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. The film institute began issuing annual lists on different  

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.

1. Gone With the Wind - 1939 - Clark Gable
2. West Side Story - 1961 - Natalie Wood
3. Roman Holiday - 1953 - Gregory Peck
4. An Affair to Remember - 1957 - Cary Grant 
5. The Way We Were - 1973 - Barbra Streisand
6. Doctor Zhivago - 1965 - Omar Sharif
7. It's a Wonderful Life - 1946 - James Stewart
8. Love Story - 1970 - Ali MacGraw
9. City Lights - 1931 - Charles Chaplin
10. Annie Hall - 1977 - Woody Allen
11. My Fair Lady - 1964 - Audrey Hepburn
12. Out of Africa - 1985 - Meryl Streep
13. The African Queen - 1951 - Humphrey Bogart
14. Wuthering Heights - 1939 - Merle Oberon
15. Singin' in the Rain - 1952 - Gene Kelly
16. Moonstruck - 1987 - Cher
17. Vertigo - 1958 - James Stewart
18. Ghost - 1990 - Patrick Swayze
19. From Here to Eternity - 1953 - Burt Lancaster
20. Pretty Woman - 1990 - Richard Gere
21. On Golden Pond - 1981 - Katharine Hepburn
22. Now, Voyager - 1942 - Bette Davis
23. King Kong - 1933 - Fay Wray

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1. When Harry Met Sally - 1989 - Billy Crystal
2. The Lady Eve - 1941 - Barbara Stanwyck
3. The Sound of Music - 1965 - Julie Andrews
4. The Shop Around the Corner - 1940 - James Stewart
5. An Officer and a Gentleman - 1982 - Richard Gere
6. Swing Time - 1936 - Fred Astaire
7. The King and I - 1956 - Deborah Kerr
8. Dark Victory - 1939 - Bette Davis
9. Camille - 1937 - Greta Garbo
10. Beauty and the Beast - 1991 - Paige O'Hara
11. Gigi - 1958 - Leslie Caron
12. Random Harvest - 1942 - Ronald Colman
13. Titanic - 1997 - Leonardo DiCaprio
14. It Happened One Night - 1934 - Clark Gable
15. An American in Paris - 1951 - Gene Kelly
16. Ninotchka - 1939 - Greta Garbo
17. Funny Girl - 1968 - Barbra Streisand
18. Anna Karenina - 1935 - Vivien Leigh
19. A Star is Born - 1954 - Judy Garland
20. The Philadelphia Story - 1940 - Cary Grant
21. Sleepless in Seattle - 1993 - Tom Hanks
22. To Catch a Thief - 1955 - Cary Grant
23. Splendor in the Grass - 1961 - Natalie Wood
24. Last Tango in Paris - 1972 - Marlon Brando
25. The Postman Always Rings Twice - 1946 - Lana Turner
26. Shakespeare in Love - 1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow
27. Bringing Up Baby - 1938 - Katharine Hepburn
28. The Graduate - 1967 - Anne Bancroft
29. A Place in the Sun - 1951 - Montgomery Clift
30. Sabrina - 1954 - Humphrey Bogart
31. Reds - 1981 - Warren Beatty
32. The English Patient - 1996 - Ralph Fiennes
33. Two for the Road - 1967 - Audrey Hepburn
34. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967 - Spencer Tracy
35. Picnic - 1955 - William Holden
36. To Have and Have Not - 1944 - Humphrey Bogart
37. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961 - Audrey Hepburn
38. The Apartment - 1960 - Jack Lemmon
39. Sunrise - 1927 - George O'Brien (No longer available)
40. Marty - 1955 - Ernest Borgnine
41. Bonnie and Clyde - 1967 - Warren Beatty
42. Manhattan - 1979 - Woody Allen
43. A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951 - Vivien Leigh
44. What's Up Doc? - 1972 - Barbra Streisand
45. Harold and Maude - 1971 - Ruth Gordon
46. Sense and Sensibility - 1995 - Emma Thompson
47. Way Down East - 1920 - Lillian Gish
48. Roxanne - 1987 - Steve Martin
49. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - 1947 - Gene Tierney
50. Woman of the Year - 1942 - Spencer Tracy
51. The American President - 1995 - Michael Douglas
52. Quiet Man - 1952 - John Wayne
53. The Awful Truth - 1937 - Irene Dunne
54. Coming Home - 1978 - Jane Fonda
55. Jezebel - 1939 - Bette Davis
56. The Sheik - 1921 - Rudolph Valentino
57. The Goodbye Girl - 1977 - Richard Dreyfuss
58. Witness - 1985 - Harrison Ford
59. Morocco - 1930 - Gary Cooper
60. Double Indemnity - 1944 - Fred MacMurray
61. Love is a Many Splendored Thing - 1955 - William Holden
62. Notorious - 1946 - Cary Grant
63. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - 1988 - Daniel Day-Lewis
64. The Princess Bride - 1987 - Cary Elwes
65. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 1966 - Elizabeth Taylor
66. The Bridges of Madison County - 1995 - Clint Eastwood
67. Working Girl - 1988 - Harrison Ford
68. Porgy and Bess - 1959 - Sidney Potier
69. Dirty Dancing - 1987 - Jennifer Grey
70. Body Heat - 1981 - William Hurt
71. The Lady and the Tramp - 1955 - Peggy Lee
72. Barefoot in the Park - 1967 - Robert Redford
73. Grease - 1978 - John Travolta
74. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1939 - Charles Laughton
75. Pillow Talk - 1959 - Rock Hudson
76. Jerry Maquire - 1996 - Tom Cruise

The internet is full of movies from romantic films to stop animation 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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We Americans love our movies. After all, few places in the world are as important to movie production as Hollywood. But that doesn't mean we're indiscriminate when it comes to movies. If you have children, you don't want to take them to an inappropriate movie.

Besides, it is expensive to go to the movies. Tickets alone can be $8 or more. So we don't want to waste our time and money on a bad movie.

How do you decide if you'll see a movie? You may rely on the advice of friends. Or maybe you follow movie reviews.

But Larry James has a better way for you to find out about all kinds of movies: Rotten Tomatoes. The site gathers movie reviews from a number of sources. So, it is a quick way to get multiple opinions.

The reviews are tallied, so you can see what the average review is. Tired of listening to the experts? Then read the user reviews! You can also read interviews and catch up on movie news.

(A special thanks to Kim Komando for this tip!)

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