100 Greatest Romance Movies
Criteria: These are the Greatest Romance Movies chosen for their direction, script, acting, cinematography, storyline, originality, and success. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "romance".
Title (Year, Director) (Actors with romantic interest)
1. Romeo and Juliet
(1968, Franco Zeffirelli) (Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey)
2. From Here to Eternity
(1953, Fred Zinnemann) (Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr)
3. Casablanca
(1942, Michael Curtiz) (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)
4. Camille
(1937, George Cukor) (Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor)
5. Splendor in the Grass
(1961, Elia Kazan) (Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty)
1. Romeo and Juliet
(1968, Franco Zeffirelli) (Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey)
2. From Here to Eternity
(1953, Fred Zinnemann) (Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr)
3. Casablanca
(1942, Michael Curtiz) (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)
4. Camille
(1937, George Cukor) (Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor)
5. Splendor in the Grass
(1961, Elia Kazan) (Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty)
6. Brief Encounter
(1945, David Lean) (Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard)
7. A Place in the Sun
(1951, George Stevens) (Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor)
8. Gone With the Wind
(1939, Victor Fleming) (Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh)
9. To Have and Have Not
(1944, Howard Hawks) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall)
10. Somewhere in Time
(1980, Jeannot Szwarc) (Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour)
11. Sabrina
(1954, Billy Wilder) (Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart)
12. The Sheik
(1921, George Melford) (Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres)
13. Titanic
(1997, James Cameron) (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet)
14. Now, Voyager
(1942, Irving Rapper) (Bette Davis, Paul Henreid)
15. Love Story
(1970, Arthur Hiller) (Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw)
16. An Officer and a Gentleman
(1982, Taylor Hackford) (Richard Gere, Debra Winger)
17. It Happened One Night
(1934, Frank Capra) (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert)
18. Doctor Zhivago
(1965, David Lean) (Omar Sharif, Julie Christie)
19. Amelie
(2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) (Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz)
20. Roman Holiday
(1953, William Wyler) (Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn)
21. The English Patient
(1996, Anthony Minghella) (Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche)
22. Sunset Blvd.
(1950, Billy Wilder) (William Holden, Gloria Swanson)
23. Wuthering Heights
(1939, William Wyler) (Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon)
24. The Way We Were
(1973, Sydney Pollack) (Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford)
25. Barefoot in the Park
(1967, Gene Saks) (Robert Redford, Jane Fonda)
26. Love In The Afternoon
(1957, Billy Wilder) (Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn)
27. You've Got Mail
(1998, Nora Ephron) (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)
28. Ghost
(1990, Jerry Zucker) (Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore)
29. French Kiss
(1995, Lawrence Kasdan) (Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline)
30. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(1927, F.W. Murnau) (Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien)
31. Shakespeare in Love
(1998, John Madden) (Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow)
32. A Walk in the Clouds
(1995, Alfonso Arau) (Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón)
33. Dangerous Liaisons - (1988, Stephen Frears) (John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer)
34. Bringing Up Baby
(1938,Howard Hawks) (Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn)
35. Body Heat
(1981,Lawrence Kasdan) (William Hurt, Kathleen Turner)
36. Made In Heaven
(1987, Alan Rudolph) (Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis)
37. The American President
(1995, Rob Reiner) (Michael Douglas, Annette Bening)
38. Sleepless in Seattle
(1993, Nora Ephron) (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)
39. Persuasion
(1995, Roger Michell) (Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds)
40. It's a Wonderful Life
(1946, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Donna Reed)
41. Message In a Bottle
(1999, Luis Mandoki) (Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn)
42. The Princess Bride
(1987, Rob Reiner) (Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn)
43. Pretty Woman
(1990, Garry Marshall) (Richard Gere, Julia Roberts)
44. Annie Hall
(1977, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)
45. The Bridges of Madison County
(1995,Clint Eastwood) (Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep)
46. The Apartment
(1960, Billy Wilder) (Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine)
47. Ladyhawke
(1985, Richard Donner) (Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer)
48. Moonstruck
(1987, Norman Jewison) (Cher, Nicolas Cage)
49. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(1967, Stanley Kramer) (Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton)
50. Kate & Leopold
(2001, James Mangold) (Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman)
51. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955, Henry King) (William Holden, Jennifer Jones)
52. Funny Girl
(1968, William Wyler) (Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif)
53. Summertime
(1955, David Lean) (Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi)
54. An American in Paris
(1951, Vincente Minnelli) (Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron)
55. Always
(1989, Steven Spielberg) (Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter)
56. Cyrano de Bergerac
(1950) (Michael Gordon) (José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince)
57. City of Angels
(1998, Brad Silberling) (Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan)
58. Ever After
(1998, Andy Tennant) (Drew Barrymore, Dougray Scott)
59. A Star is Born
(1954, George Cukor) (Judy Garland, James Mason)
60. The Last of the Mohicans
(1992, Michael Mann) (Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe)
61. Jerry Maguire
(1996, Cameron Crowe) (Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger)
