My Top 10 Favourite Romance Movies
Sometimes on a hot summer night, I’ll sit outside in my Muskoka chair and look up at the stars twinkling in the sky. My mind wanders to people and places long forgotten. A moonlit picnic on the beach. Sipping champagne at an outdoor café. Afternoon tea in the splendid garden of a rustic mansion.
Indulge in your romantic fantasies this summer. Escape for a few hours watching one of my favourite summer romance movies.
1. The Bridges of Madison County – Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep – my favourite!
2. Message In a Bottle – Kevin Costner & Robin Wright Penn — love lost and found.
3. Autumn In New York – Richard Gere & Winona Ryder — a tender love story.
4. Pearl Harbor – Ben Affleck & Kate Beckinsale — war brides are beautiful.
5. An Affair To Remember – Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr — star crossed lovers.
6. Pride & Prejudice – Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen — classic story of love and misunderstanding.
7. The Notebook – James Garner & Gena Rowlands — a gentle love everlasting.
8. Nights In Rodanthe – Richard Gere and Diane Lane — keep the kleenex handy!
9. Under the Tuscan Sun – Diane Lane — an elegant and inspiring story.
10. The English Patient – Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche — love knows no boundaries.
For full movie details, just Google the title. What’s your favourite romantic movie? I’d love to know.
This post has 36 comments
July 20th, 2010
LOVE this list. Pride and Prejudice is one of my all-time favorites. Oh, and the Notebook, so romantic! Great idea for today’s list challenge!!
July 21st, 2010
Thanks Jill! The list could go on and on! I think Keira Knightley is beautiful and a great actress. But all the actresses are wonderful in these movies!
July 21st, 2010
A girl after my own heart! I LOVE movies!
My Top Ten Romantic Movies:
I’m with you on my first 3 picks
1. Bridges of Madison
2. The Notebook
3. An Affair to Remember
4. Wuthering Heights 1939:
Laurence Olivier & Meryl Oberon
5. Now Voyager 1942:
Paul Henreid & Bette Davis
6. In Love and War 1996:
Chris O’Donnell & Sandra Bullock
7. Phantom of the Opera 2004:
Gerard Butler & Emmy Rossum
8. Random Harvest 1942:
Ronald Coleman & Greer Garson
9. All That Heavens Allows 1955:
Rock Hudson & Jane Wyman
10.The Shadowlands 1993:
Anthony Hopkins & Debra Winger
I’m sure there are so many more that I am forgetting.
Enjoy the summer and movies!
July 21st, 2010
Thanks for the awesome list, Lori! I have to check out a few of your movie choices. Poor Ed. He won’t be able to watch TV until the fall!
July 21st, 2010
HI! I posted after you for the day 3 challenge!
I absolutely love all those movies you listed….my favorite from your list is An Affair to Remember – I can’t get enough of it. I loooove me some romance movies so they could all by my favorites. But one that really stands out and pulls at my heart strings every time is Meet Joe Black. The part when the real Brad Pitt comes back…..oy!
July 21st, 2010
Hi Keisha, I forgot about Meet Joe Black! That’s a good one too! I have it on VHS … oh what’s that some might say! I’ll have to do another post putting everyone’s suggestions together.
July 21st, 2010
First of all, the name of your blog is hilarious & awesome!! Put a smile on my face immediately! And thank you for stopping by my blog!!
Here are my top 10, although I don’t think they’re in order…
The Notebook
Sweet Home Alabama
Love Actually
Titanic
Dirty Dancing
Notting Hill
Gone With the Wind
Wimbledon
Ghost
Pretty Woman
We seem to have a little bit different taste, but I do love Pearl Harbor, An Affair to Remember & Pride & Prejudice. They just wouldn’t be in my top 10. Do you read Nicholas Sparks books because you seem to really like him!!
July 21st, 2010
Hi Cameron, the blog name is pretty creative but true! I love your list of movies. Ghost…now that’s another favourite of mine too. I don’t read Nicholas Sparks. I read biographies and memoirs if you can believe it. I’m a closet romantic! Thanks for sharing your list!
