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Romance Movies
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Starring Leonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly Zane
By James Cameron, 1997.
Winner of 11 Oscars, director James Cameron's effects-filled blockbuster weds the historical tale of the doomed ocean liner with a fictional romance between two of the ship's ill-fated passengers -- putting a human face on a tragedy of epic proportions.
- Ghost
Starring Patrick SwayzeDemi MooreWhoopi Goldberg
By Jerry Zucker, 1990.
Gothamites Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) see their romance shattered when a street thug kills Sam during a mugging. But love endures beyond the grave when a spectral Sam learns that Molly is in danger and he must find a way to warn her before she suffers his fate.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Starring Jim CarreyKate WinsletKirsten Dunst
By Michel Gondry, 2004.
After learning that his mercurial ex-girlfriend, Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet), has undergone an experimental medical process to purge all memories of him, mild-mannered Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) opts for the same procedure. But during the operation, he decides he doesn't want to lose what's...
- (500) Days of Summer
Starring Zooey DeschanelJoseph Gordon-LevittGeoffrey Arend
By Marc Webb, 2009.
When his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), unceremoniously dumps him, greeting-card copywriter and hopeless romantic Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) begins sifting through the year-plus worth of days they spent together, looking for clues to what went awry.
- Love Actually
Starring Hugh GrantLiam NeesonColin Firth
By Richard Curtis, 2003.
An ensemble comedy that tells 10 separate (but intertwining) London love stories, leading to a big climax on Christmas Eve. One of the threads follows the brand-new, unmarried Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) of the United Kingdom, who, on his first day in 10 Downing Street, falls in love with the girl...
- Romeo + Juliet
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioClaire DanesJohn Leguizamo
By Baz Luhrmann, 1996.
The Montagues and Capulets have moved to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach in this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic play. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue is intact as the feuding families' children fall desperately in love.
- The Notebook
Starring Ryan GoslingRachel McAdamsJames Garner
By Nick Cassavetes, 2004.
Based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, this drama chronicles an enduring love that withstands both war and disease. It begins in a nursing home, where a man (James Garner) arrives every day armed with a notebook from which he reads stories about a couple, Noah and Allie (played by Ryan Gosling and...
- Dirty Dancing
Starring Patrick SwayzeJennifer GreyJerry Orbach
By Emile Ardolino, 1987.
In the 1960s, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like...
- A Walk to Remember
Starring Mandy MooreShane WestPeter Coyote
By Adam Shankman, 2002.
When bad boy Landon (Shane West) is cast opposite the campus bookworm (Mandy Moore) in a school play, no one expects romance to bloom. Despite peer pressure and strict parents, the newly minted lovebirds forge a heartfelt bond ... until tragedy tears them apart.
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Starring Brad PittCate BlanchettTilda Swinton
By David Fincher, 2008.
David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) -- a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by -- with a screenplay adapted from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The plot throws linear conventions upside down to explore love, loss and...
- Casablanca
Starring Humphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
By Michael Curtiz, 1942.
In this Oscar-winning classic, American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) plays host to gamblers, thieves and refugees at his Moroccan nightclub during World War II. But he never expected Isla (Ingrid Bergman) -- the woman who broke his heart -- to walk through that door.
- Serendipity
Starring John CusackKate BeckinsaleMolly Shannon
By Peter Chelsom, 2001.
An amalgam of the plot lines from When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, Serendipity has John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale meeting cute during a Christmas shopping spree but parting company soon thereafter. Ten years (and a few failed relationships) later, they yearn to put true love to the...
- Sideways
Starring Paul GiamattiThomas Haden ChurchVirginia Madsen
By Alexander Payne, 2004.
Two men go on an excursion and end up inducing midlife crises in this comedy-drama that won six Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature and Best Director. Pinot Noir lover Miles (Paul Giamatti) convinces friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) to enjoy his last days of bachelorhood with a wine...
- Benny and Joon
Starring Johnny DeppMary Stuart MastersonAidan Quinn
By Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1993.
Benny (Aidan Quinn) is the overprotective caretaker of his mentally ill -- but artistically talented -- sister, Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson). When the eccentric Sam (Johnny Depp), who looks and acts like a silent-movie comedian, falls for Joon, the siblings' frail bond is put to the test.
- Unfaithful
Starring Diane LaneRichard GereOlivier Martinez
By Adrian Lyne, 2002.
In Adrian Lyne's erotic thriller, Diane Lane is Connie, a wife and mother who lives in a beautiful house with her handsome husband, Edward (Richard Gere). But their marriage has lost its sexual spark, and when Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul (Olivier Martinez), he sweeps her...
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Starring Scarlett JohanssonJavier BardemPenélope Cruz
By Woody Allen, 2008.
Javier Bardem stars in the latest effort from legendary filmmaker Woody Allen as a flamboyant painter who finds himself in the middle of a unique relationship with Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Christina (Scarlett Johansson), a pair of American tourists. Penélope Cruz (with her first Oscar win) also...
- Annie Hall
Starring Woody AllenDiane KeatonTony Roberts
By Woody Allen, 1977.
Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s.
- City Lights
Starring Charles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence Lee
By Charles Chaplin, 1931.
City Lights was Charlie Chaplin's last silent film and is widely considered one of his best. Chaplin, once again playing the character known as the Little Tramp, makes the acquaintance of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill), who, because she can't see him, believes the shabby tramp is a...
- Before Sunset
Starring Ethan HawkeJulie DelpyVernon Dobtcheff
By Richard Linklater, 2004.
Ethan Hawke reprises his role as Jesse in this sequel to the 1995 hit Before Sunrise. It's been nine years since he met a sweet French girl named Celine (Julie Delpy) while backpacking in Europe. Now a successful author, Jessie's on a book tour in Paris when Celine shows up at a reading just hours...
- Before Sunrise
Starring Ethan HawkeJulie Delpy
By Richard Linklater, 1995.
An American backpacker (Ethan Hawke) strikes up a conversation with a lovely fellow traveler (Julie Delpy) on the train to Vienna, Austria. He persuades her to disembark in the Austrian capital and spend the night with him (his last in Europe). Hours of talk leads to shared confidences and finally...
- Harold and Maude
Starring Ruth GordonBud CortVivian Pickles
By Hal Ashby, 1971.
A self-absorbed, death-obsessed teen (Bud Cort) and a geriatric, high-on-life widow (Ruth Gordon) find love in this comical cult favorite. Hassled by his domineering mother (Vivian Pickles) to play the dating game, the morbid Harold would rather attend funerals, which is where he meets the feisty...
- The Red Shoes
Starring Anton WalbrookMarius GoringMoira Shearer
By Michael Powell, 1948.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic dance ballets that became a staple of the Arthur Freed -MGM musicals (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon) of the early 1950s.
- All That Heaven Allows
Starring Jane WymanRock HudsonAgnes Moorehead
By Douglas Sirk, 1955.
All That Heaven Allows (1955) is a feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love. The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee. The film was directed by Douglas Sirk...
