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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  1. 77 -1

    Once

    2007, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 35 -

    All That Heaven Allows

    1955, in 11 top lists Check
  3. 94 -1

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    1990, in 10 top lists Check
  4. 84 -1

    Chung Hing sam lam

    1994 — a.k.a. Chungking Express, in 19 top lists Check
  5. 98 -1

    Atlantique

    2019 — a.k.a. Atlantics, in 6 top lists
    Check
  6. 86 -1

    Tabu

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 20 -

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  8. 70 -1

    Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

    2019 — a.k.a. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, in 12 top lists
    Check
  9. 26 -

    Les parapluies de Cherbourg

    1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check
  10. 100 -1

    Out of Sight

    1998, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 65 -1

    Moulin Rouge!

    2001, in 17 top lists Check
  12. 10 -

    Punch-Drunk Love

    2002, in 12 top lists Check
  13. 15 -

    Call Me by Your Name

    2017, in 11 top lists
    Check
  14. 76 -1

    Holiday

    1938, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 90 -1

    La La Land

    2016, in 18 top lists Check
  16. 33 -

    Moonlight

    2016, in 13 top lists Check
  17. 78 -1

    Splendor in the Grass

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 29 -

    Before Sunset

    2004, in 18 top lists Check
  19. 24 -

    Before Sunrise

    1995, in 14 top lists Check
  20. 49 -

    An Affair to Remember

    1957, in 9 top lists Check
  21. 4 +4

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  22. 57 -

    The Way We Were

    1973, in 6 top lists Check
  23. 22 -

    Les amants du Pont-Neuf

    1991 — a.k.a. The Lovers on the Bridge, in 11 top lists Check
  24. 54 -

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  25. 8 -1

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  26. 45 -

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  27. 3 -

    Fa yeung nin wah

    2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check
  28. 75 -1

    Four Weddings and a Funeral

    1994, in 13 top lists Check
  29. 82 -1

    Juno

    2007, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 64 -1

    37°2 le matin

    1986 — a.k.a. Betty Blue, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 62 -1

    Jules et Jim

    1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 top lists Check
  32. 7 -1

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  33. 51 -

    Edward Scissorhands

    1990, in 10 top lists Check
  34. 27 -

    The Bridges of Madison County

    1995, in 5 top lists Check
  35. 93 -1

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  36. 32 -

    The English Patient

    1996, in 19 top lists Check
  37. 63 -1

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  38. 38 -

    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  39. 25 -

    When Harry Met Sally...

    1989, in 16 top lists Check
  40. 30 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  41. 95 -1

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  42. 91 -1

    Roman Holiday

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  43. 47 -

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  44. 9 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  45. 66 -1

    Der Himmel über Berlin

    1987 — a.k.a. Wings of Desire, in 21 top lists Check
  46. 85 -1

    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check
  47. 36 -

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  48. 31 -

    Amour

    2012, in 15 top lists Check
  49. 79 -1

    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
  50. 81 -1

    Beauty and the Beast

    1991, in 19 top lists Check
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