It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and while not all of us celebrate the romantic occasion, the majority of us can admit to enjoying a romcom!
There have been many beautiful love stories told on film since movie theatres existed, however it’s the movies from our era (the 1960s-1980s) that we fondly remember the most.
Tonight let’s look back at those tales that swept us off our feet, had us screaming ‘no!’ or clutching a tissue. Which is your favourite romantic film?
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
A somewhat romanticised account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
A fragile Kansas girl’s unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town’s most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend’s mistress.
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Starring: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_aFprGzyc
A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War.
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford
After an accident leaves a young man dead, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
A couple’s attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elHoRhGrTiE
A hot-tempered farm labourer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
And one from 2003 for good measure:
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Starring: