AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions

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 Casablanca 1942
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2 Gone with the Wind 1939
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3 West Side Story 1961
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4 Roman Holiday 1953
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5 An Affair to Remember 1957
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6 Way We Were, The 1973
7 Doctor Zhivago 1965
8 It's a Wonderful Life 1946
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9 Love Story 1970
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
14 African Queen, The 1951
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15 Wuthering Heights 1939
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
21 Pretty Woman 1990
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22 On Golden Pond 1981
23 Now, Voyager 1942
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24 King Kong 1933
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25 When Harry Met Sally... 1989
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26 Lady Eve, The 1941
27 Sound of Music, The 1965
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28 Shop Around the Corner, The 1940
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29 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982
30 Swing Time 1936
31 King and I, The 1956
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32 Dark Victory 1939
33 Camille 1936
34 Beauty and the Beast 1991
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35 Gigi 1958
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36 Random Harvest 1942
37 Titanic 1997
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38 It Happened One Night 1934
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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
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45 Sleepless in Seattle 1993
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46 To Catch a Thief 1955
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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
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52 Graduate, The 1967
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53 A Place in the Sun 1951
54 Sabrina 1954
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55 Reds 1981
56 English Patient, The 1996
57 Two for the Road 1967
58 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967
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59 Picnic 1955
60 To Have and Have Not 1944
61 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
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62 Apartment, The 1960
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63 Sunrise aka Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
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64 Marty 1955
65 Bonnie and Clyde 1967
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66 Manhattan 1979
67 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
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68 What's Up, Doc? 1972
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69 Harold and Maude 1971
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70 Sense and Sensibility 1995
71 Way Down East 1920
72 Roxanne 1987
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73 Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The 1947
74 Woman of the Year 1942
75 American President, The 1995
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76 Quiet Man, The 1952
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
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85 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955
86 Notorious 1946
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87 Unbearable Lightness of Being, The 1988
88 Princess Bride, The 1987
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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
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98 Hunchback of Notre Dame, The 1939
99 Pillow Talk 1959
100 Jerry Maguire 1996
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