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The Top 250 Romance Movies of All Time
Global
Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release
Year |
Director |
MPAA
Rating |
Your
Ranking |
| 15 |
Rear Window |
1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
| 17 |
City Lights |
1931 |
Charles Chaplin |
G |
- |
| 24 |
The Apartment |
1960 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 25 |
Casablanca |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
PG |
- |
| 34 |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
1927 |
F.W. Murnau |
NR |
- |
| 38 |
North by Northwest |
1959 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 43 |
The Princess Bride |
1987 |
Rob Reiner |
PG |
- |
| 61 |
The Red Shoes |
1948 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 62 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
PG |
- |
| 64 |
Forrest Gump |
1994 |
Robert Zemeckis |
PG13 |
- |
| 75 |
The General |
1926 |
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton |
NR |
- |
| 84 |
It Happened One Night |
1934 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
| 85 |
Notorious |
1946 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 104 |
In a Lonely Place |
1950 |
Nicholas Ray |
NR |
- |
| 105 |
The Philadelphia Story |
1940 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 107 |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1962 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 112 |
A Matter of Life and Death |
1946 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
PG |
- |
| 114 |
Groundhog Day |
1993 |
Harold Ramis |
PG |
- |
| 117 |
His Girl Friday |
1940 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 118 |
Good Will Hunting |
1997 |
Gus Van Sant |
R |
- |
| 119 |
Badlands |
1973 |
Terrence Malick |
PG |
- |
| 121 |
Out of the Past |
1947 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
| 122 |
The Gold Rush |
1925 |
Charles Chaplin |
NR |
- |
| 125 |
The Big Sleep |
1946 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 126 |
Shaun of the Dead |
2004 |
Edgar Wright |
R |
- |
| 135 |
In the Mood for Love |
2000 |
Wong Kar-Wai |
PG |
- |
| 143 |
Days of Heaven |
1978 |
Terrence Malick |
PG |
- |
| 145 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
2004 |
Michel Gondry |
R |
- |
| 151 |
Sullivan's Travels |
1941 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
| 152 |
Bringing Up Baby |
1938 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 162 |
Rebecca |
1940 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 163 |
Brief Encounter |
1945 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 164 |
Laura |
1944 |
Otto Preminger |
NR |
- |
| 167 |
Annie Hall |
1977 |
Woody Allen |
PG |
- |
| 181 |
Charade |
1963 |
Stanley Donen |
NR |
- |
| 183 |
Chungking Express |
1994 |
Wong Kar-Wai |
PG13 |
- |
| 197 |
The Shop Around the Corner |
1940 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |
| 207 |
Ugetsu |
1953 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
NR |
- |
| 208 |
The Lady Vanishes |
1938 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 209 |
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
1943 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 219 |
My Man Godfrey |
1936 |
Gregory La Cava |
NR |
- |
| 231 |
Singin' in the Rain |
1952 |
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
NR |
- |
| 234 |
Manhattan |
1979 |
Woody Allen |
R |
- |
| 247 |
Roman Holiday |
