25 On-Screen Couples Who Can't Stop Working With Each Other

Star Pairings: Crazy, Stupid, Love; Gangster Squad; La La Land. Why They're a Great Duo: In the otherwise middling Crazy, Stupid, Love the duo electrified every scene. Sorry, Josh Groban, it was always going to be Gosling. And who could forget this crazy-hot Dirty Dancing scene? More forgettable was the pair's turn in Gangster Squad, where Stone, nevertheless, rocked a knockout red dress. And finally we get to La La Land, Damien Chazelle's swoonfest musical that's almost certain to nab at least Stone an Oscar (both leads won Golden Globes) and make all your dates seem a little less celestial—and thus worse.

Star Pairings: Swing Time, Shall We Dance, Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee, Flying Down to Rio, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, Roberta, Follow the Fleet, The Barkleys of Broadway, Carefree. Why They're a Great Duo: This pair made your heart flutter with their playful banter and out-of-this world chemistry on the dance floor. Take this scene from Swing Time, or "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat, or this one from Shall We Dance and try not to fall in love (hint: it's impossible.)

Star Pairings: Desk Set, Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Keeper of the Flame, Without Love, Sea of Grass, Pat and Mike, State of the Union. Why They're a Great Duo: This classic Hollywood pair were so great together because you always felt like they were on equal footing, both witty, both tough, both pretty funny. In Adam's Rib they went up against each other in court. In Desk Set they also spar in the workplace (and you also get a glimpse at some great old computers). And, of course, in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner they both give knockout performances (and Hepburn won the Oscar).

Star Pairings: Silver Linings Playbook, Serena, Joy, American Hustle. Why They're a Great Duo: Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for her emotional, vulnerable, incredible performance in David O. Russell's 2012 Silver Linings Playbook, which featured a climactic and very memorable dance number between the two lovebirds. The pair have since starred in a number of Russell movies, like Joy and American Hustle, but not as couples. It wasn't until 2014's Serena (now on Netflix) that they fell in love again—in period costumes, to boot.

Star Pairings: The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, Blended. Why They're a Great Duo: In 2014, Adam Sandler sang Drew Barrymore part of "Grow Old With You" from The Wedding Singer on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show and it looked like Drew was going to cry. We're delighted that Robbie Hart and Julia Sullivan seem to have genuine love for each other IRL. The Fallon appearance was part of a promotional tour for the ill-advised Blended, but let's not forget that 50 First Dates was also adorable, giving us 50 sneak peeks at love with these regular romancers.

Star Pairings: Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride. Why They're a Great Duo: Sure, Pretty Woman's a classic, and for a certain woman it may represent a kind of sexual awakening. Everyone should feel free to like what they like, but we can all admit the power dynamic of that match-up is more than a little off. Still, cut to Runaway Bride, their follow-up nine years on. Here, it's their characters' mutual respect of each other that makes them come together. Sure, it's no Casablanca, but it's still a lot of fun.

Star Pairings: Jamón, Jamón; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; The Counselor. Why They're a Great Duo: Well, well. If it isn't another couple who met on set: Penélope Cruz met future husband Javier Bardem in one of her first ever films, Jamón, Jamón. Fast forward to 2008, when the two appeared in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona as a couple whose stormy relationship receives a boost from visitors Scarlett Johanssen and Rebecca Hall. And they're not done working together, either—the pair will be back in a forthcoming film about drug king Pablo Escobar.

Star Pairings: Joe Versus Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail. Why They're a Great Duo: The cult classic Joe Versus the Volcano started it all for these two movie lovebirds, but it was Sleepless in Seattle and meeting atop the Empire State Building (à la An Affair to Remember) that really cemented their spot in the our movie-pair hall of fame. They were just showing off when they reunited for another classic, You've Got Mail, a now hilariously dated movie about AOL emails and these quaint little things called bookstores. It just goes to show that we'd watch these two in anything.

