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. 21 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  2. 74 -1

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  3. 55 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  4. 20 -

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  5. 42 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  6. 76 -1

    Holiday

    1938, in 8 top lists Check
  7. 12 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  8. 48 -

    His Girl Friday

    1940, in 21 top lists Check
  9. 54 -

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  10. 39 -

    The Shop Around the Corner

    1940, in 14 top lists Check
  11. 80 -1

    Waterloo Bridge

    1940, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 2 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  13. 1 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  14. 13 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  15. 17 -

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  16. 52 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  17. 4 +4

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  18. 50 -

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  19. 14 -

    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    1948, in 15 top lists Check
  20. 97 -1

    Un chant d'amour

    1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check
  21. 30 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  22. 67 -1

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  23. 91 -1

    Roman Holiday

    1953, in 13 top lists Check
  24. 61 -1

    Chikamatsu monogatari

    1954 — a.k.a. A Story from Chikamatsu, in 10 top lists Check
  25. 35 -

    All That Heaven Allows

    1955, in 11 top lists Check
  26. 49 -

    An Affair to Remember

    1957, in 9 top lists Check
  27. 89 -1

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  28. 8 -1

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  29. 36 -

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  30. 78 -1

    Splendor in the Grass

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
  31. 47 -

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  32. 62 -1

    Jules et Jim

    1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 top lists Check
  33. 26 -

    Les parapluies de Cherbourg

    1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check
  34. 95 -1

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  35. 85 -1

    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check
  36. 93 -1

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  37. 63 -1

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  38. 6 -1

    Harold and Maude

    1971, in 22 top lists Check
  39. 87 -1

    Badlands

    1973, in 23 top lists Check
  40. 57 -

    The Way We Were

    1973, in 6 top lists Check
  41. 34 -

    Angst essen Seele auf

    1974 — a.k.a. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, in 13 top lists Check
  42. 5 -1

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  43. 19 -

    Manhattan

    1979, in 20 top lists Check
  44. 60 -1

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  45. 56 -

    An Officer and a Gentleman

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
  46. 64 -1

    37°2 le matin

    1986 — a.k.a. Betty Blue, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 92 -1

    The Fly

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
  48. 41 -

    Dirty Dancing

    1987, in 10 top lists Check
  49. 66 -1

    Der Himmel über Berlin

    1987 — a.k.a. Wings of Desire, in 21 top lists Check
  50. 71 -1

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    1988, in 6 top lists Check
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