July 22nd, 2010
That’s a great list of great movies!
I love a good chick flick – it’s getting my husband to sit and watch with me that’s the challenge!
July 22nd, 2010
So true. My husband does the “eye roll” when he sees me rooting around in the DVD’s! But I’ve caught him with his hand in the kleenex box when he thinks I’m not looking while we’re watching a chick flick.
July 23rd, 2010
i love the notebook and under the tuscan sun. my all time favorite is pride and prejudice, the bbc version with colin firth. love it. it is like therapy for me. i found you on the sits challenge!
July 23rd, 2010
I can’t say I’ve seen the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. You really can escape to Italy and faraway places when you watch movies like Under the Tuscan Sun. Good luck with the 31 DBBB Challenge.
July 24th, 2010
NOW VOYAGER is the ultimate love story! My all time favorite movie, it really reaches out to me with it’s Ugly Duckling story. Beyond charming.
I think Lori Attridge and myself are lovers of the old classic movies. Sweet and charming movies that inspire instead of offering gratuitous sex scenes.
Random Harvest is wonderful.
I love Betti Davis-try Dark Victory.
Notting Hill is definitely in the top 10.
The movies made in the late 30′s and all of the 40′s have the greatest love story themes…don’t pass them by!
July 24th, 2010
Hi Amber, I’m not familiar with Now Voyager but I’ll Google it. My friend Lori celebrates romance in some of the most amazing ways. She had some friends over to her home for a Bridges of Madison County party. And she’s visited Iowa where they shot the film. I’ll have to pay more attention to the movies from the 30′s and 40′s.
July 29th, 2010
I love the classics from the Golden Age along with Amber.
Here are some of my favourites by leading lady:
Bette Davis:
Now Voyager, Dark Victory, Jezebel, The Sisters, A Stolen Life & The Great Lie.
Olivia de Havilland:
The Heiress, To Each His Own, Not As a Stranger & Gone with the Wind
Jane Wyman:
All That Heaven Allows, The Magnificent Obsession & Johnny Belinda
Dorothy McGuire:
Invitation & The Enchanted Cottage
Gene Tierney:
A Razor’s Edge & Plymouth Adventure (the historian in me)
Vivien Leigh:
Waterloo Bridge
Barbara Stanwyck:
Stella Dallas
Merle Oberon:
The Dark Angel & Wuthering Heights
Greer Garson:
Pride & Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Madame Curie, The Valley of Decision, Mrs. Parkington & That Forsyte Woman
Jennifer Jones:
Love Letters, Good Morning Ms Dove, Madame Bovary, Love is a Many Splendored Thing & The Song of Bernadette
Joan Crawford:
The Women & Mildred Pierce
Deborah Kerr:
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, An Affair to Remember, The King & I, The End of the Affair & From Here to Eternity
Irene Dunne:
Penny Serenade
Audrey Hepburn:
My. Fair Lady
Ingrid Bergman:
Anastasia & Casablanca
Joan Fontaine:
Jane Eyre
Oh My Gosh, movie title after movie title kept coming to me. I have a large movie collection at home. I’m sure there are so many others I am forgetting. I had a revelation while remembering all these movies. I am going to be 48 this year yet I know so many of the golden oldies and I can thank my mother for that. We used to watch all the classics together. You know I had forgotten about all those times and it warms my heart that we shared that time together and I feel fortunate that she passed her love of classic movies onto me.
I never realized until now the role movies have played in my life. The character’s trails and tribulations and successes have taught me so much; not to mention the pleasure of entertainment!
Thanks Kathryn
July 29th, 2010
Lori, you speak right from the heart my friend. Many of these strong women have probably inspired you and have helped you become the awesome woman you are today. These movies will always remind you of the great times you shared watching them with your mom — the laughter and tears. And the fun of comparing notes afterwards. I can’t think of a more wonderful tribute to your mom!
July 27th, 2010
You can probably tell that I’m a child of the 80s, but I will always love Say Anything with John Cusak. “I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.”
