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Best and Most Memorable Part 10 |
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Best and Most Memorable Part 10 |
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The films that are marked with a yellow star |
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Description
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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
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Bespectacled, geeky 11 year-old girl outcast Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo) in a middle-class New Jersey family faced cruel, miserable, and isolated treatment through puberty; in a potential rape scene, Heather was forcibly told by crass 7th grade bully Brandon (Brendan Sexton, Jr.) at her locker that he was going to rape her at 3 pm, but then didn't follow through (because he didn't actually know what rape was and only wanted to show his interest in her); in the scene, however, they both exchanged a very awkward kiss together | 
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Crash (1996)
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David Cronenberg's coldly-erotic drama was deliberately controversial and repulsive with slightly depraved, raw scenes involving fetishistic individuals who had survived gruesome automobile crashes and felt compelled to rewatch and also re-enact the auto accidents; in the film's exploration of obsession with crashes - in its startling conclusion, TV commercial producer/director James Ballard (James Spader) deliberately rear-ended his icy-blonde wife Catherine's (Deborah Kara Unger) vehicle - when she was thrown from the car onto the ground next to the wreck, he made love to her, after learning that she was all right (and promised her a more deadly crash the next time): "Maybe the next time, darling. Maybe the next time." |
 
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| Jerry Maguire (1996)
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High-powered, mid-30s sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) finished his date with Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) on her porch - aggressively and impulsively, she grabbed him behind the neck, pulled him close and kissed him on the lips; he accidentally pulled her dress straps loose and when re-tying them, kissed her down the front of her body; the scene followed them inside to the bedroom where they mutually undressed each other and had sex |   |
Kissed (1996)
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Lynne Stopkewich's debut film was a controversial and provocative limited-release independent film about the taboo subject of necrophilia; sympathetically-portrayed Sandra Larson (Molly Parker) - an assistant at the Wallis Funeral Home, exercised her obsession with finding spiritual calm and erotic attraction to the dead, by kissing a corpse in a coffin |  
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| In & Out (1997)
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In this PG-13 rated comedy, gay celebrity gossip TV reporter/journalist Peter Malloy (Tom Selleck) had a prolonged same-sex kiss with outed bisexual Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) - a high-school English teacher in a small Indiana town; he smelled out Howard's sexual proclivity by asking the question: "What's the name of Barbra Streisand's eighth album?'' |  |
Lolita (1997)
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Director Adrian Lyne's 1997 erotically-charged, sensual remake (with Jeremy Irons and 15 year-old actress Dominique Swain) was controversial for its aberrant, still-taboo and touchy topic of underage sexuality and incestual pedophilia; in one controversial love-making scene in a hotel, they slept in the same bed and she wet-kissed him on the mouth after having showed him "everything" -- during the fade-out, Humbert explained in voice-over: "Gentlewomen of the jury, I was not even her first lover" | 
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| Open Your Eyes/Abre los Ojos (1997, Sp.)
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After discovering that he was
trapped in a virtual reality simulation by a cryonics company (Life Extension)
150 years after his suicide, wealthy, face-disfigured Cesar (Eduardo Noriega)
resolved to jump off a skyscraper to "wake up" from his nightmarish
existence to rejoin the real world; before doing so, CEO of Life Extension
Duvernois (Gérard Barray) asked him: "Do you have any wish
before you 'die'?" Cesar closed his eyes, and conjured up his long-dead
lover Sofia (Penelope Cruz), breathtakingly beautiful in a white dress,
and restored his own face to normal; wordlessly, he embraced her, and
saw his long-dead best friend Pelayo (Fele Martínez) looking on;
after Duvernois warned: "Don't keep suffering. It's all in your head.
