Top 10 Romances
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List your top ten!
Mulholland Drive (2001)
2046 (2004)
The new world (2005)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
The road home (1999)
Lolita (1962)
Girl with the suitcase (1960)
The Heiress (1949)
Happy together (1997)
500 Days of summer (2009) / Sunrise (1927)
Failan (Song Hae-sung)
Remains of The Day (James Ivory)
Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
Cyrano De Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Christmas In August (Hur Jin-ho)
Punch Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson)
The Hairdresser’s Husband (Patrice Leconte)
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Once (John Carney)
Favorite romances in film, rather than films with romances
Casablanca — M. Curtiz
Clandestinos — F. Pérez
The Clock — V. Minnelli
El compadre Mendoza — F. de Fuentes, J. Bustillo Oro
Courage for Every Day — E. Schorm
Una familia de tantas — A. Galindo
Kanal — A. Wajda
Law of Desire — P. Almodóvar
Trust — H. Hartley
Waking the Dead — K. Gordon
Mentions:
Aimée & Jaguar — Max Färberböck
L’Atalante — J. Vigo
The Docks of New York — J. von Sternberg
Happy Together — Wong K.W.
The River — J. Renoir
The Shop Around the Corner — E. Lubitsch
Singles — C. Crowe (deal with it.)
White Mountains — M. Ubukeyev
etc.
Children of Paradise
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My top 12 “romance” films.
The Free Will (Glasner, 2006)
Head-On (Akin, 2004)
Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972)
Shadows in Paradise (Kaurismaki, 1986)
Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes, 1971)
The Passion of Anna (Bergman, 1970)
Dolls (Kitano, 2002)
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
In the Mood For Love (Kar Wai, 2000)
Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)
Intimacy (Chereau, 2001)
And in some strange way I’m a little tempted to throw Breaking the Waves in there as well.
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Atonement (2007)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Casablanca (1943)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Annie Hall
L’Atalante
Casablanca
Children of Paradise
Chungking Express
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Manhattan
Metropolitan
My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument
Trouble in Paradise
Honorable mentions: The Shop Around the Corner, So This Is Paris, The Docks of New York, Mauvais Sang, Breathless, Liebelei, L’Amour fou, Jules and Jim, A Room with a View, Fucking Amal (Show Me Love), Blue Gate Crossing, The Golden Coach, La Ronde, Claire’s Knee, In the Realm of the Senses, The Lady Eve, Les Derniers jours du monde, In the Mood for Love
And while we’re on the topic…
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Annie Hall
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
City Lights
Casablanca
Closer
My Night at Maude’s
Tootsie
Before Sunrise
Beauty and the Beast (‘46)
Beauty and the Beast (’91)
1. Days of Being Wild
2. Adventureland
3. Millennium Actress
4. High Fidelity
5. Jules et Jim
6. Whisper of the Heart
7. The Green Ray
8. Fallen Angels
9. High Art
10. Barefoot in the Park
No order, and I’ve probably seen more and they just didn’t come to mind.
City Lights
Y tu Mama Tambien
Casablanca
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Atonement
Before Sunset
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Chungking Express
Weekend (Haigh)
And for “love” in the REALLY unconventional sense, Last Tango in Paris and Lolita.
I really need to catch up on rom-coms. Even the bad ones warm my soul.
The Graduate
In the Mood for Love
Léon
Lost in Translation
Punch-Drunk Love
Whisper of the Heart
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Notorious
Love in the Afternoon
Rushmore
Couldn’t do it it 10. My Top 11.
Queen Christina (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Apartment (1960)
The Way We Were (1973)
Yentl (1983)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Agree with many of the earlier picks, so to add a few more possibilities (in chronological order):
Rose Marie (1936)
Intermezzo (1939)
Pride & Prejudice (1940)
Random Harvest (1942)
Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Desk Set (1957)
Bell, Book & Candle (1958)
Irma la Douce (1963)
Marriage Italian-Style (1964)
They don’t make ‘em (romances) like they use to…
Most of the ones I’ve seen listed are probably what I’d list, but I want to add one huge one that I just saw recently thanks to Criterion putting it out and that’s Lonesome by Pál Fejös from 1928. A charming, visually dazzling and romantic masterpiece of late silent/early talkie cinema.
Scenes from a marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1974)
L’Atalante (Jean vigo, 1934)
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (Maurice Pialat, 1972)
Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
Chikamatsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
Une Partie de Campagne (Jean Renoir, 1936)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
Les baisers de secours (Philippe Garrel, 1989)
Ohlalá: A Swedish Love Story, Autumn fire, Effi Briest, Haebyonui yoin and Shôshun.
Looking at the list I see that there is more pain than love. Then it will be the same thing.
I love Doc Hollywood with Michael J. Fox. You even get to see the girl’s boobies. Yay.
Doctor Zhivago
Brief Encounter
Somekind of Wonderful
Chungking Express
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Drive
Restless
Say Anything
Brigadoon
the Little Mermaid
Le Notti Bianche
Senso
Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright)
Atonement
the Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I couldn’t do just 10.
Vertigo
Casablanca
Punch-Drunk Love
Pierrot le Fou
Wild at Heart
The Graduate
Lolita
Gone with the Wind
Mulholland Drive
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Few of these could actually be classified as ‘romance movies’, but they all have a love story at the center of them which never fail to move me.
Man I just saw The Lady Eve the other day… a straight up romance of such a ridiculous caliber, I know the saying is kinda cliché BS but the whole “they just don’t make em like that anymore”… They don’t. And I wish they would, because “modern romance” is pretty god-awful generally, as far as I can tell :|
The World of Apu (Ray)
The Long Darkness (Kumai)
Yearning (Naruse)
Like Grains of Sand (Hashiguchi)
Hush! (Hashiguchi)
Weekend (Haigh)
Autumn Days (Gavaldón)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei)
In the Mood for Love (Wong)
My Mother and Her Guest (Shin)
I’m pushing it…
Annie Hall
The Graduate
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Moonrise Kingdom
Bus Stop
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Dr Zhivago
Faithless (32)
Modern Romance
Raising Arizona
Buffalo 66
Punch-Drunk Love
Blue Valentine
Wild at Heart
Minnie and Moskowitz
Trust
Pierrot le Fou
City Lights
La Strada
Woman In The Dunes
Brief Encounter
Mulholland Drive
The Double Life of Veronique
L’Atalante
In the Mood for Love
Days of Heaven
Blue Valentine
Two-Lane Blacktop
Wings of Desire
Vertigo
The Apartment
Whisper of the heart
Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC miniseries)
Dr. Zhivago
Fucking Amal
Vivacious Lady
Abre los ojos
Cinema Paradiso
Megamind :O
Three colors: Red
1.The Graduate
2.Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
3.Vertigo
4.Drive (does this count?)
5Lost In Translation
6.500 Days of Summer
7.Before Sunrise
8.Notorious
9.5 Centimeters Per Second
10.Groundhog Day
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Brief Encounter (1945)
Casablanca (1942)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Earrings of Madame De… (1953)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Now, Voyager (1942)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Swing Time (1936)
What makes you swoon?