Cozy Up! 98 Romantic Movies You Can Watch on Netflix in December

Alex Hitchens, aka "The Date Doctor," is an expert when it comes to every relationship but his own. In the romantic comedy Hitch, he learns that his games don't work on a gossip columnist that he falls for, and things get even messier when her latest story is about one of Alex's clients.

A musically gifted boy named Evan (Freddie Highmore) is born from a young cellist (Keri Russell) and a guitarist's (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) one-night stand 11 years ago. Since being separated from his parents, Lyla and Louis, Evan has been performing on the streets of New York as an orphan under the wing of a stranger. In August Rush, he uses his talent to find his parents, who have reunited in search of their son.

Set in the Summer of 1994 in New York City, The Wackness is a story of love, drugs, and coming of age, starring Josh Peck. Peck plays Luke Shapiro, a weed dealer who trades pot for therapy from his psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires.

The Young Victoria is a dramatization of Queen Victoria's first years reigning. Her cousin Prince Albert (Rupert Friend) is initially encouraged to marry her for power but finds himself falling for Victoria (Emily Blunt) when she takes the throne.

In the family-friendly comedy Casper, the Friendly Ghost quickly falls in love with a teenage girl who visits the mansion he's haunting with her father. They form a relationship, but the obvious facts that he's a ghost and his uncles are always up to no good don't exactly make things easy for the two.

The Reader takes place in postwar Germany, where a teen named Michael Berg has a secret affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a woman much older than him. When she mysteriously disappears, he's left heartbroken without any answers until, years later, the now-law student finds out some shocking truths about her past.

In Tracers, a young New York City bike messenger (Taylor Lautner) is wanted by the Chinese mafia after a beautiful woman and her friends get him involved in a dangerous delivery service.

Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks play couple Jeff and Nealy, who have a nice suburban life and a dwindling marriage. When a pack of raccoons overtake their perfect backyard, Jeff becomes obsessed with trying to get rid of them. Things get out of control in The Details, a romantic comedy, when their rodent problem turns into a web of infidelity and murder.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy revisit their characters from Before Sunset and Before Sunrise in Before Midnight, a thoughtful romantic drama about the choices you make and the tough realities of long-term relationships.

Loren Horsley and Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement star in the adorable quirky rom-com Eagle vs. Shark.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play a married couple in the very trippy, and very sexy, 1999 mystery-drama Eyes Wide Shut.

The 2008 rom-com Made of Honor is like a reverse version of My Best Friend's Wedding starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan.

In the 2000 action-comedy Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock stars as an FBI agent who goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant and ends up falling for her fellow agent, played by Benjamin Bratt, in the process.

Diane Lane and John Cusack star in the 2005 romantic comedy Must Love Dogs as two people who meet trying out online dating for the first time.

Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, and Keira Knightley star in Never Let Me Go, a thought-provoking dystopian romantic drama about friendship, jealousy, love, and clones.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart play competitive chefs with a side of sexual chemistry in the 2007 romance No Reservations.

How could a romantic comedy with Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie be anything less than hilarious and delightful? Sleeping With Other People is the modern When Harry Met Sally, if you can imagine Harry and Sally having a lot more sex.

The 2017 live-action remake of Disney's Beauty and the Beast stars Emma Watson as the beloved heroine Belle.

Carol is a 2015 British-American romantic drama set in 1950s New York City, starring Cate Blanchett as the titular character, a woman in the midst of divorcing her husband who meets and falls in love with a young aspiring photographer (Rooney Mara) who works at a department store.

The 2016 action-crime thriller Vincent N Roxxy stars Emile Hirsch and Zoë Kravitz as a couple of unlikely lovers who go on the run.

Naked is a 2017 Netflix original comedy starring Marlon Wayans as an about-to-be-married man who is stuck in an infinite time loop that involves him being naked in a hotel elevator.

If you're in the mood for early 2000s nostalgia, the modern teen fairy tale A Cinderella Story encapsulates tragic family drama, good old-fashioned high school politics, and a charming romance. Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray depict high school pen pals who meet up during a Halloween high school dance. The problem is they're from two different worlds: she's a smart, hardworking social outcast, and he's a popular quarterback.

Beautiful Creatures is a young-adult gothic romance fantasy film about a small-town boy named Ethan who falls for Lena, the girl of his dreams. She's literally the girl of his recurring dreams until they meet in real life. Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich perform alongside seasoned actresses Emma Thompson and Viola Davis.