1953 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
| 274 |
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
1964 |
Jacques Demy |
NR |
- |
| 284 |
Wings of Desire |
1987 |
Wim Wenders |
PG13 |
- |
| 285 |
Bonnie and Clyde |
1967 |
Arthur Penn |
R |
- |
| 293 |
Children of Paradise |
1945 |
Marcel Carné |
NR |
- |
| 296 |
Let the Right One In |
2008 |
Tomas Alfredson |
R |
- |
| 302 |
Harold and Maude |
1971 |
Hal Ashby |
PG |
- |
| 307 |
The Lady Eve |
1941 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
| 314 |
Amélie |
2001 |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
R |
- |
| 315 |
Before Sunrise |
1995 |
Richard Linklater |
R |
- |
| 319 |
La Strada |
1954 |
Federico Fellini |
NR |
- |
| 320 |
Three Colors: Red |
1994 |
Krzysztof Kieslowski |
R |
- |
| 341 |
Edward Scissorhands |
1990 |
Tim Burton |
PG13 |
- |
| 342 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
1938 |
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley |
NR |
- |
| 355 |
Top Hat |
1935 |
Mark Sandrich |
NR |
- |
| 358 |
Trouble in Paradise |
1932 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |
| 361 |
Her |
2013 |
Spike Jonze |
R |
- |
| 363 |
Three Colors: Blue |
1993 |
Krzysztof Kieslowski |
R |
- |
| 388 |
To Have and Have Not |
1944 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 393 |
To Catch a Thief |
1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 394 |
Elevator to the Gallows |
1958 |
Louis Malle |
NR |
- |
| 399 |
The African Queen |
1951 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
| 409 |
True Romance |
1993 |
Tony Scott |
R |
- |
| 430 |
Moonrise Kingdom |
2012 |
Wes Anderson |
PG13 |
- |
| 431 |
Jules and Jim |
1962 |
François Truffaut |
NR |
- |
| 437 |
Marty |
1955 |
Delbert Mann |
NR |
- |
| 446 |
The Circus |
1928 |
Charles Chaplin |
NR |
- |
| 451 |
Pierrot le fou |
1965 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
NR |
- |
| 454 |
Band of Outsiders |
1964 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
NR |
- |
| 455 |
Before Midnight |
2013 |
Richard Linklater |
R |
- |
| 456 |
The Lady from Shanghai |
1947 |
Orson Welles |
NR |
- |
| 463 |
The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1985 |
Woody Allen |
PG |
- |
| 467 |
Big |
1988 |
Penny Marshall |
PG |
- |
| 471 |
Holiday |
1938 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 476 |
Beauty and the Beast |
1946 |
Jean Cocteau |
NR |
- |
| 488 |
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
2010 |
Edgar Wright |
PG13 |
- |
| 493 |
La La Land |
2016 |
Damien Chazelle |
PG13 |
- |
| 495 |
A Place in the Sun |
1951 |
George Stevens |
NR |
- |
| 499 |
Ninotchka |
1939 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
NR |
- |
| 507 |
Hiroshima mon amour |
1959 |
Alain Resnais |
NR |
- |
| 512 |
The Cameraman |
1928 |
Edward Sedgwick |
NR |
- |
| 514 |
Gilda |
1946 |
Charles Vidor |
NR |
- |
| 517 |
High Fidelity |
2000 |
Stephen Frears |
R |
- |
| 518 |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy |
2004 |
Adam McKay |
PG13 |
- |
| 539 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
1961 |
Blake Edwards |
NR |
- |
| 540 |
Sabrina |
1954 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 544 |
La jetée |
1962 |
Chris Marker |
NR |
- |
| 552 |
From Here to Eternity |
1953 |
Fred Zinnemann |
NR |
- |
| 554 |
Lolita |
1962 |
Stanley Kubrick |
NR |
- |
| 565 |
Ball of Fire |
1941 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 576 |
