Pardon our interruption, but this is an entertainment emergency: Amazon Prime Video [1] is now streaming some of our favourite romance movies, like No Strings Attached and The Prince and Me [2]. If you can't recall the last time you browsed your Prime Video page, take this as your sign to do so immediately. You're missing out — big time! It's no secret that the streaming platform offers a wide selection of content, and Amazon's original movies [3] have been delivering us cinematic romance on a whole other level. (Don't even get us started on Chemical Hearts.) Queue up one of these romantic films, grab a bottle of wine and a bucket of popcorn, and let's get this movie night started!
This Means War
CIA operatives and best friends FDR Foster (Chris Pine [4]) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) have a major problem: they both want the same girl. Lauren (Reese Witherspoon [5]) is a witty businesswoman who, if she plays her cards right, could end up having her cake and eating it, too. This classic may-the-best-man-win storyline will have you laughing, dancing (the soundtrack is too good), and ooh-ing and aw-ing until the final credits roll.
Watch This Means War on Amazon Prime. [6]
Life Itself
Will and Abby's love story began in college. Today, they're married, living in New York City, and expecting their first child together. As they get ready to become a family of three, their lives and future become entangled with that of a different family living in Spain.
Watch Life Itself on Amazon Prime. [7]
Sylvie's Love
In 1950s Harlem, Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) is swept off her feet by an aspiring saxophonist after her father hires him to work in his record store. Their relationship comes to a crossroads when he receives an offer to perform in Paris. Unwilling to leave her family and give up her dreams of becoming a TV producer, Sylvie stays behind. When they're grown adults, they reconnect at an event and find the feelings they once had for each other never fully went away.
Watch Sylvie's Love on Amazon Prime. [8]
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things follows teenagers Margaret (Kathryn Newton) and Mark (Kyle Allen), who fall in love while trying to break out of the continuous time loop they're stuck in. Consider this a modern-day spin on Groundhog Daywith a touch of romance and sci-fi.
Watch The Map of Tiny Perfect Things on Amazon Prime. [9]
And So It Goes
Realtor Oren Little (Michael Douglas) is one sale away from retiring, but things hit the fan when his granddaughter — whom he's never heard of, BTW — shows up at his doorstep unannounced. The only way he can think of to deal with this is by handing her off to Leah (Diane Keaton [10]), a next-door neighbour.
The Sweetest Thing
Keeping in tune with Amazon Prime's stacked library of early 2000s titles, we bring you The Sweetest Thing. Until Peter came along, a relationship was never on the docket for Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz [12]). When a chance encounter at a nightclub leads to a soulmate connection, Christina's left with butterflies, which only turns into a ball of nerves when he up and leaves the following day. Determined, she grabs her car keys and best friend, Courtney (Christina Applegate [13]), to hunt down her Mr. Right.
Watch The Sweetest Thing on Amazon Prime. [14]
One Great Love
Zyra is ready to give her boyfriend another chance, but it doesn't take long for her to start second-guessing her decision to let him back in. Then she meets Ian, a cardiologist who she finds herself wanting to spend more and more time with. If only Carl could take a page out of Ian's book, all would be right.
Watch One Great Love on Amazon Prime. [15]
Love, Rosie
If fate would allow it, Alex (Sam Claflin) and Rosie (Lily Collins) would have been together from the very beginning. He loves her, she loves him, but after several missed connections, living in different countries, quarrels, marriages, and pregnancies, it may be too late for these childhood best friends to ever become more. Alex is ready to give it one more shot, even if it means giving up everything he has for Rosie. Keep a box of tissues nearby for this one.
Watch Love, Rosie on Amazon Prime. [16]
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Husband and wife Paul (Hugh Grant [17]) and Meryl (Sarah Jessica Parker [18]) are headed toward divorce, and they know it. So when they're weirdly caught in a wrong-place-at-the-right-time situation and are forced to go into federal hiding to protect themselves, they see it as an opportunity for a mini marriage boot camp. The odds are already stacked against them seeing as they're New Yorkers hiding out in rural Wyoming, but if they can reignite that initial spark that once brought them together, this could be the best little holiday they ever went on.
Watch Did You Hear About the Morgans? on Amazon Prime. [19]
Two Night Stand
After swiping right on each other's dating profiles, Megan (Analeigh Tipton) and Alec (Miles Teller) are ready to take their flirty banter offline. What was supposed to be a one-and-done hook-up quickly turns into more after a blizzard traps these two in a New York City shoebox apartment.
