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Date night: movies and shows for two, streaming now
Right now the best date-night picks in the United States are Forrest Gump (1994), La La Land (2016) and Modern Times (1936). This is the top 30 streaming there today, ranked by how well rated each one is, how many people have rated it, and what people are watching now.
Romance and sharp comedies, and series with a love story at the heart of them: none of them horror or kids' fare.
Updated November 12, 2026 · streaming in the United States
1. Forrest Gump1994
Film · 2h 22mComedy, Drama, Romance★ 8.5
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
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AMC++22. La La Land2016
Film · 2h 9mComedy, Drama, Romance★ 7.9
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the…
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Lionsgate+3. Modern Times1936
Film · 1h 27mComedy, Drama, Romance★ 8.3
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Criterion Channel+44. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge1995
Film · 3h 10mComedy, Drama, Romance★ 8.5
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values.
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Netflix5. Call Me by Your Name2017
Film · 2h 12mRomance, Drama★ 8.1
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture.
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6. Titanic1997
Film · 3h 14mDrama, Romance★ 7.9
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship.
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Kanopy (free)7. Five Feet Apart2019
Film · 1h 56mRomance, Drama★ 8.2
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen…
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Amazon MX Player (free)8. Singin' in the Rain1952
Film · 1h 43mComedy, Romance★ 8.1
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
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HBO Max9. Pride & Prejudice2005
Film · 2h 8mDrama, Romance★ 8.1
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant…
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YouTube Free (free)10. Casablanca1943
Film · 1h 42mDrama, Romance★ 8.1
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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HBO Max11. Voicemails for Isabelle2026
Film · 1h 59mRomance, Comedy, Drama★ 8.3
A young woman's hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.
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Netflix12. The Apartment1960
Film · 2h 6mComedy, Drama, Romance★ 8.2
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses.
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Hoopla (free)YouTube Free (free)+113. The Notebook2004
Film · 2h 3mRomance, Drama★ 7.9
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately…
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Pluto TV (free)14. Cinema Paradiso1988
Film · 2h 4mDrama, Romance★ 8.4
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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MGM+Kanopy (free)Hoopla (free)15. City Lights1931
Film · 1h 27mComedy, Drama, Romance★ 8.2
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Fawesome (free)+318. Green Book2018
Film · 2h 10mDrama, Comedy, History★ 8.2
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon…
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Netflix19. The Truman Show1998
Film · 1h 43mComedy, Drama★ 8.2
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
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Kanopy (free)Hoopla (free)20. Gabriel's Inferno2020
Film · 2h 2mRomance, Drama★ 8.4
An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness…
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Tubi (free)21. Life Is Beautiful1997
Film · 1h 56mComedy, Drama★ 8.4
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II.
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Paramount+Kanopy (free)Hoopla (free)23. The Love Hypothesis2026
Film · 1h 52mRomance, Comedy★ 7.9
Olive Smith, a biology PhD candidate, and Dr. Adam Carlsen, a hotshot professor and well-known tyrant, enter into a fake relationship, seeing each of their carefully calculated theories on love get thrown into chaos.
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Prime Video
Questions
- What are the best date-night picks right now?
- In the United States, as of November 12, 2026: Forrest Gump (1994), rated 8.5 out of 10 on TMDB, then La La Land and Modern Times.
- How is this list made?
- Watchwalla asks TMDB for everything of this kind that streams in your country today, ranks it by rating (pulled toward the middle until enough people have rated a title), with a nudge for what's new and what people are watching now, and refreshes the list every day. Streaming availability comes from JustWatch, through TMDB.
- Can it pick something for me?
- Yes. The picker at watchwalla.com/tonight asks who's watching, how much time you have and what you're in the mood for, and gives three picks streaming where you are. Sign in and every title also gets a match score for your own taste.