The Style List: 29 perfect rom-coms, as picked by Roxane Gay

“It made me feel better about being a hopeless romantic,” Roxane says of this gem starring Ali Wong and Randall Park.

On Netflix

Perfectly pitched, Julia Stiles and a much-missed Heath Ledger are at war in this Taming Of The Shrew reboot.

£9.99, play.google.com

Amélie is a lonely waitress who decides to try and mend the broken hearts of the people around her.

£4.49, amazon.co.uk

This Canadian film tells the story of Maggie, a queer woman who meets her match while working in a bookshop.

£10.98, amazon.co.uk

Imagine a world where the president is suave and cool, then Annette Bening comes along to make him even cooler.

£3.97, amazon.co.uk

Directed by and starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Julie and Jason are mates who have the kid first and find love later.

£5.99, amazon.co.uk

Angela Bassett plays a successful woman who finds herself on a trip to Jamaica in this soul-boosting delight.

£5.99, itunes.apple.com

An underrated British romcom starring Lena Headey and Piper Perabo as starcrossed lovers.

£3.49 to rent, skystore.com

The hilarious film that gave us both Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem – as well as their real-life marriage.

£5.99, amazon.co.uk

Gay and single in New York, Jeffrey decides on celibacy and instigates a man ban… you know what happens next.

£16.99, amazon.co.uk

Melanie Griffith plays an ambitious corporate executive who manages to outsmart her exploitative boss.

£5.99, itunes.apple.com

Set in the ChineseAmerican community, Alice Wu’s film is a funny and touching look at coming out.

£7.99, play.google.com

Love Jones tackles the big questions of lasting love with seriously charismatic leads: Nia Long and Larenz Tate.

£7.84, amazon.co.uk

Director Baz Luhrmann broke out with this kitsch tale of a ballroom dancer and his rhythmically challenged partner.

£3.99, itunes.apple.com

This film is just properly entertaining: college friends, nuptials and a big-name cast brimming with comic timing.

£7.99, itunes.apple.com

Kumail Nanjiani’s true-life romance about falling in love with his now-wife and navigating her illness is joyous.

On Amazon Prime Video.

A cast popping with talent (Constance Wu, Awkwafina, Michelle Yeoh), gorgeous backdrops and witty dialogue.

On Now TV.

Juliette Binoche’s character arrives in a straitlaced French village to spark joy with her chocolate wares.

£5.99, play.google.com     

Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are comedy gods in this classic 80s tale of an African prince in search of true love.

On Now TV.

Childhood friends fall in love with hip-hop, then with each other. And Queen Latifah is in it – need we say more?

£5.99, amazon.co.uk

Channelling nearly every 80s teen comedy ever made, this is Twelfth Night meets Never Been Kissed.

£7.99, amazon.co.uk

This film about two highly successful – but very different – people finding love is like being wrapped in cashmere.

£7.99, itunes.apple.com

John Corbett and Nia Vardalos are adorable as the unlikely couple at the centre of a raucous Greek wedding.

£7.99, itunes.apple.com

“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” Enough said. A heart-warming, timeless classic.

£7.99, play.google.com

The opera dress, that shopping scene, the Walkman in the Jacuzzi; we’ll always keep coming back to this zinger.

On Now TV.

Expect one-liners galore from the charmed pen of Nora Ephron and stellar support from the ever-wonderful Carrie Fisher.

On Netflix.

Audrey Hepburn plays a runaway princess and Gregory Peck a cynical journo who loses his heart in 50s Italy – just sublime.

On Now TV.

A rabbi (Ben Stiller) and a priest (Edward Norton) find their friendship tested over a woman from their past.

£5.49, amazon.co.uk

Winston Chao plays a gay man who marries a woman to please his parents, only for the whole thing to fall apart.

£5.99, play.google.com