Our favorite plan when the weekend arrives is to disconnect from the world enjoying a good movie, especially now that the afternoons are planned without cafes, shops or bars. Horror, comedies, Disney, dramatic, based on real events, historical… The theme is so abundant that on many occasions it is hard for us to decide. Although, if we have to choose a theme above all and from which we would be watching movies on loop until doomsday, those are the romantic movies . We have sworn to ourselves that we will never see Noa’s Diary again, but it is to put it on television and swallow it until the final credits.
the romantic movies, in any of its versions, have something that makes them special and turns it into that type of cinema that, although we sometimes criticize, we consume when we most need it. Movies like Moulin Rouge, My best friend’s wedding, Casablanca, Titanic or The Bridges of Madison County are responsible for the fact that romantic cinema enchants us every time Saturday arrives and we have to decide which movie to watch. To make it easier for you to choose, we propose a list of 20 romantic movies from yesterday, today and forever with which you will feel what love is again.
The list that we propose is so extensive that you can find in it great classics of the seventh art, the most tearful dramas in history and some other mythical comedy starring America’s eternal girlfriend. Are you ready to mix the best kisses in movie history with the biggest hot flashes and the most outrageous laughs
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My best friend’s Wedding
With this movie, Julia Roberts made us smile more than once. Under the direction of PJ Hogan and with a star cast made up of Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett, among others, the film narrates how a food critic discovers that she is in love with her best friend. America’s bride has only three days to come up with a plan to stop the wedding .
The film has one of the most memorable moments on the big screen when Julia Roberts’s editor, posing as her boyfriend, begins to sing along with the entire family of the future husband I say a little pray for you. The end of the movie is epic.
beautiful woman
Another absolute success of Julia Roberts. Pretty Woman became one of her biggest films. The film starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is undoubtedly the title that sparked the fever for romantic comedies in the nineties. Although in its beginnings it was not raised as we know it today. At first, the film was going to carry the title of 3,000, in reference to the price that the millionaire of the day, Richard Gere , pays to hire the services of a prostitute (Julia Roberts) for a week.
The script was far from the one that could later be seen in theaters. In the original libretto, written by JF Lawton, Roberts’s character, the prostitute Vivian Ward, I was going to be a rude drug addict with a bad character. The same thing happened with Richard Gere, the elegant millionaire Edward Lewis.
We thank God that the final script had nothing to do with the final approach, because the syrupy version that Pretty Woman leaves us about prostitution has allowed us to cry with a Julia Roberts who goes to the opera for the first time, enjoy when he returns to Rodeo Drive to despatch at ease with those cruel shop assistants or hum nonstop the song that accompanies the movie.
The bridges of Madison
A movie that has nothing to do with the previous two. The Bridges of Madison County is a slow story, much more intimate and realistic, that manages to captivate you from the beginning. Clint Eastwood directs this film and plays the character of Robert. The loving duo is completed by a brilliant Meryl Streep .
The film tells the story of Francesca (Streep), who lives the typical life of a housewife . She is bored with the monotony of the home and, furthermore, her husband is a man who is always absent. One day she arrives at the door of her Rober (Eastwood), an adventurous photographer who works for National Geographic and who has come to the area to do a report on the bridges.
Francesca’s husband is on a trip and she, taking advantage of the fact that she is alone, welcomes him into her house. The two will share very special moments and she will be fascinated by the stories that Robert tells her. Little by little, a furtive love blossoms between them and Francesca will be faced with the difficult decision to bet on her boring marriage or explore her feelings for Robert. If you have already seen the movie (warning, spoiler) the scene with the car and the traffic light, you know that it always ends up breaking your heart.
Amelie
It’s not your typical romantic comedy, but we love it. Audrey TautouHe dazzled the public beyond the French borders with the character of Amelie, peculiar and adorable. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, this film tells the story of Amelie, a waitress in Montmartre (if you’ve been to Paris, surely you’ve had coffee at Cafe Les Deux Molins), who is determined to change her life and fix life. to the others.
The fascinating thing about this film, in addition to the story it tells and its soundtrack, is the aesthetic language and the rhythm developed by the director, leaving his personal stamp on each scene full of magic and surprising details. Amelie is one of the must-see movies for anyone who enjoys cinema. The setting, the color, the story, the characters, Amelie herself and the music.
Moulin Rouge
If, in addition to a love story, what you are looking for is a musical , this is your movie. Moulin Rouge managed to be the first musical nominated for an Oscar for best picture in 10 years, also receiving a total of eight nominations. The last one had been Beauty and the Beast in 1991, but if we ignore Disney animations we must go back to 1979 and All That Jazz to see another film of the genre opting for this category.
The soundtrack of the tape is that it is from another planet and has versions of Madonna, Nirvana or The Police. The fact of getting the permissions to use all these songs has merit, considering the names behind the songs. It took two years to complete the soundtrack and only two artists said no: The Rolling Stones and Cat Simons.
