Best Romance Movie
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Aug 06, 2008 Total Views: 334 Total Votes: 1,174
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 The Princess Bride (1987)
By: beej This fan fave takes your standard fairy-tale formula -- a princess (Robin Wright Penn) and her true love (Cary Elwes) struggle to unite -- and injects it with comic twists at every turn. But funny as it is, the adventure has a mushy romantic center. (moviefone)  Add a Comment
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 +26 pts |
2. |
 Casablanca (1942)
By: beej When Humphrey Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman she has to leave him or regret it "maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But soon, and for the rest of your life," waterworks are unavoidable. Sixty-five years later, no film has better nailed a true romance. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+25 pts |
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 Lady and the Tramp (1955)
By: beej Who says love can't be just as touching in animated form? (See also 'Beauty and the Beast.') Ever since this Disney film about dogs from opposite sides of the tracks, no dating couple has looked at spaghetti in quite the same way. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+20 pts |
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 Gone With the Wind (1939)
By: beej This sweeping Civil War drama about a Southern belle (Vivien Leigh) and a rogue (Clark Gable) is a love story with as many heart-stopping victories and reversals as the war itself. Frankly, my dear, we do give a damn. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+19 pts |
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 Titanic (1997)
By: beej The ultimate date movie, this weepy flick has a big boat, awesome special effects and Kate Winslet to keep guys entertained. Women have plenty to swoon over thanks to the tragic love story and dreamy Leonardo DiCaprio. King of the world, indeed. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+17 pts |
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 Jerry Maguire (1996)
By: beej Forget "Show me the money!" The most memorable quote in this film -- the closest thing you'll see to a "bro-mance" -- comes when Tom Cruise admits to Renee Zellweger, "You complete me." The follow-up is perfect: "Just shut up. You had me at hello." Sigh. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+10 pts |
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 The Notebook (2004)
By: beej This story of star-crossed lovers (Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling; Gena Rowlands and James Garner) captures the heartbreak and beauty of enduring love, and it's pretty hot to boot. Teen girls hadn't swooned like this since 'Titanic.' (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+7 pts |
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 West Side Story (1961)
By: beej It's 'Romeo and Juliet' in New York City AND there's dancing -- who could ask for anything more? Apparently not Oscar voters, who awarded the classic musical 10 statues, including Best Picture. If only Shakespeare had had a librettist and a choreographer. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+5 pts |
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 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
By: Slagathor22 A remake of the classic Shakespare play "The Taming of the Shrew" set in a modern day highschool. Add a Comment
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+5 pts |
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 How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003)
By: Slagathor22 Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure" magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made. Add a Comment
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+4 pts |
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 Brokeback Mountain (2005)
By: beej Two handsome cowboys, the great outdoors and the heartbreak of forbidden love. It doesn't hurt that stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger turn in incredible performances on top of it all. RIP Heath. Oscars were in your future. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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+3 pts |
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 Moulin Rouge (2001)
By: Slagathor22 A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources. Add a Comment
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+2 pts |
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 Say Anything (1989)
By: beej Say Anything...is a romantic film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and released in 1989. It is the first film actually directed by Crowe (he was only the writer for 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High and its pseudo-sequel, 1984's The Wild Life). In 2002, Entertainment Weekly ranked Say Anything... as the greatest modern movie romance. This movie ranked number 11 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the fifty best high school movies. It is the 48th best reviewed movie of all time according to rottentomatoes.com. (Wikipedia) Add a Comment
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0 pts |
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 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
By: VigilAntics The movie is centered on Toula (Fortoula), a Greek-American woman (Nia Vard)alos, who also wrote the script), who falls in love with a non-Greek American, Ian Miller (played by John Corbett). The movie also examines the protagonist's relationship with her family, with their cultural heritage and value system, which is sometimes rocky but ends with mutual appreciation. Add a Comment
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0 pts |
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 Grease (1978)
By: VigilAntics Danny Zuko, leader of the greaser gang "T-Birds" of Rydell High, falls in love with a goody two shoes girl named Sandy Olsen over the summer. They thought she'd be leaving and never see each other again, but to their luck...she begins to attend Rydell High. She is immediately accepted into the group "Pink Ladies" and shortly Danny and her re-meet. Danny has seemed to have changed but in the hopes of winning Sandy back, he changes into the loving, jock Danny Zuko that Sandy met during the summer permanently. Add a Comment
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0 pts |
16. |
 A Walk To Remember
By: petey2191 The beautiful daughter of a small-town preacher (pop star Mandy Moore) enraptures the son of the local big-wig (Shane West) during the town Christmas pageant in this romantic adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Add a Comment
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-1 pts |
17. |
 Dan in Real Life (2007)
By: VigilAntics The Burns clan is gathering at their vacation place on the Rhode Island shore: Dan (a widower with three daughters), plus his parents, various brothers and a sister and their families. At a bookstore the first morning he's there, he chats up a woman, bares his soul and feels a connection before she gets a call and bolts. She's seeing someone, who turns out to be one of Dan's brothers. It's a dicey couple of days at the house as Dan can't keep his eyes off her, his brother is obviously falling in love, and everyone thinks she's great. In this big supportive family, who will be the first to find the tension too much to bear? And after the snap, then what? Add a Comment
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-2 pts |
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 The Wedding Date (2005)
By: Slagathor22 Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis (Messing) to hire a male escort (Mulroney) to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing. Add a Comment
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-2 pts |
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 Pretty Woman (1990)
By: Slagathor22 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. Add a Comment
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-4 pts |
