Romance
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1.
City Lights
(1931)
The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. (87 mins.)
Director: Charles Chaplin
2.
Annie Hall
(1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. (93 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
3.
It Happened One Night
(1934)
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. (105 mins.)
Director: Frank Capra
4.
Roman Holiday
(1953)
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. (118 mins.)
Director: William Wyler
5.
The Philadelphia Story
(1940)
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. (112 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
6.
When Harry Met Sally...
(1989)
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. (96 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
7.
Adam's Rib
(1949)
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. (101 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
8.
Moonstruck
(1987)
Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she agreed to marry (the best friend of her late husband who died seven years previously). (102 mins.)
Director: Norman Jewison
9.
Harold and Maude
(1971)
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. (91 mins.)
Director: Hal Ashby
10.
Sleepless in Seattle
(1993)
A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. (105 mins.)
Director: Nora Ephron
11.
Gone with the Wind
(1939)
A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War. (238 mins.)
Director: Victor Fleming
12.
Titanic
(1997)
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. (194 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
13.
Casablanca
(1942)
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. (102 mins.)
Director: Michael Curtiz
14.
West Side Story
(1961)
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. (152 mins.)
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
15.
An Affair to Remember
(1957)
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen? (119 mins.)
Director: Leo McCarey
16.
The Way We Were
(1973)
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart. (118 mins.)
Director: Sydney Pollack
17.
Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution. (197 mins.)
Director: David Lean
18.
Love Story
(1970)
A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes. (99 mins.)
Director: Arthur Hiller
19.
My Fair Lady
(1964)
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. (170 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
20.
Out of Africa
(1985)
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. (161 mins.)
Director: Sydney Pollack
21.
The African Queen
(1951)
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. (105 mins.)
Director: John Huston
22.
Wuthering Heights
(1939)
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. (104 mins.)
Director: William Wyler
23.
Ghost
(1990)
After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost. (127 mins.)
Director: Jerry Zucker
24.
From Here to Eternity
(1953)
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. (118 mins.)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
25.
Pretty Woman
(1990)
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love. (119 mins.)
Director: Garry Marshall
26.
On Golden Pond
(1981)
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who... (109 mins.)
Director: Mark Rydell
27.
Now, Voyager
(1942)
Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance. (117 mins.)
Director: Irving Rapper
28.
The Lady Eve
(1941)
A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, till one of them falls in love with him. (94 mins.)
Director: Preston Sturges
29.
The Sound of Music
(1965)
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. (174 mins.)
Director: Robert Wise
30.
The Shop Around the Corner
(1940)
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they're falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. (99 mins.)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
31.
An Officer and a Gentleman
(1982)
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend. (124 mins.)
Director: Taylor Hackford
32.
The King and I
(1956)
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children. (133 mins.)
Director: Walter Lang
33.
Dark Victory
(1939)
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity. (104 mins.)
Director: Edmund Goulding
34.
Camille
(1936)
A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail. (109 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
35.
Gigi
(1958)
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. (115 mins.)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
36.
Random Harvest
(1942)
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life. (126 mins.)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
37.
An American in Paris
(1951)
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. However, things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. (113 mins.)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
38.
Ninotchka
(1939)
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. (110 mins.)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
39.
Anna Karenina
(1935)
The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions. (95 mins.)
Director: Clarence Brown
40.
A Star Is Born
(1954)
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral. (154 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
41.
To Catch a Thief
(1955)
When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence. (106 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
42.
Splendor in the Grass
(1961)
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness. (124 mins.)
Director: Elia Kazan
43.
Last Tango in Paris
(1972)
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex. (129 mins.)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
44.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions. (113 mins.)
Director: Tay Garnett
45.
Shakespeare in Love
(1998)
A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. (123 mins.)
Director: John Madden
46.
Bringing Up Baby
(1938)
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard "Baby." (102 mins.)
Director: Howard Hawks
47.
The Graduate
(1967)
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine. (106 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
48.
A Place in the Sun
(1951)
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. (122 mins.)
Director: George Stevens
49.
Sabrina
(1954)
A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur. But it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her. (113 mins.)
Director: Billy Wilder
50.
The English Patient
(1996)
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. (162 mins.)
Director: Anthony Minghella
51.
Two for the Road
(1967)
A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage. (111 mins.)
Director: Stanley Donen
52.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(1967)
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black. (108 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kramer
53.