62. When Harry Met Sally...
(1989, Rob Reiner) (Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan)
63. Romancing The Stone
(1984, Robert Zemeckis) (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner)
64. A Room with a View
(1986) (Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis)
65. American Dreamer
(1984, Rick Rosenthal) (JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti)
66. Robin and Marian
(1976, Richard Lester) (Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn)
67. Emma
(1996,Douglas McGrath) (Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam)
68. Out of Africa
(1985, Sydney Pollack) (Robert Redford, Meryl Streep)
69. The Fault in Our Stars
(2014, Josh Boone) (Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff)
70. The Goodbye Girl
(1977, Herbert Ross) (Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason)
71. Regarding Henry
(1991, Mike Nichols) (Harrison Ford, Annette Bening)
72. Dirty Dancing
(1987, Emile Ardolino) (Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey)
73. Life Is Beautiful
(1998, Roberto Benigni) (Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi)
74. Remains of the Day
(1993, James Ivory) (Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson)
75. First Knight
(1995, Jerry Zucker) (Richard Gere, Julia Ormond)
76. Under the Tuscan Sun
(2003, Audrey Wells) (Diane Lane, Raoul Bova)
77. Rob Roy
(1995, Michael Caton-Jones) (Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange)
78. Forest Gump
(1994, Robert Zemeckis) (Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn)
79. Beauty and the Beast
(1946, Jean Cocteau) (Jean Marais, Josette Day)
80. Far from the Madding Crowd
(1967, John Schlesinger) (Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch)
81. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(2012, Stephen Chbosky) (Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Paul Rudd)
82. Portrait of Jennie
(1947, William Dieterle) (Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten)
83. Singin' In The Rain
(1952,Gene Kelly) (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds)
84. Roxanne
(1987, Fred Schepisi) (Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich)
85. Notting Hill
(1999, Roger Michell) (Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts)
86. The Big Easy
(1987, Jim McBride) (Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin)
87. Like Water for Chocolate
(1992, Alfonso Arau) (Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos)
88. As Good as it Gets
(1997, James L. Brooks) (Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt)
89. While You Were Sleeping
(1995, Jon Turteltaub) (Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman)
90. Far from the Madding Crowd
(2015 Thomas Vinterberg) (Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts)
91. Until September
(1984, Richard Marquand) (Karen Allen, Thierry Lhermitte)
92. Sliding Doors
(1998) (Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah)
93. Enough Said
(2013, Nicole Holofcener) (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini)
94. 500 Days of Summer
(2009, Marc Webb) (Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
95. Overboard
(1987, Garry Marshall) (Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn)
96. Circle of Friends
(1995, Pat O'Connor) (Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell)
97. Before Midnight
(2013, Richard Linklater) (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy)
98. The Truth About Cats and Dogs
(1996, Michael Lehmann) (Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin)
99. Green Card
(1990, Peter Weir) (Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell)
100. Untamed Heart
(1993, Tony Bill) (Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei)
(1945, David Lean) (Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard)
7. A Place in the Sun
(1951, George Stevens) (Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor)
8. Gone With the Wind
(1939, Victor Fleming) (Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh)
9. To Have and Have Not
(1944, Howard Hawks) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall)
10. Somewhere in Time
(1980, Jeannot Szwarc) (Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour)
11. Sabrina
(1954, Billy Wilder) (Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart)
12. The Sheik
(1921, George Melford) (Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres)
13. Titanic
(1997, James Cameron) (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet)
14. Now, Voyager
(1942, Irving Rapper) (Bette Davis, Paul Henreid)
15. Love Story
(1970, Arthur Hiller) (Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw)
16. An Officer and a Gentleman
(1982, Taylor Hackford) (Richard Gere, Debra Winger)
17. It Happened One Night
(1934, Frank Capra) (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert)
18. Doctor Zhivago
(1965, David Lean) (Omar Sharif, Julie Christie)
19. Amelie
(2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) (Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz)
20. Roman Holiday
(1953, William Wyler) (Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn)
21. The English Patient
(1996, Anthony Minghella) (Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche)
