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Top Romance Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
3 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
4 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
5 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
6 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
7 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
8 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
9 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
10 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
11 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42
12 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
13 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
14 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
15 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
16 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
17 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
18 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
19 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
20 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
21 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
22 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
23 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
24 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
25 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
26 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
27 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
28 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
29 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
30 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
31 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 108
32 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
33 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
34 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
35 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
36 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
37 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
38 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
39 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
40 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
41 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
42 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
43 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 154
44 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
45 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 159
46 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
47 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
48 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
49 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 172
50 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 174
51 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
52 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
53 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 187
54 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 189
55 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
56 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 193
57 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
58 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 198
59 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 201
60 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 203
61 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 204
62 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 206
63 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
64 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 212
65 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 214
66 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
67 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
68 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
69 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 229
70 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 230
71 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
72 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 235
73 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
74 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 241
75 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 242
76 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 248
77 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 252
78 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 256
79 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 262
80 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 268
81 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
82 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 271
83 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 272
84 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 275
85 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 278
86 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 280
87 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 281
88 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 289
89 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
90 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 299
91 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 301
92 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
93 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 308
94 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
95 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
96 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
97 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
98 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
99 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 338
100 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 344
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