It's all psychological", a teary-eyed Cesar gave her a long, farewell
kiss, dramatically shot from a low angle; he then boldly stood on a ledge,
took one look back at his imaginary friends, and jumped from the roof |
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| Titanic (1997)
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In James Cameron's blockbuster disaster film, steerage passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) kissed aristocratic Rose Dewitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) a number of times, but most memorably - at the prow of the ship during a sunset as the view of the ship was transformed into its eerie underwater grave; he also kissed her as she floated in the icy cold North Atlantic waters after the ship's sinking, when they held hands and she promised to "never let go" before he drowned; in the final dream sequence, elderly Rose (Gloria Stuart) fantasized that the young couple kissed at the top of the elegant Grand Staircase surrounded by an applauding audience of all those who died on the ship - now they were together forever |    |
| The Mask of Zorro (1998)
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Nobleman Don Diego de la Vega's/Zorro's (Anthony Hopkins) beautiful daughter Elena (Catherina Zeta-Jones) is undressed by the slashing sword of Mexican thief Alejandro Murrieta's /Zorro's (Antonio Banderas); the view of her opened dress caused his sword blade to pop up - followed by his taking her for a sensuous kiss |
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| Meet Joe Black (1998)
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In this overly long romantic film, Joe Black or "Death" (Brad Pitt) was introduced by dying corporate tycoon Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) to his lovely daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) -- and they soon would fall in love, accompanied by a few protracted, intensely slow and tender kisses between the couple, first in the library of the home, and then a lingering love-making scene in which the two slowly undressed each other and stood naked kissing |   |
| The Wedding Singer (1998)
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The outcome of this mid-80s era romantic comedy about the impending marriage of a mis-matched couple was completely altered with a kiss; waitress Julia "Jules" Sullivan (Drew Barrymore) was engaged to marry egomaniacal and pompous Wall Street broker Glenn Guglia (Matthew Glave), that was -- until she was urged by her cousin Holly (Christine Taylor) to kiss wedding singer Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) (recently stood up at the altar by fiancee Linda (Angela Featherstone)) with a special church practice kiss -- as described by Julia: ("thin, partially opened, no tongue...well, maybe a little tongue, not porno tongue, church tongue") |
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| Cruel Intentions (1999)
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This film was a teenaged version of Dangerous Liaisons (1988), in which an amoral, bitchy, teen-vamp Manhattan step-sister Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Geller) demonstrated her manipulative intentions toward innocent Cecile Caldwell (Selma Blair) to destroy her reputation by teaching her how to slow- and wet-kiss in the park, with Cecile's assessment of their lesbian smooch: "That was cool!" |  |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, HK/US)
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In the scene of the tearjerking death of heroic warrior and martial arts master Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat), poisoned by arch-villain Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei) with the Purple Yin, he delivered his final, long overdue declaration of his secret love for fellow warrior Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) with his dying breath: ("I've already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you"), followed by numerous small, passionate kisses, and his final romantic farewell: "I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit" |     |
| Chicken Run (2000)
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"Hard-boiled egg" chicken
heroine Ginger (voice of Julie Sawalha) rewarded "Lone Free Ranger"
Rocky's (voice of Mel Gibson) timely return -- after he'd conned the chickens
of Mrs. Tweedy's (voice of Miranda Richardson) Chicken Farm into thinking
he could fly and could teach them how -- with a tremendous slap, angrily
telling him: "THAT'S for leaving!", then softly cooed, as she
drew him near to kiss: "And THIS is for coming back!" -- their
kiss was interrupted by the jolt of Mrs. Tweedy climbing up the Christmas
lights rope attached to the plane; later, after Mrs. Tweedy was disposed
of, Ginger tackled Rocky to the ground and they kissed off-screen, as
the rest of the chickens sighed: "Awwwwwwwwwwwwww..." |
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| Quills (2000)
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After one of the asylum's laundry girls, Madeleine (Kate Winslet) was attacked and killed by one of the inmates of the Charenton Asylum for the Insane, her body was discovered - and put on display with a very filmy cloth over it; the asylum's head priest Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix) pulled back the sheet and started to kiss and fondle her naked body - he appeared to want to make love to her, climbed on top of her -- and then was startled when her eyes opened; she kissed him and held him as they started to make love, until a pounding at the door awakened him from his dream |  |
| Amelie (2001)
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In this film's romantic climax, painfully-shy Amelie (Audrey Tautou) pulled quirky Nino Quincampoix (Matthieu Kassovitz) into her apartment - and after they stared awkwardly at each other for a few moments, she surprised him with a tender and slow kiss on each side of his face and a kiss above his left eye -- making it a child-like kissing game, she then pointed to her lips to instruct him to follow suit -- he replied in kind by kissing her in the same three locations; in the next scene, they were viewed in bed together where she held him as he slept close to her |  |
| Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)
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In this romantic comedy, always embarrassed and ever-single, thirtyish Londoner Bridget (Renee Zellweger) ran into a snowy street in just a T-shirt, running shoes and leopard-striped underwear to pursue friend Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) - he had just scanned through her diary and read that she thought he was boring and dull; she caught up to him in the street as he left a store and told him that her diary was foolish and that she loved him; during her ranting, he was silent, but then he replied: “I know” - he revealed a new diary from his coat pocket, bought for her to begin a new diary; they kissed as he wrapped her up in his coat |
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| Shrek (2001)
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Pretty Princess Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz) was imprisoned by Lord Farquaad (voice of John Lithgow) in a castle, and cursed with a spell that could only be broken by love's first kiss (in the film's plot twist - she was a human by day and an ogre by night); when lovable green ogre Shrek (voice of Mike Myers) rescued her, she objected: "I'm supposed to be rescued by my true love, not an ogre" - but then later revealed her ogre identity to Shrek as the sun set; after Farquaad was eaten by the Dragon (with Donkey (voice of Eddie Murphy) riding on her back, quipping: "Celebrity marriages! They never last, do they?"), Fiona and Shrek shared true love's first kiss, resulting in a glorious explosion of light, shattering the church's stained glass windows, and in a twist, Fiona remained in an ogre form permanently -- love's true form |
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| Spider-Man (2002)
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After being attacked by a gang in an alley and rescued, Mary-Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) was kissed by costumed super-hero Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) -- it was an upside-down kiss in the rain in which she peeled back the lower part of his mask after asking: "Do I get to say thank you this time?" |  |
| Cold Mountain (2003)
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In Cold Mountain, North Carolina, refined Southern woman Ada Monroe (Nicole Kidman) awkwardly presented Confederate volunteer soldier Inman (Jude Law) with parting gifts - a book and a tintype picture of herself, just as he left for the Civil War in a marching procession - and he responded by hungrily kissing and spinning her around as he embraced her and lifted her off her feet; she promised: "I'll be waitin' for you"; later, they remembered the day of his departure: (Inman: "The way you felt when I pulled you to me. That kiss - which I kissed again everyday of my walking." Ada: "Everyday of my waiting...") |
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The Cooler (2003)
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Chronically bad-luck casino cooler Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) fell in love (his luck changed also) in an oddball romance with mob-run Shangri-La casino cocktail waitress Natalie Belisario (Mario Bello) - they kissed and passionately made love together in a very realistic bedroom sex scene, often commented upon as an amazing mismatch of star attractiveness |  |
The Dreamers (2003, Fr./It./UK)
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In a memorable scene (nicknamed the "blood-on-the-face" scene) in director Bernardo Bertolucci's NC-17 rated film of sexual discovery and intimacy set in the summer in Paris in 1968, naturally-buxom, uninhibited but surprisingly-virginal Isabelle (Eva Green) made love to blonde American cinema student Matthew (Michael Pitt) on their apartment's kitchen floor, while her twin brother Theo (Louis Garrel) non-chalantly cooked eggs on the nearby gas stove; when they were finished, Theo touched Isabelle's thigh and brought up his fingers covered in blood - and Matthew also took some of the blood from her broken hymen/vagina and smeared it onto her face as he ardently kissed her |
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Gigli (2003)
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Real-life tabloid lovers (at the time) Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were star-crossed lovers without any sexual chemistry at all - Affleck portrayed chauvinistic mobster Larry Gigli and Lopez was featured as Ricki - a lesbian-leaning ("clam-licker") hitwoman who performed yoga in spandex shorts, and spouted some truly objectionable and vulgar dialogue, such as her notorious animalistic request for oral foreplay during a seduction scene as she gestured toward her crotch: "It's turkey time...gobble, gobble" |  |
Love Actually (2003)
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After her new husband's love-struck best friend Mark (Andrew Lincoln) showed loving, written placards at Juliet's (Keira Knightley) door expressing his love to her at Christmas time, to the sound of a boom box softly playing a Christmas carol, she ran into the street and kissed him out of compassion and affection; also the closing montage scene of arrivals one month later at London's Heathrow Airport with a split-screen ending |   |
Thirteen (2003)
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In this authentic R-rated coming-of-age film, teenaged co-scripter Nikki Reed starred as rebellious and persuasive teen Evie Zamora who led straight-A, honey-blonde Los Angeles 7th grader Tracy Louise Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) into a world of rebelliousness that included a dangerous mix of random sex with boys, lesbian experimentation with each other, drugs, shoplifting, body-piercing, self-mutilating abuse and more; in one scene, Evie provoked Tracy: "You don't know how to kiss, do you?" followed by Tracy's response and challenge: "Oh. No, no, no, no, no. Yes, I do. Me and Noelle practiced with Cruel Intentions like 50 times...So, you want me to prove it, lesbo?" after which Evie said "Hell, no!" although they then kissed each other; when Evie further taunted: "I barely even felt that," Tracy asserted: "Well, see if you f--king feel this one, then!" and they kissed even more passionately |
