Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

The British romantic comedy that made Hugh Grant the decade's go-to stammering charmer. The structure is the hook: five social occasions, four weddings and one funeral, so the movie moves in brisk chapters full of best-man speeches and wrong seats at the reception. Come for the jokes, stay for the funeral, which delivers the movie's most memorable moment with a reading of W. H. Auden. It is the pick here for viewers who like their comedy dry, verbal and a little bittersweet.