Best Romantic Movies

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The Notebook is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes. The screenplay, written by Jeremy Leven and Jan Sardi, is based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks.

 A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young girl  and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences. But at the end they are united eternally. 

Starring - Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner & Gena Rowlands

Indecent Proposal is a 1993 drama film based on the novel of the  same name by Jack Engelhard. It was directed by Adrian Lyne.   Screenplay by Amy Holden Jones. 

A married woman agrees to have sex with a billionaire man for $1,000,000 due to their financial crisis. Her husband asks to do so and she does. Then the story begins. Finally they realize what the true love is.

Starring - Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson.

A Walk to Remember is a 2002 American  teen romantic drama film based on the 1999 romance novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. Directed by Adam Shankman and Screenplay  Karen Janszen.

The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are falling in love. then learn lot of things about the true love, until he realized, love is like the wind. Wind can't be seen but can felt.

Starring - Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote

Message in a Bottle is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki. Based on a novel with the same name by Nicholas Sparks. Screenplay Gerald Di Pego.

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author. Then she found the author and fall in love with him without telling about the love letters. 

Starring - Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman    

A Walk in the Clouds is a 1995 American-Mexican romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Araru and Screenplay: Robert Mark Kamen, Harvey Weitzman.

 Paul and a young woman who pregnant meet on a bus as she's headed home from college to help with the grape harvest and face her Old World domineering dad. The woman has not married though she pregnant and she thinks her father is going to kill her. Paul proposes to pose as her husband to help her face her father. When their passion for each other is finally ignited and explodes, they realize they must overcome all odds to be together.

 Starring :  Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini and Anthony Quinn.

The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. Directed by Anthony Minghella, Screenpaly Anthony Minghella.

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. 

Starring -  Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe 

Anna Karenina is a 2012 British epic romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright and adapted by Tom Stoppard from Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name.

Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. 

Starring: - Matthew Macfadyen, Keira Knightley, Jude Law

Atonement is a 2007 British romantic drama war film directed by Joe Wright and based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan.

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Finally Briony tries to give the justice for all the characters who she changed, in her novel.

Starring: - James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard.

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Starring: - Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.

Set in colonial North Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. But again they loss each others on certain circumstances.

Starring: - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid . 

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell, based on W H Auden's poem. Directed by Mike Newell, Written by Richard Curtis.

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Starring - Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow,John Hannah

Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama-war film.Directed by Lasse Hallström, Written by Jamie Linden. it's a novel of Nicholas Sparks.

A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave. 

Starring - Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, Henry Thomas, Richard Jenkins

City of Angels is a 1998 American romantic fantasy drama film Directed by Brad Silberling. Screenplay by Dana Stevens Based on Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger.

An angel becomes a human, because of love.

Starring - Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz.

  

The Lucky One is a 2012 romantic drama film directed by Scott Hicks. It is an adaptation of the 2008 novel of the same name, by Nicholas Sparks. 

A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war. He found her and fall in love.

Starring - Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Jay R. Ferguson, Blythe Danner

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel and produced by David O. Selznick, of Selznick International Pictures. Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited), Sam Wood (uncredited), Screen played by Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett (uncredited), Ben Hecht (uncredited), Barbara Keon (uncredited)

A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War. 

Starring - Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland

Notting Hill is a 1999 British romantic comedy film set in Notting Hill, London. The screenplay was by Richard Curtis, Directed by Roger Michell.

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world. 

Stars - Hugh Grant & Julia Roberts

Pretty Woman is a American 1990 romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles. Written by J.F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall.

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.  

Starring - Richard Gere & Julia Roberts











The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama film directed by Alejandro Agresti Screenplay by David AuburnBased on Il Mare by Kim Eun-jeong, Kim Mi-yeong

A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Starring - Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo 

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher. Screenplay by Eric Roth, The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with his romance.

Starring : Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton. 








Tristan & Isolde is a 2006 romantic drama film based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Isolde. It was produced by Ridley Scott (who had been working on an adaptation since the mid-seventies) and Tony Scott, directed by Kevin Reynolds. Music score composed by Anne Dudley

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers. 

Stars :  James Franco, Sophia Myles






The Vow is a 2012 romantic drama film directed by Michael Sucsy, The film is based on the true story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter. The Vow was a box office success, becoming the sixth highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time. Written By Jason Katims, Abby Kohn, Stuart Sender, Marc Silverstein.

A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.

Starring : Channing Tatum, Sam Neill  and Rachel McAdams.

Swann in Love, Un amour de Swann (original title), is a 1984 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Its screenplay is largely inspired by the novel of the same name by Marcel Proust. Written by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière, Marie-Hélène Estienne, Marcel Proust and Volker Schlöndorff.

Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness. 

 Starring : Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti and Alain Delon

"The Lover" Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Written by  Marguerite Duras (based on the novel), Gérard Brach (adaptation). 

The story takes place in 1929 French Indochina, Now Vietnam,  where a French teenage girl meets a wealthy Chinese man in a boat. The beginning of another forbidden Romance with severe tragic consequences. Both knowing their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
 

Stars: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meining





 

The Great Gatsby is a 2013 Australian-American 3D drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann, 

It follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick, who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties. 

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, and Elizabeth Debicki.

Doctor Zhivago is a British 1965 epic drama–romance film directed by David Lean, The film is loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. Screen played by Robert Bolt. It has remained popular for decades and as of 2014 is the eighth highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation

Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution.

Starring:  Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin

Autumn in New York is a 2000 American romantic drama film directed by Joan Chen. Written by Allison Burnett.

the film is about a successful middle-aged restaurateur and womanizer who falls in love with a sweet young woman who is terminally ill.

Starring: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia.









Soon after Thom starts operating as an illegal taxi driver in New York City, Claire hires him to drive her to California after her estranged father suffers a heart attack. then they just traveled.

This film was directed and written by Sam Jaeger 

Starring: Sam Jaeger and Amber Jaeger (Husband and wife), Victor Garber