22. Sunset Blvd.
(1950, Billy Wilder) (William Holden, Gloria Swanson)
23. Wuthering Heights
(1939, William Wyler) (Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon)
24. The Way We Were
(1973, Sydney Pollack) (Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford)
25. Barefoot in the Park
(1967, Gene Saks) (Robert Redford, Jane Fonda)
26. Love In The Afternoon
(1957, Billy Wilder) (Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn)
27. You've Got Mail
(1998, Nora Ephron) (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)
28. Ghost
(1990, Jerry Zucker) (Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore)
29. French Kiss
(1995, Lawrence Kasdan) (Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline)
30. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(1927, F.W. Murnau) (Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien)
31. Shakespeare in Love
(1998, John Madden) (Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow)
32. A Walk in the Clouds
(1995, Alfonso Arau) (Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón)
33. Dangerous Liaisons - (1988, Stephen Frears) (John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer)
34. Bringing Up Baby
(1938,Howard Hawks) (Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn)
35. Body Heat
(1981,Lawrence Kasdan) (William Hurt, Kathleen Turner)
36. Made In Heaven
(1987, Alan Rudolph) (Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis)
37. The American President
(1995, Rob Reiner) (Michael Douglas, Annette Bening)
38. Sleepless in Seattle
(1993, Nora Ephron) (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)
39. Persuasion
(1995, Roger Michell) (Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds)
40. It's a Wonderful Life
(1946, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Donna Reed)
41. Message In a Bottle
(1999, Luis Mandoki) (Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn)
42. The Princess Bride
(1987, Rob Reiner) (Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn)
43. Pretty Woman
(1990, Garry Marshall) (Richard Gere, Julia Roberts)
44. Annie Hall
(1977, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)
45. The Bridges of Madison County
(1995,Clint Eastwood) (Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep)
46. The Apartment
(1960, Billy Wilder) (Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine)
47. Ladyhawke
(1985, Richard Donner) (Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer)
48. Moonstruck
(1987, Norman Jewison) (Cher, Nicolas Cage)
49. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(1967, Stanley Kramer) (Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton)
50. Kate & Leopold
(2001, James Mangold) (Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman)
51. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955, Henry King) (William Holden, Jennifer Jones)
52. Funny Girl
(1968, William Wyler) (Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif)
53. Summertime
(1955, David Lean) (Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi)
54. An American in Paris
(1951, Vincente Minnelli) (Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron)
55. Always
(1989, Steven Spielberg) (Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter)
56. Cyrano de Bergerac
(1950) (Michael Gordon) (José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince)
57. City of Angels
(1998, Brad Silberling) (Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan)
58. Ever After
(1998, Andy Tennant) (Drew Barrymore, Dougray Scott)
59. A Star is Born
(1954, George Cukor) (Judy Garland, James Mason)
60. The Last of the Mohicans
(1992, Michael Mann) (Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe)
61. Jerry Maguire
(1996, Cameron Crowe) (Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger)
62. When Harry Met Sally...
(1989, Rob Reiner) (Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan)
63. Romancing The Stone
(1984, Robert Zemeckis) (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner)
64. A Room with a View
(1986) (Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis)
65. American Dreamer
(1984, Rick Rosenthal) (JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti)
66. Robin and Marian
(1976, Richard Lester) (Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn)
67. Emma
(1996,Douglas McGrath) (Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam)
68. Out of Africa
(1985, Sydney Pollack) (Robert Redford, Meryl Streep)
69. The Fault in Our Stars
(2014, Josh Boone) (Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff)
70. The Goodbye Girl
(1977, Herbert Ross) (Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason)
71. Regarding Henry
(1991, Mike Nichols) (Harrison Ford, Annette Bening)
72. Dirty Dancing
(1987, Emile Ardolino) (Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey)
73. Life Is Beautiful
(1998, Roberto Benigni) (Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi)
74. Remains of the Day
(1993, James Ivory) (Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson)
75. First Knight
(1995, Jerry Zucker) (Richard Gere, Julia Ormond)
76. Under the Tuscan Sun
(2003, Audrey Wells) (Diane Lane, Raoul Bova)
77. Rob Roy
(1995, Michael Caton-Jones) (Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange)
78. Forest Gump
(1994, Robert Zemeckis) (Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn)
79. Beauty and the Beast
(1946, Jean Cocteau) (Jean Marais, Josette Day)
80. Far from the Madding Crowd
(1967, John Schlesinger) (Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch)
81. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(2012, Stephen Chbosky) (Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Paul Rudd)
82. Portrait of Jennie
(1947, William Dieterle) (Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten)
83. Singin' In The Rain
(1952,Gene Kelly) (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds)
84. Roxanne
(1987, Fred Schepisi) (Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich)
85. Notting Hill
(1999, Roger Michell) (Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts)
86. The Big Easy
(1987, Jim McBride) (Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin)
87. Like Water for Chocolate
(1992, Alfonso Arau) (Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos)
88. As Good as it Gets
(1997, James L. Brooks) (Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt)
89. While You Were Sleeping
(1995, Jon Turteltaub) (Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman)
90. Far from the Madding Crowd
(2015 Thomas Vinterberg) (Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts)
91. Until September
(1984, Richard Marquand) (Karen Allen, Thierry Lhermitte)
92. Sliding Doors
(1998) (Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah)
93. Enough Said
(2013, Nicole Holofcener) (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini)
94. 500 Days of Summer
(2009, Marc Webb) (Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
95. Overboard
(1987, Garry Marshall) (Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn)
96. Circle of Friends
(1995, Pat O'Connor) (Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell)
97. Before Midnight
(2013, Richard Linklater) (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy)
98. The Truth About Cats and Dogs
(1996, Michael Lehmann) (Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin)
99. Green Card
(1990, Peter Weir) (Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell)
100. Untamed Heart
(1993, Tony Bill) (Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei)
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Edited By: Lew
Last Updated: 2016-04-15Newly added names are in Red