Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List

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Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List
Wed Jun 12, 7:15 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The American Film Institute ( news - web sites)'s list of top 100 U.S. screen romances:

1. "Casablanca," 1942

2. "Gone With the Wind," 1939

3. "West Side Story," 1961

4. "Roman Holiday," 1953

5. "An Affair to Remember," 1957

6. "The Way We Were, 1973

7. "Doctor Zhivago," 1965

8. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946

9. "Love Story," 1970

10. "City Lights," 1931

11. "Annie Hall," 1977

12. "My Fair Lady," 1964

13. "Out of Africa," 1985

14. "The African Queen," 1951

15. "Wuthering Heights," 1939

16. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952

17. "Moonstruck," 1987

18. "Vertigo," 1958

19. "Ghost," 1990

20. "From Here to Eternity," 1953

21. "Pretty Woman," 1990

22. "On Golden Pond," 1981

23. "Now, Voyager, 1942

24. "King Kong," 1933

25. "When Harry Met Sally...," 1989

26. "The Lady Eve," 1941

27. "The Sound of Music," 1965

28. "The Shop Around the Corner," 1940

29. "An Officer and a Gentleman," 1982

30. "Swing Time," 1936

31. "The King and I," 1956

32. "Dark Victory," 1939

33. "Camille," 1937

34. "Beauty and the Beast," 1991

35. "Gigi," 1958

36. "Random Harvest," 1942

37. "Titanic," 1997

38. "It Happened One Night," 1934

39. "An American in Paris," 1951

40. "Ninotchka," 1939

41. "Funny Girl," 1968

42. "Anna Karenina," 1935

43. "A Star Is Born," 1954

44. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940

45. "Sleepless in Seattle," 1993

46. "To Catch a Thief," 1955

47. "Splendor in the Grass," 1961

48. "Last Tango in Paris," 1972

49. "The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946

50. "Shakespeare in Love," 1998

51. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938

52. "The Graduate," 1967

53. "A Place in the Sun," 1951

54. "Sabrina," 1954

55. "Reds," 1981

56. "The English Patient," 1996

57. "Two for the Road," 1967

58. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967

59. "Picnic," 1955

60. "To Have and Have Not," 1944

61. "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1961

62. "The Apartment," 1960

63. "Sunrise," 1927

64. "Marty," 1955

65. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967

66. "Manhattan," 1979

67. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951

68. "What's Up, Doc?," 1972

69. "Harold and Maude," 1971

70. "Sense and Sensibility," 1995

71. "Way Down East," 1920

72. "Roxanne," 1987

73. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," 1947

74. "Woman of the Year," 1942

75. "The American President," 1995

76. "The Quiet Man," 1952

77. "The Awful Truth," 1937

78. "Coming Home," 1978

79. "Jezebel," 1939

80. "The Sheik," 1921

81. "The Goodbye Girl," 1977

82. "Witness," 1985

83. "Morocco," 1930

84. "Double Indemnity," 1944

85. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," 1955

86. "Notorious," 1946

87. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," 1988

88. "The Princess Bride," 1987

89. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," 1966

90. "The Bridges of Madison County," 1995

91. "Working Girl," 1988

92. "Porgy and Bess," 1959

93. "Dirty Dancing," 1987

94. "Body Heat," 1981

95. "Lady and the Tramp," 1955

96. "Barefoot in the Park," 1967

97. "Grease," 1978

98. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," 1939

99. "Pillow Talk," 1959

100. "Jerry Maguire," 1996

[redhead]

"I remember "The Toxic Avenger" bringing tears to my eays. Hollywood should have loved that film. Blind woman and Mutant fall in love."

How about "Swamp Thing?"

[Carolina]

One of my favorite Jane Austen adaptations was not made for the big screen, but aired on Masterpiece Theatre. It was "Persuasion" and the only actor I remember from it was Ciaran Hinds who played the sea captain (he's presently playing the Russian premier in "Sum of all Fears"). If you can find it on video or DVD at the local library, check it out!! It was so wonderfully romantic about love lost and regained.

Don't forget THE LETTER!!!

Whoa! Be still my heart. While she's reading the letter, you hear his voice-over in that husky, whispery voice.

You pierce my soul...

[redhead]

"What about Long Duck Dong and his romance with the large woman in 16 candles?"

ROTFLMAO!!! Who could forget THAT???

[Dan Day]

"I remember "The Toxic Avenger" bringing tears to my eays. Hollywood should have loved that film. Blind woman and Mutant fall in love."

How about "Swamp Thing?"

"Tromeo and Juliet"

[Dan Day]

24. "King Kong," 1933

Oooookay...

[Right_Wing_Mole_In_Seattle]

They also always leave out the A&E production of "Pride and Prejudice,"

I thought that too! My only guess is that it is considered a TV series instead of a film.

[Corporate Law]

Hitchcock definitely knew how to make a thriller sexy. Another one would be Notorious (I think it is on the list).

[MotleyGirl70]

Ah yes 80' romance. What about Long Duck Dong and his romance with the large woman in 16 candles

LOL. Ah "The Donger". That's classic 80's.

Or how about Better Off Dead with John Cusak's character playing kissy face on the ski slope with that french girl.

Now THAT'S an Oscar winning performance.

The paperboy chasing him down the ski hill on his bike:

"I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!!!!!!"

"I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!!!!!!!"

[weegee]

Producer Dino De Laurentis is the king of the comic book film:

Barbarella, Diabolik, and Flash Gordon.

[MotleyGirl70]

See #128

Farmer Ted...nice call Law.

[Iwentsouth]

And Then?

[Dan Day]

Producer Dino De Laurentis is the king of the comic book film:
Barbarella, Diabolik, and Flash Gordon.

bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum FLASH!! AA-AAAH!!

[Armedanddangerous]

Only the ones with Christy Canyon in them!

[FlJoePa]

Where's A Long Hot Summer? I thought Newman and Woodward steamed up the screen when she finally came around.

Jerry Maguire? Huh?

[Corporate Law]

Thanks! And a nice call to you on Better Off Dead.

[foreshadowed at waco]

Also love any of the English period films, especially those based on Jane Austen novels.

My favorite is 'Pride and Prejudice' with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.

[ctdonath2]

I'll second "Shrek".

[MHT]

There are even Persuasion websites! One woman in my book group commented that all the classics have unbelievable situations, dysfunctional families, messed-up people, etc. and I told her that, by contrast, Persuasion is used for teen-ages when discussing the building blocks of character. This is one movie that should not be left out--it is stunning in every way.

I am jealous only that I have seen it so many times and cannot see it for the "first time" again!

[MHT]

Although the same lines as those English flicks, I have just checked out the Catherine Cookson films from the library. They are considered historical romance but it seems that many have alot more history than romance. At any rate, there are about 20 and all are wonderful, with some being more wonderful. THE SECRET is great, as is THE WINGLESS BIRD, THE MOTH, THE DWELLING PLACE, and THE CINDER PATH. Catherine Cookson was quite a storyteller and just died recently around age 100. She had also written about that many stories.

Also, another fabulous romance was FALLING FOR A DANCER. The Brits really do romance so much better than the Yanks.

[Palmetto]

Well you'll love it, once you've seen it!!

Anybody want a peanut?