For me - Brief Encounter (1945)
I can just hear a few notes of the Rachmaninov piano concerto before I want to start blubbering all over again. (I know, mary)
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For me - Brief Encounter (1945)
I can just hear a few notes of the Rachmaninov piano concerto before I want to start blubbering all over again. (I know, mary)
by Anonymous | reply 192 | August 24, 2022 12:05 AM |
The Earrings of Madame De ...
One of the best scenes in film history:
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 15, 2022 12:51 PM |
The Remains of the Day.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 15, 2022 12:57 PM |
A Little Romance.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 15, 2022 1:01 PM |
Love in the Afternoon.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 15, 2022 1:02 PM |
Hetero: THE LADY EVE (41).
Homo (Male): WEEKEND (11).
Homo (Female): BOUND (96).
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 15, 2022 1:11 PM |
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE knocked the wind out of me the first time I saw it, back when it was new.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 15, 2022 1:44 PM |
Love Story
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 15, 2022 1:49 PM |
Dr. Zhivago
North By Northwest
Moonstruck
Romeo and Juliet...That haunting score
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 15, 2022 2:01 PM |
Seconded, r9: Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet."
Leonard Whiting singing the lyrics:
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 15, 2022 2:06 PM |
The End of the Affair
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 15, 2022 2:06 PM |
R9 do you think NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a romantic movie? It’s more like a thriller than anything else.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 15, 2022 2:10 PM |
Ghost
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 15, 2022 2:12 PM |
Wuthering Heights (the 1939 version)
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 15, 2022 2:13 PM |
Love pretty much every title that's been mentioned thus far; I'll add Random Harvest (1942), with Ronald Colman as an amnesiac WWI veteran and Greer Garson as the woman who devotedly loves him.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 15, 2022 2:13 PM |
Titanic
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 15, 2022 2:13 PM |
The English Patient
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 15, 2022 2:15 PM |
R18 I hate The English Patient!
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 15, 2022 2:16 PM |
R12 One of the most beautiful asses ever captured on film.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 15, 2022 2:17 PM |
Never Let Me Go
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 15, 2022 2:27 PM |
Notting Hill
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 15, 2022 2:28 PM |
Sleeping with the Enemy
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 15, 2022 2:29 PM |
R13, that's why I love it. And I'd add Saboteur, Rear Window, Notorious, Dial M for Murder. They are all thrillers or suspense films, but romance is integral to them as well.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 15, 2022 2:29 PM |
Brokeback Mountain
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 15, 2022 2:34 PM |
Gone With the Wind
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 15, 2022 2:38 PM |
Call me by your name
Just kidding, just kidding!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 15, 2022 2:41 PM |
The Fault in Our Stars
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 15, 2022 2:43 PM |
The Shawshank Redemption
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 15, 2022 2:43 PM |
La La Land
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 15, 2022 2:44 PM |
I Know Where I'm Going
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 15, 2022 2:47 PM |
R28 That review is hilarious! So many bon mots!
[quote] We’re nearly a quarter of the way into the film before Boray meets Helen Wright (Joan Crawford), a near-sighted, filthy rich, Peggy Guggenheim-style hostess/lush who falls hard for Boray after he saws his violin and insults her at one of her parties. “Bad manners, Mr. Boray,” she declares, “the infallible sign of talent!” Later, she takes him out to her favorite bar and asks, “Don’t you like martinis? They’re an acquired taste, like Ravel.” Those who are familiar with the once-lauded plays of Clifford Odets will find his hyperbolic, wondrously godawful style all over the dialogue (he co-wrote the script, stealing from his own play Golden Boy). Humoresque is jam-packed with classical music recitals, the usual cultural sauce Warner Bros. dribbled all over their ‘40s soap operas.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 15, 2022 3:01 PM |
I love that line r33, “Bad manners, Mr. Boray, an infallible sign of talent…”
I agree that some of the dialogue is godawful and Oscar Levant gives the right performance in the wrong movie…but the film is a delight to watch. I especially love the scene where there’s a closeup of Joan’s face while she’s listening to Garfield play the violin. She totally looks like she’s cumming!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 15, 2022 3:17 PM |
Two for the road. Audrey Hepburn and Albert finney make an odd but interesting couple. Love the setting in the south of France and the music (the score by Mancini).
