As long as writers and romantics exist, there will be love stories like these. Characters, conflict, sacrifice, and that little bit of serendipity all come together in the best love story movies and remind us why love is so powerful. Everyone has a favorite big-screen love story from recent years, but when you dig into the movie archives and head back a decade (or six!), you get to see how romance has changed.
iMOM has created a list of 52 of the best love story movies that will make your heart flutter and give you all the feels. There’s one for every week of the year, so why not switch out that series you’re bingeing for one love story per week? By this time next year, you’ll have had plenty of black and white romance in your full-color life.
- Casablanca – 1942
- Gone with the Wind – 1939
- West Side Story – 1961
- Roman Holiday – 1953
- An Affair to Remember – 1957
- The Way We Were – 1973
- Doctor Zhivago – 1965
- Love Story – 1970
- My Fair Lady – 1964
- The African Queen – 1951
- Wuthering Heights – 1939
- Singin’ in the Rain – 1952
- Moonstruck – 1987
- Ghost – 1990
- From Here to Eternity – 1953
- On Golden Pond – 1981
- Now, Voyager – 1942
- The Sound of Music – 1965
- The Shop Around the Corner – 1940
- Swing Time – 1936
- The King and I – 1956
- Beauty and the Beast – 1991
- Gigi – 1958
- It Happened One Night – 1934
- An American in Paris – 1951
- Funny Girl – 1968
- A Star is Born – 1954
- The Philadelphia Story – 1940
- Sleepless in Seattle – 1993
- Shakespeare in Love – 1998
- Bringing Up Baby – 1938
- Sabrina – 1954
- Two for the Road – 1967
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – 1967
- Picnic – 1955
- To Have and Have Not – 1944
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s – 1961
- Sense and Sensibility – 1995
- Way Down East – 1920
- Roxanne – 1987
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – 1947
- Woman of the Year – 1942
- The Quiet Man – 1952
- The Sheik – 1921
- The Goodbye Girl – 1977
- Witness – 1985
- Love is a Many-Splendored Thing – 1955
- Notorious – 1946
- The Princess Bride – 1987
- Lady and the Tramp – 1955
- Barefoot in the Park – 1967
- Pillow Talk – 1959
Your turn! What the best love story movie?