Star Pairings: Titanic, Revolutionary Road. Why They're a Great Duo: Remember "I'm flying, Jack"? Remember "I'll never let go"? There was nothing we wouldn't do to see Winslet and DiCaprio together again. But they gave us a huge dose of "be careful what you wish for" when their Revolutionary Road couple broke each other down rather than taking for the skies. Sure, it was a great movie; sure, Winslet won a Golden Globe. But…can't they just do one where they end up happy together?

tar Pairings: Speed, The Lake House. Why They're a Great Duo: Bullock and Reeves had explosive chemistry in Speed–a feat when Dennis Hopper has you in his murderous sights. So when they teamed back up for The Lake House over a decade later, it was the most exciting movie news. It's not a classic by any means, but the nostalgia was enough to power us through the time-travel logic (or lack thereof).

Star Pairings: Brokeback Mountain, Love & Other Drugs. Why They're a Great Duo: Gyllenhaal didn't know how to quit Heath Ledger in 2005's groundbreaking and beautiful Brokeback Mountain, but he still ended up marrying Hathaway. They were probably in love too—just not in the same way as Jake and Heath. (If you've ever doubted that Hathaway is one of our greatest actresses, just watch the scene of her on the phone.) In Love & Other Drugs, they got back together and gave us a happier ending, kind of.

Star Pairings: Wedding Crashers, Midnight in Paris. Why They're a Great Duo: Obviously, McAdams and Gosling stole people's hearts as one of the greatest movie couples ever, but McAdams and Wilson are not too shabby either. It's mainly her water-off-a-duck's-back charm that steals the show, but you can definitely believe he's madly in love with her in Wedding Crashers. In Midnight in Paris, though, they might be destined for the altar, but they're just not at all in love. If that's going to break your heart, just rewatch Wedding Crashers instead.

Star Pairings: Gigli, Jersey Girl. Why They're a Great Duo: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's relationship is such a bright, beautiful part of pop culture history that it's a darn shame the two movies that emerged from it were so terrible. Gigli is so bad that the title became shorthand for "a terrible movie." It features, among other things, a romance predicated on Ben Affleck turning Jennifer Lopez straight. Okay, then. In Jersey Girl, which aged better (in that it's been mostly forgotten), Lopez plays Affleck's wife, who died in childbirth so she's mostly absent from the film. In general, it's best just to watch Bennifer's greatest collaboration: The "Jenny From the Block" music video.

Star Pairings: Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, 2046, Ashes of Time, Hero, The Eagle Shooting Heroes. Why They're a Great Duo: Be still our hearts. The scorching combination of Hong Kong cinema superstars Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung was immortalized in Wong Kar-Wai's classic trio: Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046. If you want to dive a little deeper into their co-starring history, try martial arts films Ashes of Time and Hero. Want to get meta about it? Try The Eagle Shooting Heroes, which is a parody of the book Ashes of Time is based on, and call yourself a completist.

Star Pairings: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool's Gold. Why They're a Great Duo: Remember how Kate Hudson is a star in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and Something Borrowed, and Bride Wars even, and how she should be in more movies? Anyway, that's a conversation for another time. The point is HTLAGITD perfectly encapsulates what makes these two so good together. She's ambitious, he's ambitious, and they both want to win—making it even more delicious when they take a load off and realize what they have is actually pretty special. While they reprised their romantic roles in Fool's Gold, that movie's not-very-good trailer tells you all you need to know—but it was still nice to see them together again.

Star Pairings: Third Person, Date Night, Oz the Great and Powerful. Why They're a Great Duo: It's really bizarre that these two keep finding themselves in on-screen love, but we're here for it. They play a really weird couple in Date Night; their soured relationship is the back story for the Wicked Witch of the West in Oz the Great and Powerful; and you've probably never heard of Third Person, but they play a divorced couple and it gets...pretty dark.