I’m also partial to an affair to remember which I think is stunningly beautiful to look at.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 15, 2022 3:26 PM |
The romance part of Rear Window made me ill, R24.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 15, 2022 4:13 PM |
[quote]Two for the road. Audrey Hepburn and Albert finney make an odd but interesting couple. Love the setting in the south of France and the music
That's the most interesting part of a mediocre movie.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 15, 2022 4:14 PM |
"It happened one night" still the one romcom that set the blue print for every other one to come after (which they have yet failed to equal)
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 15, 2022 4:17 PM |
Waterloo Bridge (1940) w/Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor), Now Voyager (1942) w/Bette Davis and Paul Henreid, Love Letters (1945) (w/Jennifer Jones & Joseph Cotten).
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 15, 2022 4:19 PM |
I also like Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955) w/ Jennifer Jones and William Holden. Not much to it but it's very sincere and well done.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 15, 2022 4:22 PM |
All of you should have immediately replied "Maurice". For shame.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 15, 2022 4:32 PM |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)
Both ghost stories. Go figure.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 15, 2022 4:39 PM |
Waterloo Bridge, the 1940 version. Love James Whale's original but it's more cynical than romantic. Leigh and Taylor and everyone surrounding them are superb. And there's not a dull moment in the movie; it just moves like lightning from one big moment to the next.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 15, 2022 4:44 PM |
R31 = Faye Dunaway
My choice is God's Own Country
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 15, 2022 4:50 PM |
r39, r43, did you know that Waterloo Bridge (1940) is absolutely cherished in China?
When MGM released its adaptation of the hit Broadway WWI drama “Waterloo Bridge” into American theaters in May 1940, it was generally well-received. When the film hit Chinese screens six months later, it proved a sensation. Part of the film’s success can be attributed to the appeal of its stars: Robert Taylor was a well-known actor, and Vivien Leigh was coming off the smash hit “Gone With the Wind.” But its story about true love amid a world at war also struck a chord with Chinese audiences, and within just a few months of its premiere, “Waterloo Bridge” had been turned into a Shaoxing opera, a Chinese-language film, and Shanghai’s first huju.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 15, 2022 5:08 PM |
I reluctantly admit I love The Notebook. Yes, I cried.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 15, 2022 5:30 PM |
Love, Actually.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 15, 2022 5:35 PM |
The Age of Innocence
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 15, 2022 5:40 PM |
ONCE. The two leads fall in love but never make love or even kiss and they go off to their respective partners at the end. That ending just kills me.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 15, 2022 5:45 PM |
R49 That's The Remains of the Day, too.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 15, 2022 5:47 PM |
Does Becket count as a romance movie? They were obviously in love with each other
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 15, 2022 5:47 PM |
OP Come sit by me. I watched that film Brief Affair and found it poignant, too.
R32, Definitely “I know where I am going”, too. On the strength and conviction of Wendy Heller’s and Roger Livesey’s performances. So good.
Livesey was a really appealing presence on film, especially in The Entertainer.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 15, 2022 5:48 PM |
I know it’s an odd choice, but the closing scene of The Unholy Three, where Lon Cheney, on his way to prison, sets Lila Lee free to be with nerdy Elliot Nugent. It’s very sweet and uplifting.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 15, 2022 5:59 PM |
OP, I agree about Brief Encounter. The final scene between Celia and Trevor at the train station breaks my heart every time as well as her husband's trust and obliviousness at her attempted infidelity. The movie was remade with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep but I never saw it. There is no improving on this classic.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 15, 2022 6:33 PM |
R54 I actually rather liked falling in love - the steep deniro remake. It seemed more like an interpretation rather than a repeat. I enjoyed the updated New York setting and I liked deniro in it.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 15, 2022 7:09 PM |
R9 Dr. Zhivago also one of my faves
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 15, 2022 7:26 PM |
Richard Burton and Sophia Loren did a TV remake of BRIEF ENCOUNTER back in the seventies. And yes, it’s as bad as you can imagine it.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 15, 2022 7:27 PM |
R57 wow I can imagine.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 15, 2022 7:29 PM |
Strictly Ballroom
Electric Dreams
Were the World Mine
The Sound of Music
She's Out of My League
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 15, 2022 7:32 PM |
Battleship Potemkin
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 15, 2022 7:33 PM |
Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr did a radio version of Brief Encounter I used to have on cassette and it was nice.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 15, 2022 7:40 PM |
By the way, though The Lady Eve is one of my favorite movies, I wouldn't classify it as a romance movie. I'm glad it was mentioned, though, it's fantastic.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 15, 2022 7:53 PM |
"Somewhere in Time."