The Double Life of Veronique |
1991 |
Krzysztof Kieslowski |
R |
- |
| 577 |
L'atalante |
1934 |
Jean Vigo |
NR |
- |
| 578 |
The Killers |
1946 |
Robert Siodmak |
NR |
- |
| 584 |
The Quiet Man |
1952 |
John Ford |
NR |
- |
| 590 |
The Young Girls of Rochefort |
1967 |
Jacques Demy |
NR |
- |
| 593 |
Once |
2006 |
John Carney |
R |
- |
| 595 |
Howl's Moving Castle |
2004 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
PG |
- |
| 606 |
What's Up, Doc? |
1972 |
Peter Bogdanovich |
G |
- |
| 609 |
You Can't Take It With You |
1938 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
| 611 |
Spellbound |
1945 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 612 |
Suspicion |
1941 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
NR |
- |
| 620 |
Only Angels Have Wings |
1939 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 624 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
2005 |
Judd Apatow |
R |
- |
| 632 |
Giant |
1956 |
George Stevens |
NR |
- |
| 645 |
Porco Rosso |
1992 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
PG |
- |
| 646 |
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul |
1974 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
NR |
- |
| 647 |
Beauty and the Beast |
1991 |
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
G |
- |
| 650 |
The Cranes are Flying |
1957 |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
NR |
- |
| 659 |
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town |
1936 |
Frank Capra |
NR |
- |
| 666 |
Life Is Beautiful |
1997 |
Roberto Benigni |
PG13 |
- |
| 673 |
(500) Days of Summer |
2009 |
Marc Webb |
PG13 |
- |
| 674 |
Gone with the Wind |
1939 |
Victor Fleming |
G |
- |
| 680 |
Near Dark |
1987 |
Kathryn Bigelow |
R |
- |
| 682 |
Before Sunset |
2004 |
Richard Linklater |
R |
- |
| 684 |
Say Anything... |
1989 |
Cameron Crowe |
PG13 |
- |
| 686 |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
2000 |
Ang Lee |
PG13 |
- |
| 687 |
Cat People |
1942 |
Jacques Tourneur |
NR |
- |
| 696 |
Broadcast News |
1987 |
James L. Brooks |
R |
- |
| 702 |
Pandora's Box |
1929 |
Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
NR |
- |
| 704 |
American Graffiti |
1973 |
George Lucas |
PG |
- |
| 712 |
Dark City |
1998 |
Alex Proyas |
R |
- |
| 714 |
All That Heaven Allows |
1955 |
Douglas Sirk |
NR |
- |
| 724 |
My Fair Lady |
1964 |
George Cukor |
G |
- |
| 730 |
Our Hospitality |
1923 |
John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton |
G |
- |
| 742 |
The Earrings of Madame de... |
1953 |
Max Ophüls |
NR |
- |
| 748 |
Titanic |
1997 |
James Cameron |
PG13 |
- |
| 757 |
Top Gun |
1986 |
Tony Scott |
PG |
- |
| 768 |
Better Off Dead |
1985 |
Savage Steve Holland |
NR |
- |
| 769 |
Juno |
2007 |
Jason Reitman |
PG13 |
- |
| 771 |
Meet Me in St. Louis |
1944 |
Vincente Minnelli |
NR |
- |
| 779 |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
1982 |
Amy Heckerling |
R |
- |
| 786 |
Deadpool |
2016 |
Tim Miller |
R |
- |
| 799 |
The Abyss |
1989 |
James Cameron |
PG13 |
- |
| 809 |
Midnight in Paris |
2011 |
Woody Allen |
PG13 |
- |
| 815 |
Doctor Zhivago |
1965 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 824 |
The Leopard |
1963 |
Luchino Visconti |
PG |
- |
| 833 |
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles |
1994 |
Neil Jordan |
R |
- |
| 834 |
Grosse Pointe Blank |
1997 |
George Armitage |
R |
- |
| 848 |
Bull Durham |
1988 |
Ron Shelton |
R |
- |
| 852 |
An American in Paris |
