Yes, modern romances are fantastic. When you’re not in the mood for something new, these become more appealing over time. Here are the Top 10 Classic Romances:
1. Gone With The Wind (1939)
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Citizen Kane meets epic wartime romances. And one of the few to make us care after six decades.
2. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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This screwball comedy about love among the lockjaws is superbly cast, dahling. Katharine Hepburn plays a glamorous glacier pursued by her smarmy ex-husband Cary Grant and booze-soaked reporter Jimmy Stewart (who won a Best Actor Oscar for this role). They mix a romantic triangle together like a perfectly dry martini.
3. Casablanca (1942)
When eternal flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) wanders into Rick’s gin joint, tough guy Rick (Humphrey Bogart) cracks. Only a smouldering passion could be so bitter. No wonder she wants to stay—and why we keep returning.
4 It happened one night (1934)
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On a bus, runaway bride Claudette Colbert meets hangdog newshound Clark Gable, kicking off this road-trip romance. The wisecracks fly, but the magic is in the way two tough cookies crumble tenderly.
5. The Apartment (1960)
An office shlub Jack Lemmon at his best Then he finds out she’s been having affairs with the boss in Lemmon’s love nest. Even the cynical Billy Wilder couldn’t keep these lovelorn losers from having a happy ending.
6. Quick Encounters (1945)
The ultimate represse Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, who are married to others, meet for weekly tete-a-tetes at a train station cafe. The desperate desperation of illicit romance follows.
7. Roman HoliDay (1953)
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Audrey Hepburn is at her gamine best as a sheltered princess who flees on a whim with smitten reporter Gregory Peck. But romantic escapists beware: no ending is more heartbreaking than Peck’s departure after Hepburn reverts to royalty.
8. Maude and Harold (1971)
A teen obsessed with death (Bud Cort) adds a new twist to the May-December romance when he falls for a life-loving septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon). A definitive 1970s product. What other decade would show this odd couple postcoitally and play it straight, let alone with affection?
9. The way We Were (1973)
This misty watercolour stars Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand as Opposites Who Attract and takes us through WWII, marriage, McCarthyism, and an assortment of turtlenecks. It’s the fantasy movie for anyone who’s ever yearned for that perfect, unattainable guy.
10. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1968)
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Where have you gone, cold shower? The then-novel casting of actual teenagers (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey) by Franco Zeffirelli resulted in the steamiest R&J ever (sorry, Leo).
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