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 15, 2022 8:02 PM |
Rebecca My Own Private Idaho Say Anything Jane Eyre - Timothy Dalton It used to also be what R65 said but I began to feel irritated by Jane Seymour's weird smiles in that movie.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 15, 2022 8:13 PM |
Rotting Dill
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 15, 2022 8:15 PM |
Barbara Stanwyck didn’t make a lot of romantic films. MY REPUTATION comes close. THE OTHER LOVE is a love story, but the script was pretty bad.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 16, 2022 12:20 AM |
I agree with whoever said Gone with the wind...maybe it's considered more than just a romance movie but Rhett and Scarlett are for sure my favorite hetero film pairing of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 16, 2022 12:24 AM |
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN. Joan Fontaine was so lovely and so tragic in this. And Louis Jourdan was the perfect homme fatale. I haven’t seen it in a while…time to download a copy.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 16, 2022 12:33 AM |
No one has picked WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? *SHAME*
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 16, 2022 1:32 AM |
Atonement
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 16, 2022 1:44 AM |
[quote]Barbara Stanwyck didn’t make a lot of romantic films. MY REPUTATION comes close. THE OTHER LOVE is a love story, but the script was pretty bad.
Stanwyck starred in a lovely and often overlooked Christmastime romance called "Remember the Night" in 1940, opposite her future "Double Indemnity" co-star Fred MacMurray.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 16, 2022 2:02 AM |
I forgot about REMEMBER THE NIGHT R73. Love that movie.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 16, 2022 2:15 AM |
Under the Cherry Moon
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 16, 2022 2:18 AM |
Miracle Mile
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 16, 2022 2:19 AM |
Moulin Rouge
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 16, 2022 2:19 AM |
Blue Valentine
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 16, 2022 2:20 AM |
Dr. Zhivago and The Age of Innocence.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 16, 2022 2:22 AM |
Groundhog Day
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 16, 2022 2:24 AM |
The Fabulous Baker Boys. Michelle Pfeiffer at her most beautiful, and the handsome Jeff Bridges for you gentlemen.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 16, 2022 2:28 AM |
Before Sunrise
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 16, 2022 2:30 AM |
R81 I’m a big homo but the piano scene is one of the most scorchingly hot scenes ever put on film. And one of my all-time favourites. Just pure joy radiating off the screen.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 16, 2022 2:41 AM |
Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 16, 2022 2:42 AM |
R62 I never knew about that remake of Brief Encounter. Thank you. I love the original and am looking forward to watching that remake. I didn't care for the one with DeNiro and Streep.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 16, 2022 2:47 AM |
Dawson's 50 Load Weekend
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 16, 2022 2:52 AM |
The Way We Were
Making Love
Portrait of Jennie
On the Beach
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 16, 2022 2:57 AM |
R1 The wonderful 'Madame De' is very cynical and it praised adultery, didn't it?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 16, 2022 3:04 AM |
Choose Me (1984)
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 16, 2022 3:06 AM |
R62 That remake of Brief Encounter was an ANTI-romantic movie.
The scriptwriter made the characters dull, suburban and very depressed.