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 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
By: beej Discovering that his ex (Kate Winslet) has had him erased from her memory, Jim Carrey follows suit. But it's not that easy, and his poignant struggle to remember what was good rings true to anyone who's ever loved and lost. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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-6 pts |
21. |
 Wimbledon (2004)
By: Slagathor22 A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon. Add a Comment
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-6 pts |
22. |
 Ghost (1990)
By: beej While Whoopi Goldberg's dead-people-seeing psychic borders on the wacky (she did win an Oscar, go figure), this drama has one of the best love scenes of the decade. Messy clay. 'Unchained Melody.' Demi Moore and that perfect teardrop. Priceless. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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-10 pts |
23. |
 P.S. I Love You (2007)
By: Slagathor22 A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life. Add a Comment
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-10 pts |
24. |
 Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
By: VigilAntics Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam's son Jonah, is also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie. She's engaged to Walter, but he's a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths to meet Sam. Add a Comment
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-10 pts |
25. |
 Atonement (2007)
By: VigilAntics The film comprises four parts, corresponding to the four parts of the novel. Some scenes are shown several times from different perspectives. Comments (1)
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-11 pts |
26. |
 Love Actually (2003)
By: jambredt Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into the personal lives of a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are linked as their stories progress. The ensemble cast is composed of predominantly English actors. The film begins five weeks before Christmas and is framed around a week-by-week countdown until the holiday, with an epilogue that takes place one month later. (Wikipedia) Add a Comment
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-15 pts |
27. |
 Dr. Zhivago (1965)
By: VigilAntics Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago. Add a Comment
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-15 pts |
28. |
 Something's Gotta Give (2003)
By: jambredt Something's Gotta Give is a 2003 American romantic comedy film, written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers for both Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. It stars Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson as two successful 60-somethings, who find love for each other at a different time of life, despite being complete opposites. Amanda Peet and Keanu Reeves co-star, with Frances McDormand, Paul Michael Glaser, Jon Favreau, and KaDee Strickland playing key supporting roles. (Wikipedia) Add a Comment
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-16 pts |
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 An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
By: beej The passion between a naval officer-in-training (Richard Gere) and unhappy factory worker (Debra Winger) here is about as torrid as you can get. And his rescue of her from minimum-wage hell is pure romantic poetry. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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-17 pts |
30. |
 Prime (2005)
By: Slagathor22 A career driven professional from Manhattan (Thurman) who is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst (Streep) Add a Comment
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-17 pts |
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 Annie Hall (1977)
By: VigilAntics After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples' stories, and even using animation. Add a Comment
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-17 pts |
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 An Affair to Remember (1957)
By: VigilAntics Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from the reunion, and Nicky fears that she has married or does not love him anymore. Will he discover the truth behind her absence and reunite with his one true love, or has fate and destiny passed them by? Add a Comment
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-17 pts |
33. |
 Legends of the Fall (1994)
By: VigilAntics The movie's timeframe spans the decade before World War I through the Prohibition Era, and into the 1930s, ending with a brief scene set in 1963. The film centers on the Ludlow family of Montana, including veteran of the Indian Wars Colonel Ludlow, his three sons Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel, and object of the brothers' love, Susannah. Add a Comment
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-17 pts |
34. |
 Harold and Maude (1971)
By: beej A suicidal 20-year-old (Bud Cort) falls for a funeral-obsessed senior citizen (Oscar winner Ruth Gordon) in one of the strangest and most charming romances of all time. It may be slightly creepy, but the two are sweetly irresistible. (moviefone) Add a Comment
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-18 pts |
35. |
 Amelie (2001)
By: VigilAntics Amelie is a shy waitress in a Montmartre cafe. After returning a long-lost childhood treasure to a former occupant of her apartment, and seeing the effect it has on him, she decides to set out on a mission to make others happy and in the meantime pursues a quirky guy who collects discarded photo booth pictures. Add a Comment
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-18 pts |
36. |
 Wuthering Heights (1939)
By: VigilAntics The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor. Add a Comment
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-18 pts |
37. |
 The English Patient (1996)
By: VigilAntics A burn victim, a nurse, a thief, and a sapper find themselves in each others company in an old Italian villa close to the end of World War II. Through flashbacks, we see the life of the burn victim, whose passionate love of a woman and choices he made for her ultimately change the lives of one other person in the villa. Not only is this film a search for the identity of the English patient, but a search for the identities of all the people in the quiet old villa. Add a Comment
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-18 pts |
38. |
 Moonstruck (1987)
By: VigilAntics A widowed Brooklyn book-keeper is torn between her fiancé and his brother Add a Comment
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-19 pts |
39. |
 Dark Victory (1939)
By: VigilAntics Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. Learning this, Judith becomes manic and depressive. Her horse trainer Michael, who loves her, tells her to get as much out of life as she can. She marries Steele who intends to find a cure for her illness. As he goes off to a conference in New York failing eyesight indicates to Judith that she is dying. Add a Comment
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-20 pts |
40. |
 Wings of Desire (1988)
By: VigilAntics Set in West Berlin in the late 1980s, toward the end of the Cold War, it follows two angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by the people, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman, a painter, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is not that of the stereotypical angel, but as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. In addition to the story of two angels, the film also is a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and in fact before there were even any humans. Add a Comment
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-20 pts |
41. |
 The Way We Were (1973)
By: VigilAntics Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed by his charm and she still is when they meet some years after |
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