| Top 15 Romantic Movies | |
| BorisVM | [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007JMDF/virtualmacedo-20"]An Affair to Remember[/url]
Get out your handkerchiefs for this four-star weepie, a 1957 remake of the 1939 Love Affair, directed by Leo McCarey, who also made the original. Grant and Kerr are strangers on an ocean liner, involved with other people, but who can't resist each other for a shipboard romance. They decide to test whether this is the real thing by agreeing to split up, then meet in six months atop the Empire State Building. Is there anyone who can resist that setup or the tragic romantic mishap that nearly splits them up? Can you keep dry eyes during the famous finale? Some prefer the original (with Charles Boyer); practically no one liked the underrated 1994 remake with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. While occasionally a shade slow, this one soars on Grant's charm and Kerr's noble suffering. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BTGY1O/virtualmacedo-20"]Breakfast at Tiffany's[/url] No film better utilizes Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewelry. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbor, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's generous screenplay, and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naivet#233; combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high society bohemian chic. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0790729369/virtualmacedo-20"]Bridges of Madison County [/url] Some called it a snooze-fest, while others tearfully clutched their Kleenex. In any case, Clint Eastwood was an unusual and (as it turned out) perceptive choice to direct and costar in this lush adaptation of Robert James Waller's phenomenally bestselling novel. Meryl Streep costars as Francesca, the lonely Iowa farmer's wife who is instantly attracted to Robert (Eastwood), the photographer from National Geographic who is in the area to photograph the bridges along Iowa's rural roadways. The two fall in love while Francesca's husband and children are away at a county fair, but the story's passion and lasting appeal derive from their decision to part forever after just a few brief days of intimate connection. Superbly acted with an emphasis on quiet, graceful moments of tender revelation, the film builds to a crescendo of powerful and conflicting emotions. Like David Lean's Brief Encounter (to which it bears marked similarities), The Bridges of Madison County is destined to become one of the classic movie love stories. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009W0WM/virtualmacedo-20"]Casablanca[/url] A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; Ingrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt are among what may be the best supporting cast in the history of Hollywood films. This is certainly among the most spirited and ennobling movies ever made. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0790737345/virtualmacedo-20"]City of Angels[/url] Some critics complained that City of Angels could never compare to Wim Wenders's exquisite German film Wings of Desire, which served as the later film's primary inspiration. The better argument to make is that any such comparisons are beside the point, because Wings of Desire was a much more deeply poetic, artfully contemplative film, whereas City of Angels is an enchanting product of mainstream Hollywood. Meg Ryan stars as Dr. Maggie Rice, a heart surgeon who is grieving over a lost patient when an angel named Seth (Nicolas Cage) appears to comfort her. She can see him despite the "rule" that angels are invisible, and Seth's love for Maggie forces him to choose between angelic immortality and a normal human existence on earth with her. Featuring heavenly roles for TV veterans Andre Braugher and Dennis Franz, the film liberally borrows imagery from Wings of Desire, but it also creates its own charming identity. Cage and Ryan give fine performances as lovers convinced they are soul mates, and although the plot relies on a last-minute twist that doesn't quite work, this earnest love story struck a chord with audiences and proved to be one of the surprise hits of 1998. The Special Edition widescreen DVD includes audio commentary by Nicolas Cage, producer Charles Roven, and director Brad Silberling in addition to deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary, a featurette about the film's special effects, and the theatrical trailer. