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Top Romance Films (#401-663)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 Summer 1986 Eric Rohmer 1778
402 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 1786
403 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins 1787
404 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 W.D. Richter 1790
405 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 1791
406 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese 1792
407 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1795
408 The Fountain 2006 Darren Aronofsky 1801
409 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 1802
410 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls 1803
411 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Leos Carax 1810
412 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 1818
413 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Lotte Reiniger 1821
414 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1823
415 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 1824
416 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson 1826
417 Match Point 2005 Woody Allen 1831
418 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 1832
419 Purple Rain 1984 Albert Magnoli 1834
420 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1837
421 Shine 1996 Scott Hicks 1838
422 Silverado 1985 Lawrence Kasdan 1839
423 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton 1840
424 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1841
425 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1851
426 The Tall T 1957 Budd Boetticher 1853
427 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 1858
428 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut 1860
429 Ju Dou 1990 Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang 1872
430 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1873
431 Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton 1874
432 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1885
433 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1886
434 Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox 1889
435 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1891
436 Maurice 1987 James Ivory 1894
437 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut 1896
438 The Dreamers 2003 Bernardo Bertolucci 1899
439 Easy A 2010 Will Gluck 1903
440 Blue Valentine 2010 Derek Cianfrance 1909
441 Stella Dallas 1937 King Vidor 1913
442 Othello 1951 Orson Welles 1917
443 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 1923
444 Seventh Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage 1928
445 Pygmalion 1938 Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard 1940
446 Calamity Jane 1953 David Butler 1947
447 But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 Jamie Babbit 1952
448 A Man and a Woman 1966 Claude Lelouch 1955
449 The Iron Horse 1924 John Ford 1956
450 Better Off Dead… 1985 Savage Steve Holland 1960
451 The Constant Gardner 2005 Fernando Meirelles 1963
452 3-Iron 2004 Ki-duk Kim 1969
453 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 1979
454 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1987
455 Corpse Bride 2005 Tim Burton and Mike Johnson 1989
456 Monsoon Wedding 2001 Mira Nair 1993
457 Whisper of the Heart 1995 Yoshifumi Kondo 2004
458 Camille 1936 George Cukor 2006
459 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2009
460 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon 2014
461 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek 2016
462 The Crucified Lovers 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 2021
463 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 Joel Zwick 2025
464 The Merry Widow 1934 Ernst Lubitsch 2030
465 Frida 2002 Julie Taymor 2031
466 The Last Command 1928 Josef von Sternberg 2036
467 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 2040
468 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 2041
469 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 2045
470 A Short Film about Love 1988 Teresa Violetta Buhl, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Pawel Rzepkowski 2046
471 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 2047
472 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 Nicholas Stoller 2049
473 Only Yesterday 1991 Isao Takahata 2051
474 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006 Mamoru Hosoda 2053
475 The Reader 2008 Stephen Daldry 2056
476 Strictly Ballroom 1992 Baz Luhrmann 2059
477 Anomalisa 2015 Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman 2061
478 The Shape of Water 2017 Guillermo del Toro 2064
479 Les Misérables 2012 Tom Hooper 2067
480 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2069
