The Most Romantic Movies Of Our Time

The Vow looks like it might have a lot of the tropes you find in great romantic films: Amnesia, a lost love and making someone fall in love with you again. Watch the trailer here!

The ultimate argument for dating your best friend: Harry and Sally meet multiple times over fifteen years, but it's not until they learn to love each other's insecurities and flaws that they actually fall in love. Worth it just for Billy Crystal's speech at the end.

Music heightens the romance in any movie, but this dazzling musical from Baz Luhrmann uses pop and rock songs to paint a lush world and a mostly believable, entirely romantic, love.

For one of the most realistic portrayals of slowly falling for a kindred spirit over the course of one night, watch this solemn, lovely film starring a young Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Then, when you've stopped crying, pick up the sequel Before Sunset, set and shot a decade later.

The enduring classic about a peasant willing to do anything for his ladylove, including taking on a pirate's identity and fighting to save her from kidnappers.

A different kind of classic, this film hits all the right points of funny, sexy, cool, and sweet.

Eternal Sunshine is the delicious kind of movie that takes several viewings to fully take apart... but at its heart, it's a parable about why we can never forget our past loves (and why we shouldn't try to).

Come on. I don't even have to tell you why.

I love me my supernatural love stories, and even though the book is far better, this movie still communicates the frustration of feeling like you're always waiting for your life to begin.

Julia Roberts goes through the dreaminess and joy of a wedding day... except she's trying to steal the groom. If this movie were made today, it would devolve into bad pop culture joke and an outlandish ending. But back in the '90s, it made sense that a wedding party would sing "I Say a Little Prayer for You" at a lobster shack, and we cheered Julia on at every step.

Another entry that goes without explanation.

Heath Ledger's first big movie, and one of his best: This retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is still beloved for its sharp-witted quotes, song-and-dance scene, and the fierce, slow love between Heath and Julia Stiles.

Another where the book is better, but the main story still comes through: Man dies suddenly of a brain tumor, but he leaves behind handwritten instructions for his wife and family on how to move on without him. This is a good use of Gerard Butler, as opposed to The Ugly Truth.

Falling in love while rehearsing the original Romeo and Juliet is just as romantic as you thought it would be. And it's kind of fun to see Colin Firth as a villain for once.

It's a long time coming, but when Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) tells Bridget (Renee Zellweger) that she's "wonderful... just the way you are," every viewer realizes that's all that she wanted to hear.