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100 Greatest Love Stories of all Time (Movies) April 14, 2008

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1

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz

2

Gone with the Wind

Victor Fleming & Sam Wood & George Cukor

3

West Side Story

Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins

4

Roman Holiday

William Wyler

5

An Affair To Remember

Leo McCarey

6

The Way We Were

Sydney Pollack

7

Doctor Zhivago

David Lean

8

It’s A Wonderful Life

Frank Capra

9

Love Story

Arthur Hiller

10

City Lights

Charles Chaplin

11

Annie Hall

Woody Allen

12

My Fair Lady

George Cukor

13

Out of Africa

Sydney Pollack

14

The African Queen

John Huston

15

Wuthering Heights

William Wyler

16

Singin’ In The Rain

Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

17

Moonstruck

Norman Jewison

18

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock

19

Ghost

Jerry Zucker

20

From Here to Eternity

Fred Zinnemann

21

Pretty Woman

Garry Marshall

22

On Golden Pond

Mark Rydell

23

Now, Voyager

Irving Rapper

24

King Kong

Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper

25

When Harry Met Sally…

Rob Reiner

26

The Lady Eve

Preston Sturges

27

The Sound of Music

Robert Wise

28

The Shop Around The Corner

Ernst Lubitsch

29

An Officer And A Gentleman

Taylor Hackford

30

Swing Time

George Stevens

31

The King And I

Walter Lang

32

Dark Victory

Edmund Goulding

33

Camille

George Cukor

34

Beauty And The Beast

Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise

35

Gigi

Charles Walters & Vincente Minnelli

36

Random Harvest

Mervyn LeRoy

37

Titanic

James Cameron

38

It Happened One Night

Frank Capra

39

An American in Paris

Vincente Minnelli

40

Ninotchka

Ernst Lubitsch

41

Funny Girl

William Wyler

42

Anna Karenina

Julien Duvivier

43

A Star Is Born

George Cukor

44

The Philadelphia Story

George Cukor

45

Sleepless In Seattle

Nora Ephron

46

To Catch A Thief

Alfred Hitchcock

47

Splendor In The Grass

Elia Kazan

48

Last Tango In Paris

Bernardo Bertolucci

49

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Tay Garnett

50

Shakespeare in Love

John Madden

51

Bringing Up Baby

Howard Hawks

52

The Graduate

Mike Nichols

53

A Place In The Sun

George Stevens

54

Sabrina

Billy Wilder

55

Reds

Warren Beatty

56

The English Patient

Anthony Minghella

57

Two For The Road

Stanley Donen

58

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

Stanley Kramer

59

Picnic

Joshua Logan

60

To Have And Have Not

Howard Hawks

61

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Blake Edwards

62

The Apartment

Billy Wilder

63

Sunrise

F.W. Murnau

64

Marty

Delbert Mann

65

Bonnie And Clyde

Arthur Penn

66

Manhattan

Woody Allen

67

A Streetcar Named Desire

Elia Kazan

68

What’s Up, Doc?

Peter Bogdanovich

69

Harold And Maude

Hal Ashby

70

Sense And Sensibility

Ang Lee

71

Way Down East

D.W. Griffith

72

Roxanne

Fred Schepisi

73

The Ghost And Mrs. Muir

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

74

Woman Of The Year

George Stevens

75

The American President

Rob Reiner

76

The Quiet Man

John Ford

77

The Awful Truth

Leo McCarey

78

Coming Home

Hal Ashby

79

Jezebel

William Wyler

80

The Sheik

George Melford

81

The Goodbye Girl

Herbert Ross

82

Witness

Peter Weir

83

Morocco

Josef von Sternberg

84

Double Indemnity

Billy Wilder

85

Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing

Henry King

86

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock

87

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Philip Kaufman

88

The Princess Bride

Rob Reiner

89

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

Mike Nichols

90

The Bridges Of Madison County

Clint Eastwood

91

Working Girl

Mike Nichols

92

Porgy And Bess

Otto Preminger & Rouben Mamoulian

93

Dirty Dancing

Emile Ardolino

94

Body Heat

Lawrence Kasdan

95

Lady And The Tramp

Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, & Wilfred Jackson

96

Barefoot In The Park

Gene Saks

97

Grease

Randal Kleiser

98

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

William Dieterle

99

Pillow Talk

Michael Gordon

100

Jerry Maguire

Cameron Crowe

 

There are just some things in life you gotta see, right? :)