Top 100 Romantic Movies of All Time

[Biggles of 266]

from the Sydney Morning Herald.

The top 100 romantic films
June 12 2002
AP



1. Casablanca 1942

2. Gone With the Wind 1939

3. West Side Story 1961

4. Roman Holiday 1953

5. An Affair to Remember 1957

6. The Way We Were 1973

7. Doctor Zhivago 1965

8. It's a Wonderful Life 1946

9. Love Story 1970

10. City Lights 1931

11. Annie Hall 1977

12. My Fair Lady 1964

13. Out of Africa 1985

14. The African Queen 1951

15. Wuthering Heights 1939

16. Singin' in the Rain 1952

17. Moonstruck 1987

18. Vertigo 1958

19. Ghost 1990

20. From Here to Eternity 1953

21. Pretty Woman 1990

22. On Golden Pond 1981

23. Now, Voyager 1942

24. King Kong 1933

25. When Harry Met Sally... 1989

26. The Lady Eve 1941

27. The Sound of Music 1965

28. The Shop Around the Corner 1940

29. An Officer and a Gentleman 1982

30. Swing Time 1936

31. The King and I 1956

32. Dark Victory 1939

33. Camille 1937

34. Beauty and the Beast 1991

35. Gigi 1958

36. Random Harvest 1942

37. Titanic 1997

38. It Happened One Night 1934

39. An American in Paris 1951

40. Ninotchka 1939

41. Funny Girl 1968

42. Anna Karenina 1935

43. A Star Is Born 1954

44. The Philadelphia Story 1940

45. Sleepless in Seattle 1993

46. To Catch a Thief 1955

47. Splendour in the Grass 1961

48. Last Tango in Paris 1972

49. The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946

50. Shakespeare in Love 1998

51. Bringing Up Baby 1938

52. The Graduate 1967

53. A Place in the Sun 1951

54. Sabrina 1954

55. Reds 1981

56. The English Patient 1996

57. Two for the Road 1967

58. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967

59. Picnic 1955

60. To Have and Have Not 1944

61. Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961

62. The Apartment 1960

63. Sunrise 1927

64. Marty 1955

65. Bonnie and Clyde 1967

66. Manhattan 1979

67. A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

68. What's Up, Doc? 1972

69. Harold and Maude 1971

70. Sense and Sensibility 1995

71. Way Down East 1920

72. Roxanne 1987

73. The Ghost and Mrs Muir 1947

74. Woman of the Year 1942

75. The American President 1995

76. The Quiet Man 1952

77. The Awful Truth 1937

78. Coming Home 1978

79. Jezebel 1939

80. The Sheik 1921

81. The Goodbye Girl 1977

82. Witness 1985

83. Morocco 1930

84. Double Indemnity 1944

85. Love Is a Many-Splendoured Thing 1955

86. Notorious 1946

87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988

88. The Princess Bride 1987

89. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966

90. The Bridges of Madison County 1995

91. Working Girl 1988

92. Porgy and Bess 1959

93. Dirty Dancing 1987

94. Body Heat 1981

95. Lady and the Tramp 1955

96. Barefoot in the Park 1967

97. Grease 1978

98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939

99. Pillow Talk 1959

100. Jerry Maguire 1996

 

[JoBelle]

I would have put Barefoot in the Park much higher on the lost...and NO...not becasue it has barefeet. 😛 I genuinly like that movei alot! It is so typical of many modern young couples. Two very different people who fall in love and try to make it work.

Aside from that, I TOTALLY agree with the top 10. A few of my all time favorites are lited there! Thanks for the reminder...I'll have to go rent a couple of them now!

Joby

 

[Cyrano]

I didn't see Miller's Crossing on there.

"Did you put in a good word for my brother?"
"No."
"What did you tell him?"
"I told him you were a ***** and he should leave you."

Momma mia, that's amore....well, maybe not, but it was a damn fine movie.

