Always - Holly Hunter, Richard Dreyfus, Audrey Hepburn The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (movie classics) Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison One Fine Day - Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney Notting Hill - Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant Heart And Souls - Robert Downey, Jr. & ensemble cast (A fantasy movie, but w/"heart" & love stories.) Up Close & Personal - Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Redford Message In A Bottle - Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman (Nicholas Sparks) Inventing The Abbotts - Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connolly I.Q. - Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau *The Age Of Adelaine - Blake Lively, Michael Huisman, Ellen Burstyn, Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker *The Time Travelers Wife (as others' have already posted) Sweeping, dramatic period pieces: Gone With The Wind Far And Away - Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman Shining Through - Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, Liam Neeson *If you enjoy The Time Travelers Wife, you'll most likely enjoy The Age Of Adelaine. Blake Lively gives an incandescent performance, the cinamatography is spectacular, w/ well thought & paced direction, allowing these brilliant performances & script to shine.
This was my ex-husband's favorite movie I think I will watch it today I have not watched it in years.
I'll just go "full sap" with this one, and say Forrest Gump. (cues up "Turn, Turn, Turn") Arguably even sappier- the love story subplot in the naively optimistic environmentalist fantasy Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. I liked A Rainy Day In New York, too. Crazy, Stupid Love. La La Land. See how easy I am? Also, obvious. I'm surprised that there are so few obscurities in this thread. (Edit: the recent posts have contributed some examples.) It could undoubtedly use more female participation.
Sorry, I misspelled title. It's The Age of Adaline. Happens when I'm typing in so much information w/cast members, in addition to titles (post, top of page).
The Time Machine (1960) - IMDb George and Weena - a love covering hundreds of thousands of years. Already mentioned: Somewhere In Time (1980) When you need to be in court in heaven in order to get the girl: A Matter Of Life And Death (1946) Other heavenly interventions needed to save the love: Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941) A good remake: Heaven Can Wait (1978) When love takes a different turn: In And Out (1997)
That made me remember: - I guess due to remake. This is adaptation from Death Takes A Holiday (can't say I ever saw that). Meet Joe Black - Brad Pitt, Claire Forlani, Anthony Hopkins, Marcia Gay Harden And, I also forgot to list: Forever Young - Jaime Lee Curtis, Mel Gibson (I haven't watched that in even longer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIEHuEFDgac - Forever Young
how about these two, both with Kate Winslet, may be a bit unconventional romance, but both are very good movies The Reader Labor Day
I don't recall Nick Drake in Serendipity, but I see both "Northern Sky" and "Black-Eyed Dog" were used. "Sky" is obvious (and one of my favorite love songs ever), but how in the world did they put "Dog" to use?
I love romantic movies, but there are so few that really do it for me. William Wyler's take on Wuthering Heights can hardly be beat for mythic heartbreak. I don't think I'll ever see a more heart-rending ending than the closing scene of his The Heiress, either. Though I loathe it objectively for its received loftiness, overt sentimentality and presumed Hollywood magic, Portrait of Jennie gets me every time. There's something about romance and the supernatural that just seems a natural mix. On that topic, a TV movie I wish I could see again in a decent print is "Sandcastles" with Bonnie Bedelia in love with Jan-Michael Vincent's ghost. A terrific mood piece, as I remember. Rapture, with Dean Stockwell and the phenomenal Patricia Gozzi (also worth noting in Sundays and Cybele), was the first film I ever wrote professionally on, and is an unusual entry in John Guillermin's filmography (he of The Blue Max, King Kong '76, Sheena, and The Towering Inferno). It's a modern-day (60s) gothic with a fine turn by Melvyn Douglas, clearly meant to be 20th Century-Fox's bid to get in the Bergmanesque arthouse game (supporting role in fact by Gunnel Lindblom), and was said to be Guillermin's favorite among his works, so it was clearly personal. The romance between teenage Gozzi and 30ish Stockwell would be pooh-poohed today, though the source novel was by a woman, but it's meant to be unusual in every way, anyway, so. Mrs. Soffel is probably the most realistic film on my list, but it's a huge one for me. Diane Keaton runs away with Mel Gibson, an inmate in her husband's prison, with his brother Matthew Modine in tow. I think greatly of nearly all of Gillian Armstrong's work, but this one maybe even tops My Brilliant Career in my book. Why every single one of these concerns Love That Could Never Be is for me alone to ponder, but isn't longing the most poignant part of romance?
Honestly don't recall "Dog" in there myseld. But this... SPOILER ALERT!!! DON'T watch this if you intend to see the film...!
Prime (2005) - nobody mentioned this yet, I think it's a pretty good movie with Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep
Never mind, I can't get the video to work. But I think you know the one. Peter: June, are you pretty?June: Not bad. Peter: Can you hear me as well as I hear you? June: Yes. Peter: You've got a good voice. You've got guts too. It's funny - I've known dozens of girls: I've been in love with some of them, but an American girl whom I've never seen and who I never shall see will hear my last words. That's funny. It's rather sweet. Peter: June, if you're around when they pick me up, turn your head away? ... Peter: Are you in love with anybody? No, no don't answer that. June: I could love a man like you, Peter. Peter: I love you, June. You're life and I'm leaving you. And that's just the opener!
A couple of suprisingly starry casts in these two. A Shakespeare adaptation that (mostly) gets it right: Much Ado About Nothing (1993) And a modern fairy tale / comic book adaptation with a lot of heart and humour: Stardust (2007) (spoiler- it's one of the final scenes)