A lovelorn English songstress meets a washed-out music executive in John Carney's breezy Summer musical film, Begin Again, which includes catchy earworms like the melancholy "Lost Stars" and subdued "A Step You Can't Take Back." The film features performances from Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, and Adam Levine.

Bridget Jones, once a wandering waif, now has a very important job as a television producer. One problem: Bridget is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. Hilarity ensues in Bridget Jones's Baby as possible baby daddies Mark Darcy and Jack Qwant fight for the leading lady's affection.

Perfectly imperfect publishing professional Bridget Jones finds herself falling for both her randy but irresistibly charming boss and an aloof barrister. Renée Zellweger and costars Hugh Grant and Colin Firth deliver hilarious performances in this classic screwball romantic comedy.

Punch-Drunk Love subverts the romantic-comedy genre with a dark touch, pairing Adam Sandler's comic personality with spasms of rage. Sandler depicts a lonely, socially inept business owner who falls prey to a phone-sex-operator scam that leads him into an extortionist's trap. Much to his consternation and delight, he meets a potential love interest during the same time.

Southside With You is an adorable slice-of-life film about Michelle and Barack Obama's eventful first date that took place long before making political history as FLOTUS and POTUS.

The Way He Looks is a tender coming-of-age film about a blind teenage boy named Leo who, while undergoing the trials of adolescence, yearns for independence from his protective parents and develops feelings for a new student named Gabriel.

In The Incredible Jessica James, The Daily Show's Jessica Williams delivers a spectacular performance as a theater teacher and aspiring playwright who reels over a bad breakup while befriending a charming English divorcee.

Sweet and tender, the dystopian film Seeking a Friend For the End of the World stars Keira Knightley and Steve Carell as neighbors who develop an unusual rapport while helping each other with their final wishes before an asteroid destroys the earth.

Before his iconic roles in The Avengers and Spotlight, Mark Ruffalo charmed us all in 13 Going on 30, playing Matt, the nerdy and sweet love interest of Jenna, who's played by Jennifer Garner. Thirteen-year-old Jenna wakes up to discover that she's now a head-honcho fashion editor whose glamorous life belies her lack of authentic relationships. That is, until she gets in touch with her former best friend, Matt.

In Emma, Gwyneth Paltrow lights up the screen as Jane Austen's clever matchmaking heroine who is blind to the love right in front of her.

In Wes Anderson's vibrant and quirky Moonrise Kingdom, two young and precocious lovers escape their tumultuous family drama and explore the wild.

An engaged fashion editor determinedly pursues a lovelorn roofer, and their salacious affair blooms into something more in Below Her Mouth.

If you thought this adaptation was going to be faithful to the original child-friendly bedtime story, beware. Washington Irving's classic gets a creepy and seductive makeover in Sleepy Hollow, which stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci.

In Last Night, Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington depict a wife and husband who each encounter adulterous temptation when they are apart for one night.

Fantasy and reality conflate in Sex and Lucía, a movie about a woman reeling over a breakup while remembering the passionate relationship she once shared with her ex-lover.

Blue Is the Warmest Color is a coming-of-age French film about two young women who fall in love. The powerful emotions of adolescence and romance are shown through the film's raw, cinematic depictions of unbridled passion.

Tilda Swinton enamors viewers in the sexy Italian film I Am Love, in which Swinton's character pursues a torrid affair with a chef.

Starring Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, Y Tu Mamá También tells the story of two wealthy young men who embark on a road trip with a sexually energetic and much wiser older woman.

In the sultry drama Summertime, a rural French woman brings home her feminist girlfriend and stirs up controversy in her small town.

Katherine Heigl stars in Jenny's Wedding as a woman who must come out to her family when she decides to marry her girlfriend.

Naomi Watts and Robin Wright play childhood best friends who begin sexual relationships with each other's teenage sons in the twisted and steamy drama Adore.

Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, and Sam Riley have a couple of hot-and-heavy threesomes — including one in a car — in the dramatic adaptation On the Road.

Amy Adams plays a woman who travels to Ireland with plans to propose to her boyfriend in the romantic comedy Leap Year.

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence play an ambitious newlywed couple who face some serious bumps in their marriage in the Depression Era-set romantic drama Serena.

If you love a good British rom-com, 2013's I Give It a Year — about newlyweds whose marriage begins to deteriorate soon after the wedding — is for you. Plus it stars Rose Byrne and Anna Faris.