 

[Dave2112]

While not one for the standard "Chick-flick", there was one that stands out in my mind. I can't remember who was in it (nobody really huge), but it was called "Fall". It was about a cabbie and a supermodel who fall for each other. The neat twist on this one, is that it's the supermodel who has a hard time adjusting to the cabbie, and he's not all that terribly impressed with her celebrity. He doesn't go ga-ga just because she's a model, he doesn't change his way of life and doesn't feel bad about himself when he doesn't fit into her world. It's the model who does all the growing and learning in this one. It's refreshing to see men portrayed as having more about them then a set of hormones for a change.

Best line in that film : "I don't want you to leave Jack for me...I want you to leave him for you."

If you see this one around, rent it, it's pretty god.

 

[kurchatovium]

What Evil Dead or Terminator didn't make the list. This is an outrage.
🙂

 

[Biggles of 266]

The first time I read the list I thought 'what's with all the romantic crap, where are the real movies?' until I went back up and read the title...😱

 

[kurchatovium]

Evil Dead and Terminator are very romantic movies in their own way.😀

 

[BigJim]

I would have put Barefoot in the Park much higher on the lost...and NO...not becasue it has barefeet. 😛 I genuinly like that movei alot! It is so typical of many modern young couples. Two very different people who fall in love and try to make it work.

Aside from that, I TOTALLY agree with the top 10. A few of my all time favorites are lited there! Thanks for the reminder...I'll have to go rent a couple of them now!

Joby

I saw that movie and there wasn't a single pair of bare feet in it! An outrage or what!!!!!

By the way, why do Americans say bare feet as one word? Barefoot yes, but bare feet are separate words surely?

 

[BigJim]

My favourite romantic movie of all time is "Return To Two Moon Junction." It has plenty of bare feet shots in it too! 😀 😀 😀

 

[JoBelle]

I saw that movie and there wasn't a single pair of bare feet in it! An outrage or what!!!!!

There WERE bare--notice the space here--feet. The last scene, when Robert Redford is walking in the park in the dead of winter. He gave his coat away in exchange for a bottle and he's walking barefoot in the park! Silly..MEN'S feet count too!!!!!!!!!
Joby😛

BTW, Nice to see ya back!

 

[BigJim]

There WERE bare--notice the space here--feet. The last scene, when Robert Redford is walking in the park in the dead of winter. He gave his coat away in exchange for a bottle and he's walking barefoot in the park! Silly..MEN'S feet count too!!!!!!!!!
Joby😛

BTW, Nice to see ya back!

LOL Joja, you are getting too sarcastic and cynical! 😀 So he gave his coat away and that made him barefoot? Hmmmmm......😕

 

[JoBelle]

LOL Joja, you are getting too sarcastic and cynical! 😀

I'm practicing to become a Brit! 😛 :curtsey:

Joby...needs to watch a girl flick quick! lol

 

[Slappy McGee]

ok, everyone can kick my ass if they want to, but i love a movie called "some kind of wonderful" ...... and also, "the princess bride" should have been much higher

just my opinion

 

[BigJim]

I'm practicing to become a Brit! 😛 :curtsey:

Joby...needs to watch a girl flick quick! lol

LOL Practice all you want to, but it's something that you can only be born into! 😀

 

[JoBelle]

Kinda like bad hair, Jim? 😛


And Slappy, I agree about the Princess Bride. That is my second favorite movie of all time!First being It's a Wonderful Life.
Joby

"Wuvvvv....Twue wuvvvvv"

 

[BigJim]

Kinda like bad hair, Jim? 😛

Exactly, bad and in my case, receeding hair! LOL😀

 

[Oddjob0226]

Bonnie and Clyde made this list? What's up Doc? KING KONG?

Where was Zefferrelli's Romeo & Juliet? Spellbound? Edward Scisserhands? A Night at the Opera? Or, for a stretch, Silence of the Lambs? "People will think we're in love....."

For that matter, where was Oklahoma? Carmen Jones? Pocahauntas?

King Kong! Indeed!

 

[tactillianlover]

CASABLANCA... I'm just a sucker for old world heartache.

MOONSTRUCK... I'm just a Brooklyn Italian fool.

WILD AT HEART... I am cursed as such.

Tact

 

[Oddjob0226]

>>>>>WILD AT HEART... I am cursed as such<<<<<<


Yeah! WILD AT HEART!

"We got some dancing to do!"