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Head in the Clouds (2004)
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Writer-director John Duigan's WWII melodrama - a romantic (and erotic) melodrama set in 1930s England, Paris, and Spain starred recent Oscar-winner Charlize Theron as young American heiress, photographer and hedonistic libertine Gilda Bessé who shared her Parisian apartment with idealistic Irish schoolteacher Guy (Charlize Theron's real-life love Stuart Townsend at the time) and limping Spanish model, ex-stripper, nursing student and refugee Mia (Penelope Cruz); the film included scenes of bisexuality in a hot two-girl tango sequence in a Parisian nightclub during Gilda's romance with Mia, and another scene in which Gilda and Mia shared a lesbian kiss during a threesome (in a scene when Gilda bedded each of her roommates) | 
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| The Notebook (2004)
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This old-fashioned, sentimental story of separation and return followed the unfolding, star-crossed relationship between 17 year-old Charleston South Carolina society girl Allie Hamilton/Calhoun (Rachel McAdams/Gena Rowlands) and 19 year-old local mill worker Noah Calhoun/Duke (Ryan Gosling/James Garner), from the 1940s to decades later when in a North Carolina nursing home, Noah was an elderly devoted nursing home resident/husband reading from a well-worn notebook (to recount their improbable romance and help stir up memories) to his Alzheimer's suffering wife; the film was filled with kisses, including a rain-soaked one after an idyllic afternoon rowboating through a spectacular duck-filled setting, as she learned for the first time that he had written her 365 love letters (one each day for a year) - although her domineering mother had intercepted them, and when Noah professed on the dock: ("It wasn't over. It still isn't over!"), and a second kiss and short remembrance of their love during a special candlelight dinner in the nursing home when they shared a dance together - and Allie requested: "Do you think I can be her tonight?" |   |
| Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Nervous ranch-hand Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) grew close while herding sheep in the summer on an isolated Wyoming mountain - Ennis rebuffed Jack's daring attempt to kiss him in a tent, but then returned sheepishly with his hat in hand and accepted their first kiss - before their first sexual experience together; much later during their reunion, the two hugged each other tightly -- Ennis, looking around, forcefully grabbed Jack and pushed him into a secluded spot where they kissed hungrily - while Ennis' wife Alma (Michelle Williams) accidentally spied on their passion; this kiss was voted "the best screen kiss of all time" by a 2007 online poll conducted by Europe's DVD rental company LOVEFiLM.com |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
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The romantic and sizzling interplay between co-stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (as assassins John and Jane Smith targeting each other) in this action/comedy consequently led to Pitt's divorce from Jennifer Aniston and his close partnering with Jolie; the film was nominated with MTV's Movie Award for Best Kiss, and lost to Brokeback Mountain's same-sex kiss, for the scene in which their passionate brawl led to violent love-making |    |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
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After Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny
Depp) returned after fleeing the Black Pearl when it was in danger
of being crushed by the fearsome giant sea squid named Kraken, Elizabeth
Swann (Keira Knightley) breathlessly spoke: "You came back. I always
knew you were a good man," as the crew abandoned ship, expecting
another attack from the beast - she then seemingly rewarded him for his
loyalty by giving him a long, protracted passionate kiss, as they leaned
against the mast of the Pearl -- when a click was unexpectedly
heard - she had used the kiss to distract Jack long enough to manacle
him to the ship; she confessed the beast's intentions: "It's after
you, not the ship. It's not us. This is the only way, don't you see?"
She added as she leaned in closer before pulling away: "I'm not
sorry." Jack, with a seemingly proud smile on his face and rapt attraction
to her, replied: "Pirate" - as if her betrayal claimed further
kinship with him |
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The Simpsons Movie (2007) Best Kiss of Their Lives (So Far) |
Nuclear reactor worker Homer Simpson (voice of Dan Castellaneta) saved the town of Springfield by throwing a doomsday bomb into an immense dome while driving a motorcycle with mischievous Bart (voice of Nancy Cartwright). After the explosion, he then reconciled with his wife Marge (voice of Julie Kavner), and as he drove out of town with her on his motorcycle, they shared a long, arcing kiss. Marge sighed: "Mmm. Best kiss of my life." Homer corrected her warmly: "Best kiss of your life so far!" as they drove into the sunset. | 
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What
makes a memorable screen kiss? Is it the passion, the circumstances,
the buildup, the dialogue, the unpredictability, the awkwardness, the
sexiness or eroticism, the cinematography, the unique quality...? Although
any list of the best, most romantic, and most indelible kisses through
film history is difficult to create, there are a number of kissing scenes
in movies that are unforgettable and deserve special mention. Most of
these scenes come from vintage, classic Hollywood films, rather than
more recent films, and even stretch back to the scandalous The Kiss
(1896)! 
are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 