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Most Romantic Movies of All Time

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1.

Before Sunrise (1995)
    8.0/10  
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one romantic evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together. (105 mins.)
2.

Shakespeare in Love (1998)
    7.3/10  
A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. (123 mins.)
Director: John Madden
3.

Before Sunset (2004)
    8.0/10  
It's nine years after Jesse and Celine first met; now, they encounter one another on the French leg of Jesse's book tour. (80 mins.)
4.

Pride and Prejudice (1995 Mini-Series)
    9.2/10  
Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart. (300 mins.)
5.

The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    8.1/10  
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. (112 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
6.

Sabrina (1954)
    7.8/10  
A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur. But it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her. (113 mins.)
Director: Billy Wilder
7.

Bright Star (2009)
    7.0/10  
The drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25. (119 mins.)
Director: Jane Campion
8.

Smilin' Through (1932)
    7.0/10  
John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend... (98 mins.)
Director: Sidney Franklin
9.

Reality Bites (1994)
    6.3/10  
Generation X Graduates face life after college with a filmmaker looking for work and love in Houston. (99 mins.)
Director: Ben Stiller
10.

Romeo and Juliet (1968)
    7.7/10  
When the now famous "star crossed lovers" of two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues. (138 mins.)
11.

Somewhere in Time (1980)
    7.0/10  
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel. (103 mins.)
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
12.

The Son of the Sheik (1926)
    7.2/10  
Men and women, fathers and children. Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin...
Director: Geo. Fitzmaurice
13.

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
    6.7/10  
A recently-widowed man's son calls a radio talk show in an attempt to find his father a partner. (105 mins.)
Director: Nora Ephron
14.

Dogfight (1991)
    7.2/10  
1963, the night before the 18 years old "Birdlace" Eddie and his friends are shipped to Vietnam. They... (89 mins.)
Director: Nancy Savoca
15.

Beyond the Rocks (1922)
    7.6/10  
A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
Director: Sam Wood
16.

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
    7.1/10  
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love. (117 mins.)
Director: Mike Newell
17.

Possession (2002)
    6.3/10  
A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell. (102 mins.)
Director: Neil LaBute
18.

North & South (2004 Mini-Series)
    8.9/10  
North and South is a four part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
19.

P.S. I Love You (2007)
    6.9/10  
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life. (126 mins.)
20.

The Notebook (2004)
    7.9/10  
A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences. (123 mins.)
Director: Nick Cassavetes
21.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)
    7.6/10  
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources. (127 mins.)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
22.

Born Yesterday (1950)
    7.6/10  
A million dollar Tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette. (103 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
23.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)
    7.7/10  
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites. (136 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
24.

Pretty in Pink (1986)
    6.5/10  
A poor girl must choose between the affections of her doting childhood sweetheart and a rich but sensitive playboy. (96 mins.)
Director: Howard Deutch
25.

Casablanca (1942)
    8.7/10  
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. (102 mins.)
Director: Michael Curtiz
26.

Notting Hill (1999)
    6.9/10  
The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world. (124 mins.)
Director: Roger Michell
27.

Street Angel (1928)
    7.5/10  
A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness. (102 mins.)
Director: Frank Borzage
28.

Roman Holiday (1953)
    8.1/10  
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. (118 mins.)
Director: William Wyler
29.

It Happened One Night (1934)
    8.3/10  
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. (105 mins.)
Director: Frank Capra
30.

Barefoot in the Park (1967)
    6.9/10  
Paul Bratter, a conservative young lawyer, marries a vivacious young woman, Corrie. Their highly passionate... (106 mins.)
Director: Gene Saks
31.

The Holiday (2006)
    6.8/10  
Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love. (138 mins.)
Director: Nancy Meyers
32.

Emma (1996)
    6.8/10  
In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman. (121 mins.)
Director: Douglas McGrath
33.

My Fair Lady (1964)
    7.9/10  
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. (170 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
34.

Love Actually (2003)
    7.8/10  
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. (135 mins.)
Director: Richard Curtis
35.

The Lady Eve (1941)
    8.1/10  
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship... (94 mins.)
Director: Preston Sturges
36.

A Room with a View (1985)
    7.4/10  
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views... (117 mins.)
Director: James Ivory
37.

Holiday (1938)
    7.8/10  
A young man falls in love with a girl from a rich family. His unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life is met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long suffering brother. (95 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
38.

The Eagle (1925)
    7.4/10  
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees... (73 mins.)
Director: Clarence Brown
39.

Persuasion (1995)
    7.5/10  
Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded... (107 mins.)
Director: Roger Michell
40.

Laura (1944)
    8.2/10  
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. (88 mins.)
Director: Otto Preminger
41.

Ghost (1990)
    6.9/10  
After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost. (127 mins.)
Director: Jerry Zucker
42.

The Apartment (1960)
    8.4/10  
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. (125 mins.)
Director: Billy Wilder
43.

Sixteen Candles (1984)
    7.0/10  
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. (93 mins.)
Director: John Hughes
44.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
    8.0/10  
An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl. (105 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
45.

Last Chance Harvey (2008)
    6.8/10  
In London for his daughter's wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life. (93 mins.)
Director: Joel Hopkins
46.

While You Were Sleeping (1995)
    6.5/10  
Ticket collecting romantic pretends to be engaged to an unconscious man but can't fool his brother (103 mins.)
Director: Jon Turteltaub
47.

Two for the Road (1967)
    7.4/10  
A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage. (111 mins.)
Director: Stanley Donen
48.

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
    6.9/10  
A film inspired by the classic Shakespeare play "The Taming of the Shrew.", set in a modern day high school. (97 mins.)
Director: Gil Junger
49.

Elizabethtown (2005)
    6.3/10  
During an outrageous memorial for a Southern patriarch, an unexpected romance blooms between a young woman and man. (123 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
50.

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
    7.7/10  
In 1930s New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world. (82 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen