natalie’s meet-cute wins, hands down.

On his inaugural day in the office, the newly-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is introduced to his staff. There’s Terence, Pat and at the end of the line is Natalie (Martine McCutcheon). As he proceeds to shake hands with her, she calls him by his first name and begins to ramble on. At that moment, Natalie catches the PM’s attention and pretty much has his heart.

6 A Quaint Bookshop In Notting Hill – Notting Hill

This time, the king of romantic comedies, Hugh Grant’s Will Thacker meets an American actress by the name of Anna Scott (Julia Roberts). It’s an absolute chance encounter, but a heartwarming one nonetheless.

She walks into his travel book store and starts to browse books on Turkey. He politely makes more recommendations, but she declines his help and continues with her search. Notting Hill captures the true essence of love and is often listed as one of the best rom-com of the ’90s.

5 The Dorm Hall Fiasco – How To Be Single

How to Be Single breaks new ground with its take on young Alice’s romantic misadventures in the city of New York. Portrayed by Dakota Johnson, Alice is a freshly out of college paralegal on the cusp of womanhood and self-discovery. The only thing that stops her from being her own person is the inability to “be alone” and sever all ties with an old flame named Josh.

Alice is in a codependent relationship with Josh, who she meets while she’s locked herself out of her dorm room. Her towel slips and he rushes to cover her with his towel, without thinking the situation through. They make quite a spectacle of themselves in the dorm hall.

4 At Dinner – Silver Linings Playbook

Pat walks out of a mental health facility determined to get all his ducks in a row. Estranged from his wife, he is invited to his friend Ronnie’s house to have dinner with Ronnie and his wife, Veronica, when he is introduced to Veronica’s sister, Tiffany.

Tiffany and Pat are like fireworks ready to explode, and even though they trade insults continually, it’s pretty clear they are meant to be. At the heart of David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook is Pat and Tiffany’s struggle with their mental health. It is an alternate take on happiness, “excelsior,” and finding love in unexpected places.

3 Shopping For Gloves – Serendipity

Serendipity’s Jonathan and Sara find each other in the middle of a mad rush at Bloomingdale’s and their eyes meet the second they reach out for the same pair of black cashmere gloves. They spend a wonderful evening together, gorging on sundaes at Sara’s favorite restaurant, also named, Serendipity. She’s a big believer in fortunate accidents and lucky discoveries.

Sara and Jonathan’s meet-cute that happens during last-minute Christmas shopping has far-reaching consequences for them both, but in the end, they end up together.

2 Mother’s Annual Buffet – Bridget Jones’s Diary

Every year, Mrs. Jones tries to fix her daughter up with a man, and every year it doesn’t take. This was, of course, until Bridget meets an uptight human-rights barrister named Mark Darcy, resented him for his brutally honest opinions, took his help to report on the high-profile Aghani-Heaney case, and in the end, ran out onto the snowy streets of London to kiss him.

At the beginning of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Ms. Jones (Renée Zellweger) and Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) mutually resent each other. It’s an awkward social situation in which Bridget rambles on about her life and Mark’s clearly never been around the likes of her. But the more they run into each other, the more Mark can’t help falling in love with her.

1 Carpool To New York – When Harry Met Sally

Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally is hailed as the greatest rom-com of all time. And why not? It’s about love and friendship, but more importantly, it stirs up the age-old debate on the friendship between women and men.

The titular characters, Billy Crystal’s Harry Burns and Meg Ryan’s Sally Albright, first meet at the University of Chicago in 1977 while leaving for New York. She’s a perfectionist and he’s a bit of a rogue who spits when the windows are rolled up. They are locked within the closed space of a moving car for 18 hours and they endlessly argue about the friendship between men and women.

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