As for the story, Moulin Rouge revolves around Satine, played by Nicole Kidman , the star of the most famous cabaret in Paris. The artist is caught between the love of two men: the one she truly loves ( Ewan McGregor ) and the one who can make her dream of becoming an actress come true in order to leave prostitution behind (but who is really bad). Given the apparent simplicity of the approach, common in films of this genre, lies an intricatecombination of genres and layers of meaning that make watching the film an almost mystical experience.
When Harry found Sally
Tender, adorable and with one of the most mythical scenes in cinema history ( Meg Ryan ‘s acclaimed fake -or not- orgasm in the cafeteria) make this film one of the benchmarks of romantic comedy. With this romantic film, director Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride) intends to answer the question of whether it is possible that there is friendship with sex. Meg Ryan plays Sally, who thinks so. While Billy Crystalplays Harry, who doesn’t believe it. Despite this difference, the friendship of both (and also their love affairs) will continue from college onwards.
500 days together
The romantic anticomedy. Marc Webb narrates this drama in which the entire process of a romantic relationship is followed : the first date, sex, life as a couple, separation, reproaches and reconciliation. Tom meets Summer, he falls madly in love with her, she not so much. With a pop aesthetic, 500 days together caused a stir as a romantic comedy that seeks to demystify some conventions of falling in love .
The plot is simple, the path of a relationship between two people who share musical tastes, but do not get along so much in their ideas about love. Tom (Joseph Gordon Levitt), a frustrated architect who wants to fill a void through an ideal, and Summer (Zooey Deschanel), apparently without romantic aspirations . His destiny we know from the beginning. It’s a good movie to rethink love expectations and understand that we don’t always awaken in others the feelings that they awaken in us.
Titanic
Since it was released in 1997 you may have seen it a million times and each and every one of them you have finished the movie crying your eyes out and exclaiming out loud: the two fit on the board!
Titanic is one of the highest grossing and most expensive romantic movies in history. The film tells the story of the romance between Jack and Rose (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet), two young people who meet on the fateful ocean liner and fall in love (as if by now we didn’t know the plot of the film). But he is a humble hustler and she is a lady of high society, destined to take vows in a marriage she does not want. In addition to one of the most tearful films in history, Titanic is one of the best movies of the 90s , in case you need an excuse to go back to see it again.
Noa’s diary
If you saw it when you were 15 years old and you were the most infatuated in high school, it is likely that at this point in your life you are still enjoying watching Noa’s Diary like a child. You know the dialogues by heart and you wait impatiently for the lake scene to shout with Noa ( Ryan Gosling ): Our thing is not over, it’s never over!
Noa’s diary was one of the jobs with which Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams began to win over the public, although at the beginning of the film both did not get along very well. The plot of this love movie revolves around a notebook, which serves as a diary and which an old man reads to his wife. The newspaper talks about Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson, some young people in love from North Carolina, from disparate social backgrounds. However, their families and the war would separate them. All the ingredients to cry and enjoy in equal parts.
Casablanca
That some of the phrases that appear in the movie Casablanca are among the most repeated in cinema is not by chance. Casablanca tells us a story, very different from what we were used to in romantic Hollywood cinema, there is no happy ending here; the sacrifice of letting go of the soulmate is the ritual presented by the film that immortalized Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart , leaving scenes and dialogues that have gone down in the history of the Seventh Art.
Set in the Moroccan city of Casablanca during World War II, Michael Curtiz’s film introduces us to an ancient antihero who must choose between love or absolute good. A true masterpiece that is worth seeing at least once a year.
Love Story
Love Story (1970) by Arthur Hiller left us the quote: “Love means never having to say sorry.” Phrase that, despite the controversies that its meaning may entail, you have surely read in a blog post or even in a notebook or cup. Without entering into a debate about the accuracy or truth of this statement, the film tells the story of two young people from very different social classes (Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal), who meet and fall in love with each other.in college. However, her illness will be what ends up separating them. A very recurrent and classic plot that makes this film a true classic of the seventies cinema.
Shakespeare in love
An unmissable date for lovers of Shakespeare and historical fiction . Shakespeare in Love brought together Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Tom Wilkinson to narrate a hypothetical story that would explain the source for one of William Shakespeare’s stories, when he fell in love with a woman. of high birth, with whom he could not marry because of the sharp difference in class.
The film was the big winner of the Oscars in 1999, took 7 statuettes (including best picture) and was nominated for 13. And that year there were movies as good as The Thin Red Line, Save Private Ryan or Life is Beautiful. An excessive recognition for some but that can be a plus when choosing to see this film.