Loren was made to look ugly and Burton was asleep. It's a good movie to make you want to commit suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 16, 2022 3:29 AM |
I don't think I can name my favorite romance movie. I reckon half of those listed so far ended in death, suicide or unhappiness at the end.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 16, 2022 3:34 AM |
Trick.. that movie was fun too
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 16, 2022 4:00 AM |
R67 that's the sequel to Rotting Dean
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 16, 2022 4:30 AM |
In the mood for love
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 16, 2022 4:32 AM |
Mo’ Better Blues…one of Spike Lee’s most underrated films.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 16, 2022 5:31 PM |
White palace with James spade and Susan Sarandon
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 16, 2022 5:47 PM |
War of the Roses
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 16, 2022 5:51 PM |
R71 DING DING DING. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is THE correct answer; sooooo many love relationships -I can’t count them all !
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 17, 2022 12:23 AM |
Love Affair (1939)/An Affair To Remember (1957).
Roman Holiday (1953)
by Anonymous | reply 100 | August 17, 2022 12:36 AM |
The romance movie police have weighed in
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 17, 2022 12:49 AM |
I'm flexible with the definition of a "romance": for example, I would consider The Fly (1986) to be a classic tragic romance.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 17, 2022 3:29 AM |
"Nights in Rodanthe," re-uniting Richard Gere and Diane Lane ("Unfaithful").
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 17, 2022 3:37 AM |
Doomed Romance movies are more interesting than fluffy romance movies.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 17, 2022 3:55 AM |
Summertime with Katharine Hepburn is another Romance film I love to watch because it’s so nice to look at. I really feel like I’m on holiday watching it.
About mrs. Leslie - I just love Robert Ryan in this one.
A new leaf - funny romance.
Does the heiress count as romance?
Also Senso
And the Francois Truffaut films bed and board and stolen kisses
Dodsworth
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 17, 2022 4:45 AM |
Saturday night fever
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 17, 2022 4:46 AM |
The wings of the dove is a dark romance that I love
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 17, 2022 4:48 AM |
[quote]Does the heiress count as romance?
No.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 17, 2022 6:29 AM |
R103 God, I hated that movie.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 17, 2022 11:12 AM |
Esta película romántica no era una película simple, empalagosa, de chico conoce a chica/chico pierde a chica.
Tenía inteligencia y personajes intelectualmente consistentes.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 17, 2022 12:48 PM |
There’s an out of print book called THE GREAT ROMANTIC FILMS by Lawrence Quirk. It lists several films mentioned here and even counts STELLA DALLAS as a romantic film…some used copies are available on Amazon…
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 17, 2022 1:55 PM |
The Princess Bride
Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon
I thought Yentl was romantic too. Barbara Streisand Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin. I probably spelled at least one of the previous words wrongly.
The Phantom Thread
BTW I think Johnny Mathis sang that beautiful song in Romeo and Juliet from the late sixties. He wasn't in the movie. That man has a beautiful voice.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 17, 2022 2:18 PM |
^Johnny Mathis was a FRUIT. Didn't your mother tell you ANYTHING?!!
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 17, 2022 2:56 PM |
Love With a Proper Stranger
Splendor in the Grass
Picnic
Sayonara
Summer Place
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 17, 2022 4:13 PM |
[quote]Johnny Mathis was a FRUIT.
And still is.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 17, 2022 7:16 PM |
"Picnic" is an example of a romantic movie without a happy ending. If you think the ending is happy, you weren't paying attention.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 17, 2022 7:18 PM |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 17, 2022 7:34 PM |
R117 And proud of it, you old whores!
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 17, 2022 8:07 PM |
Time After Time
Moonstruck
Random Harvest
Manhattan
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 17, 2022 8:19 PM |
R118 So why did William Inge rewrite the play (as Summer Brave) so that Hal and Madge don't end up together?
