20 Adorable Meet Cutes (To Daydream About While We Grow Old Alone)
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We here at Cracked love romantic comedies. Sure, their implications are sometimes awkward, and some of them have even aged like, well, like ideological vessels of outdated gender stereotypes. Still, when they’re good, they’re good. But there is no denying the rom-com genre is full of established tropes. Some movies subvert them, some movies follow them closely. Among the pantheon of romcom tropes, however, one of them stands tall, and by “tall” we mean stumbling adorably while we bump our heads with it while trying to help it pick up its notebooks. Yes, tropes can have notebooks, it’s called suspension of disbelief.
The trope we’re referring to is, of course, the meet cute. The meet cute is pretty much everywhere in our favorite romcoms. You know how it goes: our protagonists have to meet eventually (and we’re not saying “initially,” because master romcomer Nora Ephron already taught us they can meet at the end). And when they do meet, it’ll be magic (or not, Nora Ephron also taught us that), it’ll be sweet and awkward and witty – and the sexual tension? Ooh, boy. In this Pictofact, then, we offer you 20 adorable meet cutes to remember, to even watch again, and to daydream about as you wonder why this never happens to you. To you, we mean. We’re totally not talking about ourselves. Nope, no siree. Anyway, we have to go buy kitty litter, fingers crossed for a cat poop-themed meet cute!
Titanic
![Meet Cute Titanic Kate Winslet's Rose wants to escape an arranged marriage with villainous Billy Zane, and then dreamy Leo DiCaprio comeds to banter his way into her not jumping in deadly ice water. Not a romcom, but definitely a meet cute CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/2/864732.jpg)
500 Days of Summer
![Meet Cute 500 Days of Summer This is less a meet cute than a project-all-your- fantasies-onto-a-random-girl cute, but hey, it's still cute. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is listening to music when Zooey Deschanel gets in the elevator, interrupts him, and even sings The Smiths back at him. Alright, we take the snark back, we totally get it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/3/864723.jpg)
Before Sunrise
![Meet Cute Georges Batade Madame Edwards Before Le Mort store de food Sunrise Ethan Hawke's Jesse and Julie Delpy's Celine strike up a conversation about a bickering couple, they immediately hit it off, and agree to walk through Vienna. Plus, they're both into books. Moral of the story? Books are sexy. KINSKI MLL NEED in tour ALL I-NEED IS LOVE CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/4/864814.jpg)
Silver Linings Playbook
![Meet Cute Silver Linings Playbook In this dramatic romcom about ballroom dancing and mental illness, Jennifer Lawrence's Tiffany meets Bradley Cooper's Pat during dinner at her sister's. They are both messes with no people skills, so they first annoy each other, but then immediately hit it off with the most adorable topic there is-psychiatric medications. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/4/864724.jpg)
Out of Sight
![Meet Cute Out of Sight In this unjustly forgotten crime comedy, Jennifer Lopez plays federal agent Karen Sisco, and George Clooney plays career criminal Jack Foley. Early in the movie, they end up locked in a trunk talking about the life of crime and movies, and the sexy-ass music director Steven Soderbergh adds to the scene certainly does not hurt the insane chemistry between them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/3/864733.jpg)
Romeo + Juliet
![Meet Cute Romeo + Juliet Leonardo DiCaprio's Romeo is fascinated by a fish tank, and a million times more by Claire Danes' Juliet on the other side. They stare at each other in a very pure scene about the life- changing novelty of first love, like those gazing scenes in Twilight, but actually good. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/9/864729.jpg)
Pride & Prejudice
![Meet Cute Pride & Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet is introduced to stick-up- his-ass bearer Mr. Darcy during a ball, and she later eavesdrops on him calling her barely tolerable. Then, they have a brief exchange on poetry, love, and dancing, and she outsmarts him and even repeats his words back to him. The aloof snob is then done. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/9/864719.jpg)
The Spectacular Now
![Meet Cute The Spectacular Now Miles Teller's Sutter is woken up by Shailene Woodley's Aimee after passing out drunk in a random front yard. Не then helps her with her paper delivery route and they quickly become friends and eventually a couple. The movie then goes to really dark places, but their meeting will make you think this is a lovely romcom for a bit. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/2/864722.jpg)
It Happened One Night