Picnic
(1955)
Emotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic. (115 mins.)
Director: Joshua Logan
54.
To Have and Have Not
(1944)
During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer. (100 mins.)
Director: Howard Hawks
55.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961)
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building. (115 mins.)
Director: Blake Edwards
56.
The Apartment
(1960)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. (125 mins.)
Director: Billy Wilder
57.
Sunrise
(1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife. (94 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
58.
Marty
(1955)
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love. (90 mins.)
Director: Delbert Mann
59.
Manhattan
(1979)
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. (96 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
60.
A Streetcar Named Desire
(1951)
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. (122 mins.)
Director: Elia Kazan
61.
What's Up, Doc?
(1972)
The accidental mix up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. (94 mins.)
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
62.
Sense and Sensibility
(1995)
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites. (136 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
63.
Way Down East
(1920)
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock. (145 mins.)
Director: D.W. Griffith
64.
Roxanne
(1987)
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks. (107 mins.)
Director: Fred Schepisi
65.
Woman of the Year
(1942)
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. (114 mins.)
Director: George Stevens
66.
The American President
(1995)
Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway. (114 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
67.
The Quiet Man
(1952)
A retired American boxer returns to the village where he was born in Ireland, where he finds love. (129 mins.)
Director: John Ford
68.
The Awful Truth
(1937)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance. (91 mins.)
Director: Leo McCarey
69.
Jezebel
(1938)
A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiance due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back. (104 mins.)
Director: William Wyler
70.
The Sheik
(1921)
A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert. (80 mins.)
Director: George Melford
71.
The Goodbye Girl
(1977)
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor. (111 mins.)
Director: Herbert Ross
72.
Witness
(1985)
A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial. (112 mins.)
Director: Peter Weir
73.
Morocco
(1930)
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself. (92 mins.)
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
74.
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955)
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution. (102 mins.)
Director: Henry King
75.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(1988)
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. (171 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
76.
The Bridges of Madison County
(1995)
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s. (135 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
77.
Working Girl
(1988)
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job. (113 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
78.
Porgy and Bess
(1959)
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina... (138 mins.)
Director: Otto Preminger
79.
Dirty Dancing
(1987)
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor Johnny Castle. (100 mins.)
Director: Emile Ardolino
80.
Barefoot in the Park
(1967)
Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corrie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment. (106 mins.)
Director: Gene Saks
81.
Grease
(1978)
Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? (110 mins.)
Director: Randal Kleiser
82.
Pillow Talk
(1959)
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised. (102 mins.)
Director: Michael Gordon
83.
Dangerous Liaisons
(1988)
Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal. (119 mins.)
Director: Stephen Frears
84.
The Age of Innocence
(1993)
A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin. (139 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
85.
Crazy Heart
(2009)
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him. (112 mins.)
Director: Scott Cooper
86.
The Blue Lagoon
(1980)
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene. (104 mins.)
Director: Randal Kleiser
87.
Urban Cowboy
(1980)
John Travolta stars as a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar. (132 mins.)
Director: James Bridges
88.
St. Elmo's Fire
(1985)
A Group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centered and obnoxious. (110 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
89.
About Last Night...
(1986)
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends. (113 mins.)
Director: Edward Zwick
90.
Mystic Pizza
(1988)
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic. (104 mins.)
Director: Donald Petrie
91.
Say Anything...
(1989)
A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college. (100 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
92.
The Prince of Tides
(1991)
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process. (132 mins.)
Director: Barbra Streisand
93.
Boomerang
(1992)
A successful executive and womanizer finds his lifestyle choices have turned back on him when his new female boss turns out to be an even bigger deviant then he is. (117 mins.)
Director: Reginald Hudlin
94.
Like Water for Chocolate
(1992)
This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why... (105 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Arau
95.
The Lover
(1992)
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other. (115 mins.)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
96.
Mo' Money
(1992)
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee... (89 mins.)
Director: Peter Macdonald
97.
Poetic Justice
(1993)
In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run. (109 mins.)
Director: John Singleton
98.
Before Sunrise
(1995)
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together. (105 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
99.
Intersection
(1994)
Vincent Eastman has to choose between his wife of 16 years, Sally, or his new love, Olivia. Frequent... (98 mins.)
Director: Mark Rydell
100.
A Walk in the Clouds
(1995)
After returning from the war, Paul and a young woman meet on a bus as she's headed home from college... (102 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Arau
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