Watch Two Night Stand on Amazon Prime. [20]
No Strings Attached
You know he's "the one" when he makes you a period mixtape. Emma (Natalie Portman [21]) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher [22]) go way back, and they've never crossed that let's-be-more-than-friends line until now. But it's strictly sex — no strings attached, no dates, no expectations, no big milestones, no feelings, just pure physical love making. It's a promise, but is it a promise they both can keep?
Watch No Strings Attached on Amazon Prime. [23]
The Wedding Year
Mara (Sarah Hyland) and Jake's (Tyler James Williams) new relationship is put to the ultimate test when they discover they've been invited to seven weddings within one year. Between jealous ex-partners, potential mothers-in-law, and nosy siblings, they'll be lucky if they make it to wedding number three in one piece.
Watch The Wedding Year on Amazon Prime. [24]
Chemical Hearts
Grace (Lili Reinhart) is new in town and somehow finds herself as the newly appointed co-editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper alongside Henry, a fellow student and hopeless romantic. There are a lot of reasons why Grace refuses to take her job as a writer seriously, and Henry is determined to get to the bottom of each and every one of them. Who knows, maybe they'll even fall in love along the way.
Watch Chemical Hearts on Amazon Prime. [25]
The Prince and Me
If 10 Things I Hate About You [28] is a favourite of yours, then you'll love this Julia Stiles-led movie, which follows a college student (Stiles) who accidentally finds herself falling for Eddie, an international transfer student, who she later finds out also happens to be the prince of Denmark.
Watch The Prince and Me on Amazon Prime. [29]
The Love Punch
After selling his profitable company to a French businessman named Vincent, new retiree Richard (played by Pierce Brosnan [30]) learns that the man who bought his company also took all his investments and the company's pension, meaning he and his family are officially dirt broke. Rightfully outraged, he and his ex-wife (Emma Thompson [31]) set out to Paris to get back what's rightfully theirs and then some.
Watch The Love Punch on Amazon Prime. [32]
Seven Pounds
Seeking redemption from his past, Ben Thomas (Will Smith [33]) makes it his life's work to donate different parts of his body to those who need it most. This is how he meets Emily Posa (Rosario Dawson [34]), a cardiac patient in need of a heart transplant. While helping out with other patients, Ben begins to form a deeper connection with Emily, and sets out to complete one last final donation.
Watch Seven Pounds on Amazon Prime. [35]
Getting to Know You
Luck would love nothing more than to get his drunk ex-girlfriend off his back, and as luck would have it, he's found a perfect, beautiful solution. He asks (OK, he begs) a random woman in the hotel lobby to play the role of his wife in hopes that their acting chops and charisma are enough to get rid of his ex for good.
Watch Getting to Know You on Amazon Prime. [36]
Words on Bathroom Walls
Taken aback by his classmate's eagerness to spend time with him, Adam, a high school senior battling a mental illness, makes it his mission to come across as "normal" as possible in fear that Maya will run away once she gets to know the real him. As time goes on, Adam realises Maya isn't going anywhere, and he begins to not only fall in love with her but the best version of himself she has taught him to see.
Watch Words on Bathroom Walls on Amazon Prime. [37]
Serious Moonlight
Meg Ryan [38] is the OG of romantic, feel-good movies, and this list wouldn't be complete without her. Desperate to give her idling marriage a sexy restart, Louise (Ryan) heads up to their holiday cottage where she hopes to woo her husband with a fun, loved-up weekend. However, plans go awry when she arrives and finds her husband has beaten her to the punch and has done it all for another woman named Sarah (Kristen Bell [39]).
Watch Serious Moonlight on Amazon Prime. [40]
What If
Former med student Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe [41]) is on the brink of swearing off relationships for good. Then he meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan), and it's like the world has new meaning. Chantry has a boyfriend, a boyfriend who's been in her life since about forever, so getting rid of him won't be easy. Wallace commits to being Chantry's partner in crime and the two embark on a journey that will eventually have Chantry asking herself: what happens when you begin to fall for your best friend?
Watch What If on Amazon Prime. [42]
I'll See You in My Dreams
Carol Peterson (Blythe Danner) is on a journey of self-discovery. After being a widow most of her life, she's ready to cast her rod back out to sea — and she doesn't catch just one fish, but two. Their names are Bill (Sam Elliott) and Lloyd (Martin Starr), and in the name of romance, Carol begins separate relationships with them both. There's plenty of comedy, drama, and charm in this uplifting love story about finding love again later on in life.
Watch I'll See You in My Dreams on Amazon Prime. [43]
Time
In this documentary, Sibil Fox Richardson opens up her family's life to the public as she spends over two decades fighting to get her husband and the father of her six children, Robert Richardson, out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola.
Watch Time on Amazon Prime. [44]