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Best and Most Memorable Part 9 |
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Best and Most Memorable Part 9 |
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The films that are marked with a yellow star |
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Description
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| The Princess Bride (1987)
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The Grandfather (Peter Falk) introduced an ultimate kiss between Buttercup/Princess Bride (Robin Wright Penn) and Wesley (Cary Elwes) to the Kid: "Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind" |   |
| Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
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Lone outsider and high school senior Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz) had tomboy friend Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) - who was secretly in love with him - help him to learn how to kiss, since he was smitten with and had a crush on the unattainable and pretty Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), and had just been offered a date | 
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Big (1988)
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Young teen Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) - in a 35 year old's body - awkwardly fell in love with yuppie toy executive Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins) - who earlier had asked to spend the night for a 'sleep-over' followed by Josh's guileless reply about sleeping on the top bunk: "Well, OK, but I get to be on top"; later, they shared a tender, simple and innocent scene in which he gently touched her breast through her bra before offering her a sweet kiss | 
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| Rain Man (1988)
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In a Las Vegas casino elevator that she had stopped, Susanna (Valeria Golina) instructed idiot savant autistic Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) how to kiss - she told him to slightly open his lips, and then gave him a slow kiss - with his eyes shut; his reaction when asked how it was: "Wet!" |  |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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After 'toon Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer), Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) and his girl Dolores (Joanna Cassidy) had escaped the clutches of the evil Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd), Eddie and Dolores shared an intimate moment while hiding out in a movie theater as cartoon shorts and news reports played on the screen; Eddie apologized for embroiling her in danger: (Eddie: "Dolores, you oughta find yourself a good man" Dolores: "But I already have a good man"); when they leaned in to kiss, they were interrupted by sentimental Roger - whose pupils turned into small red hearts and ears became heart-shaped - he leaned expectantly over the seat in front of them, and romantically swooned: "P-p-p-please. Don't mind me." After Roger had broken the romantic spell, Dolores turned business-like: "You'd better get going, Eddie" |   |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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After Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) had been defeated and Toontown saved, Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer) offered to shake hands with Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), who was immediately shocked by Roger's prank joy buzzer. Eddie was unamused and glowersed menacingly. Roger gulped nervously: "Don't tell me you lost your sense of humor already?" Valiant grabbed him by the neck and replied: "Does this answer your question?" - and gave him a big wet, noisy kiss (after being repulsed earlier in the film by Roger's attempt to give him one), to the cheers of the denizens of Toontown, who began singing Smile, Darn Ya, Smile |  |
| Cinema Paradiso (1989)
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This film had the euphoric scene of middle-aged Italian film director Salvatore Di Vitto (Jacques Perrin) returning to his childhood, small-town Sicilian home after 30 years to revisit the condemned Paradiso theatre, where he screened one last reel left by projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) - composed of all the excised and censored kisses (presented in an amorous montage - two stills shown to the right) that the village priest Father Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste) had removed from dozens of films shown there |   |
| Say Anything... (1989)
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The three second kiss between beautiful straight-A student Diane (Ione Skye) and Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) in the pouring rain was outranked by the more famous scene of Lloyd serenading Diane by holding aloft his boom-box that was playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes", and the additional scene of them kissing and passionately making out in a steamed-up parked car |  |
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Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) made a race through Manhattan toward a formal party where Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) was located - he found her painfully lonely after ditching her date; he professed his long-last love for her: "...And it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." Although she felt manipulated, she also melted: "You see. That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you, and I hate you, Harry. I really hate you. I hate you." -- they kissed and kissed |   |
| Ghost (1990)
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During a sensuous scene at a hypnotically-spinning pottery wheel - molding, forming and sculpting a phallic-shaped clay object to the tune of "Unchained Melody," Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) kissed his lover Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) as he was seated behind her -- he assisted her in reshaping a collapsed piece of pottery by putting his hands together with hers; and in the finale, recently-murdered ghost-spirit Sam bid grieving Molly goodbye before he passed on into The Light |   |
| Pretty Woman (1990)
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Julia Roberts (as a Hollywood hooker named Vivian) finally realized her love for rich client Edward Lewis (Richard Gere); she broke her own golden rule told to him earlier in the film -- that she never kissed customers on the lips because that was too personal or emotionally-involving; but she lovingly blew a kiss to a sleeping Edward and placed it on his lips, since she was unsure of her growing attachment - and realized the possibility that he would be leaving in a few days |
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| Total Recall (1990)
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In the conclusion of the mind-bending science-fiction action film, Martian settler Melina (Rachel Ticotin) gazed at the breathtaking vista: "I can't believe it. It's like a dream," to which secret agent (?) Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) responded: "I just had a terrible thought. What if this IS a dream?" Melina replied invitingly: "Well then, kiss me quick before you wake up!" As they passionately kissed, the screen faded to a brilliant white, hinting with previous hidden clues that the entire film was indeed a fantasy memory implanted by Rekall, as promised by the "Blue Skies on Mars" dream vacation - Quaid was indeed waking up (or had Quaid had been lobotomized by a glitch in the programming?) |  |
Bugsy (1991)
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The scene of larger-than-life, East Coast 40s gangster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel's (Warren Beatty) first kiss with sassy, slinky, and leggy B-movie starlet Virginia "Flamingo" Hill (Annette Bening) - silhouetted in the light behind the screen of his own projected screen-acting test when she told him: "Do you always talk this much before you do it?" with his snappy reply: "I only talk this much before I kill someone" | 
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Delicatessen (1991, Fr.)
