ROMANCE FILMS

Selection of Greatest Romances:

See AFI's selections for 100 Greatest Love Stories
at 100 Years...100 Passions (marked with asterisk and ranking below)
Greatest Classic Romantic Films:
Camille (1915) (also remade in 1917, 1921, 1927)
Way Down East (1920) * (# 71)
The Sheik (1921) * (# 80)
Son of The Sheik (1926)
Flesh and the Devil (1927)
Sunrise (1927) * (# 63)
Morocco (1930) * (# 83)
City Lights (1931) * (# 10)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Red Dust (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
King Kong (1933) * (# 24)
Queen Christina (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934) * (# 38)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Alice Adams (1935)
Anna Karenina (1935) * (# 42)
Camille (1936) * (# 33)
Dodsworth (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Swing Time (1936) * (# 30)
The Awful Truth (1937) * (# 77)
Maytime (1937)
Algiers (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) * (# 51)
Jezebel (1938) * (# 79)
Three Comrades (1938)
Dark Victory (1939) * (# 32)
Gone with the Wind (1939) * (# 2)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) * (# 98)
Love Affair (1939) (remade as An Affair to Remember (1957)*)
Ninotchka (1939) * (# 40)
Wuthering Heights (1939) * (# 15)
All This and Heaven Too (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940) * (# 44)
Rebecca (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) * (# 28)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941) * (# 26)
Meet John Doe (1941)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Casablanca (1942) * (# 1)
Now, Voyager (1942) * (# 23)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Random Harvest (1942) * (# 36)
Woman of the Year (1942) * (# 74)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
The More the Merrier (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944) * (# 84)
Jane Eyre (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944) * (# 60)
The Clock (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Brief Encounter (1946)
Gilda (1946)
Humoresque (1946)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946) * (# 8)
Notorious (1946) * (# 86)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) * (# 49)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) * (# 73)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Heiress (1949)
Father of the Bride (1950)
The African Queen (1951) * (# 14)
An American in Paris (1951) * (# 39)
A Place In The Sun (1951) * (# 53)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) * (# 67)
Pat and Mike (1952)
The Quiet Man (1952) * (# 76)
Singin' In The Rain (1952) * (# 16)
From Here to Eternity (1953) * (# 20)
Niagara (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953) * (# 4)
Sabrina (1954) * (# 54)
A Star is Born (1954) * (# 43)
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Lady and the Tramp (1955) * (# 95)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) * (# 85)
Marty (1955) * (# 64)
Picnic (1955) * (# 59)
Summertime (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955) * (# 46)
The King and I (1956) * (# 31)
An Affair to Remember (1957) * (# 5)
Gigi (1958) * (# 35)
Vertigo (1958) * (# 18)
South Pacific (1958)
Pillow Talk (1959) * (# 99)
Porgy and Bess (1959) * (# 92)

Other Recent Greatest Romantic Films:
The Apartment (1960) * (# 62)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) * (# 61)
Splendor in the Grass (1961) * (# 47)
West Side Story (1961) * (# 3)
Jules and Jim (1962, Fr.)
Lolita (1962)
Charade (1963)
My Fair Lady (1964) * (# 12)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Fr.)
Doctor Zhivago (1965) * (# 7)
The Sound of Music (1965) * (# 27)
A Man and a Woman (1966, Fr.)
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) * (# 89)
Barefoot in the Park (1967) * (# 96)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) * (# 65)
The Graduate (1967) * (# 52)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) * (# 58)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Two For the Road (1967) * (# 57)
Funny Girl (1968) * (# 41)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Love Story (1970) * (# 9)
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Harold and Maude (1971) * (# 69)
Last Tango in Paris (1972) * (# 48)
What's Up, Doc? (1972) * (# 68)
The Way We Were (1973) * (# 6)
Annie Hall (1977) * (# 11)
The Goodbye Girl (1977) * (# 81)
Coming Home (1978) * (# 78)
Grease (1978) * (# 97)
A Little Romance (1979)
Manhattan (1979) * (# 66)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Witness (1980)
Body Heat (1981) * (# 94)
On Golden Pond (1981) * (# 22)
Reds (1981) * (# 55)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) * (# 29)
Baby, It's You (1983)
Flashdance (1983)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
Lady Jane (1985)
My Beautiful Launderette (1985)
Out of Africa (1985) * (# 13)
A Room with a View (1985)
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Witness (1985) * (# 82)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Sid & Nancy (1986)
Something Wild (1986)
Dirty Dancing (1987) * (# 93)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Moonstruck (1987) * (# 17)
The Princess Bride (1987) * (# 88)
Roxanne (1987) * (# 72)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) * (# 87)
Working Girl (1988) * (# 91)
Cousins (1989)
Say Anything... (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) * (# 25)
Ghost (1990) * (# 19)
Pretty Woman (1990) * (# 21)
White Palace (1990)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1991) * (# 34)
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991)
The Bodyguard (1992)
The Crying Game (1992)
The Cutting Edge (1992)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Singles (1992)
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Like Water for Chocolate (1993)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Shadowlands (1993)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) * (# 45)
Untamed Heart (1993)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Shadowlands (1994)
The American President (1995) * (# 75)
Before Sunrise (1995)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995) * (# 90)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1995) * (# 70)
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Beautiful Thing (1996)
The English Patient (1996) * (# 56)
Jerry Maguire (1996) * (# 100)
Jude (1996)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Mrs. Brown (1997)
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Titanic (1997) * (# 37)
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Out of Sight (1998)
Rushmore (1998)
Shakespeare in Love (1998) * (# 50)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Notting Hill (1999)
Random Hearts (1999)
Love and Basketball (2000)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Kate and Leopold (2001)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

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