With a strong impact, Hollywood movies are preparing us for everything and infuse us a way of thinking. For these reasons, women everywhere share a surreal vision of love, with high expectations from partners.
With these in mind, it is easy to understand why some of the most beloved romantic movies of all time are considered more or less standard for our love stories. Whether you dream to be on the wings of the wind or to start a romance of November, you certainly recognize that you love romantic movies that I will present in this top 10.
10. The Reader
“The Reader” is a romance story based on the novel of German writer Bernhard Schlink. The action takes place in Germany, where a man recalls the romance which he, a child of 15 years, he lived with a much older woman, just after the World War II. “The Reader” presents original characters, complex and beautifully shaped.
09. Whatever works
Boris Yellnikoff is an eccentric New York, who was professor of physics at Columbia University. After a failed marriage with Jessica and a failed suicide attempt, the man irritates his loyal friends with endless tirades about the worthlessness of all things. When he meets Melodie, a young woman ran away from home, Boris Yellnikoff change the living style, with a privileged bohemian lifestyle. Marietta, Melody’s mother comes to New York to seek his daughter and to punish the unfaithful husband and engage in a menage-a-trois with the friend of Boris – Leo Brockman and owner of art galleries named Morgenstern.
08. Sweet November
Nelson (Keanu Reeves) is a guy focused on career, whose life revolves around some constant clearly defined by the job that he has it. In one day, he meets Sara (Charlize Theron), a woman who is totally opposite: lively, spontaneous and free from the routine commitments. Nelson gets to spend with her a whole month – November – that will change his life irrevocably.
07. The Notebook
The story begins in a nursing home where an old woman read to a old woman the love story of two young people: Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling). The story protagonists meet at a carnival, fall in love but are separated by the rich family of the girl who does not agree with the relationship with the young. Allie is forced to leave the town and get to know and become engaged to a young soldier, Lon. When she returns into the city, the old feelings for Noah are back, the girl being forced to choose between the two men.
06. Before Sunrise
Jesse is an American of twenty years. It has EuroRail subscription and is coming from Budapest. Is going to get down to Vienna, where it will take a flight to the United States. She, Celine, is student at the Sorbonne, returning from his grandmother, from Budapest and has in mind to get down to Paris. These are the characters of this movie. The two meet each other, dine in the train wagon, discuss, and eventually Jesse persuades her to go down with him to Vienna and stay with him till he will get the flight.
05. The bodyguard
The movie tells the story of a singer being in the peak of career, Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston), whose fame puts her in danger. To be safe, she hires a professional security and protection, the bodyguard Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner). In addition to the scenes of suspense, tension, the famous lyrics of the songs “I Will Always Love You” and “I have nothing”, you will be captivated by the seemingly impossible romance between the two.
04. The Bridges of Madison County
A story which has the theme of infidelity of a wife that could easily be vulgarized and reduced to clear elements of seduction, insecurity and sex. The two actors manage to shroud the story of Robert and Francesca in a wave of magic, shadows and colors that describe the true love, of a couple which passed from the first youth. Only by gaining that maturity, experience of love and duty to decide the future of relations marked of that security that you know once in life, if you’re lucky.
“Gone with the Wind” tells the story of love between Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), during the Civil War. The cinematic masterpiece is based on the novel of the same name written by Margaret Mitchell and captures the beautiful and pampered life of a woman, who used to have what she wants; it follows the inaccessibility and lose the one that always loved it. The winner of 10 Academy Awards, the movie is a classic that is worth to be seen.
A story placed in Italy of the ’30s, when Guido (Roberto Benigni), an accountant Jew, married with the woman chose by his destiny (Nicoletta Braschi). The two live happily together with their child until the Nazi forces occupied Italy. Then, Guido tries to keep his family together and invent a way for his son to keep him alive.
01. Moulin Rouge
The story takes place in 1899 – the year when the young English writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) arrives in Paris to participate at the bohemian revolution that was in the district Montmartre. The bohemian heart beats strongest in Moulin Rouge nightclub, where Christian gets to write a play adapted for dogmas revolution and to fall in love of the courtesan Satine (Nicole Kidman).