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 17, 2022 10:54 PM |
When I was younger (I am female) I thought the ending of Picnic was perfect and romantic. When I got older I realized what a potentially hard disappointing life Hal and Madge had ahead of them. Now that I am in my 50s I TOTALLY understand Madge’s mom begging her not to waste her “YOUNG and PRETTY YEARS.” I was very pretty - it never occurs to you it doesn’t last long and more pretty young girls are nipping at your heels. ……. In Picnic you can hope that Madge and Hal have a real true love that will last and they can build a simple happy life together. ……… In “Summer Brave” Inge was cruel to Madge - in Picnic she left with Hal and you could at least HOPE they had a happy ending. …. In Summer Brave after humiliating her rich boyfriend Alan by having a pretty public one night affair with Hal - losing her virginity the night of Labor “Neewala,” - she stays home when Hal leaves town. Alan dumps her and she walks to work at the at the drugstore - now she as seen not as the “Great Beauty Madge” now she is “Madge the Town Slut - Damaged Goods.” … The same boys that admired and flirted with her at the beginning of the play - jeer and cat call at her at the end ……. I have loved Picnic since I was a teenager - is there anything sexier then the snare drum in Moonglow?
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 17, 2022 11:36 PM |
The Goodbye Girl
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 17, 2022 11:54 PM |
UNTIL SEPTEMBER.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 18, 2022 12:18 AM |
THIS LOVE OF OURS
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 18, 2022 12:20 AM |
BONNIE & CLYDE.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | August 18, 2022 12:24 AM |
The original 1959 “Gidget” with Sandra Dee and very sexy James Darren as Moondoggie and sleepy-sexy Cliff Robertson as The Big Kahuna. It is a sweet, sunny romantic movie.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | August 18, 2022 12:27 AM |
Maurice
The Lady Eve. (It has one of my favorite lines of dialogue: “The fish was a poem.”)
The Palm Beach Story
Humoresque
Now, Voyager
by Anonymous | reply 129 | August 18, 2022 12:45 AM |
A beautiful woman throws her life away for a man @R118
by Anonymous | reply 130 | August 18, 2022 1:20 AM |
Out of Africa
by Anonymous | reply 131 | August 18, 2022 1:20 AM |
The Bridges of Madison County
by Anonymous | reply 132 | August 18, 2022 1:21 AM |
Pride and Prejudice
by Anonymous | reply 133 | August 18, 2022 1:21 AM |
Any that ends in betrayal and tragedy. I prefer realism in movies.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | August 18, 2022 1:27 AM |
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS
by Anonymous | reply 135 | August 18, 2022 1:30 AM |
Brokeback Mountain
by Anonymous | reply 136 | August 18, 2022 1:31 AM |
R54, do you think the husband is completely oblivious? He says something at the end, when she’s sitting in the armchair at home, looking shellshocked, that sounds as if he’s gently (in that quiet, dignified, 20th C. British way) letting her know that he knows that something’s been going on and he’s just glad she’s back. It’s a glimmer of hope at the end of the film, that he knows her so well and stands by her and deeply loves her.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | August 18, 2022 2:09 AM |
I love Sabrina - the original - I love the way Audrey Hepburn pronounces “ Gah-rahg”. = Garage. And the wonderful “Isn’t It Romantic” playing at the big parties so David - William Holden can take champagne to the indoor tennis court and romance the young Debs.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | August 18, 2022 3:52 AM |
R118, Likewise "Splendor."
by Anonymous | reply 139 | August 18, 2022 8:58 PM |
Picnic at Hanging Rock with Rachel Roberts?
by Anonymous | reply 140 | August 18, 2022 9:00 PM |
I agree, r137. There are always almost-imperceptible changes, operative word "almost."
by Anonymous | reply 141 | August 18, 2022 9:01 PM |
R123, Or sexier than Hal's hips? (I adore William Holden.)
I, alas, was not "very pretty," or any other kind. Nobody was nipping at MY heels, thanks for small favors, haha!
At movie's end I was rooting for those two crazy kids!
by Anonymous | reply 142 | August 18, 2022 9:06 PM |
Sunset Blvd
by Anonymous | reply 143 | August 18, 2022 9:53 PM |
Fatal Attraction
by Anonymous | reply 144 | August 18, 2022 9:53 PM |
Basic Instinct
by Anonymous | reply 145 | August 18, 2022 9:54 PM |
Indecent Proposal
by Anonymous | reply 146 | August 18, 2022 9:54 PM |
Picnic ended happily for Rosalind Russell's character.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | August 18, 2022 10:49 PM |
Forgot The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | August 18, 2022 10:54 PM |
[quote] Forgot The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Did you forget you posted at R42 and R119 already?