July 28th, 2010
Hi Meredith, great movie and great quote! I think John Cusak is a cutie. Thanks for the comment!
August 3rd, 2010
When Harry Met Sally is my ultimate favorite romance movie.
Love the name of your blog!
August 4th, 2010
When Harry Met Sally is a classic too! Glad you like the blog name…never look behind you in those 3-way mirrors in store dressing rooms….must be cheap glass! Thanks for stopping by!
August 3rd, 2010
A wonderful list! I love most of those movies, though I refuse to call what Keira Knightly and Matthew Macfaydon stared in “Pride and Prejudice.”
Watch Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth in the REAL Pride and Prejudice!
August 4th, 2010
You know I’d forgotten about Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice. I saw it on the BBC. An excellent production. I’ll add that one to our list! Thanks!
August 5th, 2010
I have to bookmark this list because I’m sad to say that I’ve only watched maybe two…and I can’t even remember them
One of my favorite “summer” love stories is The Man on the Moon with the very young Reese Witherspoon. {sigh}…young love. Stopping by from SITS #31DBBB.
August 6th, 2010
The Man on the Moon…that was the early 90′s wasn’t it? Reese Witherspoon is beautiful and a great actress. I like her in Walk the Line, the love story between Johnny Cash and June Carter. The list is growing so I’ll let you know when I post a new one adding everyone’s additions!
August 5th, 2010
I LOVE your blog name. I have to add two newer films that I loved.
Away We Go
500 Days of Summer
I still don’t understand why everyone in the world didn’t see “500 Days of Summer”? It has become an instant classic in my house.
August 6th, 2010
You know I can’t believe I didn’t see it either! It came out last summer didn’t it? I just watched the trailer and I have to see it! Thanks for adding it to the list!
August 9th, 2010
Pride & Prejudice with Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen was absolutly fantastic, and matthew is soooooooo gorgeous, one of my all time favourite films
August 10th, 2010
Hi Rubina, Matthew Macfadyen is very hot! It must be the British accent too…that and a Scottish accent make me melt!
August 10th, 2010
I am a sucker for all these movies! When Harry Met Sally was just on over the weekend and I had to watch! Love that one. Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier!
August 10th, 2010
Hi Christina, can you count the number of times you’ve seen it? I can’t! I’ve seen The Bridges of Madison County so many times, my husband runs and hides when he sees me holding the box! Good luck with the 31 DBBB challenge!
August 11th, 2010
Oh, these are some great movies! So many have been listed! I have to give a thumbs up for The Notebook and Message in a Bottle and Nights in Rodanthe, and one of my older favorites is First Knight with Sean Connery and Richard Gere.
Bernice
August 11th, 2010
Bernice, Richard Gere could be playing a sanitation worker (not that I don’t have a great respect for sanitation workers) and he’d melt the screen! I love An Officer and A Gentleman too….we don’t see much of Debra Winger anymore?
August 11th, 2010
Bridges of Madison County
Under Tuscan Sun
Message in a Bottle
Pride & Prejudice
The Notebook
The Enlish Patient
These are my favourites
August 11th, 2010
Hi January, we’ll have to get the girls together for a movie night in the fall!
August 22nd, 2010
Well I must say, great choice of movies my friend. My first choice will always be Bridges of Madison County. Meryl Streep being my all time favorate actress. The greatest love stories are not suppose to have happy endings because love lasts forever. Or is forever only as long as it lasts?
My list of movies are:
The Bridges of Maddison County
4 Weddings and a Funeral
Love Actually
Love Happens
Out of Africa
The English Patient
An Officer and a Gentleman
PS I love You
Elizabeth Town
The Amerian President
Barefoot in the Park
The Way We Were
Laws of Attraction
Life or Something like it
Music & Lyrics
Must Love Dogs
My Greek Wedding
One Fine Day
Only You
Phantom of the Opera
Runaway Bride
Sabrina
Crush
City of Angles
Ghost (Dito)
August 22nd, 2010
Amazing list my friend! I haven’t thought of some of those movies in years…”The Crush!!!!”… the young British actor is on Coronation Street now!
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