Time Out's The 101 Most Romantic Films

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Romance may be dead in the real world, but in cinema, it’ll live forever. Love is simply too elemental of an emotion for filmmakers to ever abandon. If you live on earth, you’ve experienced it. Even if you’ve never, say, robbed a bank with your loved one or stood by your sweetheart as they transformed into a hideous monster, the best romantic films make you understand and sympathise with the decisions of those under love’s spell – because one way or another, we’ve all been there.

There are so many movies about love in all its complications that ranking the greatest of them is a manor challenge. To help us curate this list, we chatted to more than 100 filmmakers, actors and writers, from The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks to Notting Hill director Richard Curtis to our own Time Out scribes. We even got Miss Piggy to chime in. Whether you prefer comedies or dramas, horror or sci-fi, we’re sure you’ll find the following list of the 101 greatest romantic movies ever speaks to your own heart as well.

Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, Catherine Bray, Trevor Johnston, Andy P Kryza, Guy Lodge, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer

Last Updated: January 18, 2024

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    Past Lives

    2023, in 5 top lists
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  2. 98 -1

    Atlantique

    2019 — a.k.a. Atlantics, in 6 top lists
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  3. 70 -1

    Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

    2019 — a.k.a. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, in 12 top lists
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  4. 101 -1

    A Star Is Born

    2018, in 6 top lists
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  5. 86 -1

    Tabu

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  6. 80 -1

    Waterloo Bridge

    1940, in 3 top lists Check
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    Call Me by Your Name

    2017, in 11 top lists
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    Moonlight

    2016, in 13 top lists Check
  9. 72 -1

    The Notebook

    2004, in 1 top list Check
  10. 90 -1

    La La Land

    2016, in 18 top lists Check
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    Weekend

    2011, in 6 top lists Check
  12. 61 -1

    Chikamatsu monogatari

    1954 — a.k.a. A Story from Chikamatsu, in 10 top lists Check
  13. 69 -1

    Gegen die Wand

    2004 — a.k.a. Head-On, in 11 top lists Check
  14. 73 -1

    Silver Linings Playbook

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
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    Amour

    2012, in 15 top lists Check
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    Moonrise Kingdom

    2012, in 9 top lists Check
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    All That Heaven Allows

    1955, in 11 top lists Check
  18. 76 -1

    Holiday

    1938, in 8 top lists Check
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    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 85 -1

    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check
  21. 97 -1

    Un chant d'amour

    1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 95 -1

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    1948, in 15 top lists Check
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    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 23 top lists Check
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    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
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    Les amants du Pont-Neuf

    1991 — a.k.a. The Lovers on the Bridge, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Shop Around the Corner

    1940, in 14 top lists Check
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    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  29. 60 -1

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  30. 64 -1

    37°2 le matin

    1986 — a.k.a. Betty Blue, in 8 top lists Check
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    Angst essen Seele auf

    1974 — a.k.a. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, in 13 top lists Check
  32. 100 -1

    Out of Sight

    1998, in 7 top lists Check
  33. 99 -1

    Buffalo '66

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
  34. 68 -1

    Bright Star

    2009, in 4 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    Fucking Åmål

    1998 — a.k.a. Show Me Love, in 6 top lists Check
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    Les parapluies de Cherbourg

    1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check
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    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  39. 78 -1

    Splendor in the Grass

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
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    An Affair to Remember

    1957, in 9 top lists Check
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    True Romance

    1993, in 7 top lists Check
  42. 94 -1

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    1990, in 10 top lists Check
  43. 83 -1

    Say Anything...

    1989 — a.k.a. Say Anything, in 3 top lists Check
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    Before Sunset

    2004, in 18 top lists Check
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    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
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    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
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    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  48. 89 -1

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  49. 87 -1

    Badlands

    1973, in 23 top lists Check
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    Before Sunrise

    1995, in 14 top lists Check
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