Best Romance Movies
Compiled 2026-10-24. All 105 films from the countdown published 2018-02-13. The Philadelphia Story is No. 1.

Compiled 2026-10-24. The main table is the romance countdown published on 2018-02-13 and modified on 2022-08-18, all 105 films. No. 1 is George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story (1940). No. 2 is Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly’s Singin' in the Rain (1952). No. 105 is Doug McHenry’s Jason's Lyric (1994). The publish date, the modified date, the archive date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The countdown
All 105 rows follow the countdown. Years and directors are copied from the guide.
| # | Title | Director | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
| 2 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 |
| 3 | Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | 1995 |
| 4 | The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 |
| 5 | A Room With a View | James Ivory | 1986 |
| 6 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 1990 |
| 7 | Letter From an Unknown Woman | Max Ophuls | 1948 |
| 8 | Gloria | Sebastián Lelio | 2013 |
| 9 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| 10 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 |
| 11 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | 1964 |
| 12 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | 2019 |
| 13 | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater | 2013 |
| 14 | The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 1987 |
| 15 | Sunrise | F.W. Murnau | 1927 |
| 16 | Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | 1987 |
| 17 | Say Anything... | Cameron Crowe | 1989 |
| 18 | The African Queen | John Huston | 1951 |
| 19 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears | 1985 |
| 20 | Brooklyn | John Crowley | 2015 |
| 21 | Once | John Carney | 2007 |
| 22 | The Half of It | Alice Wu | 2020 |
| 23 | Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | 1995 |
| 24 | Spontaneous | Brian Duffield | 2020 |
| 25 | Roman Holiday | William Wyler | 1953 |
| 26 | Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch | 1939 |
| 27 | A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 |
| 28 | Beauty and the Beast | Jean Cocteau | 1946 |
| 29 | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 |
| 30 | Stolen Kisses | François Truffaut | 1968 |
| 31 | Wuthering Heights | William Wyler | 1939 |
| 32 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | 2003 |
| 33 | Weekend | Andrew Haigh | 2011 |
| 34 | My Fair Lady | George Cukor | 1964 |
| 35 | Romeo and Juliet | Franco Zeffirelli | 1968 |
| 36 | Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | 2017 |
| 37 | Carol | Todd Haynes | 2015 |
| 38 | Her | Spike Jonze | 2013 |
| 39 | Before Sunset | Richard Linklater | 2004 |
| 40 | Away From Her | Sarah Polley | 2006 |
| 41 | Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | 1991 |
| 42 | Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979 |
| 43 | Howards End | James Ivory | 1992 |
| 44 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | 1987 |
| 45 | The Best of Youth | Marco Tullio Giordana | 2002 |
| 46 | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | 2012 |
| 47 | Amour | Michael Haneke | 2012 |
| 48 | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | 1961 |
| 49 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 |
| 50 | Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 1962 |
| 51 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | 2017 |
| 52 | West Side Story | Steven Spielberg | 2021 |
| 53 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | 2012 |
| 54 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 2004 |
| 55 | Southside With You | Richard Tanne | 2016 |
| 56 | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | 1998 |
| 57 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle | 2016 |
| 58 | In the Mood for Love | Kar-Wai Wong | 2000 |
| 59 | When Harry Met Sally... | Rob Reiner | 1989 |
| 60 | Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 |
| 61 | Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | 1942 |
| 62 | Chloe in the Afternoon | Éric Rohmer | 1972 |
| 63 | Gone With the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| 64 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | 1990 |
| 65 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | 1995 |
| 66 | All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| 67 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | Abdel Kechiche | 2013 |
| 68 | Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 |
| 69 | Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 2001 |
| 70 | Chungking Express | Kar-Wai Wong | 1994 |
| 71 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | 1961 |
| 72 | Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | 2005 |
| 73 | Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance | 2010 |
| 74 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Jim Jarmusch | 2013 |
| 75 | Pride & Prejudice | Joe Wright | 2005 |
| 76 | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | 1996 |
| 77 | Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | 1971 |
| 78 | The Lovers on the Bridge | Leos Carax | 1991 |
| 79 | Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | 1996 |
| 80 | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | 1965 |
| 81 | Atonement | Joe Wright | 2007 |
| 82 | Bright Star | Jane Campion | 2009 |
| 83 | Notting Hill | Roger Michell | 1999 |
| 84 | Death Is a Woman | Frederic Goode | 1967 |
| 85 | Lars and the Real Girl | Craig Gillespie | 2007 |
| 86 | The Theory of Everything | James Marsh | 2014 |
| 87 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire | 2001 |
| 88 | Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2002 |
| 89 | A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 2004 |
| 90 | An Officer and a Gentleman | Taylor Hackford | 1982 |
| 91 | Moulin Rouge | Baz Luhrmann | 2001 |
| 92 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | 1993 |
| 93 | Ghost | Jerry Zucker | 1990 |
| 94 | William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | 1996 |
| 95 | Pretty in Pink | Howard Deutch | 1986 |
| 96 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | 2008 |
| 97 | You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron | 1998 |
| 98 | 10 Things I Hate About You | Gil Junger | 1999 |
| 99 | About Time | Richard Curtis | 2013 |
| 100 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino | 1987 |
| 101 | An Affair to Remember | Leo McCarey | 1957 |
| 102 | Love Actually | Richard Curtis | 2003 |
| 103 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | 1990 |
| 104 | Chocolat | Lasse Hallström | 2000 |
| 105 | Jason's Lyric | Doug McHenry | 1994 |
How this ranking was built
Compiled 2026-10-24. Rotten Tomatoes published the countdown on 2018-02-13 and modified the page on 2022-08-18. Alex Vo wrote it. The introduction says 100 Fresh romance movies and at least 20 reviews. The countdown is numbered through 105, and the table keeps all 105. The page runs from No. 105 down to No. 1. This table runs from No. 1 to No. 105. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows. Lighter romantic comedies stay on a separate list of 200 and are not in this table.
On 2026-10-24 the live page left the title blocks empty. Titles, years, directors, and ranks were read from the Wayback capture of 2026-02-13. That capture carries the publish date 2018-02-13 and the modified date 2022-08-18. No. 57, La La Land, has no Chinese Wikidata label, so that Chinese cell keeps the English title.
Chinese and Russian titles are the Wikidata labels matched by the English title and year. Chinese labels are simplified. Director names stay as printed on the guide.
These ranks have no Russian Wikidata label, so the Russian cell keeps the English title: No. 22 The Half of It, No. 55 Southside With You, No. 57 La La Land, No. 84 Death Is a Woman, No. 105 Jason's Lyric.
| Source | Snapshot | Scope | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 105 Best Fresh Romance Movies (guide) | Published 2018-02-13, modified 2022-08-18 | Editorial countdown. The introduction says 100; the numbers run to 105, and all 105 rows are included. No. 1 The Philadelphia Story, 1940, George Cukor. No. 105 Jason's Lyric, 1994, Doug McHenry. At least 20 reviews | Primary |
| Wayback full text (20260213192309) | 2026-02-13 | Titles, years, directors, and ranks for all 105 films. The live shells were empty | Full text |
The picture, and the other movie pages
Rows S through D hold all 105 films in rank order, 21 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 105.
Comedy: best comedy movies. The Philadelphia Story is No. 1 there as well, on that page’s own order. IMDb voter ratings: IMDb Top 250.
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