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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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
74 -1
City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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Bringing Up Baby
1938, in 23 top lists Check -
76 -1
Holiday
1938, in 8 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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His Girl Friday
1940, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Shop Around the Corner
1940, in 14 top lists Check -
80 -1
Waterloo Bridge
1940, in 3 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945, in 13 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 -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948, in 15 top lists Check -
97 -1
Un chant d'amour
1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check -
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The African Queen
1951, in 11 top lists Check -
67 -1
Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
91 -1
Roman Holiday
1953, in 13 top lists Check -
61 -1
Chikamatsu monogatari
1954 — a.k.a. A Story from Chikamatsu, in 10 top lists Check -
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All That Heaven Allows
1955, in 11 top lists Check -
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An Affair to Remember
1957, in 9 top lists Check -
89 -1
Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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The Apartment
1960, in 28 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
78 -1
Splendor in the Grass
1961, in 7 top lists Check -
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West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
62 -1
Jules et Jim
1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 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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Doctor Zhivago
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
85 -1
Pierrot le fou
1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check -
93 -1
Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
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Harold and Maude
1971, in 22 top lists Check -
87 -1
Badlands
1973, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Way We Were
1973, in 6 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 -
5 -1
Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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Manhattan
1979, in 20 top lists Check -
60 -1
Gregory's Girl
1980, in 10 top lists Check -
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An Officer and a Gentleman
1982, in 5 top lists Check -
64 -1
37°2 le matin
1986 — a.k.a. Betty Blue, in 8 top lists Check -
92 -1
The Fly
1986, in 11 top lists Check -
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Dirty Dancing
1987, in 10 top lists Check -
66 -1
Der Himmel über Berlin
1987 — a.k.a. Wings of Desire, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988, in 6 top lists Check
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