Best and Most Memorable
Film Kisses of All Time
in Cinematic History
Part 22
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Best and Most Memorable Part 22 |
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)! Other discussions of notable romantic or sexual scenes (with more examples of great kissing scenes) may be found elsewhere in this site: Romance Films Genre, or Erotic/Sexual Films Genre, or the History of Sex in Cinema.  are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100 Greatest Films |
| (in chronological order by film title) Introduction | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 |
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Entrapment (1999)
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Many reviewers and critics viewed the many kisses in this techno-thriller escapist caper flick as predatory between legendary coming-out-of-retirement master thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal (69 year-old Sean Connery) and sexy undercover insurance investigator agent Virginia "Gin" Baker (30 year-old Catherine Zeta-Jones), who were engaged in a very uneasy partnership; there was almost a forty year age difference between the two stars; she schemed to 'entrap' him into performing a few large heists, including a multi-billion dollar New Year's Eve Millennium heist at the tall Patronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; at one pont in the film, when they were about to kiss, he reminded her: "Young lady. You do realize I'm old enough to be your grandfather?", to which she replied with a correction: "My father"; by the film's end, she joined him for another kiss on the train platform and they disappeared together |
   
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
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The late Stanley Kubrick's last movie about marriage and sexual jealousy featured the highly sensationalized make-out scene before a dressing mirror table in the bedroom of married couple Dr. William Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (real-life wife at the time Nicole Kidman), accompanied by Chris Isaak’s "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing"; Alice was seen naked from behind, but nude from the frontal view in the mirror; Bill approached from behind, looked at her, then himself in the reflection -- then began passionately kissing Alice on her neck, touched her breast, and then kissed her (as she took off her glasses and watched their reflection), before the brief scene faded to black; also, during the notorious, often-edited orgy sequence as the masked participants stood in a circle, a kiss was passed around |
 
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
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In this comic parody of The Star Trek series in its tale of the stars of a cancelled sci-fi TV series that last aired in 1982, Fred Kwan (Tony Shalhoub) and female Thermian alien Laliari (Missi Pyle) (in human form) passionately made out - causing her to produce tentacles that caressed and embraced him; Guy Fleegman (Sam Rockwell) told them to "get a room" as they fell to the floor (and continued love-making off-screen), and he responded to what they were doing - beyond kissing: "Oh, that's not right!" |
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Never Been Kissed (1999)
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Drew Barrymore starred in this romantic comedy 'chick flick' as 25 year-old undercover Chicago Sun-Times copy editor Josie Geller, who was reporting on high-school life at her old school South Glen South High School (where she was formerly a geek) for a newspaper feature article. During her investigative reporting, she fell in love with her English teacher, Mr. Sam Coulson (Michael Vartan) who couldn't act upon his affection for his underaged student and was trampled in the process. In the film's conclusion, Sam read the revised article she had written in which she said she would stand on the pitcher's mound (for five minutes, registered on the countdown clock) in front of the assembled crowd at the start of the State Championship baseball game in Municipal Stadium, prior to the first pitch. If a "certain teacher" accepted her apology, she would kiss him - her "first real kiss." After the clock countdown ended with Josie despondently left standing there alone, Sam finally appeared and approached the mound to passionately kiss her (to the tune of the Beach Boys singing "Don't Worry Baby"), and then apologized for being late. Their smooch caused a kissing frenzy among various couples in the stands. |
   
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Notting Hill (1999)
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This popular romantic comedy set in London was known for its star's famous line: "After all... I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" - the film's theme; Julia Roberts starred as American (Beverly Hills) movie superstar Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as Notting Hill's recently-divorced travel bookshop owner William Thacker; after their chance meeting in his bookstore and later on the street when he spilled orange juice all over her, she cleaned up in his apartment; and as she left (the second time after returning to retrieve her shopping bag), she abruptly kissed him in the small corridor before the door; William paused, and then apologized for his earlier first impressions comment about meeting her when she left the first time: ( "I'm very sorry about the 'Surreal but nice' comment. Disaster"); Anna replied about how his unusual offer of food (apricots soaked in honey) from his refrigerator was even worse: ("That's OK, I thought the apricot and honey thing was the real low point"); while walking around Notting Hill later, they both climbed a five-foot fence and William, after struggling to clamber over the fence into a garden, said: "Now what in the world in this garden could make that ordeal worthwhile?" Anna leaned over and kissed him - their second, more romantic kiss. William paused and then said: "Nice garden." |  
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The Sex Monster (1999)
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In this lightweight, teasing sex comedy farce, businessman Marty Barnes' (director/star Mike Binder) wife Laura Barnes (Mariel Hemingway) was encouraged to become involved in a threesome, not realizing that his introduction into experimental sex for her would lead to much greater Sapphic desire, making her an insatiable sex monster; she found that she wanted to do more than kiss Diva (Missy Crider) after their lip-locking session in a kitchen; to excuse her behavior to her husband, she rationalized her bedding of Diva: "This was for you. We are warming up for you" - although their later threesome essentially ignored him |
 
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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Director Tim Burton's stylized and Gothic R-rated version of the classic Washington Irving tale was set in late 18th century, post-colonial New York; the dazzling, visually-stunning film told about an awkward schoolteacher Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) who investigated a number of beheadings by a ruthless Hessian mercenary -- the Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken); in the climactic scene, wicked Lady Van Tassel (Miranda Richardson), the stepmother of pretty Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), Crane's bewitched love interest, insanely explained how she had offered her soul to Satan in return for raising the Hessian from the grave for vengeance; the Horseman - now re-headed after returning his skull to his neck and becoming flesh and blood again in an amazing transformation - took the insane Lady Van Tassel on horseback and kissed her; the Horseman's jagged-toothed face hungrily kissed her - when he withdrew, her lips were smeared with blood; he then dove (horse and all) into the twisted Tree of the Dead in the Western Woods, his grave and entry point to the beyond, where they disappeared |
 
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
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In this romantic comedy - a cross between Cocktail (1988) and Showgirls (1995), aspiring, blonde-haired 21 year-old songwriter/singer Violet "Jersey" Sanford (Piper Perabo) in NYC found she was desperate and broke and was forced to work as a bump-and-grind barmaid at a hot bar called Coyote Ugly; in the PG-13 film's major sex scene, while explaining what nervous stagefright felt like, Violet seduced charming young Australian chef Kevin O'Donnell (Adam Garcia) amidst full-sized stand-up cardboard cut-outs of famous celebrities (Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, etc.), by trying to make him nervous ("the only way I can show you is to make you really nervous"); she playfully and slowly stripped down while talking about her racing heart and shaking body and how "everything gets a big cloudy"; she also described how she sometimes lost control: "it's been known to last all night...it's excruciating!"; she then proceeded to kiss him, wearing only her bluish-purple tanktop and thong panties as she removed his shirt, and before long was making love to him with more sensuous kisses and nakedness (in the extended unrated version) |
  
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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" |    
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Chicken Run (2000) |
"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 |  
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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 | 
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Introduction: 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. 