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It is therefore especially moving to me to be read with the careful attention that the contributors to this roundtable display, and it is immensely gratifying that they have taken up my exhortation to dive into the fray and let their freak flags fly. My goal was never to convince everyone to love the bad movies that I love. Rather, my hope was that readers would embrace taste anarchism and proudly celebrate the disreputable movies they love in ways that are expressive of their own idiosyncratic sensibilities.
Such aesthetic turmoil is uncomfortable because, with our tastes called into question, we are tasked with adjudicating a conflict without any grounds on which to issue a verdict. But it is also invigorating, a chance for reinvention, a reminder that our tastes are not something we are beholden to, yet at the same time not entirely under our conscious control.
I think the answer to the gender imbalance question lies in both the content and the community. Recently I rewatched Leprechaun 4 several times with folks who are not straight/white/cis/male. In general, we loved it. Its juvenile humor is mostly hilarious, but the situations making light of sexual assault and the racist/sexist/homophobic jokes did not go over as well.
Memes about hate-watching these movies in reverse are ubiquitous (e.g., small-town girl leaves hunky boyfriend to move to NYC to take a high-powered job). And while most of these movies are bad-bad, every once in a while, you find one bonkers enough to be worthy of good-bad love. For example, the classic, The Christmas Train, has been likened to Snowpiercer except for everyone is drunk on Schnapps. And for a genre that adheres to Hays Code-level sexual censorship, the movies are ridiculously horny. Good-badness abounds, if only you know where to look.
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There are many different kinds of romance films on this list: historical romances, romantic thrillers, musicals, classics, and, yes, even a romcom or two. Directors such as Ang Lee, Frank Capra, and Barry Jenkins have made this list for their contributions to the genre.
Doctor Zhivago follows a poet, lover and physician as he lives through the Russian Revolution and World War II. Staring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, the film is truly an epic. The picture was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five. It is currently available to stream on Tubi and Sling.
The Way We Were is not the highest-rated movie on this list, nor is it the best remembered. However, it is a classic 1970s romance drama. Similar to Love Story, A Star is Born, or even later films like Making Love, there is something nostalgic to this era of romance films.
The film follows two people with nothing in common, played by Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, as they fall in and out of love. This film is best enjoyed in tandem with its soundtrack, which peaked at number 20 on the Billboard 200 in 1974. It is available to rent on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, and VUDU.
The picture was selected by Mexico to be the country's nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. It was not chosen by the academy, but the film won 10 Ariel awards and was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes. Like Water for Chocolate captures the magical realism popular in the Mexican romance genre and delivers on love and tragedy. The film is currently available on Pluto TV.
Set in 1500s pastoral France and starring Drew Barrymore, Ever After is a dreamy and aesthetically pleasing retelling. Anjelica Huston also shines as the evil stepmother. The film boasts a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and also enjoyed box office success. Ever After is currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Starring Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut and Terrence Howard, the film garnered a 2013 sequel, The Best Man Holiday, and the limited series, The Best Man: The Final Chapters in 2022. The movie won three NAACP awards, including Outstanding Motion Picture. It is available to stream on Sling.
Probably the steamiest movie on this list, Lust, Caution was given an NC-17 rating. Based on the 1979 novella of the same name by Eileen Chang, the film follows a young student as she is tasked with seducing and assassinating a political figure in WWII-era Japanese-occupied Shanghai.
The picture ends with an impressive closing dance/ballet sequence that clocks in at 17 minutes. The film won six Oscars, including Best Picture. It is available to rent on YouTube, Google Play, VUDU, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime.
Your Name is an animated Japanese film. The movie follows two high school students who intermittently swap bodies after viewing a comet. The two fall in love after living each other's lives but must learn how to go back.
The Princess Bride follows the romance between a farmhand turned pirate and a young maiden set to be married to an evil prince. This family-friendly film is a comedy and fantasy, but the romance comes through, even in some of its siller moments, because "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
Based on the 1973 novel of the same name, The Princess Bride stars Cary Elwes and Robin Wright and was directed by Rob Reiner. The film has gained an almost cult status and enjoys a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. It is currently available to stream on Disney+.
Before Sunrise follows two strangers as they choose to spend the day together in Vienna. The film is 90s in the best way, starring Julie Deply and Ethan Hawke. The picture premiered at Sundance and was inspired by a real-life romantic run that director Richard Linklater had as a young man in Philadelphia.
Carol follows a love affair between the titular Carol, played by Cate Blanchett, and Therese, a young photographer and shop girl, played by Rooney Mara. Set in the 1950s, the film explores love, motherhood, homophobia and the repression of the time.
Writer Phyllis Nagy started writing the project in 1997 based on the 1952 romance novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. The picture earned six Academy Award nominations and nine BAFTA Film Award nominations. It is currently available to stream on Netflix.
It feels silly even having to explain Titanic. The film was the highest-grossing film of all time until 2010, when James Cameron surpassed himself with Avatar (2009). The movie follows two lovers, played by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, on the tragic maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
While all the films on this list deliver swoon-worthy romances, the top 10 give us something more. These romances stick with you even after the credits roll. Many of them have been referenced in other films and have served as inspiration for new love stories. Others have helped define genres or started renewed interest in romance films. These films are iconic for good reason and make the top of the list of the romance movie genre.
Starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, An Affair to Remember is a blueprint for so many other melodramas. It is even heavily and directly referenced in Sleepless in Seattle. The film includes a meet on a transatlantic crossing, a meeting at the empire state building, and grave injury.
An Affair to Remember was nominated for five Oscars but did not win any. While critics have given it mixed reviews, it earned an 87% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It is available to rent on Amazon Prime, Google Play, VUDU, and Apple TV.
Starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, the film follows one of the most famous literary love triangles of all time. Between the score and the cinematography, this picture is probably the most romanticized version of the classic novel. It was nominated for four Academy Awards and has been credited as an influence on the resurgence of the period romance genre in the 2000s. Pride and Prejudice is available to rent on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, and VUDU.
A French New Wave opera might sound like a hard sell, but The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a masterpiece. The film follows the star-crossed love story of Genevive and Guy, two young lovers in a small city in Normandy. The movie stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo and was written and directed by Jacques Demy.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg won the Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and has been a favorite of film lovers and filmmakers. Both Damien Chazelle and Greta Gerwig have cited The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as an influence for their films La La Land and Barbie, respectively. It is currently streaming on Max.
Roman Holiday follows a young princess, Audrey Hepburn, as she takes a day off to see Rome and encounters an American reporter, Gregory Peck. Cary Grant was originally offered the role but turned it down as he thought he was too old to play opposite Hepburn.
The film earned Hepburn both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her role as Princess Ann. Roman Holiday has a noted legacy and was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress in 1999 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film is currently available to rent on YouTube, Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, and VUDU.
The film is pure heartbreak and takes an unflinching look at art, the female gaze and unspoken love. It won the Queer Palm at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and received a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. It is currently available on Hulu.
In the Mood For Love follows two neighbors as a friendship turns into a strong bond outside of their respective marriages. The film takes place in 1960s Hong Kong and delivers on both style and substance.
Director Wong Kar-wai has directed many notable romance films, including Chungking Express and Happy Together, but In the Mood For Love has a lush quality that is undeniable. Sofia Coppola credited the film as inspiration for Lost in Translation, and the Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, used it as inspiration for an alternate universe in their film Everything Everywhere All at Once. In The Mood For Love is currently available to stream on Max.
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