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The 50 Most Romantic Movies Ever Made – Flavorwire

I haven't seen a lot of these but this list includes a lot of my favorites: My Beautiful Laundrette, Amélie, Go Fish, Maurice, Secretary, Roxanne, Lost in Translation (my fave of all these), Harold and Maude, Before Sunrise, and The Princess Bride. (I still need to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brokeback Mountain and Blue Is the Warmest Color.)

eta: Apparently I'm inconsistent with the Oxford comma.

Good list. I was scrolling down and going, "this doesn't have Say Anything so the list is totally invalid... Oh, THERE it is," and "where the hell is In the Mood for Love... OK, yep, spoke too soon," etc.

I would have put more 40's screwball romantic comedies there, personally. The Lady Eve, maybe a Hepburn/Grant (Holiday being my personal fave.) And I know it's fashionable to bag on it nowadays, but I'd have put The English Patient there somewhere.

I can't speak to the ones I haven't seen, but while most of those films are great choices for a list of romantic movies, I find some of the entries idiosyncratic. I love It's a Wonderful Life and Bonnie and Clyde, but I wouldn't put either one on a list of most romantic movies of all time. And Ghost?! Really? Ugh. If we are going for romantic ghost stories I'll take Truly, Madly, Deeply thank you.

Yeah, when I think of It's a Wonderful Life, the first thing I think of is not "romance." Nor the second or third thing.

Unless they're shipping Jimmy Stewart's character and Clarence the Angel.

Which now sounds like a really weird episode of Supernatural.

edit for incorrect iconic early/mid-century actor

Psst. Jimmy Stewart.

Oh, right. I could picture the face, but it was blurry.

Okay, it doesn't necessarily sound like it will happen for sure, but still, this: [link] is making me react like this: [link]

I share your squee.

Please let them make it. Please let them not fuck it up.