Best Romantic Comedies by Year
1890
242
1931
Alexander Korda, Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
2055
273
1931
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2175
294
1931
Frank Capra
Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2652
429
1931
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Jean Hersholt, Una Merkel
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2695
445
1931
Erik Charell
Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt, Carl-Heinz Schroth
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Germany
German
2697
446
1931
Alfred Santell
Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel, John Arledge, Claude Gillingwater
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2797
473
1931
Roy Del Ruth
James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2812
480
1931
David Burton, Dudley Murphy
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster, Claudia Dell, Florence Britton
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2812
480
1931
William K. Howard
Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, J.M. Kerrigan, Una Merkel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2812
480
1931
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure
UK
English
241
23
1930
Luis Buñuel
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
1955
255
1930
Ernst Lubitsch
Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2383
352
1930
Edward H. Griffith
Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2484
380
1930
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Frank Morgan
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2518
394
1930
Thornton Freeland
Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2812
480
1930
Paul L. Stein
Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2812
480
1930
John Ford
Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier Sr.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1380
165
1929
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2032
268
1929
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams
Comedy / Romance / Gangster / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2503
389
1929
Luther Reed
Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Don Alvarado
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Western
USA
English
2509
391
1929
Roy Del Ruth
Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2518
394
1929
Joe May
Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2695
445
1929
Jacques Feyder
Gaby Morlay, Albert Préjean, Henry Roussel, Léon Arvel
Comedy / Romance
France
French (Silent)
2695
445
1929
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn, Clyde Cook
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2812
480
1929
Fred C. Newmeyer
Eddie Dowling, Marian Nixon, Frankie Darro, Sam Hardy, Lloyd Ingraham
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2812
480
1929
A. Edward Sutherland
Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Edna May Oliver, Charles Sellon, Ethel Wales
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
837
91
1928
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Comedy / Romance / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
958
108
1928
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey
Comedy / Romance / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1677
202
1928
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker
Comedy / Family / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1849
231
1928
Pál Fejös
Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2518
394
1928
King Vidor
Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray, Dell Henderson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1928
Alfred Hitchcock
Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten, Gordon Harker
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2812
480
1928
Alfred Hitchcock
Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
1099
124
1927
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
1622
193
1927
Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2032
268
1927
Buster Keaton, James W. Horne
Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin
Comedy / Sports / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2165
291
1927
Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
German (Silent)
2518
394
1927
Frank Capra
Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2518
394
1927
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Martha Sleeper, Oliver Hardy, William Burress, Eugene Pallette
Short / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1927
Marion Norris Gleason
Romance / Adventure / Action / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1927
Dorothy Arzner
Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn, Harvey Clark
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1927
Marshall Neilan
Colleen Moore, Larry Kent, Hallam Cooley, Gwen Lee, Martha Mattox, Charles Giblyn
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1927
Alfred Santell
Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee, Alma Bennett, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1927
John Ford
Nancy Nash, Earle Foxe, Grant Withers, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Raymond Hitchcock
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
106
10
1926
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom
Comedy / Romance / War / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2229
310
1926
Frank Capra
Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2394
354
1926
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Walter James, Budd Fine
Comedy / Romance / Sports / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2553
405
1926
Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young, Jim Mason, Paul Weigel
Comedy / Romance / Religion / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2607
417
1926
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Vivien Oakland, Ann Howe, Charles Clary, Gale Henry, Malcolm Denny
Family / Short / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1926
Herbert Brenon
Alice Joyce, Norman Trevor, Clara Bow, Conway Tearle, Eleanor Lawson
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1926
Malcolm St. Clair
Adolphe Menjou, Florence Vidor, Lawrence Grant, George Beranger, Duke Peter
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1926
Ernst Lubitsch
Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger, Myrna Loy
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1926
Harry Edwards, Frank Capra
Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford, Edwards Davis, Tom Murray, Alec B. Francis
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2761
460
1926
Alfred E. Green
Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis, Doris Baker, Emily Gerdes
Comedy / Romance / Comic
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1926
