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Top Romance Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 955
202 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan 957
203 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 960
204 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 964
205 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 966
206 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich 967
207 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Joe Wright 968
208 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 974
209 Elf 2003 Jon Favreau 975
210 Pretty in Pink 1986 Howard Deutch 986
211 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 990
212 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears 997
213 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 999
214 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 1001
215 Crazy Rich Asians 2018 Jon M. Chu 1004
216 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1007
217 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1009
218 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 1012
219 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 1023
220 The Best of Youth 2003 Marco Tullio Giordana 1024
221 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 1026
222 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 1027
223 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov 1030
224 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1033
225 My Night at Maud's 1969 Éric Rohmer 1034
226 King Kong 2005 Peter Jackson 1038
227 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 1043
228 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner 1047
229 Enchanted 2007 Kevin Lima 1049
230 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 1056
231 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 Kim Ki-duk 1064
232 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 1067
233 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula 1075
234 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1076
235 Weekend 2011 Andrew Haigh 1079
236 She's Gotta Have It 1986 Spike Lee 1087
237 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 1089
238 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1098
239 The Shape of Water 2017 Guillermo del Toro 1100
240 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 1103
241 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1111
242 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 1112
243 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1114
244 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 1119
245 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1121
246 Gregory's Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth 1131
247 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 1132
248 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 1139
249 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 1141
250 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1142
251 The Tale of Princess Kaguya 2013 Isao Takahata 1148
252 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 1150
253 35 Up 1991 Michael Apted 1153
254 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek 1155
255 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 1161
256 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 1163
257 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff 1164
258 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1165
259 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 1169
260 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 1177
261 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 1180
262 Purple Rain 1984 Albert Magnoli 1186
263 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1189
264 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 1190
265 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 1191
266 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 1199
267 The Kids Are All Right 2010 Lisa Cholodenko 1201
268 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1204
269 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1206
270 But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 Jamie Babbit 1208
271 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 1210
272 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1211
273 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain 1214
274 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 1216
275 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1218
276 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1226
277 Mamma Mia! 2008 Phyllida Lloyd 1229
278 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 1234
279 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 Nicholas Stoller 1236
280 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1240
281 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 1258
282 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 1259
283 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 1275
284 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 1279
285 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1280
286 Fruitvale Station 2013 Ryan Coogler 1283
287 The Watermelon Woman 1996 Cheryl Dunye 1296
288 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1303
289 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 Joel Zwick 1304
290 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1310
291 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1311
292 If Beale Street Could Talk 2018 Barry Jenkins 1313
293 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1314
294 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 1315
295 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1317
296 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar-Wai Wong 1329
297 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 1335
298 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 1337
299 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl 1338
300 Hairspray 1988 John Waters 1341
301 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1344
302 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 1345
303 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 1349
304 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1358
305 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan 1359
306 A Star Is Born 2018 Bradley Cooper 1364
307 Show Me Love 1998 Lukas Moodysson 1373
308 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1375
309 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears 1376
310 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 1377
311 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 1382
312 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1387
313 Sixteen Candles 1984 John Hughes 1389
314 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Juan José Campanella 1391
315 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1392
316 Blue Valentine 2010 Derek Cianfrance 1395
317 Stranger by the Lake 2013 Alain Guiraudie 1404
318 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 1405
319 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1409
320 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 1411
321 Easy A 2010 Will Gluck 1412
322 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 1414
323 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1415
324 Walk the Line 2005 James Mangold 1416
325 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1419
326 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1423
327 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1425
328 Hairspray 2007 Adam Shankman 1429
329 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 1434
330 While You Were Sleeping 1995 Jon Turteltaub 1436
331 Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger 1438
332 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1440
333 To All the Boys I've Loved Before 2018 Susan Johnson 1444
334 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1445
335 Midnight in Paris 2011 Woody Allen 1452
336 Tin Cup 1996 Ron Shelton 1453
337 Something's Gotta Give 2003 Nancy Meyers 1470
338 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 1472
339 Only Yesterday 1991 Isao Takahata 1477
340 Legally Blonde 2001 Robert Luketic 1479
341 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1482
342 Desert Hearts 1985 Donna Deitch 1498
343 Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach 1513
344 The Princess and the Frog 2009 Ron Clements and John Musker 1520
345 Hercules 1997 Ron Clements and John Musker 1524
346 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 1531
347 The Lobster 2015 Yorgos Lanthimos 1534
348 Marriage Story 2019 Noah Baumbach 1539
349 Knocked Up 2007 Judd Apatow 1542
350 Lust, Caution 2007 Ang Lee 1543
351 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 1546
352 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1557
353 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1560
354 Forty Guns 1957 Samuel Fuller 1561
355 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1564
356 La Vie en rose 2007 Olivier Dahan 1566
357 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 1574
358 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 1576
359 Monsoon Wedding 2001 Mira Nair 1588
360 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1589
361 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus 1591
362 The Wind Rises 2013 Hayao Miyazaki 1601
363 Love, Simon 2018 Greg Berlanti 1604
364 The Constant Gardner 2005 Fernando Meirelles 1605
365 Chasing Amy 1997 Kevin Smith 1606
366 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 1607
367 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 1608
368 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1610
369 Phantom Thread 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson 1612
370 A Walk to Remember 2002 Adam Shankman 1619
371 Love Story 1970 Arthur Hiller 1621
372 A Day in the Country 1946 Jean Renoir 1625
373 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick 1630
374 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1631
375 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards 1636
376 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 Ang Lee 1637
377 Sherman's March 1985 Ross McElwee 1644
378 Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011 Glenn Ficarra and John Requa 1647
379 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1649
380 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1653
381 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 2014 Ana Lily Amirpour 1655
382 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1662
383 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 1663
384 Corpse Bride 2005 Tim Burton and Mike Johnson 1665
385 Stardust 2007 Matthew Vaughn 1667
386 Heaven Can Wait 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1668
387 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 1669
388 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1670
389 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 1673
390 About Time 2013 Richard Curtis 1680
391 Frances Ha 2012 Noah Baumbach 1693
392 Les Misérables 2012 Tom Hooper 1695
393 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Lotte Reiniger 1696
394 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1700
395 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1701
396 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1702
397 Metropolitan 1989 Whit Stillman 1709
398 The Parent Trap 1998 Nancy Meyers 1715
399 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon 1716
400 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Taylor Hackford 1721
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