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If you're looking for something to watch while cuddled up on the couch with your sweetheart, Netflix has you covered. From comedies to dramas, classics to originals, here are 10 of the best romance movies centered on love and relationships you can stream on Netflix.

UPDATE: 5/30/23

Brokeback Mountain, The DUFF, and Notting Hill all left Netflix, so we've replaced them with three new picks.

Blue Jay

Stars Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson are the only people onscreen for the majority of director Alex Lehmann's romantic drama Blue Jay, but they're never less than captivating. They play former high school sweethearts who unexpectedly reunite many years later, spending a day and night reminiscing about their relationship and taking stock of their adult lives.

It's a bittersweet story that turns heavier in its final act, without ever losing the honest connection between the two main characters, which can't be diminished even by decades spent apart.

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Call Me By Your Name

A languid coming-of-age story about an LGBTQ teen's sexual awakening, director Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name is also a swooning romance set in a gorgeous Northern Italian town in the early 1980s. Timothée Chalamet gives his breakout performance as the quiet, studious Elio, who falls for the more outgoing, confident Oliver (Armie Hammer), a grad student working with Elio's father. Guadagnino captures the intensity of young love along with the hazy aimlessness of teenage summers.

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Greenberg

As played by Ben Stiller, the title character of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg isn't exactly lovable, but there's something compelling about him, both for the audience and for his brother's personal assistant, Florence (Greta Gerwig). Florence and Stiller's Roger Greenberg form a connection when Roger is house-sitting for his brother.

While Roger is sullen and often misanthropic, Florence sees through his emotional damage. Roger doesn't exactly become a better person, but Baumbach shows how two social misfits can connect even while alienating everyone else around them.

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The Half of It

A sort of teen LGBTQ twist on the classic Cyrano de Bergerac story, The Half of It features two teens who are in love with the same girl. One is shy Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis), who agrees to become a ghostwriter for the love letters by lunkheaded jock Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) to the beautiful and popular Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire). Although both Ellie and Paul want to be with Aster, the movie is as much about the unlikely burgeoning friendship between the nerd and the athlete as it is about their efforts to land the mutual girl of their dreams.

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The Incredible Jessica James

Comedian and former The Daily Show contributor Jessica Williams gets some much-deserved spotlight in the upbeat romantic comedy The Incredible Jessica James. Williams plays the title character, a confident and charismatic playwright who's reeling over her latest breakup. Set up on a blind date by her friend, she bonds with app developer Boone (Chris O'Dowd), who's also still getting over his ex. Williams' effervescent screen presence and her chemistry with O'Dowd make the familiar, low-key story feel fresh and vibrant.

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Loving

Jeff Nichols' Loving is about a landmark court case in American history, the 1967 Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage throughout the country. But it's also about the married couple at the center of that case, the appropriately named Lovings.

Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga play Richard and Mildred, who want nothing more than to be left alone to raise their family in peace. The strength of their love is what allows them to challenge an ingrained legal doctrine so that they can enjoy the simple right to be together as husband and wife.

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Phantom Thread

Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread is a twisted sort of romance that takes until the final scene to fully reveal itself, but that reveal places the central relationship in a whole new light. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as eccentric and demanding fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who begins a relationship with a waitress at the local diner he frequents. Alma (Vicky Krieps) seems to clash with Reynolds' domineering personality, but she eventually asserts a domination of her own, and the couple finds a unique sort of love within their kinky power dynamic.

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Set It Up

One of Netflix's first breakout original romantic comedies, Set It Up, is a breezy and fun story about two couples falling in love, both inadvertently. Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell play the harried assistants to high-powered executives played by Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs.

The assistants conspire to spark a romance between their bosses as a way of alleviating some of the pressure they're under, and obviously, in the course of the scheme, the assistants fall in love themselves. It's predictable but entertaining, with engaging characters and genuine humor.

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Straight Up

Writer/director/star James Sweeney explores the fluidity of sexuality in the witty, fast-paced rom-com Straight Up. Sweeney plays Todd, who starts questioning his identity as a gay man after many failed attempts at dating. When he meets the charming, intelligent Rory (Katie Findlay), he feels like he's found his soulmate, even though intimacy with her is just as difficult for him as it was with men.

Straight Up explores the boundaries of what romance and sexuality really mean, while showcasing sparkling banter and a creative visual style.

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

The romantic misadventures of teenager Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) begin here with To All the Boys I've Loved Before, based on the young adult novel by Jenny Han. This endearing, unassuming comedy launched a hit trilogy for Netflix, starting with the story of Lara Jean's private letters to her crushes somehow being distributed to the boys she secretly admired.

Noah Centineo co-stars as one of those crushes, who makes a pact with Lara Jean for a sham relationship (to make their respective objects of affection jealous) which, of course, turns real.

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