![Meet Cute It Happened One Night A famous and spoiled heiress played by Claudette Colbert has just escaped her overbearing father to meet her gold-digging husband. During the bus ride, she meets Clark Gable as a journalist who has just been fired, and who blackmails her when he sees the scoop. Romcoms don't get much more classic than this Frank Capra masterpiece. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/6/864716.jpg)
Harold and Maude
![Meet Cute Harold and Maude Death-obsessed teenager Harold likes to crash random funerals, and he meets hilarious, carefree Maude. The movie is profoundly sad and joyful at once, and the scene where they meet is just perfect. Today's genre-subverting romcoms have nothing on Harold and Maude. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/0/864730.jpg)
Imagine Me and You
![Meet Cute Imagine Me and You Piper Perabo and Lena Headey meet on the day of the former's wedding. Their very first interaction consists in Heady sticking her hand in a bowl of punch to retrieve Perabo's missing wedding ring, just as the bride is harassed by her new husband's slimy boss. This is a somewhat clichés but still lovely romcom, and definitely deserves much more love. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/5/864725.jpg)
Trainwreck
![Meet Cute Trainwreck Yes, yes, Amy Schumer, we know, but Trainwreck is a funny romcom with a great meet cute. Schumer's character is assigned to do a piece on a trendy doctor to the sports stars played by Bill Hader, and the scene that ensues is a great showcase for both comedians' talents. Schumer in particular, has some great line delivery. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/5/864735.jpg)
The Holiday
![Meet Cute The Holiday This movie has plenty of meet cutes, but Eli Wallach's Arthur meeting Kate Winslet's Iris is by far the best. She gives the older man a ride, and after talking about movies he dishes out he was a screenwriter in old-timey Hollywood. When they arrive at Arthur's, he says that was a lovely meet cute - and explains the concept. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/8/864728.jpg)
Submarine
![Meet Cute Submarine Directed by The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade, this coming-of-age dramedy perfectly captures teenage anxiety. Young Oliver has a crush for Jordana, who figures out she can use him to make his ex-boyfriend jealous. She invites him under the rail bridge and asks him to bring his Polaroid camera. Once there, she kisses him and takes photos - and bam, he's in love. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/7/864727.jpg)
Annie Hall
![Meet Cute Annie Hall Alvy Singer can't understand why his relationship with Annie ended. When they first met at tennis doubles, she was eager to give him a ride (not an euphemism). After the dangerous car ride, they hit it off and begin their romance. Nobody does awkward like (real-life sex pest) Woody Allen, and Annie Hall is his romcom masterpiece. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/7/864717.jpg)
Brief Encounter
![Meet Cute Brief Encounter A lonely housewife falls in love with a handsome stranger after they keep bumping into each other at a train station. They meet when she gets some grit in her eye after a train passes by, and the doctor removes it. It's, well, a brief encounter, and it encapsulates their impossible love. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/3/1/864731.jpg)
Bringing Up Baby
![Meet Cute Bringing Up Baby This screwball classic has a square paleontologist (played by Cary Grant) meeting a quirky millionaire (played Katharine Hepburn) at a golf course, just as the latter picks up Grant's ball. Golf ball, that is. Their chemistry is amazing, the jokes are rapid fire, and the movie is a gold standard of wacky romcoms for a reason. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/1/864721.jpg)
Love Actually
![Meet Cute Love Actually Even playing one of the most powerful men in the world, Hugh Grant can still pull off his classic bumbling dweeb shtick. When the new UK Prime Minister meets Natalie, a junior staff member, he's immediately smitten as she awkwardly curses, which, you know, we get it. It's all very sweet, even if the power dynamics involved are kinda icky. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/6/864726.jpg)
22 Jump Street
![Meet Cute 22 Jump Street Channing Tatum's Greg Jenko and Wyatt Russell's Zook have the sweetest of meet cutes. Greg is cleaning his ear with a Q-tip while Zook is eating a meat sandwich, and when they bumps into each other, the sandwich falls to the groundand becomes a meat q-tip sandwich. Their meat q-tip is so adorable they just have to announce it to everyone. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/0/864720.jpg)
When Harry Met Sally
![Meet Cute When Harry Met Sally Of course the meet cute in the Platonic ideal of the romantic comedy is perfect. Sally gives Harry a ride from Chicago to New York, and the brilliant Nora Ephron-penned script has them talking about sex, Casablanca, and sex in Casablanca, and they soon realize they can't stand each other. Well, she can't stand him, he just wants to hook up. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/8/864718.jpg)