Paul Sloane
Leatrice Joy, Tom Moore, Robert Edeson, Snitz Edwards, Toby Claude
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1926
A. Edward Sutherland
W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy
Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1926
George Terwilliger
Owen Moore, Constance Bennett, Evangeline Russell, Julia Hurley, Nick Thompson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1926
William A. Seiter
Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Melbourne MacDowell, Frances Raymond, Otis Harlan
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
880
98
1925
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1832
228
1925
Erich von Stroheim
Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1925
Clarence Brown
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, Albert Conti
Comedy / Romance / Action / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1925
D.W. Griffith
Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, Alfred Lunt, Erville Alderson, Effie Shannon
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1925
Clarence G. Badger
Betty Compson, Raymond Griffith, Tom Santschi, Bert Woodruff, Fred Kelsey
Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1925
Monta Bell
Zasu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman, Bernard Randall
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1925
Paul Sloane
Richard Dix, Frank Currier, Albert Tavernier, Frances Howard, William Powell
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2826
486
1925
Ernst Lubitsch
Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, Clara Bow, Willard Louis
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
153
17
1924
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Comedy / Short / Family / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English (Silent)
2525
397
1924
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Action / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1924
Harry A. Pollard
Reginald Denny, Ruth Dwyer, John Steppling, May Wallace, William Austin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
818
88
1923
Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
970
110
1923
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke
Action / Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2059
274
1923
Rupert Hughes
Eleanor Boardman, Frank Mayo, Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Lew Cody
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2179
296
1923
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Lillian Lawrence
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2234
311
1923
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2328
336
1923
Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh
Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh, Charles Belcher
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2340
341
1923
Sidney Olcott
Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan, Harrison Ford, Courtenay Foote
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2579
411
1923
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Phyllis Haver
Comedy / Short / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2491
384
1922
Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend, Charles Stevenson, Dick Sutherland
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2559
406
1921
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2611
418
1921
Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Gerald Pring
Romance / Action / Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1921
George Pearson
Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Mary Brough, W. Cronin Wilson
Comedy / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2559
406
1920
Mauritz Stiller
Gucken Cederborg, Carl Wallin, Vilhelm Bryde, John Lindlöf, Carina Ari
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2579
411
1920
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1920
Victor Fleming
Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Renick, Wallace Beery, Paul Burns, Morris Hughes
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1920
Cecil B. DeMille
Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1788
218
1919
Cecil B. DeMille
Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Reardon, Gloria Swanson
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2611
418
1919
Victor Fleming, Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau, Ralph Lewis, Daisy Jefferson
Action / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1919
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport, Mahlon Hamilton
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1919
Cecil B. DeMille
Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody, Sylvia Ashton, Theodore Roberts
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1919
Joseph Henabery
Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Sam Southern, Jay Dwiggins
Comedy / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2761
460
1919
David Kirkland
Constance Talmadge, Belle Daube, Jack Kane, Conway Tearle, Jeanette Horton
Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1918
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Joan Marsh
Short / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1918
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Wanda Hawley, Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Katherine MacDonald
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1482
177
1917
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1926
248
1917
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2559
406
1917
Mauritz Stiller
Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Albin Lavén
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2695
445
1916
Lloyd Ingraham
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown, Wilbur Higby, Loyola O'Connor
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1916
Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince
Billie Burke, William H. Thompson, William Desmond, Charles Ray, Nona Thomas
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1915
Christy Cabanne
Douglas Fairbanks, Seena Owen, William Lowery, Lillian Langdon, Monroe Salisbury
Adventure / Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Ernest Van Pelt, Paddy McGuire, Lloyd Bacon
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2695
445
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2812
480
1915
Christy Cabanne
Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Cummings, Margery Wilson, Gladys Brockwell
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2175
294
1914
Mack Sennett
Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2588
413
1914
Maurice Tourneur
Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2761
460
1913
Alice Guy-Blaché
Fraunie Fraunholz, Marian Swayne
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
