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

[flying Elvis]

What about the Dirty Debuatantes series?

[MHT]

The "bra" scene with Janet Leigh and her handsome lover in Psycho is almost as memorable as the murder scene--"less" really was "more" in the good old days. The best fantasies aren't necessarily based on the most photographed realities.

[Wyatt's Torch]

"No more hanky panky. Donger need food!"

Man, that's beautiful writing....

[Wyatt's Torch]

"With his 'international language of love.' He can't keep his testicles off of me."

"Ummm, don't you mean tenticles?"

Pure romance....;-)

"Uhhh, sorry your Mom blew up Ricky..."

Great movie.

[MHT]

Another movie I watch every year is COME TO THE STABLE, which has a romantic undertone but it more about falling in love with a dream than a person.

One of my favorite stories of redemption, however, is PULP FICTION. Like END OF THE AFFAIR, it is shot out of sequence but when you put the segments in order, you realize that the bad things have happened to bad people and the main character has abandoned his old ways to "sin no more". My husband saw only the violence but, to me, it was more like a tale of pilgrim's progress.

[eleni121]

No Splendor in the Grass??

This list is a big yawn made up by a bunch of moviecrats.

[codebreaker]

I've always thought they could have made a prequel or sequal, but then Chris Reeve had his accident..

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I saw one just last week that I thought was a real good, good feeling, nice, movie for being "new". "keeping the faith" with Ben Stiller and Edward Norton, and that girl that plays Dharma.

Becky

[rintense]

"Man, that's a damn shame, people throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."

ROFLMAO! I love that movie!

[Contra]

What, no "gay" love stories on the list? What about that movie out not that long ago that all the gays were raving about, where the man had a thing for a 15 year old boy? Maybe there should be a top 100 list of all-time gay love stories (of course 90% of them would be all-male XXX porno movies).

[drc43]

"That was based on The Shop Around The Corner (which is on this list)."

Thank you...did not realize that..pay more attention to credits.

Sounds like another movie that I might like.

[Aliska]

I meant to get back to your comments and I get to hopping all over this forum. This thread was a refreshing change, wasn't it.

Jane Austen is difficult reading because events transpire so slowly, as they must have in that period.

I wanted to make two points, the first being that there are other novelists I have enjoyed more such as Thomas Hardy and George Eliot. Of Jane Austen's works, somehow I did manage to read Northanger Abbey and I really liked that, although I'd be hard put to remember anything about it now!

My second point is the revelation that of the films I have found the most romantic, with the exception of Sound of Music, all involved either adultery or non-marital sex. Somehow they seem to have more passion. So maybe that isn't so good. Oh well. I loved Dr. Zhivago, Somewhere in Time and Ryan's Daughter as my top three.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. I'm having a real challenge with my new computer, but it's a lot of fun and I'm slowly getting a handle on it.