The Top 100 Romance Movies of All Time

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The Top 100 Romance Movies of All Time
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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15 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
17 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin G -
24 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz PG -
25 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder NR -
35 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 -
63 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis PG13 -
75 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton NR -
84 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra NR -
86 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
104 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor NR -
105 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray NR -
109 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford NR -
112 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis PG -
114 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger PG -
117 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks NR -
118 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant R -
119 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur NR -
120 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick PG -
122 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin NR -
123 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright R -
126 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks NR -
135 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong Kar-Wai PG -
143 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry R -
145 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick PG -
151 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges NR -
153 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks NR -
161 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
163 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger NR -
165 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen PG -
170 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean NR -
182 Chungking Express 1994 Wong Kar-Wai PG13 -
183 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen NR -
197 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
207 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
211 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
213 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
220 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava NR -
231 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly NR -
233 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen R -
250 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler NR -
279 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy NR -
283 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn R -
286 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders PG13 -
294 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné NR -
295 Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson R -
302 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby PG -
309 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 -
351 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich NR -
357 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
360 Her 2013 Spike Jonze R -
365 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski R -
392 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
393 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks NR -
395 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle NR -
400 The African Queen 1951 John Huston NR -
408 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott R -
428 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson PG13 -
435 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut NR -
444 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin NR -
446 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann NR -
447 Pierrot le fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
453 Before Midnight 2013 Richard Linklater R -
458 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles NR -
461 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
463 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen PG -
467 Big 1988 Penny Marshall PG -
472 Holiday 1938 George Cukor NR -
481 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau NR -
487 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 Edgar Wright PG13 -
491 La La Land 2016 Damien Chazelle PG13 -
499 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais NR -
500 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens NR -
509 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
517 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears R -
519 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay PG13 -
523 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick NR -
528 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor NR -
537 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards NR -
540 La jetée 1962 Chris Marker NR -
541 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder NR -
550 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick NR -
561 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann NR -
574 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks NR -
578 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski R -
582 L'atalante 1934 Jean Vigo NR -
586 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak NR -
592 Once 2006 John Carney R -
594 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford NR -
595 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
601 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy NR -

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