Best and Most Memorable
Film Kisses of All Time
in Cinematic History
Part 24
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Best and Most Memorable Part 24 |
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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Spider-Man (2002)
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After being attacked by a gang in an alley and threatened with rape, wet-T-shirt wearing Mary-Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) was rescued by costumed super-hero Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) -- she rewarded him with a kiss in the rain; he dropped down and hung in front of her before the kiss, when she told him: "You have a knack for saving my life. I think I have a superhero stalker"; she also complimented him: "You are amazing!...Do I get to say thank you this time?" -- and then to get ready to kiss him, she peeled back the lower part of his mask from his chin and mouth to expose his unmasked warm lips - and then erotically kissed him deeply and sincerely |
 
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Cold Mountain (2003)
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In Cold Mountain, North Carolina, prim and refined, bonnet-wearing Southern woman Ada Monroe (Nicole Kidman) awkwardly presented Confederate volunteer soldier Inman (Jude Law) with parting gifts just as he left for the Civil War in a marching procession - she gave him a book and a tintype picture of herself ("I'm not smiling in it. I don't know how to do that. Hold a smile"); as she hurriedly and nervously walked by on the porch to leave, he responded by hungrily kissing and spinning her around as he embraced her and lifted her off her feet; they were interrupted when other young soldiers ran by on the porch, joking: "He'll be back in a month" and "Kiss her for me"; he hurriedly dressed to join the parade of soldiers leaving town, and tipped his hat as he left, as she promised: "I'll be waitin' for you"; later, they remembered the day of his departure for war: (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 (dubbed "Bennifer") 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; when she kissed him and squeezed his nipple, he flinched and she told him: "I thought you wanted to be my bitch" - he responded: "This is so f--ked up", but he kept on kissing her; she leaned back, rocking her leg back and forth and notoriously and animalistically requested oral foreplay during the seduction scene, as she gestured toward her crotch with her legs spread: "It's turkey time...Gobble, gobble" - to his amazement; she further clarified: "Now, you talk the talk. You know I'm expecting you to walk the walk. Come on. Show me what I've been missing my whole life. Lay some of that sweet 'heterolingus' on me"; when he tried to explain how a man was at a disadvantage with a woman ("...actually a woman might know more... about what feels better to another woman. She's a woman herself"), she stopped him: "Shut up and get over here"; they kissed further and made love in an extended love scene, after which he told her: "God bless you, penis" and she concurred with him about how all relationships had a bull and a cow - after which he 'moooed' |
   
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Lost in Translation (2003)
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In this romantic film's enigmatic ending set on a busy Tokyo street, there's a muffled whisper in her ear during an embrace between two individuals who found a refuge with each other during their short acquaintance: middle-aged, disconnected movie star Bob Harris (Bill Murray), in Japan to film a Suntory Whiskey commercial, and bored newlywed Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson); he told her: "I have to be leaving, but I won't let that come between us. OK?"; they then shared a long poignant kiss before he departed |
   
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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, in the closing montage scene of arrivals one month later at London's Heathrow Airport, the split-screen ending featured numerous kisses and greetings |
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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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Facing Windows (2004, It.) (La Finestra di fronte, 2003)
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In this heart-tugging Italian tale from Istanbul-born director Ferzan Ozpetek, dissatisfied, love-struck, 29 year-old Rome housewife Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) fell into illicit love with handsome, black-rimmed glasses-wearing bachelor neighbor Lorenzo (Raoul Bova) who lived across the block from her - seen in a facing window every night from her kitchen window ("Day after day I watched you. You became an obsession for me"); her fantasy-longings for a forbidden affair were closely paralleled to the doomed affair between gay Jewish lovers in 1943 Europe, recounted by amnesiac Holocaust survivor houseguest Davide Veroli (Massimo Girotti) for his lost lover Simone (Ivan Bacchi); later, it was revealed that they both had been lusting after each other, and Davide's advice stirred her emotions: "Don't be content to merely survive. You must demand to live in a better world, not just dream about it"; after flirtations, she shared a very passionate kiss in the park with Lorenzo; by film's end, however - with an intense close-up of Giovanna's eyes during the credits, she had given up her fantasy of finding love elsewhere |  
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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 (during its civil war) 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 threesome scene (when Gilda bedded each of her roommates) in which Gilda and Mia consoled each other, and shared a lesbian kiss while wearing silk negligees; the kissing scene ended when Gilda bit Mia's lip and drew blood |  
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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 the most memorable one: a rain-soaked kiss 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; Noah professed on the dock: "It wasn't over. It still isn't over!" and they passionately embraced and kissed Later as an elderly couple, they shared a second kiss and short remembrance of their love during a special candlelight dinner in the nursing home when they danced together - and Allie requested: "Do you think I can be her tonight?" |
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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. 