8.04.2008

Greatest Romantic Movies Of All Time

"Whether you're generally sappy or cynical, devoted or dubious, once in a while, everyone needs a little romance. Some of the films on this eclectic list will send you scrambling for a Kleenex, while others will lift you up (where you belong); the best may do both. Lose yourself in these love stories, but remember: a kiss is never just a kiss."

According to AFI, the top ten movies are:

1. Casablanca
2. Gone With The Wind
3. West Side Story
4. Roman Holiday
5. An Affair To Remember
6. The Way We Were
7. Dr. Zhivago
8. It's A Wonderful Life
9. Love Story, and
10. City Lights

from Digital Dream Door:

1. Romeo and Juliet - (1968, Franco Zeffirelli) (Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey)
2. From Here to Eternity - (1953, Fred Zinnemann) (Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr)
3. Casablanca - (1942, Michael Curtiz) (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)
4. Camille - (1937, George Cukor) (Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor)
5. Splendor in the Grass - (1961, Elia Kazan) (Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty)
6. Brief Encounter - (1945, David Lean) (Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard)
7. A Place in the Sun - (1951, George Stevens) (Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor)
8. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh)
9. To Have and Have Not - (1944, Howard Hawks) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall)
10. Somewhere in Time - (1980, Jeannot Szwarc) (Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour)

Mine would be:

- Shakespeare In Love, 1998
- An Affair To Remember, 1957
- A Walk to Remember, 2002
- The Notebook, 2004
- Message In A Bottle, 1999
- Two Weeks Notice, 2002
- Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind, 2004
- that classic movie which involves an angel falling in love with a human similar to,
- City of Angels, 1998

runners-up:

- Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies, Sleepless In Seattle and You've Got Mail
- John Cusack movies, Serendipity, Must Love Dogs, and America's Sweetheart
- animations, Beauty and the Beast

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