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059TEP/virtualmacedo-20"]Ghost[/url] Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze are the passionate lovers whose romance is undone when the latter is murdered during a bungled hit arranged by a rival. The clever concept by screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (director of My Life) extends outward into comedy (Swayze's character communicates through a sassy medium played by Whoopi Goldberg, who won an Oscar for this role), horror (the afterlife is populated by hell-bound demons and the like), and romantic complications (a handsome suitor, played by Tony Goldwyn, comes on to Moore while Swayze's spirit is still hanging around). Directed by Jerry Zucker, previously best known for codirecting Airplane! and similar broad comedies, Ghost is a careful balancing act of strong commercial elements, but at heart it is a timeless Hollywood tearjerker that easily gets under one's skin. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002V7TZ6/virtualmacedo-20"]Gone With the Wind[/url] David O. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic, the second is ramshackle and arbitrary. But there's no question that the film is an enormous achievement in terms of its every resource--art direction, color, sound, cinematography--being pushed to new limits for the greater glory of telling an American story as fully as possible. Vivien Leigh is still magnificently narcissistic, Olivia de Havilland angelic and lovely, Leslie Howard reckless and aristocratic. As for Clark Gable: we're talking one of the most vital, masculine performances ever committed to film. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JMFQ/virtualmacedo-20"]Love, Actually[/url] With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the Boston Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: He just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer; a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who's desperately attracted to a colleague. There's more--too much more--as Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies. That he pulls it off so entertainingly is undeniably impressive; that he does it so shamelessly suggests that his writing fares better with other, less ingratiating directors. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059TEQ/virtualmacedo-20"]Love Story [/url] Strife-torn America wanted a meat-and-potatoes romance in the late '60s, and the country embraced Erich Segal's slim, generic-sounding novel in a big way. It did so again for the film adaptation in 1970, starring Ryan O'Neal as a law student who defies his rich and powerful father (Ray Milland) on every issue, including the former's love for a music student (Ali MacGraw). The two marry, start life together...and then the Grim Reaper turns up at the door. Directed by Arthur Hiller (The In-Laws), the film ends up lacking the kind of stylistic boost that might have made it a must-see for the ages. But its faithfulness to the book's uncomplicated and, yes, moving intentions is pretty solid. O'Neal is convincing as a nice guy who's as bullheaded in his own way as his steely father (a nice job by Milland), and MacGraw has a way of getting under one's skin. A viewer just has to try not laughing at the refrain, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792165055/virtualmacedo-20"]Romeo and Juliet [/url] Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal roles of, well, kids. Seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey play the titular pair, the Bard's star-crossed lovers who defy a running feud between their families in order to be together in love. Typically played on stage and in previous film productions by adult actors, the innocent look and rawness of Whiting and Hussey resonated at the time with a burgeoning youth movement from San Francisco to Prague. The tragic romance at the center of the story also clicked with anti-authority sentiments, but even without that, Zeffirelli scores points by validating the ideals and passions of strong-willed adolescents. Less successful are scenes requiring the actors to have a fuller grasp of the text, though the best thing going remains the unambiguous duel between Romeo and Tybalt (Michael York). Lavishly photographed by Pasquale de Santis on location in Italy, this Romeo and Juliet brought a different tone and dimension to a story that had become tiresome in reverential presentations. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AOV4I/virtualmacedo-20"]Sleepless in Seattle[/url] The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they're destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible, and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is ... