The world's best romance films, those without comedy Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars® (* = new additions)
I had to include the incomparable Brideshead Revisited here, even though it was a PBS / Masterpiece Theater for television, and about 8 hrs long (it also made Jeremy Irons a star). Laurence Olivier, who won an Emmy, was in both that and Love Among the Ruins. The Australian film Walkabout was the first DVD I ever ordered. Also Australian, A Town Like Alice was also a PBS mini-series, but only 4 hours.
- A Room With a View (also in Romantic Comedy)
- A Town Like Alice (mini-series)
- A Very Long Engagement [photo rt]
- The Age of Innocence
- An Education * [photo top]
- Atonement
- Bad Timing, a Sexual Obsession
- Brideshead Revisited (mini-series)
- Casablanca
- Children of a Lesser God
- The Crying Game
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Days of Heaven
- Doctor Zhivago
- Five Easy Pieces
- Hannah and Her Sisters (also Romantic Comedy)
- Heat and Dust
- House of Games
- Il Postino
- It's a Wonderful Life
- My Brilliant Career
- The Namesake *
- Now, Voyager *
- Out of Africa
- The Road Home
- Sense and Sensibility
- Sex, Lies and Videotape
- Shall We Dance? (Japan)
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Tess
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Under the Sun * (Sweden)
- Wings of the Dove
- Women in Love
- Zelary * (Czech Republic) [photo rt]
I had to include the incomparable Brideshead Revisited here, even though it was a PBS / Masterpiece Theater for television, and about 8 hrs long (it also made Jeremy Irons a star). Laurence Olivier, who won an Emmy, was in both that and Love Among the Ruins. The Australian film Walkabout was the first DVD I ever ordered. Also Australian, A Town Like Alice was also a PBS mini-series, but only 4 hours.
How about 'Letter from an unknown woman' ?, or Before sunrise/Before sunset ?
ReplyDeleteYimou Zhangs 'The road home', also a gem. How about J. Cameron's Titanic? All of these would make my list.
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Your list is has a good variety for best romantic films. I would add Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button but otherwise excellent choices.
ReplyDeleteGrant- Eternal Sunshine is on my Romantic Comedy list.. admittedly brilliant, it won an Oscar for Charles Kaufman's screenplay..
ReplyDeleteIf you like his films, check out Synedoche, New York - complex and serious, yet another world of Kaufman's creation
The top 25 romantic movies about love, dating, and relationships - perfect films to cuddle up to when you're in the mood for romance.
ReplyDeleteIt is a nice list, but how about memoirs of a geisha, i practically cried while watching the film. http://easyday.snydle.com/top-10-romantic-movies.html
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