umm The notebook and Sleepless in Seatle should be ahead of The Princess Bride...
And I 100% agree, When Harry Met Sally should definitely be in there.
I cant really think off the bat, what i would add, but this list isa little upsetting.

No. No. No The Notebook at 24.
How the in the world did Jerry McGuire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, beat out The Notebook. This isn't even a serious list they have Lady & the Tramp on here.

I'm sorry, but Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind ?!? I agree : When Harry met Sally should definitely be there !

I am so tired of hearing how romantic Titanic is. Titanic sucked.

But YAY for Harold and Maude!

hah what is Dr. Zhivago................ seriously?
never heard of it.

I agree, the lack of Jane Austen is horrible! Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice and Emma are all so romantic! And The Notebook should be higher on the list for sure. Also, An Officer and a Gentleman is more of an army movie to me than a romance. Sure, there is a romance aspect to the film but it doesn't feel like the driving force of the movie.

I am alittle pissed that alot of these movies beat out the NOTEBOOK!

The moviefone list seems pretty random to me

the notebook should be #1! Pride & Prejudice should be #2! i'm glad they included Brokeback Mountain on there. i would have put that higher on the list as well....

OMG I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated Titanic!

edit to post above - I meant to say that An Officer and a Gentleman is a NAVY movie, not army.

Also to add to the movies that should have been included: Edward Scissorhands, Untamed Heart, Walk the Line, Say Anything!

I hated Titanic AND The Notebook!
I would include "Love Actually", "Moulin Rouge"
I agree, "When Harry met Sally" and "Sabrina" should be there...
(Can "Forrest Gump be consider a romance movie?)

'Casablanca' definitely deserves to be no. 1. I'm glad 'Love Story' is on this list somewhere - definitely a tearjerker.

I think 'Love Actually' should be on here too. This is such a warm and fuzzy movie. Who didn't want to be Keira when the "To me - you're perfect" was uncovered?

I don't understand 'Wuthering Heights' or 'Eternal Sunshine'... these are the sort of movies that would scare people off of the idea of love forever! I don't get 'Jerry Maguire' either. I love that movie, but I don't think of it as being romantic really.

I wouldn't have put Eternal Sunshine on there. I'm with yiddiea, Say Anything should have been included. And beansandsyke...put Dr. Zhivago on your Netflix list; it's a classic from the 60's, and on the AFI's top 100 list.

i agree that love actually would make a nice addition. DEFINITELY when harry met sally.

freegracefrom--i didn't want to be keira. she was married, and doing anything about this guy--her husband's best friend--was not a possibility. i actually thought it was wrong of her to go kiss him in the end. that being said, she looked really good in that scene.

How is Say anything not on there?!?!?

This is a very bad list, imo.

I don't agree with Atonement or Eternal Sunshine. The Notebook should definitely be a lot higher. I haven't watched a lot of others so I cannot judge them.

Umm Sense and Sensibilty, Pride and Prejudice anyone!!!! Persuasion?? Jeez Jane Austen deserves some love.

tralala - Granted. I still wish someone would do that for me! Le sigh.

kiwitwist - I agree about 'Atonement.' The whole love element seemed really shallow in that movie.

This cannot be a list of romance without a Jane Austen movie anywhere to be found.

A romance movie would have it's main theme as romance, the theme of the titanic is not romance. With this list, you could add any movie with romance as a subplot. Even a Harry Potter! And Eternal Sunshine? No way. Was this list put together by a man, a woman, or a group? Did people vote?

Whomever put this list together needs to rethink the word romance.

I agree we definitely need some Jane Austen, preferably Pride & Prejudice (1995 Colin Firth version), or better yet Persuasion (not the new PBS one, the 90's one with Ciarin Hinds & Amanda Root)

Love Actually is a big omission. I think it is the best movie about love that I have ever seen becasue it covers so many different aspects.

What is Dark Victory? Never heard of it.... will have to look it up!

I am so, so glad that this Moviefone list really thinks outside the box and eschews a lot of standard RomComs (notice there's no Pretty Woman or Dirty Dancing here), as well as the Jane Austen stuff and replaces it with beautiful, beautiful films like Brokeback Mountain and Harold and Maude and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that explore different types of love than your standard presentations of overswept, overly romanticized heterosexist love.

For those three inclusions alone, I think this list is pretty awesome and all-inclusive.

At least the list is diverse but wow do I hate The Notebook.

Oh wow I am so glad to hear that I am not the only one that hated The Notebook!!! (susanec & nyx_ann) It doesn't deserve all the credit it gets. I heart Casablanca and The Way We Were!

How the hell is Wuthering Heights on there but no Jane Austen. At least Pride & Prejudice. Thats the most romantic of all of them.

i agree with someone who said love actually should be on here as it shows a different kind of romance(s) than most of the others. i especially like the story with the prime minister and his assistant.

what is the deal with eternal sunshine of the spotless mind? i just re-watched it the other night, and while i find that it speaks about fate and all that i don't think it is exactly romantic. a lot of these other movies would be good date movies or movies to weep during by yourself. i am glad that brokeback mountain made the list. love that movie.

The Notebook should be number one --- it gets me everytime. Amazing movie.

I LOve that Brokeback Mountain is on the list.
That's a good call... I think most would have overlooked it.

Eternal Sunshine? Ah, Ok.

The Notebook should be a lot higher, LOVE that movie!

