Best 50 Romantic Films to Watch
Top 50 Romantic Films
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Top Rated "Romance" Titles
1. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 152,283
2. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 106,056
3. 8.6 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 91,155
4. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 83,692
5. 8.6 Vertigo (1958) 81,998
6. 8.5 City Lights (1931) 23,554
7. 8.5 Forrest Gump (1994) 262,879
8. 8.5 WALL-E (2008) 148,995
9. 8.5 Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain (2001) 160,133
10. 8.5 The Big Parade (1925) 2,332
11. 8.4 Modern Times (1936) 31,086
12. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 193,813
13. 8.4 Kibar Feyzo (1978) 2,576
14. 8.4 Rebecca (1940) 31,669
15. 8.4 Show People (1928) 1,379
16. 8.4 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 49,719
17. 8.4 Metropolis (1927) 34,590
18. 8.4 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) 39,819
19. 8.4 The Apartment (1960) 32,078
20. 8.4 Some Like It Hot (1959) 60,203
21. 8.4 Sluzhebnyy roman (1977) 1,600
22. 8.4 Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 143,201
23. 8.4 Dodsworth (1936) 2,986
24. 8.4 La vita e bella (1997) 95,364
25. 8.4 Selvi boylum, al yazmalim (1978) 2,763
26. 8.3 The General (1926) 17,575
27. 8.3 Safety Last! (1923) 4,994
28. 8.3 On the Waterfront (1954) 36,812
29. 8.3 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 9,758
30. 8.3 Strangers on a Train (1951) 30,246
31. 8.3 Notorious (1946) 28,080
32. 8.3 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) 1,247
33. 8.3 It Happened One Night (1934) 22,186
34. 8.3 KrOtki film o milosci (1988) 3,090
35. 8.3 Brief Encounter (1945) 11,611
36. 8.3 The Cameraman (1928) 3,176
37. 8.3 The Gold Rush (1925) 18,329
38. 8.2 Trouble in Paradise (1932) 4,222
39. 8.2 One Way Passage (1932) 1,202
40. 8.2 Scener ur ett aktenskap (1973) 4,267
41. 8.2 Way Down East (1920) 1,691
42. 8.2 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) 3,053
43. 8.2 Annie Hall (1977) 58,387
44. 8.2 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 15,526
45. 8.2 Ben-Hur (1959) 52,320
46. 8.2 The Heiress (1949) 3,910
47. 8.2 The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) 1,307
48. 8.2 The Lost Weekend (1945) 10,834
49. 8.2 The Red Shoes (1948) 7,087
50. 8.2 My Man Godfrey (1936) 7,363
Romance Films, love stories, or affairs of the heart center on passion, emotion, and the romantic, affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady), and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage.
Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus. Oftentimes, lovers in screen romances (often romantic dramas) face obstacles and the hazards of hardship, finances, physical illness, racial or social class status, occupation, psychological restraints, or family that threaten to break their union and attainment of love. As in all romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic movies.
Romantic movies often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. Romantic movies serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if the two people finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience life "happily ever after" - implied by a reunion and final kiss.
Many romantic movies do not have fairy-tale, wistful-thinking stories or happy endings, although love serves as a shield against the harshness of the real world. Although melodramas and romantic comedies may have some romance in their plots, they usually subordinate the love element to their primary goal - to provide humor or serious drama.