In the 1989 black comedy Heathers, a popular girl gets mixed up in murder and a nasty scheme against the "Heathers" who rule their high school thanks to the bad influence of her rebellious new boyfriend.

Fans of My Big Fat Greek Wedding will love to see the same onscreen couple in I Hate Valentine's Day (2009). The film focuses on a florist who refuses to go on more than five dates with the same man — until she meets a guy who challenges her philosophy.

Michelle Williams plays a woman happily married to Seth Rogen's character until she suddenly finds herself tempted by another man in the romantic drama Take This Waltz.

Who doesn't love the classic story of Sandy and Danny? Watch them flirt and fall for each other all over again in Grease, the 1978 musical about T-Birds, Pink Ladies, and a Summer fling turned high school love.

Robert Redford and Mia Farrow star as the star-crossed lovers in the 1974 adaptation of the classic romance The Great Gatsby.

Work and love collide in the indie rom-com Drinking Buddies, which stars Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, and Ron Livingston.

Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson star in Anna Karenina, a historical romance based on the Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy about a high-society married woman who has an affair with a handsome young cavalry officer.

Mandy Moore and Kellan Lutz star as newlyweds dealing with parental relationship drama in the romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Marriage.

Dianna Agron and Paz de la Huerta star as drifters who fall for each other as they embark on a sordid, drug-fueled adventure in the 2015 drama Bare.

Annette Bening stars in the romantic drama The Face of Love as a widow who begins a relationship with a man (played by Ed Harris) who looks just like her late husband.

Have the tissues handy for Atonement, an epic historical romance set during WWII that stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy as star-crossed lovers.

Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan sing about their failed onscreen marriage in The Last Five Years, a romantic musical.

Armageddon is an action movie set in space with Ben Affleck, romance, and Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" — does it really get better than this gut-wrenching classic from the '90s?!

Victor Van Dort accidentally proposes to a dead bride instead of his flesh-and-blood love in Tim Burton's 2005 dark comedy Corpse Bride.

Holding the Man is a 2015 romantic drama based on a memoir of the same name about two teen boys who fall in love in 1970s Australia.

Audrey Hepburn stars in How to Steal a Million, the 1966 rom-com about an art forger and an art collector loaning a forgery to a museum.

Save the Date is an indie comedy starring Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie as sisters dealing with proposals, breakups, and wedding planning.

A fling between two men becomes something more in the 2011 indie romantic drama Weekend.

A group of teenagers start playing sex games at their high school, but things get complicated in the 2015 French drama Bang Gang.

The quirky Australian rom-com The Little Death follows four couples as they hilariously navigate their sex lives.

White Christmas is a true Christmas classic starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, a pair of ex-GIs who fall hopelessly in love with two charming sisters.

In Stranger by the Lake, a listless young man lounges around a nudist lake, where he meets a mysterious, handsome stranger who also turns out to be a murderer.

The Switch features hilarious performances from sitcom favorites Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston. It tells the story of a woman who becomes pregnant with her son by artificial insemination. Her son shares eerily similar behavioral traits with her neurotic best friend, and she begins to suspect that her son may not be the biological offspring of her donor.

In Beauty and the Briefcase, former teen queen Hilary Duff plays a fashion writer who lands a story about dating in the workplace. When the unexpected happens, however, she must decide between love and her assignment.

In Hateship Loveship, a teenage girl (played by Hailee Steinfeld) tries to orchestrate a romantic relationship between her father (Guy Pearce) and her nanny (Kristen Wiig).

In Rumor Has It, Jennifer Aniston stars as a young woman who comes to the realization that her family was actually the inspiration for the book and film The Graduate.

Raven-Symoné and JoAnna Garcia play undercover bridesmaids trying to break up a wedding in the ABC Family movie Revenge of the Bridesmaids.

In Slow Learners, TV comics Adam Pally and Sarah Burns play two nerdy singles who decide to try to be cool to attract the opposite sex, then find each other. Despite that predictability, it's cute and really funny, and you probably haven't ever seen it.

Check out A Case of You, in which Justin Long tries to romance Evan Rachel Wood by becoming her perfect man.

Ashley Judd plays a talk show talent scout who writes an advice column in the 2011 rom-com Someone Like You.

Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough play opposite each other in the tearjerking romantic drama Safe Haven, an adaption of a Nicholas Sparks novel about a woman escaping her past.