Top 100 "Romantic" Movies

NOTE: Clicking on a romantic movie title link will take you to where you can purchase that romantic movie.

The American Film Institute chose Casablanca as its top U.S. screen romance movie in a list recently.

1. Casablanca - 1942 - Humphrey Bogartmovie themes in 1998. The love story list was chosen by about 1,800 directors, actors, studio executives, critics and others in Hollywood, who voted from a field of 400 nominated films.
2. Gone With the Wind - 1939 - Clark Gable
3. West Side Story - 1961 - Natalie Wood
4. Roman Holiday - 1953 - Gregory Peck
5. An Affair to Remember - 1957 - Cary Grant 
6. The Way We Were - 1973 - Barbra Streisand
7. Doctor Zhivago - 1965 - Omar Sharif
8. It's a Wonderful Life - 1946 - James Stewart
9. Love Story - 1970 - Ali MacGraw
10. City Lights - 1931 - Charles Chaplin
11. Annie Hall - 1977 - Woody Allen
12. My Fair Lady - 1964 - Audrey Hepburn
13. Out of Africa - 1985 - Meryl Streep
14. The African Queen - 1951 - Humphrey Bogart
15. Wuthering Heights - 1939 - Merle Oberon
16. Singin' in the Rain - 1952 - Gene Kelly
17. Moonstruck - 1987 - Cher
18. Vertigo - 1958 - James Stewart
19. Ghost - 1990 - Patrick Swayze
20. From Here to Eternity - 1953 - Burt Lancaster
21. Pretty Woman - 1990 - Richard Gere
22. On Golden Pond - 1981 - Katharine Hepburn
23. Now, Voyager - 1942 - Bette Davis
24. King Kong - 1933 - Fay Wray
25. When Harry Met Sally - 1989 - Billy Crystal
26. The Lady Eve - 1941 - Barbara Stanwyck
27. The Sound of Music - 1965 - Julie Andrews
28. The Shop Around the Corner - 1940 - James Stewart
29. An Officer and a Gentleman - 1982 - Richard Gere
30. Swing Time - 1936 - Fred Astaire
31. The King and I - 1956 - Deborah Kerr
32. Dark Victory - 1939 - Bette Davis
33. Camille - 1937 - Greta Garbo
34. Beauty and the Beast - 1991 - Paige O'Hara
35. Gigi - 1958 - Leslie Caron
36. Random Harvest - 1942 - Ronald Colman
37. Titanic - 1997 - Leonardo DiCaprio
38. It Happened One Night - 1934 - Clark Gable
39. An American in Paris - 1951 - Gene Kelly
40. Ninotchka - 1939 - Greta Garbo
41. Funny Girl - 1968 - Barbra Streisand
42. Anna Karenina - 1935 - Vivien Leigh
43. A Star is Born - 1954 - Judy Garland
44. The Philadelphia Story - 1940 - Cary Grant
45. Sleepless in Seattle - 1993 - Tom Hanks
46. To Catch a Thief - 1955 - Cary Grant
47. Splendor in the Grass - 1961 - Natalie Wood
48. Last Tango in Paris - 1972 - Marlon Brando
49. The Postman Always Rings Twice - 1946 - Lana Turner
50. Shakespeare in Love - 1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow
51. Bringing Up Baby - 1938 - Katharine Hepburn
52. The Graduate - 1967 - Anne Bancroft
53. A Place in the Sun - 1951 - Montgomery Clift
54. Sabrina - 1954 - Humphrey Bogart
55. Reds - 1981 - Warren Beatty
56. The English Patient - 1996 - Ralph Fiennes
57. Two for the Road - 1967 - Audrey Hepburn
58. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967 - Spencer Tracy
59. Picnic - 1955 - William Holden
60. To Have and Have Not - 1944 - Humphrey Bogart
61. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961 - Audrey Hepburn
62. The Apartment - 1960 - Jack Lemmon
63. Sunrise - 1927 - George O'Brien (No longer available)
64. Marty - 1955 - Ernest Borgnine
65. Bonnie and Clyde - 1967 - Warren Beatty
66. Manhattan - 1979 - Woody Allen
67. A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951 - Vivien Leigh
68. What's Up Doc? - 1972 - Barbra Streisand
69. Harold and Maude - 1971 - Ruth Gordon
70. Sense and Sensibility - 1995 - Emma Thompson
71. Way Down East - 1920 - Lillian Gish
72. Roxanne - 1987 - Steve Martin
73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - 1947 - Gene Tierney
74. Woman of the Year - 1942 - Spencer Tracy
75. The American President - 1995 - Michael Douglas
76. Quiet Man - 1952 - John Wayne
77. The Awful Truth - 1937 - Irene Dunne
78. Coming Home - 1978 - Jane Fonda
79. Jezebel - 1939 - Bette Davis
80. The Sheik - 1921 - Rudolph Valentino
81. The Goodbye Girl - 1977 - Richard Dreyfuss
82. Witness - 1985 - Harrison Ford
83. Morocco - 1930 - Gary Cooper
84. Double Indemnity - 1944 - Fred MacMurray
85. Love is a Many Splendored Thing - 1955 - William Holden
86. Notorious - 1946 - Cary Grant
87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - 1988 - Daniel Day-Lewis
88. The Princess Bride - 1987 - Cary Elwes
89. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 1966 - Elizabeth Taylor
90. The Bridges of Madison County - 1995 - Clint Eastwood
91. Working Girl - 1988 - Harrison Ford
92. Porgy and Bess - 1959 - Sidney Potier
93. Dirty Dancing - 1987 - Jennifer Grey
94. Body Heat - 1981 - William Hurt
95. The Lady and the Tramp - 1955 - Peggy Lee
96. Barefoot in the Park - 1967 - Robert Redford
97. Grease - 1978 - John Travolta
98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1939 - Charles Laughton
99. Pillow Talk - 1959 - Rock Hudson
100. Jerry Maquire - 1996 - Tom Cruise

The internet is full of movies from romantic films to stop animated Lego movies. Films have become a major part of modern society form providing mass entertainment to providing a medium for people to express themselves artistically.

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