by Anonymous | reply 149 | August 18, 2022 11:03 PM |
Why don't you use the nozzle from your vaccum to relax a bit, sweetie.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | August 18, 2022 11:05 PM |
^
That rainbow symbolised the sign of hope at the end of the Russian Revolution and the beginning of the new Soviet empire.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | August 19, 2022 12:25 AM |
2 In The Seat
by Anonymous | reply 153 | August 19, 2022 12:30 AM |
Brief Encounter.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | August 19, 2022 12:36 AM |
Shoot the moon.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | August 19, 2022 1:36 AM |
Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | August 19, 2022 1:37 AM |
[quote]Picnic ended happily for Rosalind Russell's character.
But perhaps not for Arthur O'Connell's character.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | August 19, 2022 1:38 AM |
A Walk on the Moon with Viggo and Diane Lane
The Way We Were
The Holiday
Three way tie.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | August 19, 2022 1:41 AM |
OP, I don't blame you. Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto is an emotional roller coaster in and of itself. Do they use the entire concerto in the film?
by Anonymous | reply 159 | August 19, 2022 1:55 AM |
The excerpts from Rachmaninoff are very well edited into the rhythm of the movie— after all David Lean was a genius at capturing the drama of moment and editing out the dross.
People have tried and failed to match the moment in the music and the moment in the movie. It's impossible.
I wouldn't be surprised if the sequences are out of sequence.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | August 19, 2022 2:00 AM |
Letter From an Unknown Woman.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | August 19, 2022 2:46 AM |
It Could Happen To You
by Anonymous | reply 162 | August 19, 2022 2:49 AM |
When Harry Met Sally
by Anonymous | reply 163 | August 19, 2022 2:49 AM |
It Happened At Night
by Anonymous | reply 164 | August 19, 2022 2:57 AM |
The Bridges of Madison County. An older friend took me to see the film when it originally came to theaters. I remember being so moved, but, my friend felt even more so, he was very emotional; he openly weeped. I, being young and immature, felt uncomfortable and awkward in the presence of such an emotional older human. I could never tell my friend how overcome and overwhelmed I felt. I have watched and been extremely moved by the movie ever since. I always think of my friend, David and his raw emotions; he was truly moved and I am as well.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | August 19, 2022 3:33 AM |
#165 Bridges of Madison County clobbered me also. I saw when it came out in the nineties shortly after “The” relationship of my life ended. I instinctively knew I would never be happy like that again (unfortunately I was right):- something about those characters yearning for each other all of those years….as far as your emotional friend goes - you have to wonder how many of us carry those types of loves and disappoints and keep them hidden for years …
by Anonymous | reply 166 | August 19, 2022 5:56 AM |
Summmertime with Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi. Discovered this film by accident a few years ago. I swooned when I saw Rossano on screen— an actor I was unfamiliar with and was swept away with this romantic summer time romance. I always fantasize about meeting someone like this when going on a vacation
by Anonymous | reply 167 | August 19, 2022 9:57 AM |
Hepburn is so unattractive it is amazing she was ever a movie star. All bones and nasal voice do not a beauty make.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | August 19, 2022 1:52 PM |
R168 What an original comment!
by Anonymous | reply 169 | August 19, 2022 5:55 PM |
Many have already been mentioned, but here are mine:
The English Patient Out of Africa Impromptu The French Lieutenant's Woman Sense and Sensibility- Ang Lee film Pride and Prejudice (2005) - prefer this film, I know it's not the majority opinion Persuasion (1995) Rebecca (1940) The Age of Innocence A Room with a View (Merchant Ivory film, not the miniseries) A Stolen Life Dark Victory Mr. Skeffington Humoresque Bridges of Madison County The Accidental Tourist Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) - doomed romance / scifi (agree with The Fly assessment) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Interview with a Vampire - obviously a romance between Louis and Lestat Great Expectations (1998)
by Anonymous | reply 170 | August 19, 2022 6:15 PM |
{quote] I never knew about that remake of Brief Encounter. Thank you. I love the original and am looking forward to watching that remake. I didn't care for the one with DeNiro and Streep.