1951 |
Vincente Minnelli |
NR |
- |
| 854 |
Swing Time |
1936 |
George Stevens |
NR |
- |
| 856 |
The Secret in Their Eyes |
2009 |
Juan José Campanella |
R |
- |
| 864 |
The Sound of Music |
1965 |
Robert Wise |
G |
- |
| 866 |
Phantom Thread |
2017 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
R |
- |
| 870 |
Defending Your Life |
1991 |
Albert Brooks |
PG |
- |
| 883 |
The Heiress |
1949 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
| 886 |
Portrait of a Lady on Fire |
2019 |
Céline Sciamma |
NR |
- |
| 897 |
When Harry Met Sally... |
1989 |
Rob Reiner |
R |
- |
| 910 |
Whisper of the Heart |
1995 |
Yoshifumi Kondo |
G |
- |
| 914 |
Wild at Heart |
1990 |
David Lynch |
R |
- |
| 923 |
Breaking the Waves |
1996 |
Lars von Trier |
R |
- |
| 929 |
Little Women |
2019 |
Greta Gerwig |
PG |
- |
| 931 |
Letter From An Unknown Woman |
1948 |
Max Ophüls |
NR |
- |
| 942 |
About Time |
2013 |
Richard Curtis |
R |
- |
| 945 |
The Crowd |
1928 |
King Vidor |
NR |
- |
| 960 |
Up in the Air |
2009 |
Jason Reitman |
R |
- |
| 966 |
Lone Star |
1996 |
John Sayles |
R |
- |
| 970 |
The Palm Beach Story |
1942 |
Preston Sturges |
NR |
- |
| 974 |
Now, Voyager |
1942 |
Irving Rapper |
NR |
- |
| 977 |
Adam's Rib |
1949 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 978 |
There's Something About Mary |
1998 |
Bobby & Peter Farrelly |
R |
- |
| 983 |
Witness |
1985 |
Peter Weir |
R |
- |
| 990 |
Call Me by Your Name |
2017 |
Luca Guadagnino |
R |
- |
| 996 |
Walk the Line |
2005 |
James Mangold |
PG13 |
- |
| 1005 |
The Artist |
2011 |
Michel Hazanavicius |
PG13 |
- |
| 1019 |
L'Eclisse |
1962 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
NR |
- |
| 1021 |
Blue Valentine |
2010 |
Derek Cianfrance |
R |
- |
| 1024 |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
1974 |
Martin Scorsese |
PG |
- |
| 1028 |
My Night at Maud's |
1969 |
Eric Rohmer |
PG |
- |
| 1045 |
Swingers |
1996 |
Doug Liman |
R |
- |
| 1046 |
Jerry Maguire |
1996 |
Cameron Crowe |
R |
- |
| 1050 |
Dark Passage |
1947 |
Delmer Daves |
NR |
- |
| 1055 |
West Side Story |
1961 |
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise |
NR |
- |
| 1063 |
Seven Chances |
1925 |
Buster Keaton |
NR |
- |
| 1064 |
The Shape of Water |
2017 |
Guillermo del Toro |
R |
- |
| 1068 |
Knocked Up |
2007 |
Judd Apatow |
R |
- |
| 1086 |
Out of Sight |
1998 |
Steven Soderbergh |
R |
- |
| 1093 |
Dances with Wolves |
1990 |
Kevin Costner |
PG13 |
- |
| 1098 |
Great Expectations |
1946 |
David Lean |
NR |
- |
| 1100 |
The Last of the Mohicans |
1992 |
Michael Mann |
R |
- |
| 1105 |
Sixteen Candles |
1984 |
John Hughes |
PG |
- |
| 1109 |
Play It Again, Sam |
1972 |
Herbert Ross |
PG |
- |
| 1113 |
Fallen Angels |
1995 |
Wong Kar-Wai |
R |
- |
| 1114 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
1953 |
Howard Hawks |
NR |
- |
| 1119 |
Mrs. Miniver |
1942 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
| 1126 |
The Big Sick |
2017 |
Michael Showalter |
R |
- |
| 1130 |
A Star Is Born |
1954 |
George Cukor |
PG |
- |
| 1137 |
Talk to Her |
2002 |
Pedro Almodóvar |
R |
- |
| 1138 |
The Passenger |
1975 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
PG |
- |
| 1141 |
Day of Wrath |
1943 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
NR |
- |
| 1142 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
2008 |
Nicholas Stoller |
R |
- |
| 1161 |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