Breakfast at Tiffany
‘s Regardless of the plot and somewhat watered down version of Truman Capote’s novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s has one of the most inspiring scenes in cinema. Audrey Hepburnshe is sitting on the windowsill and, while playing the guitar, she sings with a captivating melancholy the theme Moonriver. Although the most reproduced scene of the film is that of Hepburn in front of Tiffany’s while having breakfast, movie lovers are left with the one from the window.
Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther) directed this delightful film in which he flaunted an unlikely George Peppard (Hannibal of the A-Team), making him look like a kept young writer. Holly, a young New Yorker who apparently leads an easy and cheerful life, meets Paul, a writer, and their lives change forever. He becomes involved with a wealthy older lady who supports him while he pursues his dream of becoming a writer.For her part, she lives obsessed with being able to lead a life full of luxuries and material goods. After meeting, nothing will be the same.
Notting Hill
Julia Roberts again, this time accompanied by Hugh Grant, in one of the most mythical films of the romantic comedy in particular and of the comedies of the 90s in general. Is that Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant are always a guaranteed success. Roger Michell’s Notting Hill tells the story of William (Hugh Grant), the owner of a small bookstore in the Notting Hill neighborhood.
One day Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), the biggest star of the moment, knocks on his door. Suddenly, both began to develop a friendship that would turn into something else. An absolutely delightful film that features one of themost repeated declarations of love in history: “I’m just a girl in front of a boy asking him to love her”.
Love Actually
The quintessential Christmas movie . Love Actually takes place in the UK and deals with the theme of love on the eve of Christmas. Richard Curtis brought together a star cast with this film: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson , Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rodrigo Santoro, Rowan Atkinson and Billy Bob Thornton, among others. It is one of the quintessential romantic film classics that we love to see whether it is Christmas or not.
Ghost
Demi Moore may be in this movie to change her, but the tandem of Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Golberg deserves that we ignore the acting skills of the actress in the film. In the movie, Swayze ‘s character was killed for apparently unknown reasons, but his ghost returned to protect his girlfriend. Unfortunately for him, this was easier said than done. Swayze and Moore’s torrid mud scene is one of the most erotic in cinema (Moore notwithstanding).
Call me by your name
Call me by your name tells us the story of Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old boy who is spending the hot summer of 1983 in his parents’ country house in northern Italy, lazing around until one day Oliver, the new assistant, arrives. his father’s American. Oliver is a charming young man and, like Elio, has Jewish roots. At first Elio is somewhat cold and distant towards Oliver, but soon the two begin to go on excursions together and, as the summer progresses, the couple’s mutual attraction becomes more intense.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Timothee Chalametand Armie Hammer, the film won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and had four nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Chamaler. Without a doubt one of the best romantic movies to enjoy as a couple.
Gone with the Wind
Perhaps it is the most classic movie on the entire list, the greatest masterpiece of cinema.Gone with the Wind is one of the most famous romantic films in the history of cinema, the highest grossing for many years and the one that received the most Oscars until 1959 (10 statuettes, including best actress for Vivien Leigh).
Set in the American South against the backdrop of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the film tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara ., the determined daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, from her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, engaged to her cousin, Melanie Hamilton, to her marriage to Rhett Butler. The protagonists are played by Vivien Leigh (Scarlett), Clark Gable (Rhett), Leslie Howard (Ashley) and Olivia de Havilland (Melanie).
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Mike Newell directed Hugh Grant and Andie Macdowell in this dramatic comedy. While all his friends are getting married, Charles (Grant), an Englishman in his thirties unable to maintain an emotional relationship with women, falls in love with Carrie (Macdowell), an American whom he meets at the wedding of one of his comrades.
Both will coincide in other weddings, even in their own, since their indecision leads them to commit actions that they later regret. The tape served to launch Hugh Grant to stardom , so Four Weddings and a Funeral is to blame for the actor appearing several times on this list.
Something to remember
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are another of the couples that we like the most in cinema (You have an email) and they are the protagonists of this film. Both meet in Something to remember. Hanks plays Sam, a widowed architect .He has barely gotten over the death of his wife. To cheer him up, his son Jonah calls up a radio show, looking for a date for his father. Hundreds of women are interested in Sam, but it will be Annie (Ryan) who becomes obsessed with meeting him, even though she is about to get married. Another classic of romantic cinema that, for some strange reason, is not shown on television as many times as we would like.
Brokeback Mountain
The film tells the story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), two young men who meet and fall in love during the summer of 1963 while working as a sheep herder on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. USA.
Based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain takes us back to American society of the 1960s. Jack and Ennis are going to be in charge during the summer of grazing the sheep in a mountain area in Wyoming. After weeks of work, with the unapproachable landscape as a refuge, and with a few more whiskeys in the body, one night an unbearable sexual encounter is unleashed . The next day, they both decide to make it private, and despite pretending to deny themselves, the instinct is stronger.
The film tells the story of their lives and their ongoing but complex relationship over two decades, which continues as they both marry their girlfriends and have children.
