“Locked Up” (Jörg Andreas, 2004) is my favourite romance film, unless “Eyes Wide Shut” can be considered a romance film, as I would choose that.
I’ll submit 3
Laura and Alec in David Lean’s “Brief Encounter”
Nathaniel and Cora in Michael Mann’s “The Last of the Mohicans”
May and Chen in the first third of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “Three Times” (A Time For Love)
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in “They Died With Their Boots On”. Gets me every time. Same two in “Captain Blood” and “Dodge City”. And I might as well add Flynn and Bette Davis in “The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex”.
I’m gonna add Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in “The Princess Bride” for Romance/Comedy .Inconceivable.
Chungking Express
Fallen Angels
Casablanca and Bringing Up Baby
Doctor Zhivago
Mallrats- Rene and Brody. “What can I say? I love the retard.”
Some good ones that come to mind:
It’s a Wonderful Life
Brief Encounter
Wings of Desire
Paris, Texas
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lost in Translation
Punch Drunk Love
Life is Beautiful
Enchanted Cottage
Portrait of Jennie
intermezzo
Closely Watched Trains
Elvira Madigan
Gone with the Wind – Scarlett & Ashley – not Scarlett/Rhett as unrequited love here is more interesting (and believable)
Any Lassie movie – who says romance has to be with a person?
Notorious
Sunset Boulevard
Stagecoach
Sullivan’s Travels
The Cusack Quartet: Better Off Dead, Say Anything, Gross Pointe Blank, and High Fidelity
Truffaut’s sequels to The 400 Blows
Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows.
Not only is it a great film in itself, but it inspired two remakes (great in their own right): Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven.
The first half of Pierrot le Fou (when Pierrot and Marianne make their getaway and wind up all cuddled up on the beach) is about as fetchingly romantic as any film that comes to my mind. Then of course, everything goes terribly awry, but oh well. And then there’s the climax (literally) of Malle’s The Lovers, which is so liberating… not just for Jeanne Moreau’s character, but also for cinema and humanity in general. Two of my favorite romances that haven’t been mentioned yet on this thread.
Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Brief Encounter.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
and more recently
Slumdog Millionaire
The Way We Were – The Redford / Streisand combo really worked. It still moves me to tears.
Brief Encounter, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Love Actually, Two for the Road, Amelie. So many choices.
Fear Eats the Soul
city Lights
Eternal Sunrise
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
Breakfast At Tiffanies
Punch Drunk Love
Lost in Translation
Wild At Heart (LOL)
Meet the Feebles
Hal Hartley’s Trust
ok, so I’m going to be an absolute asshole and say:
The End of the Affair.
then I also adhere to Eternal Sunshine and Punch Drunk Love
Stolen Kisses and Charade
All the Real Girls
Punch-Drunk Love
Splendor in the Grass
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Manhattan
Eternal Sunshine
Natalie Portman’s Vignette in Paris Je T’aime
Before Sunrise
Spirited Away
The Lady Eve
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love
Bank
I’m gonna go with
-Harold and Maude
- A Man and a Woman
- Masculin Feminin
- Annie Hall
- Recently just saw “Vicky Christina Barcelona” and thought that it was absolutely beautiful.