As other people said, I'm glad Brokeback mountain made it to the list.
But as other people also said, what happened to Love Actually and Jane Austen? If that's not romantic, then there's a lot of things I don't understand about the world!

I also have to confess I'm not that crazy about Casablanca, and I fell asleep during The Way We Were. But while I'm not a super fan of Moulin Rouge, the story is way more romantic than a lot of films mentioned.

As for Amelie, even if the love story is not really central, it's still more than Atonement. (Side note: I finally watched Atonement last night, it's better than I expected but I'm still unimpressed. I felt like watching "Metafiction 101"; and if it weren't for two hot actors having detailed sex in a library, I'm not sure the film would be that popular..)

Hey, Atonement is included.. little surprised since it's so recent. Good movie, though.

"Gone With the Wind" should be #1 on every top-movie list EVER. In any case, I like "Original Sin" and "What Dreams May Come" as far as romance movies go.

I would have included Before Sunrise on the list

I would have taken Joe Wright's Atonement off and replaced it with his version of Pride and Prejudice. Goodbye to Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maquire, and hello to Say Anything. But I disagree with most of you here that think Eternal Sunshine shouldn't be there. It is one of my favorite romance movies, and yes it might scare you away from relationships, but in the end guess what - they realize they'd rather try and fail than to have never loved at all. And they accept that love isn't perfect, and they decided to give it another go. If that isn't romantic, I don't know what is!

And what is Dark Victory? Doesn't even sound romantic. Sounds more like a war movie

These kind of lists are always going to make people feel alienated, but that's not a bad thing! Romance means different things to different people. For me, anything cliche or gimicky would be automatically out (Titanic, Notebook, Love Story, An Officer and a Gentleman are all examples of stories that try my patience and make me feel bored). My list would be more of things like Harold & Maude, Moulin Rouge (I'm seriously shocked that isn't included, actually), Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands... you get the idea.

I can't say I'm really surprised that most people are a little scared off by the kind of romance featured in Eternal Sunshine, but for me that level of love is perfect. I will always prize love that is crazy, obsessive, and a little dangerous. It doesn't automatically mean there is something wrong with it, or that it's unhealthy, which is the overwhelming reaction I see. Love that's soft and misty and "I love you so much that if you didn't love me I would rather you go out and be happy" seems like bullsh*t to me. For me it's all about the kind of "can't live without you", passionate, wild fights and amazing make-ups love that knocks you on you ass and makes the world feel upside down.

They forgot some great movies: Love Actually, A Lot Like Love, Benny and Joon, Crazy/Beautiful,...
and dito to the Jane Austen-injustice!! Her books, like some people have said, but also, 'Becoming Jane' was really good too

foxie - I agree with you about 'What Dreams May Come.'

i truly believe that 'love actually' is the most romantic movie of all time

I'm a hopeless romantic, so I've seen a lot of those movies

Love Story!? Are you kidding me? That movie is terrible! Terrible acting & terrible script!

I am going to have to say "Stranger than Fiction" is my most romantic choice.

Oh i hated the Notebook the book and the movie, Nicholas Sparks is a hack.

I cant agree with # 19,15,17,12,8,2 or 1 either.

Seriously where is

ALWAYS: "Pete Sandich: [Speaking to Dorinda after he's dead] I know now, that the love we hold back is the only pain that follows us here"

ROMEO AND JULIET (1996 VERSION):"Juliet: And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

RANDOM HARVEST (1942)

Smithy: Isn't there something morbid in burying one's heart with the dead?
Paula: That's a strange thing for you to say. Your capacity for loving, your joy in living, is buried in a little space of time you've forgotten.
Smithy: In some vague way, I still have...
Paula: ...hope?
Smithy: Yes, I suppose that's it.
Paula: Have you, Charles? Do you feel that there... really is someone? That someday you may find her? You may have... come so near her, may even have brushed her on the street... You might even have met her, Charles. Met her and not known her. It might be someone you know, Charles. It might... it might even be me.

SHADOWLANDS:(1993)
Jack: Will you marry this foolish, frightened old man... who needs you more than he can bear to say... who loves you, even though he hardly knows how?

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: (1995)

Edward Ferrars: My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Remove DARK VICTORY, JERRY MAGUIRE, ETERNAL SUNSHINE, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and LADY AND THE TRAMP, place on the list:

The Lover (1992)---because of Tony Leung Ka Fai as The Chinaman
The Piano (1993)---the landscape, the story and Harvey Keitel
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)---Patrick Dempsey marriage proposal to Reese Witherspoon
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)---Brendan Fraser doing the tango with Ricki Lake
Last of the Mohicans (1992)---Daniel Day-Lewis's promise to
Madeline Stowe: No, you submit, do you hear? You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.

AND No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.

ive seen like 6 i think, but.... eternal sunshine? horrible.

"The Lover (1992)---because of Tony Leung Ka Fai as The Chinaman"

YES

The Princess Bride is simply the best ever! It has everything...giants, fencing, fighting, chases, escapes, True Love, miracles!
Most of those on the list that I have seen I don't find romantic at all-- because the stories and or characters aren't admirable. And then there are the just strange ones such as "Eternal Sunshine...".
Oh well, at least there is one for me!

Oh I forgot to add "The Girl in Cafe." Also an AMAZING romantic movie.

jadenirvana, that movie was so heartbreakingly wonderful. I cried like a baby at the end.

i agree --- where are the classics like pride and prejudice or when harry met sally....i'v only seen 4 of those films!