481 Big Night 1996 Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci 2071
482 Starman 1984 John Carpenter 2074
483 Un chant d'amour 1950 Jean Genet 2075
484 Poison 1991 Todd Haynes 2076
485 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 2077
486 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 2078
487 Yellow Earth 1984 Kaige Chen 2079
488 Show Boat 1936 James Whale 2083
489 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 2084
490 Something Wild 1986 Jonathan Demme 2086
491 A Single Man 2009 Tom Ford 2087
492 While You Were Sleeping 1995 Jon Turteltaub 2095
493 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 2096
494 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 2100
495 Prizzi's Honor 1985 John Huston 2101
496 Cruel Intentions 1999 Roger Kumble 2103
497 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle 2116
498 Robin Hood 1973 Wolfgang Reitherman 2117
499 Stardust 2007 Matthew Vaughn 2126
500 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon 2133
501 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 2143
502 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2144
503 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 2150
504 India song 1975 Marguerite Duras 2151
505 El 1953 Luis Buñuel 2159
506 Up in the Air 2009 Jason Reitman 2160
507 Solaris 2002 Steven Soderbergh 2161
508 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis 2167
509 Heaven Can Wait 1943 Ernst Lubitsch 2168
510 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks 2172
511 The Princess and the Frog 2009 Ron Clements and John Musker 2175
512 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Steven Kloves 2177
513 A Walk to Remember 2002 Adam Shankman 2187
514 Happy Feet 2006 George Miller 2192
515 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 2194
516 The Parent Trap 1961 David Swift 2195
517 Floating Clouds 1955 Mikio Naruse 2200
518 Spione 1928 Fritz Lang 2201
519 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 2208
520 Lust, Caution 2007 Ang Lee 2218
521 Freaky Friday 2003 Mark Waters 2220
522 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 Rex Ingram 2222
523 Longtime Companion 1989 Norman René 2223
524 The Docks of New York 1928 Josef von Sternberg 2225
525 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 2232
526 Parting Glances 1986 Bill Sherwood 2233
527 Within Our Gates 1920 Oscar Micheaux 2235
528 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus 2238
529 Deep End 1970 Jerzy Skolimowski 2247
530 My Brilliant Career 1979 Gillian Armstrong 2251
531 Love in the Afternoon 1957 Billy Wilder 2252
532 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 2267
533 Fox and His Friends 1975 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2282
534 Tarzan 1999 Kevin Lima and Chris Buck 2288
535 Women in Love 1969 Ken Russell 2293
536 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 2299
537 Red Sorghum 1988 Yimou Zhang 2323
538 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 2331
539 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 2348
540 Lola 1981 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2352
541 Il Postino 1994 Michael Radford 2353
542 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Mu Fei 2354
543 The Quiet American 2002 Phillip Noyce 2360
544 Underworld 1927 Josef von Sternberg 2364
545 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2375
546 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allan Dwan 2376
547 Kissing Jessica Stein 2001 Charles Herman-Wurmfeld 2377
548 The Man without a Past 2002 Aki Kaurismäki 2379
549 Waitress 2007 Adrienne Shelly 2381
550 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 2382
551 High Art 1998 Lisa Cholodenko 2389
552 People on Sunday 1930 Curt and Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann 2392
553 The Sure Thing 1985 Rob Reiner 2393
554 One Hour with You 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 2399
555 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 2401
556 Bedazzled 1967 Stanley Donen 2403
557 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen 2408
558 Ecstasy 1933 Gustav Machatý 2410
559 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 2417
560 The Wind Rises 2013 Hayao Miyazaki 2422
561 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 2426
562 The Damned 1962 Joseph Losey 2430
563 Yentl 1983 Barbra Streisand 2433
564 My Summer of Love 2004 Pawel Pawlikowski 2434
565 Together 2000 Lukas Moodysson 2441
566 Stranger by the Lake 2013 Alain Guiraudie 2443
567 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda 2445
568 The Immigrant 1917 Charles Chaplin 2450
569 Design for Living 1933 Ernst Lubitsch 2451
570 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger 2458
571 Bring It on 2000 Peyton Reed 2460
572 Lars and the Real Girl 2007 Craig Gillespie 2461
