passions

My occasional series contemplating the American Film Institute's top 100s continues with America’s Greatest Love Stories of All Time (a.k.a. Top 100 Passions).

I've indicated the ones that I've seen, followed by brackets for [own] or [want].

1. Casablanca, 1942 [own]
2. Gone with the Wind, 1939
3. West Side Story, 1961
4. Roman Holiday, 1953
5. An Affair to Remember, 1957
6. The Way We Were, 1973
7. Doctor Zhivago, 1965
8. It's a Wonderful Life, 1946
9. Love Story, 1970
10. City Lights, 1931
11. Annie Hall, 1977
12. My Fair Lady, 1964
13. Out of Africa, 1985
14. The African Queen, 1951
15. Wuthering Heights, 1939
16. Singin' in the Rain, 1952 [own] [updated 5-8-07]
17. Moonstruck, 1987
18. Vertigo, 1958
19. Ghost, 1990 [want--it was extremely significant to my mental health at one point in my past. I mean, this film may have literally saved my life.]
20. From Here to Eternity, 1953
21. Pretty Woman, 1990 [own--'cause what woman who graduated from college in the '90s does not own this movie?]
22. On Golden Pond, 1981
23. Now, Voyager, 1942
24. King Kong, 1933
25. When Harry Met Sally..., 1989 {I really did not like this movie all that much. So sue me.}
26. The Lady Eve, 1941
27. The Sound of Music, 1965 {ack. gag. barf.}
28. The Shop around the Corner, 1940
29. An Officer and a Gentleman, 1982
30. Swing Time, 1936
31. The King and I, 1956
32. Dark Victory, 1939
33. Camille, 1937
34. Beauty and the Beast, 1991
35. Gigi, 1958
36. Random Harvest, 1942
37. Titanic, 1997
38. It Happened One Night, 1934
39. An American in Paris, 1951 [own]--and this is much more romantic than Singin' in the Rain! [updated 5-8-07]
40. Ninotchka, 1939
41. Funny Girl, 1968
42. Anna Karenina, 1935
43. A Star Is Born, 1954
44. The Philadelphia Story, 1940
45. Sleepless in Seattle, 1993 {hee hee hee}
46. To Catch a Thief, 1955
47. Splendor in the Grass, 1961
48. Last Tango in Paris, 1972 [updated 5-8-07]
49. The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946
50. Shakespeare in Love, 1998 [own]
51. Bringing up Baby, 1938
52. The Graduate, 1967 {loved it}
53. A Place in the Sun, 1951
54. Sabrina, 1954 {saw the Harrison Ford/Julia Ormond deal. Not all that impressed.}
55. Reds, 1981
56. The English Patient, 1996
57. Two for the Road, 1967
58. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967
59. Picnic, 1955
60. To Have and Have Not, 1944
61. Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961 {made me sob, but that could've been the final Cat sequence and nothing more. George Pepard is très beau!}
62. The Apartment, 1960 {"When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara."}
63. Sunrise, 1927
64. Marty, 1955
65. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 {I think?}
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 [own]
71. Way Down East, 1920
72. Roxanne, 1987
73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947
74. Woman of the Year, 1942
75. The American President, 1995
76. The Quiet Man, 1952
77. The Awful Truth, 1937
78. Coming Home, 1978
79. Jezebel, 1939
80. The Sheik, 1921
81. The Goodbye Girl, 1977
82. Witness, 1985
83. Morocco, 1930
84. Double Indemnity, 1944
85. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, 1955
86. Notorious, 1946 [updated 5-8-07]
87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1988 {worst movie I've seen, hands-down}
88. The Princess Bride, 1987 {"As you wish!"}
89. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966
90. The Bridges Of Madison County, 1995 {gak}
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. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939
99. Pillow Talk, 1959
100. Jerry Maguire, 1996