Brief Encounter was also remade for TV in the 70's with Burton and Loren.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | August 19, 2022 7:21 PM |
Ditto for Summertime. David Lean was some director huh?
by Anonymous | reply 174 | August 19, 2022 9:33 PM |
Another Kim Novak darkish romance was Paddy C (can’t spell it and I’m on a little phone) “Middle Of the Night” - Kim is a young divorcee who falls for Frederic March her recently widowed much older boss. Shows the New York Garment District in the late 1950s. It very much has the look and slight melancholy of The Apartment.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | August 19, 2022 9:52 PM |
Kim's good in that, r175, in the role Gena Rowlands played on stage.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | August 19, 2022 10:07 PM |
I just remembered my favorite movie when I was young: Bringing Up Baby. I adored Katherine and Cary; I thought they were beautiful and sophisticated and witty. What a fun romantic comedy! I must have watched it over 20 times as a child and at least that many as an adult. Cary Grant can do no wrong as a romantic lead in my opinion.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | August 19, 2022 11:44 PM |
A screwball comedy, not a romance movie.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | August 20, 2022 12:30 PM |
The Before Trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight) . Saw each movie as they were released and love to see how the relationship evolved. I was happy with just Before Sunrise alone (been in a one night stand myself that turned to a two year relationship) but to see the relationship evolved in the other films was great to watch over the years and amazing feat in filmmaking
by Anonymous | reply 179 | August 20, 2022 12:56 PM |
I agree with lots on this thread. Cannot pick a favorite. I thought recently that Timothy C’s portrayal of a young love struck fellow was very moving. Decades ago the last scene when Wood’s character visits Bud on his shoddy farm was very moving. Many more. The doomed love at the core of Sophie’s Choice is a big one. All I have to do to weep is hear the music from the film.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | August 20, 2022 1:24 PM |
Doctor Zhivago: the Tonya parts not the Lara parts.
Tonya was an innocent; Lara was a big-busted, whiny-voiced, loose-lipped adulteress.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | August 20, 2022 11:46 PM |
I think because we know how screwy Debra Winger is we overlook that Officer and a Gentleman is a really romantic movie - they may not have liked each other but Winger and Richard Gere have great chemistry….. Actually - with all of the gay John Travolta stuff we hear - Urban Cowboy and his relationship with Sissy - Debra Winger takes me out of his usual Travolta thing, That is a pretty romantic movie, too.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | August 21, 2022 4:13 AM |
About Last Night (the original). I really liked that one at the time. Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, with Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | August 21, 2022 12:16 PM |
Sexy Beast
by Anonymous | reply 184 | August 21, 2022 12:23 PM |
[quote] Romance movies involve romantic love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.
[quote] It can come in five genres.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | August 21, 2022 12:28 PM |
R185 Sorry, that Wikipedia article is ridiculous. A Night At The Opera (Marx Bros.) is not a romance movie.
"Romantic action is a film that blend romance and action. Examples include Foreign Correspondent, The Best Years of Our Lives"
There's no action in The Best Years of Our Lives. And it would be a stretch to call it a "romance movie." Just because a movie has a love story in it doesn't mean it's a romance movie. Foreign Correspondent is suspense.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | August 21, 2022 1:20 PM |
Romantic action would me more like Charade, with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It's actually half romance movie, half suspense.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | August 21, 2022 3:07 PM |
Titanic
by Anonymous | reply 188 | August 22, 2022 4:49 PM |
"Titanic" is also my favorite romance movie, only the 1953 version with Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | August 22, 2022 6:32 PM |
Invitation (1952). An introverted woman (Dorothy McGuire) with a heart condition discovers that her father (Louis Calhern) paid her popular, successful husband (Van Johnson) to marry her - when her romantic rival (Ruth Roman) lets the cat out of the bag.
I don't know whether it's a romance movie or a "women's picture" - is there a difference?
by Anonymous | reply 190 | August 22, 2022 7:26 PM |
Moulin Rouge
by Anonymous | reply 191 | August 23, 2022 6:36 PM |
Blue Lagoon
by Anonymous | reply 192 | August 24, 2022 12:05 AM |
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