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002ND7B/virtualmacedo-20"]Splendor in the Grass[/url] Elia Kazan's pedal-to-the-metal approach to psychosexual melodrama paid off handsomely when he had layered material by Tennessee Williams or John Steinbeck to work with. The very raw material here is an original by hot-blooded playwright William Inge, about a pair of teenagers in the American Midwest in the 1920s whose lives are ruined by the repressive sexual climate of the period. The girl, played by Natalie Wood, is literally driven batty by her pent-up adolescent lust and ends up in the bin---which admittedly plays better than sounds, because the hunk she yearns for is the young and almost impossibly handsome Warren Beatty. This is a very lush and beautiful movie, but also a deeply silly one. It's grade-A American cheese, with a pinch of dime-store Freud on top. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LOKQ/virtualmacedo-20"]The Princess Bride[/url] Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clich#233;s being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that external voice largely intact: using a storytelling framework, avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage) into the absurd, irresistible melodrama of the title story. And what a story: a lowly stable boy, Westley (Cary Elwes), pledges his love to the beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright), only to be abducted and reportedly killed by pirates while Buttercup is betrothed to the evil Prince Humperdinck. Even as Buttercup herself is kidnapped by a giant, a scheming criminal mastermind, and a master Spanish swordsman, a mysterious masked pirate (could it be Westley?) follows in pursuit. As they sail toward the Cliffs of Insanity... The wild and woolly arcs of the story, the sudden twists of fate, and, above all, the cartoon-scaled characters all work because of Goldman's very funny script, Reiner's confident direction, and a terrific cast. Elwes and Wright, both sporting their best English accents, juggle romantic fervor and physical slapstick effortlessly, while supporting roles boast Mandy Patinkin (the swordsman Inigo Montoya), Wallace Shawn (the incredulous schemer Vizzini), and Christopher Guest (evil Count Rugen) with brief but funny cameos from Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, and Peter Cook. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ANVQ0K/virtualmacedo-20"]Titanic [/url] The film itself is larger than life. When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200-million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era, and sink Paramount Pictures as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Titanic would surpass the $1-billion mark in global box-office receipts, win 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director, launch the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time, and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain, and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of genius was to combine absolute authenticity with a pair of fictional lovers whose tragic fate would draw viewers into the heart-wrenching reality of the Titanic disaster. As starving artist Jack Dawson and soon-to-be-married socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won the hearts of viewers around the world, and their brief, but never forgotten, love affair provides the humanity that Cameron needed to turn Titanic into a moving emotional experience. Although some of the computer-generated visual effects look artificial, others--such as the climactic splitting of the ship's sinking hull--are state-of-the-art marvels of cinematic ingenuity. It's an event film and a monument to Cameron's risk-taking audacity, blending the tragic irony of the Titanic disaster with just enough narrative invention to give the historical event its fullest and most timeless dramatic impact. [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CXDC/virtualmacedo-20"]When Harry Met Sally [/url] Nora Ephron wrote the brisk screenplay for this 1989 romantic comedy, director Rob Reiner made a nicely glossy New York story (very much in a Woody Allen vein) out of it, and Billy Crystal's unstoppable charm made it something really special. Crystal and Meg Ryan play longtime platonic friends who keep dancing around their deeper feelings for one another, and Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher are their respective pals who fall in love and get married. Ryan doesn't get a lot of funny material, but her performance is typically alive and intuitive, and she more than holds her own with Crystal's comic motor mouth and sweet sentimentality. Reiner is on comfortable ground, liberated from the burden of making serious statements in the lead-footed manner of subsequent features. |
