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Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List
AP via Yahoo ^ | 06.12.02 | AP-Yahoo

Posted on 06/12/2002 9:16:02 AM PDT by Registered

Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List
Wed Jun 12, 7:15 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The American Film Institute ( news - web sites)'s list of top 100 U.S. screen romances:

1. "Casablanca," 1942

2. "Gone With the Wind," 1939

3. "West Side Story," 1961

4. "Roman Holiday," 1953

5. "An Affair to Remember," 1957

6. "The Way We Were, 1973

7. "Doctor Zhivago," 1965

8. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946

9. "Love Story," 1970

10. "City Lights," 1931

11. "Annie Hall," 1977

12. "My Fair Lady," 1964

13. "Out of Africa," 1985

14. "The African Queen," 1951

15. "Wuthering Heights," 1939

16. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952

17. "Moonstruck," 1987

18. "Vertigo," 1958

19. "Ghost," 1990

20. "From Here to Eternity," 1953

21. "Pretty Woman," 1990

22. "On Golden Pond," 1981

23. "Now, Voyager, 1942

24. "King Kong," 1933

25. "When Harry Met Sally...," 1989

26. "The Lady Eve," 1941

27. "The Sound of Music," 1965

28. "The Shop Around the Corner," 1940

29. "An Officer and a Gentleman," 1982

30. "Swing Time," 1936

31. "The King and I," 1956

32. "Dark Victory," 1939

33. "Camille," 1937

34. "Beauty and the Beast," 1991

35. "Gigi," 1958

36. "Random Harvest," 1942

37. "Titanic," 1997

38. "It Happened One Night," 1934

39. "An American in Paris," 1951

40. "Ninotchka," 1939

41. "Funny Girl," 1968

42. "Anna Karenina," 1935

43. "A Star Is Born," 1954

44. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940

45. "Sleepless in Seattle," 1993

46. "To Catch a Thief," 1955

47. "Splendor in the Grass," 1961

48. "Last Tango in Paris," 1972

49. "The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946

50. "Shakespeare in Love," 1998

51. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938

52. "The Graduate," 1967

53. "A Place in the Sun," 1951

54. "Sabrina," 1954

55. "Reds," 1981

56. "The English Patient," 1996

57. "Two for the Road," 1967

58. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967

59. "Picnic," 1955

60. "To Have and Have Not," 1944

61. "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1961

62. "The Apartment," 1960

63. "Sunrise," 1927

64. "Marty," 1955

65. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967

66. "Manhattan," 1979

67. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951

68. "What's Up, Doc?," 1972

69. "Harold and Maude," 1971

70. "Sense and Sensibility," 1995

71. "Way Down East," 1920

72. "Roxanne," 1987

73. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," 1947

74. "Woman of the Year," 1942

75. "The American President," 1995

76. "The Quiet Man," 1952

77. "The Awful Truth," 1937

78. "Coming Home," 1978

79. "Jezebel," 1939

80. "The Sheik," 1921

81. "The Goodbye Girl," 1977

82. "Witness," 1985

83. "Morocco," 1930

84. "Double Indemnity," 1944

85. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," 1955

86. "Notorious," 1946

87. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," 1988

88. "The Princess Bride," 1987

89. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," 1966

90. "The Bridges of Madison County," 1995

91. "Working Girl," 1988

92. "Porgy and Bess," 1959

93. "Dirty Dancing," 1987

94. "Body Heat," 1981

95. "Lady and the Tramp," 1955

96. "Barefoot in the Park," 1967

97. "Grease," 1978

98. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," 1939

99. "Pillow Talk," 1959

100. "Jerry Maguire," 1996



TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: films; movies; romances
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I don't know why Raising Arizona didn't make the list.
1 posted on 06/12/2002 9:16:03 AM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered
That or Leaving Las Vegas Right?
2 posted on 06/12/2002 9:21:29 AM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: unix
I looked over the list and was surprised to find that I fell asleep through more than two-thirds of them!
3 posted on 06/12/2002 9:22:30 AM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered
Do these imbeciles realize that the "Graduate" was a black comedy about seduction, not a romance? Apparently not.
4 posted on 06/12/2002 9:22:46 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: unix
To omit "Flesh and the Devil", with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert and the most passionate screen kiss ever, indicates how little knowledge most Hollywood types have of the history of their own artform.
5 posted on 06/12/2002 9:24:02 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: Registered
I was going to vote for 'Glen or Glenda?' as tops on my list.
6 posted on 06/12/2002 9:24:02 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: Registered
What about:

Natural Born Killers

Sid and Nancy

Kalifornia

7 posted on 06/12/2002 9:24:30 AM PDT by Cicero5
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To: Registered
You're a flower, y'are, Ed.
8 posted on 06/12/2002 9:25:55 AM PDT by Dales
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To: Registered
Me too! I remember getting one of the best naps of my lifetime at Moonstruck.
9 posted on 06/12/2002 9:25:56 AM PDT by irish guard
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To: Registered
Notice how most of the movies on this list are at least 20 to 50 years old. Shows you the kind of movies they are making today
10 posted on 06/12/2002 9:26:40 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: Registered
So depending on who you are, if you cried or fell asleep you probably considered the movie for the list. I can think of plenty of films to make the list that aren't here. I always thought 'Remains of the Day' was a great movie about unrequited love (or unconsummated, anyway).

I'm probably one of the few men alive who hasn't seen Casablanca. Oh, I rented it once, but lost interest after a short while. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for it.

11 posted on 06/12/2002 9:27:56 AM PDT by TrappedInLiberalHell
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To: Registered
And who didn't cry at the end of Bonnie and Clyde when they got blown into a million pieces?
Yeah, that was a real tear-jerker.
At least now I can tell my wife "Honey, I rented one of the top 100 romance movies for us to watch tonight."
Maybe I'll even throw in Vertigo and make it a romance double-feature.
12 posted on 06/12/2002 9:33:34 AM PDT by ZGuy
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To: Registered
Well, I kinda thought Species was a heartwarming little romance...
13 posted on 06/12/2002 9:34:35 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
I vote for SHREK.
14 posted on 06/12/2002 9:38:59 AM PDT by 99tango
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To: Registered
"Night of the Living Dead".......sex life of a middle aged America?
15 posted on 06/12/2002 9:39:31 AM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: Registered
I looked for "Attack Of The Clones", but then realized you'd posted the top screen romances! :-P
16 posted on 06/12/2002 9:42:22 AM PDT by Darth Sidious
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To: Registered
What about Clint Eastwood and the bulldog in "Sudden Impact(?)"?
17 posted on 06/12/2002 9:42:46 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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"Vanishing Point"(1970)...reminds me of my love life...it's all over fast, with a big bang.
18 posted on 06/12/2002 9:43:59 AM PDT by morjon
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To: Uncle Hal
Ah the good old days when Director Ed Wood really knew how to make a romance film! (under the AFI's definition of anything under the sun)


19 posted on 06/12/2002 9:46:15 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: Registered
How the HELL can anyone think Pretty Woman is romantic? Prostitution by definition is seamy and unromantic.
20 posted on 06/12/2002 9:47:35 AM PDT by Xenalyte
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