Star Pairings: Vanilla Sky, Knight and Day. Why They're a Great Duo: Their first Tinseltown pair-up in Vanilla Sky is another super dark one. He ignores her after they've been hooking up, so she follows him and then kills herself with him in the car. If you need a bit of comfort after going through that, Knight and Day was a more traditional rom-com and a great reminder that they're both huge movie stars and thus forces of nature.

Star Pairings: Hustle and Flow, Animal, From the Rough. Why They're a Great Duo: Empire's most genius move was bringing Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard back together. The pair spark drama everywhere they go on the FOX show, but their co-starring history goes all the way back to Hustle and Flow, where Howard plays a kind of precursor to Lucious Lyon, the aspiring rap artist Djay; and Henson is Shug, the woman who can help get him there. They also crossed paths in the R-rated Animal, and From the Rough, based on a true story about the first woman to coach a collegiate men's golf team.

Star Pairings: Closer, Duplicity. Why They're a Great Duo: You probably remember Closer because of Natalie Portman in her pink wig or its sad ruminations on love and relationships (take this trailer, which proclaims "intimacy is a lie we tell ourselves"—yikes). Full of romantic double-crosses, this film brings Roberts and Owen together and tears them apart. They must have enjoyed all the lies and suspense, because their next stab at movie romance was Duplicity, a 2009 romantic thriller about two spies who cross paths over and over again.

Star Pairings: Overboard, Swing Shift. Why They're a Great Duo: Their characters fell in love in 1984's Swing Shift, but it's Overboard that people really remember. The golden couple fall into a silver-screen relationship in the '80s classic, but only after she loses her memory and he tricks her into it. Okay, maybe it's a little creepy upon reflection. But perhaps you can still enjoy seeing this true-blue twosome play partners.

Star Pairings: To Have and to Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Dark Passage. Why They're a Great Duo: Despite their 25-year age difference, Bogart and Bacall are one of old Hollywood's most famous romances. Their first film together was To Have and to Have Not, in which Bacall seductively told Bogart how to whistle, and their last was Dark Passage in 1947. They married in 1945 and had two children. Since their real-life relationship was cut short when Bogart died in 1957, it's nice to have these movies as a time capsule of their love.

tar Pairings: Lover Come Back, Send Me No Flowers, Pillow Talk. Why They're a Great Duo: A rarity among the old Hollywood samplings on this list, Hudson and Day never had a love affair, but they did make three comedies together. The best known among them is Pillow Talk. One thing's for certain: The pair looked great together on movie posters.

Star Pairings: Adventureland, American Ultra, Café Society. Why They're a Great Duo: Stewart might be best known for her movie and IRL partnership with Robert Pattinson, but she's played Jesse Eisenberg's love interest in almost as many films. Indie flick Adventureland brought them together first, and is the best film of the bunch. They're both sort of awkward, but in a perfectly lovable way, which makes them an irresistible movie pair.

Star Pairings: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, By the Sea. Why They're a Great Duo: Here's one with a sad ending. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is incredibly sexy and steamy and action-packed and fun; it's the movie where this high-wattage couple fell in love for real. But truth kept on resembling fiction later on, too; in By the Sea, Pitt took the lead in his wife's movie about a marriage in turmoil. In 2016, they broke up, and we're still getting used to a world without Brangelina.

Star Pairings: Cleopatra; The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedians; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Divorce His, Divorce Hers; The V.I.P.s; The Sandpiper. Why They're a Great Duo: We all know about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's volatile and legendary romance (they got married and divorced twice, for starters), but what is truly remarkable is all the movies they did together. This list only includes the ones where their characters had some semblance of a relationship, but there are even more. Cleopatra was their most famous pairing, with Taylor as the alluring queen and Burton as her paramour, Mark Antony. But Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, with a tense marriage at its center, is the movie that won Taylor her second Oscar. There's no way all that volatility wouldn't translate to amazing movie chemistry onscreen.