From Casablanca to Before Sunrise to In the Mood For Love, this is Collider's ranking of the greatest romantic movies ever made.
Read update The romance genre has been a staple of fiction since long before the first movies were made. Love's one of those rare universal themes, after all, and both romantics and cynics have always been able to find - and enjoy - different stories about fictional characters falling in love.
It's a movie that remains incredibly charming and perfectly bittersweet, with the 70 years since its release doing nothing to sap it of its humor or emotional power. It also largely succeeds thanks to the chemistry between its stars, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, both of whom do some of their best work in this 1953 classic.
It tells this epic, crime-related romance story while also being a genuinely great musical, filled to the brim with memorable songs and scenes of impressive dance choreography. It was very efficiently updated by a Steven Spielberg remake in 2021, but the original film version from 1961 is still the most essential and feels like more of a classic; time will tell, however, how future generations feel about the two takes on the same great story.
To anyone who's intensely felt the struggles of being in your 20s or 30s while not having any idea where your life is going, it can be a cathartic watch. It does offer a great deal of commentary towards - and insight into - the difficulties of modern-day dating, and as such, is a fantastic movie that deals with the realities of romance... it's just not entirely romantic in a way that makes it a good date movie in the traditional sense.
The Princess Bride is one of those movies that ends up feeling like it belongs in many genres, but balances all its various tones and genre elements incredibly well. At its core, though, it is ultimately a fairytale with a romance between a princess and a farmhand at its center, even if it's also a comedic and gently satirical take on fairytale adventures themselves.
All That Heaven Allows might be his most famous movie when it comes to this style that he was known for, and depicts the scandalous romance that blossoms between a widow and a younger man who's out of her social class . It's the kind of thing that does feel outdated now, but when viewed through the appropriate lens, there is something attention-grabbing about what's on offer here, and undeniably, Sirk was in a class of his own for the time.
16 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a slow-burn romance in the best way possible. It's set at the end of the 1700s and follows two women on an island: one is a painter tasked with painting a wedding portrait of the other woman, who's mysterious and reserved, yet soon the two reveal their feelings for one another, and so begins a passionate yet short-lived romance.
It's since been considered the "lesser" of the two original Best Picture winners, thanks to the Unique and Artistic Picture award only being a one-time thing. Still, it's hard to argue that Sunrise didn't deserve recognition, because it's a creatively shot romantic-drama that was indeed innovative for its time, and remains one of the easiest-to-watch movies of the silent era.
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