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The outrageous scene at film's end in which newly-hired handyman and circus clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) and near-sighted cello-playing girlfriend Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac) purposely flooded a bathroom to escape her murderous cannibalistic butcher-landlord father Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) - resulting in a torrent of water filling the entire tenement building and cleansing the filth; before the water was released, however, it was feared that the couple would drown together, as they shared their first kiss - underwater | 
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Frankie & Johnny (1991)
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A completely romantic kiss at long last -- revealingly in front of the back of a floral warehouse delivery truck filled to bursting with vividly colorful flowers (the door is lifted open as their lips touch), between ex-con Apollo Restaurant short-order cook Johnny (Al Pacino) and pretty blonde waitress Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) in NYC | 
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| L.A. Story (1991)
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There were many kisses in this magical film about a fantasy Los Angeles between wacky weatherman Harris K. Telemacher (Steve Martin) and Sara McDowel (then-wife Victoria Tennant); in one scene, their car rolled on its own onto the highway, and a sentient traffic sign urged Harris to kiss her twice: ("Kiss her, you fool!"); in another scene after Harris and Sara left a stodgy dinner, he grabbed her and removed her reluctance to kiss him by telling her: "Let your mind go, and your body will follow" - followed by a fantasy in which the two of them were transformed into young children as they shared an innocent peck on the lips; and in the finale, Harris, by sheer force of will, summoned a thunderstorm to prevent Sara from returning back to England on a plane -- they shared a final passionate kiss as Harris narrated: "Forget for this moment the smog and the cars and the restaurant and the skating and remember only this. A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true" |    |
| My Girl (1991)
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In one sweet, innocent scene, Thomas J. Sennett (Macauley Culkin) and Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) discussed the facts of life, before coming around to their first kiss: (Vada: "Have you ever kissed before?" Thomas: "No"), when Vada impulsively placed a peck on his lips, causing him to react with a gasp of surprise; the kiss was made poignant later in the film when Thomas died suddenly from a bee sting, and Vada dealt with the loss and was consoled by her father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) |  |
Bitter Moon (1992)
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Roman Polanski's ultra-kinky, voyeuristic drama/thriller set on a Mediterranean ocean liner bound for Istanbul featured a sexy dance and lesbian kiss during a shipboard party between sultry exhibitionist Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner, the director's own 27 year-old wife) and the previously-repressed and strait-laced Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas), uptight Nigel's (Hugh Grant) wife of seven years, as Mimi's wheelchair-bound, sexually-deviant husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) commented to Nigel: "Oh, stop sulking, man. You ought to be glad they're getting it on so well" |
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Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
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Nerdy and shy biochemist Paul Matthews (Tate Donovan) acquired "Love Potion No. 8" from Gypsy fortune-teller Madame Ruth (Anne Bancroft) so he could get lucky with geeky co-lab worker and lonely psycho-biologist Diane Farrow (Sandra Bullock); however, complications arose when a rival used it on her, so he had to use a stronger dose of "Love Potion No. 9" - he stole a kiss from Diane who was about to be married to the rival -- and then shortly afterwards, the potion really kicked in for the couple |
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| Army of Darkness (1993)
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After time-traveler Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) had returned to S-Mart and finished relating his incredible tale about his adventures in Medieval England to a bored co-worker (Ted Raimi), a sexy S-Mart worker (Angela Featherstone) told him that she enjoyed his story; suddenly, a She-Demon (Patricia Tallman) attacked Ash ("I'll swallow your soul!"), and he dispatched her with a shotgun ("Come get some!"); after the She-Demon was killed and the girl embraced him, Ash mused in voiceover: "Sure, I could have stayed in the past. I could have even been king. But in my own way, I am king." He then told the girl: "Hail to the king, baby!" and kissed her passionately |  |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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In this film's sweet,
romantic finale, Jack Skellington (voices of Chris Sarandon and Danny
Elfman) spied patchwork girl Sally (voice of Catherine O'Hara) stealing
away to pluck flower petals on top of the curlicue hill - he approached
her, and sang while clutching his breast: "My dearest friend, if
you don't mind. I'd like to join you by your side... Where we can gaze
into the stars..." She joined in with him in singing: "And sit
together, now and forever, for it is plain as anyone can see: we're simply
meant to be." They embraced in the light of a full moon and kissed,
as Jack's pet dog Zero flew into the sky to become a sparkling star |
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| Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
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In the scene in the rain after a 'fourth' marriage ceremony (aborted) and a funeral, timid, upper-class, commitment-phobic Charles (Hugh Grant) finally professed his real love for American girl Carrie (Andie MacDowell), and she confessed: "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed"; he revealed: "The truth of it is, I've loved you from the first second I met you" - followed by his awkward request to 'not be married' to her for the rest of his life, confirmed by her "I do", a kiss, and a pan up to lightning sparking in the cloudy sky |  |
Casino (1995)
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In 2003, readers of the American magazine Film voted the love scene on a sofa between sexy prostitute/hustler Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone) and violent mob hit-man/enforcer Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) as the 'worst' ever -- the second 'worst' in the poll was the love scene between Sean Connery and 40 years-younger Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment (1999), followed by the love dalliances between Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango In Paris (1972) |  |
Created in 1996-2008 © by Tim Dirks. All rights reserved.
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 
The Most Passionate and Pure Kiss