Time Out's The 100 Most Romantic Films

Brief Encounter is a classic from British director David Lean about two people who fall in love yet face the fact that they are already married and can never be together.

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

Brokeback Mountain is an Ang Lee film about two modern day cowboys who meet on a shepherding job in the summer of ’63. The two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a life long relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

What would happen if we could erase the worst experiences and relationships from our memory. Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry combined forces to answer this very question.

When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and despatch an angel to collect him.

The neurotic New Yorker Woody Allen tells one of the greatest romantic comedies to be set in the city of New York.

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

The Apartment came out shortly after the success of ‘Some Like it Hot’ from director Billy Wilder and thus making it the most successful films of the year. Full of trivialities this comedy is a harsh critic of coporate world and the American way of life.

When Harry Met Sally is a relationship comedy from the early 90’s that became a cult classic. Most famous is the scene in which Sally performs a fake orgasm in a crowded restaurant to prove that girls fake it sometimes.

A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.

After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chase...

Gone With The Wind is, when adjusted for inflation, the most successful film of all times and the height of Hollywood studio films.

A 33-year-old Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé, but when the weather keeps them apart from each other on separate islands, she begins to have second thoughts.

Letter from an Unknown Woman is a drama from Max Ophuls starring Joan Fontaine about an author who receives an anonymous letter.

Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

Based on the Barry Gifford's novel, Wild at Heart is a road movie cataloging the misadventures of ex-con Sailor and his girlfriend Lula as they head to California.

Beauty and the Beast is the 1946 adaptation from the 1757 classic love story. This romantic and dramaticly staged film from Director Cocteu’s is his second film to deals with surreal imagery.

True Romance is a Tarantino classic ‘on the road’ movie. Once again like in his older film ‘Natural Born Killers’ we are giving a story of a gangster couple.

Manhattan is an expression of love of the city of New York and the drama of the erratic character Isaac Davis, played by the director Woody Allen, and the conclusion of a neurotic city.

Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.

The first film from director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to be finished in the States. The film has the tangible elements of German expressionism. Murnau received a big budget from Fox and the ability to make all the filmmaking decisions. The film has been called the greatest silent film of all time.

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.

By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey. Russell, an 8 year old wilderness explorer, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the adventure.

A dialogue marathon of a film, this fairy tail love story of an American boy and French girl. During a day and a night together in Vienna their two hearts collide.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She become...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

The Australian director Baz Luhrmann teleports the romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet tale from the Italian Verona to the Latin-American Verona Beach. The film was a success with it’s original dialogue from the MTV aesthetic and with guns as the weapon of choice.

Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.

The first World War in the middle of Africa’s nowhere. The missionary Rose Sayer convinces the captain of the African Queen to go down a river in order to capture a German ironclad carrying homemade torpedoes.

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

The filmed version of the novel by Michael Ondaatje of the same name. This film tells of love stories during the turbulent times of World War 2. Director Anthony Minghella films the biography of Ladislaus Almasy.

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

A simple, delicate, melodramatic German film about a loneliness. With a double moral story about the tainted love between an old woman and a younger dark-colored immigrant worker.

Friends and family want a rich widow (Jane Wyman) to end her romance with a tree surgeon (Rock Hudson) about 15 years her junior.

A bout de Souffle is Godard’s debut film and a French classic. With this film Godard begins a new style of filming that revolutionized the film industry.

As the English and French soldiers battle for control of the North American colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and native Americans are forced to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble but are saved by Hawkeye, an orphaned settler adopted by the last of the Mohicans.

Titanic is the blockbuster film from James Cameron starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as the love pair on the doomed first Titanic trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Commercially the film became the most successful film of all time.

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Set in the 1960s, a pair of young lovers flee their New England island town, prompting a local search party led by the Sheriff (Willis) and the girl's parents (Murray, McDormand) to fan out to find them.

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances "Baby" Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer -- and unexpectedly falling in love. The object of her affection? The resort's free-spirited dance instructor.

Bringing Up Baby is an American screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

A modern day fairy tale of a big city prostitute who becomes a princess after a rich man falls in love with her. The film made Julia Roberts a superstar in the 1990’s.

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Ghost is an Oscar award winning love story starring Patrick Swayze as a ghost who uses a chaotic psychic to help him contact his wife played by Demi Moore. A tragic love story that brought back for maybe a just a while the word ‘Dido.’

West Side Story is the film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical of the same name from directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Released shortly after the war, this classic Hitchcock film illustrates the battle between German Nazis and American spies and the trafficking of drugs.