| sasha | My favorites from this list are: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Love Actually..great castings, great performances....simply amazing movies:) |
| SpaceLily | 1.Dirty Dancing (Patrick Swayze,Jennifer Gray) |
| Mona Lisa | Prekrasna zena Julia Roberts end Richard Gere. Mi se cini deka sum go gledala 100 pati i pak bi go gledala |
| Tanja19 | quote:napamet mi e naucen vishe...ali i sega da go nacekam na tv,pak ke go izgledam [:p] a i love actually...koga ispadna si zemav dvd...mnogu ubav film... a i Sleepless in Seattle ... a i City of Angels ...lele neznam...site mi se ubavi filmovi...nekoi gi imam i isplaceno[:D] Ali film kako Prekrasna zena nema...mnogu go sakam ovoj film[^]epten[:D]Richard Gere na vremeto mi bese simpatija[:p] |
| RaGeAnGeL | Frankie and Johnny za mene :)) |
| wolf_pack | У Рамбо 2 има едно пет минути романтична сцена, кога Силвестер и онаа Виетнамката се на бродот мислам...[:D] Sweet Home Alabama беше на тв пред некој ден, ето ви романтичен филм иако се надевав дека ќе видам rednecks како се опиваат и тепаат [:D] |
| SoVrSeN | quote:i majka mi mnogu go sakka filmov.... |
| Mona Lisa | quote:Nema, Prekrasna zena e zakon,nema zena da ne go saka ovoj film. |
| rbobi26 | nepristoen predlog |
| Lidija | quote:More wolf romanticar prav si duri vo Rambo najde romantika nema so sila si :) Za mene najgore na listata e "Moulin Rouge"! |
| јузер | Титаник, два пати во кино го гледав. Love was when I loved you.. |
| Lidija | Neeeeee juzer se samo ne toj film leleeeeee zosto !?!?! I dva pati na kino, zs si se trosel tolku? Tolku ubaj filmoj, a Titanik dosada ziva! |
| Tanja19 | ja prv pat koga go gledav go isplaciv...mnogu tazno bese koga potona Jack...placki,placki...dva-tri pati go izgledav...posle vishe dosaden mi bese... |
| јузер | Toa radi sto bese hit i sekoe izleguvanje vo grad bese vo moda (trend) da se ide na Titanik :) A jas mnogu pratam trendovi i zatoa :) |
| Lidija | :))))))vo TREND velis juzer a :)))))))) Dobar si nema so :) A inace mi tekna uste edna romanticna serija, mozi najubata na svetot sekogas "Pride and Prejudice"!!!! Mr.Darcyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (Colin Firth),ehhhhhh....ahhhhhh..... Ama filmot uste go nemam gledano. |
| RaGeAnGeL | quote:jas prv pat bef na titanik so eden decko i zapaliv cigare na kino i ne izbrkaja... nareden den ojdovme i na pola si ojdov zs poglup film nemam gledano:)))))))))) |
| јузер | Ајде ајде само така зборите. Да се дава на ТВ сега одма Рангела прва ќе се нацрта со цигарето пред ТВ да не ја пропуши сцената во аутото кога Кејт Винслет на Леонардо Ди Каприо му земаше часови по вожња. |
| LIDIJA - SKorpija | 9 i pol nedeli so Kim Besenger i Mickeu Rourke, za mene No.1 (Devet i pol nedeli bev [:X] raspolozena)[:D] [IMG]http://i2.tinypic.com/r8h0tk.jpg[/IMG] |
| ozonce | Definitivno nedostasuva 9 Songs... |
| Mona Lisa | quote:Isto dobar film a osobeno scenata pred friziderot...[:D] |
| LIDIJA - SKorpija | quote:..... kandiranoto ovoshje,kiselite kratavichki... [;)] |
| Mona Lisa | quote:I lutoto piperce...[:p] |
| Unreal | Дракула од Бром Стокер Џери Мегвајер Прекрасен Ум Официр и џентлмен Свадбата на мојот најдобар пријател Нотинг Хил Невеста Бегалка ехеххе уше купој дрги, но овде би ги извдоил Официр и Џентлемен ,Прекрасен Ум и Нотинг Хил |
| Mona Lisa | quote:Unreal i ti gore dole si ja kombinacijata Julia Roberts i Richard Gere i mene mi se sviga mnogu taa kombinacija. |
| Unreal | Појќе ќе да е содржината на филмот,иначе ричард гир како глумец го признавам само во еден филм и тоа Primal Fear заедно со Едвард Нортон [:)] И ми текна уше една романтична приказна Вистинска Романса со Кристијан Слејтер и Патриција Аркет [8D] |
| Mona Lisa | A ne e los i Mr.and Mrs.Smith Osobeno scenata vo kujnata po tepackata...[8D] |
| Unreal | quote:Докажано е дека насилството го крева адреналинот и сексуалната желба[}:)][;)] Сакаш да се згужваме? а? [:D][:D][:D] |
| Boriz | Aj i jas da se smesam tuka, .Full Metal Jacket. "This is my rifle, there is no rifle like this...."[;)] i t n. A inace i Zona Zamfirova |
| Mona Lisa | quote:Eeeee,Zone mori Zone sta ti rade doma...? Interesno filmce[:p] |