Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List

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[Registered]

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

[weegee]

Well let's see. Quite a few of these films weren't "romance" films in the traditional sense even if there were romantic subplots or encounters.

From my limited knowledge of some of these films, I am still suprised to consider that the encounters include:

Stalkers, beastiality, prostitution, dead people, adultry, and a couple of intergenerational hookups for good measure...

[weegee]

Glen's affections were torn between his girlfriend and her angora sweater...

[Koblenz]

I've seen only 11 of these films. I guess I'm not that romantic...

[martin_fierro]

One of the Silver Screen's great romances. < /sarcasm >

[vetvetdoug]

I always thought Zulu was kind of romantic, especially the way the private from the 24th Foot took care of the calf that eventually died. The most romantic part of the movie was when the Zulu female regiment married the Zulu male regiment.

[MotleyGirl70]

They left out the one between Alec Baldwin and his ego.

ROTFLMAO!

That should be #1

[drc43]

I liked "You Have Mail."

[Registered]

Hey, nobody has mentioned "Somewhere in Time", with Christopher Reeve (active bipedal) and that Hot circa 1800's Babe played by Jane Seymour !

[Registered]

I liked that too, even though Meg is a little mousey!

[MotleyGirl70]

How about Fast Times at Ridgmount High Brad romancing himself in the bathroom while watching his sisters friend in the pool!!

If you are going to bring up Fast Times, how about this one...

The Breakfast Club:

The "burnout-John Bender" with "the popular girl-Claire"

The "sporto" with "the weird girl"

And "the dork" well, he is probably the "Brad" of The Breakfast Club.

That's '80's style romance at it's best!

=)

[Smartaleck]

aaaaahhhhhh YES!!!! Excellent choice.

And the Rachmoninov background is perfect.

[weegee]

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

[Poohbah]

88. "The Princess Bride," 1987

"Have fun storming the castle!"

[Palmetto]

Yea, and what about Forrest Gump? I mean the guy has this crush on Jenny, names his shrimp boat after her and everything and after she makes love to him she leaves and he starts running and dosn't stop for 3 and half years and then she comes back and he marries her and then she dies. I mean, I cry every time I watch it!

Great.

Thanks for spoiling it for those of us on the west coast.

Sheesh.

[Palmetto]

88. "The Princess Bride," 1987

"Have fun storming the castle!"

No more rhyming now, I mean it!

[stainlessbanner]

88. "The Princess Bride," 1987

Inconceivable!

[Aliska]

That was one of my favorite movies. I've watched it over and over. Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Even got the beautiful theme music and learned to play it.

Other favorites which I don't think are on the list:

Hanover Street - Harrison Ford and Leslie Anne Down Christopher Plummer

Ryan's Daughter - David Lean film starring Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones, Robert Mitchum; beautiful theme music and setting on the coast of Ireland

Dr. Zhivago which was on the list. Have watched it over and over.

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

Gone with the Wind, can't remember if that was on there.

[Palmetto]

Inconceivable!

You keep using that word....I do not think it means what you think it means.

[Corporate Law]

That's '80's style romance at it's best!

You could always add Farmer Ted getting the Prom Queen in Sixteen Candles ;-)

[Moleman]

LOL