
Top 11 Favorite Romances
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1.
Punch-Drunk Love
(2002)
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding. (95 mins.)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2.
Lost in Translation
(2003)
A fading movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected young wife meet as strangers in Tokyo and form an unlikely bond. (101 mins.)
Director: Sofia Coppola
3.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004)
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. (108 mins.)
Director: Michel Gondry
4.
When Harry Met Sally...
(1989)
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. (96 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
5.
Amélie
(2001)
Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. (122 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
6.
City Lights
(1931)
The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. (87 mins.)
Director: Charles Chaplin
7.
The Graduate
(1967)
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine. (106 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
8.
Midnight in Paris
(2011)
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight. (94 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
9.
Annie Hall
(1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. (93 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
10.
Moonrise Kingdom
(2012)
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them. (94 mins.)
Director: Wes Anderson
11.
Silver Linings Playbook
(2012)
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. (122 mins.)
Director: David O. Russell
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