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Love stories have always had their special place in the history of motion pictures. These ten movies did not merely entertain the audience; they enchanted, they broke and healed, they created war and sacrificed. They were declared to be the greatest romantic movies of all time by the American Film Institute and by the greatest critics of the world
Titanic, 1997
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This Oscar-winning epic needs no introduction, the tale of a sinking ship turned into a memorable movie heartbreak. Directed by James Cameron, this once-highest-grossing Hollywood movie has the reputation that no romantic movie has ever been so similar in its unbelievable emotional scope, according to IMDb and Collider critics.
Gone With The Wind, 1939.
It was number two on the American Film Institute list of the 100 greatest love stories – and personally, it seems low. The Civil War backdrop of this movie is torn apart by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O Hara.
Roman Holiday, 1953
The American Film Institute ranked it as one of the all-time love movies ever shot, and Rotten Tomatoes critics have never really disagreed with that statement. Here, Audrey Hepburn got her first Academy Award in the Best Actress category – and you know why in each and every scene she is on the screen with Gregory Peck.
Doctor Zhivago, 1965
The American Film Institute listed it as the seventh in the 100 Greatest Love Stories. Empire Magazine was simple about it: The sweeping Russian Revolution epic of David Lean is one of the most emotionally wrenching and emotional love stories ever shot on the screen, period.
Annie Hall, 1977
Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actress. Original screenplay – all in the same year. Both IMDb and Collider concur that Woody Allen changed the way in which Hollywood would be able to talk about love on screen, the way he did with his neurotic and bittersweet portrait of a failed relationship that would never be pieced together again.
Casablanca, 1942
In 1996, the American Film Institute conducted a poll among 1,800 directors, actors, and critics. They made the vote of Casablanca the best love story ever in American cinema history. That foggy runway. That final sacrifice. Nothing Hollywood has created in 80 years has done it as wrong as sheer romantic devastation.
La La Land, 2016
Nominations for fourteen Academy Awards, a record (as of that time). According to Time Out critics, as Sebastian and Mia finally separated, despite all the time they had together, the audiences remained silent in theaters around the globe. Such a conclusion justifies all such nominations.
Before Sunrise, 1995
Both Sight and Sound and Collider consider it one of the greatest romance movies of all time. One night. Two strangers. Vienna. Richard Linklater created so silently right about how love starts that it redefined forever what a romantic movie actually was supposed to be.
When Harry Met Sally, 1989
The age-old question of whether a man and a woman can ever be good mates without romance involved lies at the track to this beautiful, wholesome film. This Nora Ephron movie was selected by the American Film Institute as their 25 th movie in 100 Greatest Love Stories.
It Happened One Night, 1934
It is documented by the American Film Institute as the first movie in history to have won all five major Academy Awards simultaneously. According to Time Out, this 1934 screwball masterwork is the document of origin of Hollywood romantic comedy, the movie that silently drafted every principle the genre has adhered to ever since.
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