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The American Film Institute's list of the top 100 love stories from the first 100 years of American cinema.
This list is ranked and is shown in descending order.
| Rank |
Title |
Year |
Rating |
|
1
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Casablanca
|
1942
|
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2
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Gone with the Wind
|
1939
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3
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West Side Story
|
1961
|
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4
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Roman Holiday
|
1953
|
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5
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An Affair to Remember
|
1957
|
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6
|
Way We Were, The
|
1973
|
|
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7
|
Doctor Zhivago
|
1965
|
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8
|
It's a Wonderful Life
|
1946
|
|
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9
|
Love Story
|
1970
|
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10
|
City Lights
|
1931
|
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11
|
Annie Hall
|
1977
|
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12
|
My Fair Lady
|
1964
|
|
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13
|
Out of Africa
|
1985
|
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14
|
African Queen, The
|
1951
|
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15
|
Wuthering Heights
|
1939
|
|
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16
|
Singin' in the Rain
|
1952
|
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17
|
Moonstruck
|
1987
|
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18
|
Vertigo
|
1958
|
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19
|
Ghost
|
1990
|
|
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20
|
From Here to Eternity
|
1953
|
|
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21
|
Pretty Woman
|
1990
|
|
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22
|
On Golden Pond
|
1981
|
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23
|
Now, Voyager
|
1942
|
|
|
24
|
King Kong
|
1933
|
|
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25
|
When Harry Met Sally...
|
1989
|
|
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26
|
Lady Eve, The
|
1941
|
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27
|
Sound of Music, The
|
1965
|
|
|
28
|
Shop Around the Corner, The
|
1940
|
|
|
29
|
An Officer and a Gentleman
|
1982
|
|
|
30
|
Swing Time
|
1936
|
|
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31
|
King and I, The
|
1956
|
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32
|
Dark Victory
|
1939
|
|
|
33
|
Camille
|
1936
|
|
|
34
|
Beauty and the Beast
|
1991
|
|
|
35
|
Gigi
|
1958
|
|
|
36
|
Random Harvest
|
1942
|
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37
|
Titanic
|
1997
|
|
|
38
|
It Happened One Night
|
1934
|
|
|
39
|
An American in Paris
|
1951
|
|
|
40
|
Ninotchka
|
1939
|
|
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41
|
Funny Girl
|
1968
|
|
|
42
|
Anna Karenina
|
1935
|
|
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43
|
A Star Is Born
|
1954
|
|
|
44
|
Philadelphia Story, The
|
1940
|
|
|
45
|
Sleepless in Seattle
|
1993
|
|
|
46
|
To Catch a Thief
|
1955
|
|
|
47
|
Splendor in the Grass
|
1961
|
|
|
48
|
Last Tango in Paris
aka Ultimo tango a Parigi
|
1972
|
|
|
49
|
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
|
1946
|
|
|
50
|
Shakespeare in Love
|
1998
|
|
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51
|
Bringing Up Baby
|
1938
|
|
|
52
|
Graduate, The
|
1967
|
|
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53
|
A Place in the Sun
|
1951
|
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54
|
Sabrina
|
1954
|
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55
|
Reds
|
1981
|
|
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56
|
English Patient, The
|
1996
|
|
|
57
|
Two for the Road
|
1967
|
|
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58
|
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
|
1967
|
|
|
59
|
Picnic
|
1955
|
|
|
60
|
To Have and Have Not
|
1944
|
|
|
61
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's
|
1961
|
|
|
62
|
Apartment, The
|
1960
|
|
|
63
|
Sunrise
aka Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
|
1927
|
|
|
64
|
Marty
|
1955
|
|
|
65
|
Bonnie and Clyde
|
1967
|
|
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66
|
Manhattan
|
1979
|
|
|
67
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
1951
|
|
|
68
|
What's Up, Doc?
|
1972
|
|
|
69
|
Harold and Maude
|
1971
|
|
|
70
|
Sense and Sensibility
|
1995
|
|
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71
|
Way Down East
|
1920
|
|
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72
|
Roxanne
|
1987
|
|
|
73
|
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The
|
1947
|
|
|
74
|
Woman of the Year
|
1942
|
|
|
75
|
American President, The
|
1995
|
|
|
76
|
Quiet Man, The
|
1952
|
|
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77
|
Awful Truth, The
|
1937
|
|
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78
|
Coming Home
|
1978
|
|
|
79
|
Jezebel
|
1938
|
|
|
80
|
Sheik, The
|
1921
|
|
|
81
|
Goodbye Girl, The
|
1977
|
|
|
82
|
Witness
|
1985
|
|
|
83
|
Morocco
|
1930
|
|
|
84
|
Double Indemnity
|
1944
|
|
|
85
|
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
|
1955
|
|
|
86
|
Notorious
|
1946
|
|
|
87
|
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
|
1988
|
|
|
88
|
Princess Bride, The
|
1987
|
|
|
89
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
1966
|
|
|
90
|
Bridges of Madison County, The
|
1995
|
|
|
91
|
Working Girl
|
1988
|
|
|
92
|
Porgy and Bess
|
1959
|
|
|
93
|
Dirty Dancing
|
1987
|
|
|
94
|
Body Heat
|
1981
|
|
|
95
|
Lady and the Tramp
|
1955
|
|
|
96
|
Barefoot in the Park
|
1967
|
|
|
97
|
Grease
|
1978
|
|
|
98
|
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
|
1939
|
|
|
99
|
Pillow Talk
|
1959
|
|
|
100
|
Jerry Maguire
|
1996
|
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