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

[Registered]

Quit it, you're making my eyes mist up. snif.

[MHT]

They forgot PERSUASION---based on the novel by Jane Austen and often used in character-building classes. One kiss--awesome! The main characters are people of high moral integrity and responsbility--but all works out for them in the end. Some of the most beautiful shots of England--and also the truest to the real lighting, costumes, etc. of the period.

As for passion, who can forget Ralph Fiennes in THE END OF THE AFFAIR. The power of redemption through salvation cannot be missed.

GREEN CARD--again, one kiss and the story of learning to love rather than falling in love.

A very shallow list--nothing by Catherine Cookson was a giveaway that it would just be another video-promotional.

[Aliska]

Jane Seymour was on Politically Incorrect the other night. That will bring you back to reality.

Love those pics you posted! I think that film was a sleeper.

[codebreaker]

You nailed it, another gem definitely top 10. Some of Supermans best work.

[rintense]

I was thinking the SAME THING about Pretty Woman. Julia Roberts is NOT pretty (although some may argue Richard Gere is, in fact, a woman.) I hated that movie for one reason, and one reason only- Julia. BLECH!

[MHT]

The problem with anything with Julia Roberts in it...is Julia Roberts. She couldn't act her way out of a paperbag.

One night I was in the kitchen and the kids were playing one of her movies. Every line sounded alike. At her next movie, I shut my eyes. Again, every line had the same tone, volume, etc. The woman has a monotone.

Pity the blind. If someone was unable to watch irregularly mismatched features contort, her "acting" would reflect the monotonous memorization that it is!

[Moleman]

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

[MHT]

I have never been able to watch Jane Seymour without remembering her in EAST OF EDEN, with Brad Davis. Her portrayal of her "evil" side, the way her face actually changed into evil, chills me to this day. THE EXORIST and ROSEMARY'S BABY were nothing compared to her. Everytime I see her, I see the witch from that movie--

It was quite a performance and deserved an Emmy given that it can send chills 20 years later!

[codebreaker]

Could both of them have ever been this young? Definitely an all time classic, I believe they still have conventions and reunions at the hotel where the movie was filmed.

[MHT]

Ryan's Daughter was awesome! The best Mitchum ever did!

[Registered]

I go to the Grand Hotel every year.

[MHT]

Putting Barbra Steisand in the "romance" category is a mistake. THE WAY WE WERE with Robert Redford was such a stretch--what would a guy with his looks be doing with a drip like her back in the 50's? It should have been called THE WAY WE WEREN'T OR WOULD NEVER BE. Also, pairing her with Ryan O'Neal--somebody in casting needed to do a reality check. Coyotes like Streisand generally don't end up with men as handsome as Redford or O'Neal unless they can buy them (like she did her last husband!).

[codebreaker]

And Christopher Plummer looks exactly the same from the 'Sound of Music' like 20 years earlier in the 'heavy' role.

[rintense]

Groundhog Day is one of my all-time favs! Bill M. is so under-rated.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

We have the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference at the Grand Hotel every year.

[codebreaker]

We really have some movie buffs here on FR, we could compile a respectable top 10 list made up of films that aren't even on the main one!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Totally agreed. Way too much BS (Barbara Streisand) in this list.......

Would like to make an NRA nomination of "El Cid" - Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren.......beautiful and moving love story imbedded in the historical theme..... And, it was El Cid's job to fend off the Islamic invasion of Spain in his day......A job he managed to do successfully.....

Then, there is a little Betty Davis movie, "All This and Heaven Too" which should be in the top 10 ....but what do I know. Not much.

[Romulus]

#89 delivers two romances for the price of one. It deserves extra credit.

[Thinkin' Gal]

I'm surprised Barbarella didn't make the list.

[Aliska]

Her films never worked very well for me (Streisand). That was before she went politically incorrect. I like those pretty, elegant ladies. I'm not that keen on Redford either for some reason. I love Harrison Ford, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Reeve.

My taste is unusual. I search out the lesser known films and I'm a real foreign film buff, if they aren't too off the wall. Some of them are such a refreshing change from American films which always seem to be aimed to be big box office hits.