1947 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
NR |
- |
| 1170 |
Orpheus |
1950 |
Jean Cocteau |
NR |
- |
| 1175 |
Born Yesterday |
1950 |
George Cukor |
NR |
- |
| 1187 |
Millennium Actress |
2001 |
Satoshi Kon |
PG |
- |
| 1202 |
Fury |
1936 |
Fritz Lang |
NR |
- |
| 1205 |
Amour |
2012 |
Michael Haneke |
PG13 |
- |
| 1209 |
The Remains of the Day |
1993 |
James Ivory |
PG |
- |
| 1211 |
Mud |
2012 |
Jeff Nichols |
PG13 |
- |
| 1218 |
How to Steal a Million |
1966 |
William Wyler |
NR |
- |
| 1219 |
The Seven Year Itch |
1955 |
Billy Wilder |
NR |
- |
| 1228 |
Palm Springs |
2020 |
Max Barbakow |
NR |
- |
| 1232 |
Chasing Amy |
1997 |
Kevin Smith |
R |
- |
| 1236 |
Garden State |
2004 |
Zach Braff |
R |
- |
| 1241 |
Punch-Drunk Love |
2002 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
R |
- |
| 1249 |
As Good As It Gets |
1997 |
James L. Brooks |
PG13 |
- |
| 1252 |
An Affair to Remember |
1957 |
Leo McCarey |
NR |
- |
| 1257 |
10 Things I Hate About You |
1999 |
Gil Junger |
PG13 |
- |
| 1258 |
Terms of Endearment |
1983 |
James L. Brooks |
PG |
- |
| 1259 |
Coming to America |
1988 |
John Landis |
R |
- |
| 1261 |
Grease |
1978 |
Randal Kleiser |
PG |
- |
| 1297 |
Tootsie |
1982 |
Sydney Pollack |
PG |
- |
| 1305 |
Love Actually |
2003 |
Richard Curtis |
R |
- |
| 1307 |
Wedding Crashers |
2005 |
David Dobkin |
R |
- |
| 1311 |
Sophie's Choice |
1982 |
Alan J. Pakula |
R |
- |
| 1317 |
A Woman is a Woman |
1961 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
NR |
- |
| 1324 |
The Misfits |
1961 |
John Huston |
NR |
- |
| 1325 |
Seven Days in May |
1964 |
John Frankenheimer |
NR |
- |
| 1327 |
Time After Time |
1979 |
Nicholas Meyer |
PG |
- |
| 1347 |
The Unknown |
1927 |
Tod Browning |
NR |
- |
| 1348 |
Wings |
1927 |
William A. Wellman |
NR |
- |
| 1349 |
I Know Where I'm Going! |
1945 |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
NR |
- |
| 1376 |
If.... |
1968 |
Lindsay Anderson |
NR |
- |
| 1390 |
Brooklyn |
2015 |
John Crowley |
PG13 |
- |
| 1391 |
Gold Diggers of 1933 |
1933 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
NR |
- |
| 1392 |
Splendor in the Grass |
1961 |
Elia Kazan |
NR |
- |
| 1399 |
Blue Is the Warmest Color |
2013 |
Abdellatif Kechiche |
NC17 |
- |
| 1411 |
Reds |
1981 |
Warren Beatty |
PG |
- |
| 1432 |
Grand Hotel |
1932 |
Edmund Goulding |
NR |
- |
| 1434 |
The Big Parade |
1925 |
King Vidor |
NR |
- |
| 1446 |
On the Town |
1949 |
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
NR |
- |
| 1452 |
Summer with Monika |
1953 |
Ingmar Bergman |
NR |
- |
| 1455 |
Black Orpheus |
1959 |
Marcel Camus |
PG |
- |
| 1463 |
The Spy Who Loved Me |
1977 |
Lewis Gilbert |
PG |
- |
| 1471 |
Sense and Sensibility |
1995 |
Ang Lee |
PG |
- |
| 1481 |
Natural Born Killers |
1994 |
Oliver Stone |
R |
- |
| 1496 |
Mr. Nobody |
2009 |
Jaco van Dormael |
NR |
- |
| 1499 |
Something Wild |
1986 |
Jonathan Demme |
R |
- |
| 1500 |
Never Let Me Go |
2010 |
Mark Romanek |
R |
- |
| 1506 |
The Wedding Singer |
1998 |
Frank Coraci |
PG13 |
- |
| 1515 |
Funny Face |
1957 |
Stanley Donen |
NR |
- |
| 1517 |
The Goodbye Girl |
1977 |
Herbert Ross |
PG |
- |
| 1519 |
Beginners |
2010 |
Mike Mills |
R |
- |
| 1529 |
The Age of Innocence |
1993 |
Martin Scorsese |
PG |
- |
| 1533 |
Only Lovers Left Alive |
2013 |
Jim Jarmusch |
R |
- |
| 1537 |
Guys and Dolls |
1955 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
NR |
- |
| 1545 |
Carol |
2015 |
Todd Haynes |
R |
- |