573 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann 2464
574 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves 2475
575 Splash 1984 Ron Howard 2476
576 Marie Antoinette 2006 Sofia Coppola 2479
577 Varsity Blues 1999 Brian Robbins 2480
578 They Died with Their Boots on 1941 Raoul Walsh 2487
579 Desert Hearts 1985 Donna Deitch 2489
580 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 2493
581 El Sur 1983 Víctor Erice 2494
582 Show People 1928 King Vidor 2500
583 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 2509
584 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 2517
585 Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel 2519
586 The Pajama Game 1957 George Abbott and Stanley Donen 2520
587 Twilight 2008 Catherine Hardwicke 2521
588 Chloe in the Afternoon 1972 Eric Rohmer 2529
589 Anastasia 1997 Don Bluth and Gary Goldman 2530
590 Dodge City 1939 Michael Curtiz 2540
591 The Big Sick 2017 Michael Showalter 2541
592 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann 2544
593 Hercules 1997 Ron Clements and John Musker 2549
594 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2551
595 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2558
596 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 2568
597 The Terminal 2004 Steven Spielberg 2575
598 It's Always Fair Weather 1955 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 2579
599 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 2590
600 The Heartbreak Kid 1972 Elaine May 2592
601 God's Own Country 2017 Francis Lee 2602
602 Pyaasa 1957 Guru Dutt 2603
603 Across the Universe 2007 Julie Taymor 2604
604 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 2607
605 Rent 2005 Chris Columbus 2608
606 Beginners 2010 Mike Mills 2611
607 French Cancan 1955 Jean Renoir 2612
608 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 2613
609 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 2621
610 Walking and Talking 1996 Nicole Holofcener 2632
611 The Love Parade 1929 Ernst Lubitsch 2637
612 Mamma Mia! 2008 Phyllida Lloyd 2639
613 Black Cat White Cat 1998 Emir Kusturica 2643
614 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 2646
615 Nothing but a Man 1964 Michael Roemer 2654
616 Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011 Glenn Ficarra and John Requa 2657
617 Caravaggio 1986 Derek Jarman 2663
618 Torch Song Trilogy 1988 Paul Bogart 2665
619 Anchors Aweigh 1945 George Sidney 2670
620 Sita Sings the Blues 2008 Nina Paley 2676
621 Crazy Rich Asians 2018 Jon M. Chu 2678
622 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 Alfonso Arau 2683
623 Legally Blonde 2001 Robert Luketic 2686
624 The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin 2689
625 What Dreams May Come 1998 Vincent Ward 2690
626 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan 2696
627 Fallen Angels 1995 Kar-Wai Wong 2699
628 Happy-Go-Lucky 2008 Mike Leigh 2703
629 La Collectionneuse 1967 Eric Rohmer 2704
630 The Kiss 1896 William Heise 2709
631 Bright Star 2009 Jane Campion 2710
632 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 2714
633 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 2715
634 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco 2716
635 About Time 2013 Richard Curtis 2718
636 The Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998 Julio Medem 2719
637 Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa 2723
638 The Westerner 1940 William Wyler 2724
639 The River 1997 Ming-liang Tsai 2730
640 L'Amour Fou 1969 Jacques Rivette 2731
641 8 Women 2002 François Ozon 2732
642 The Legend of 1900 1998 Giuseppe Tornatore 2737
643 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones 2744
644 Frances Ha 2012 Noah Baumbach 2745
645 Liebelei 1933 Max Ophüls 2746
646 Pocahontas 1995 Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg 2758
647 L'Enfant 2005 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2759
648 Love Exposure 2008 Shion Sono 2762
649 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 2763
650 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 2765
651 A Woman Is a Woman 1961 Jean-Luc Godard 2766
652 Vanilla Sky 2001 Cameron Crowe 2767
653 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan 2769
654 The Illusionist 2006 Neil Burger 2771
655 A New Leaf 1971 Elaine May 2772
656 Way Down East 1920 D.W. Griffith 2774
657 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 2778
658 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller 2791
659 Will Penny 1967 Tom Gries 2794
660 Maedchen in Uniform 1931 Leontine Sagan 2800
661 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1989 Pedro Almodóvar 2803
662 Love, Simon 2018 Greg Berlanti 2807
663 Adventureland 2009 Greg Mottola 2808
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