Romantische film top 20

[M's girl]

Aan de hand van de reacties van 1.500 lezers van de in de bron genoemde site kwamen de 20 meest romantische films in een lijstje terecht. Welke heb jij gezien? Welke kan je zéker aanraden en welke was een absolute flop in jouw ogen? En valt het jou ook op dat Meg Ryan (niet dat het héél erg is) in veel van deze films zit?

Op nummer 20 staat When Harry met Sally.
Geweldige film! Herkenbare emoties. Al wat jaartjes oud, maar hij blijft leuk. Goeie muziek ook van -voornamelijk- Harry Connick Jr.

Plot Synopsis (Amazon.com): Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?"​

Bron: Lovingyou.com

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 19

Op nummer 19 staat You've got mail.

Plot Synopsis (wederom van Amazon.com): A modern day remake of "Shop Around The Corner" with Ryan and Hanks playing people who work in rival stores, hate each other by day, but discover each other over the internet, unknowingly.​

Grappig verhaal, en zoals hierboven genoemd, een moderne re-make van het "Shop around the corner" verhaal, maar dan met internet als één van de hoofdrolspelers, zeg maar.

Niet dat je de film te serieus moet nemen, maar het laat wel zien hoe je je kan vergissen in een online-personage. Deze keer pakt het, uiteraard, goed uit!

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 18

Aaaah..... Moulin Rouge.....

Film van Baz Luhrman (geniaal) met Nicole Kidman in de hoofdrol. Wat wil je nog meer? Je moet (denk ik) even wennen aan het feit dat er in de film veel gezongen wordt (moderne musical, zeg maar) maar er is zo veel moois te zien (naast Nicole Kidman ) dat het niet stoort. Bovendien, voor de oudjes onder ons: veel klassiekers komen voobij in een nieuw jasje. Erg leuk, maar vooral dus een erg mooie film.

Luhrman was ook verantwoordelijk voor de nummer 10 in de lijst.

Plot Synopsis: Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 17

Ohja! Dirty Dancing.....

Wow, dát is lang geleden (hoewel ik 'm uit nostalgische overwegingen voor de zekerheid op DVD in de kast heb staan (zoals de meeste films in dit rijtje overigens... ).

Plot Synopsis: Baby is becoming a young woman in the summer where she meets Johnny Castle who teaches dance at a family Summer Camp and in his off hours Dirty Dances with the other dancers. She learns a routine so that one of the women can recover from an abortion and becomes Johnny's lover. As the summer winds down, Each must come to grips with responsibility and love and others' expectations.​

En tóch is ie leuk....

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 16

Ik moet Love actually waarschijnlijk nog eens een keer gaan kijken (heb 'm dus op DVD) want eerlijk gezegd weet ik niet precies wat ie in dit rijtje doet. De film kon me niet boeien, maar misschien heb ik iets gemist.

With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the Boston Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: He just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection.

With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer; a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who's desperately attracted to a colleague. There's more--too much more--as Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies. That he pulls it off so entertainingly is undeniably impressive; that he does it so shamelessly suggests that his writing fares better with other, less ingratiating directors. --Jeff Shannon / Amazon.com​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 15

Somewhere in time..... moet ik deze waarschijnlijk nog eens gaan zien. Nooit van gehoord (well, niet écht) en zegt me verder niets. Geen must-see verhalen van gehoord dus staat niet bovenaan mijn lijstje. Iemand 'm wél gezien?

Plot Synopsis: Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their "time" difference? And can Richard remain in a time that is not his?​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 14

An affair to remember

In Sleepless in Seattle (de nummer 6 in deze lijst) wordt aan deze film gerefereert, als ik het me goed herinner. Dat zou goed kunnen kloppen, want ook in Sleepless ontmoeten de geliefden elkaar uiteindelijk op The Empire State Building....

Een echte klassieker, deze... (heb ik niet gezien voor zover ik weet, should I?)

Plot Synopsis: Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from the reunion, and Nicky fears that she has married or does not love him anymore. Will he discover the truth behind her absence and reunite with his one true love, or has fate and destiny passed them by?​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 13

Serendipity

(Serendipity vertaalt zich in: de gave om toevallig waardevolle dingen te ontdekken)

Staat min of meer op mijn lijstje, maar vooral omdat deze film wél behoorlijk geplugged werd. Nog niet gezien dus.

Plot Synopsis: Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasn't sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together... Many years later, having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track down the girl he can't forget starting at the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding and, with her best friend in tow, flies from California to New York hoping destiny will bring her soulmate back. Near-misses and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times but fate will have the final word on whether it was meant to be.​

Misschien op mijn Sint-lijstje zetten om tegen Kerst te kunnen kijken?

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 12

City of Angels

Ja, ja en nog eens ja! Mooooooie film.

Some critics complained that City of Angels could never compare to Wim Wenders's exquisite German film Wings of Desire, which served as the later film's primary inspiration. The better argument to make is that any such comparisons are beside the point, because Wings of Desire was a much more deeply poetic, artfully contemplative film, whereas City of Angels is an enchanting product of mainstream Hollywood. Meg Ryan stars as Dr. Maggie Rice, a heart surgeon who is grieving over a lost patient when an angel named Seth (Nicolas Cage) appears to comfort her.

She can see him despite the "rule" that angels are invisible, and Seth's love for Maggie forces him to choose between angelic immortality and a normal human existence on earth with her. Featuring heavenly roles for TV veterans Andre Braugher and Dennis Franz, the film liberally borrows imagery from Wings of Desire, but it also creates its own charming identity. Cage and Ryan give fine performances as lovers convinced they are soul mates, and although the plot relies on a last-minute twist that doesn't quite work, this earnest love story struck a chord with audiences and proved to be one of the surprise hits of 1998.

The Special Edition widescreen DVD includes audio commentary by Nicolas Cage, producer Charles Roven, and director Brad Silberling in addition to deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary, a featurette about the film's special effects, and the theatrical trailer. --Jeff Shannon / Amazon.com​

Mooi nummer (muziek dus) uit de film:

Iris van de Goo Goo Dolls!

And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything seems like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know your alive

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 11

Zonder natuurlijk vervelend te willen doen vraag ik me stiekum af of deze film, Love & Basketball, in de lijst staat om de black community ook een beetje te dienen (*duikt voor troutsmackende SW's and the likes*).....

Want eerlijk gezegd, ik heb echt nog nooooit van deze film iets gehoord of gezien, en toch staat ie hoger dan een aantal min-of-meer-klassiekers in dit genre...

Gina Prince-Bythewood, a former college athlete, puts a spin on this one-on-one tale of Love and Basketball. Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man) is the fiercely driven, hot-tempered Monica, a tomboy who gives her all for basketball. Omar Epps (The Mod Squad) is Quincy, an NBA player's son who has pro dreams of his own. Next-door neighbors since first grade, they start as rivals (she flabbergasts the boy by outplaying him in a game of driveway pickup) and age into best friends and lovers. The romantic complications follow a familiar game plan, but the film throws a fascinating spotlight onto the contrast between men's and women's basketball. While Quincy plays college ball on huge courts to cheering, sold-out crowds, we see Monica's sweat, tears, and sheer physical dedication in front of tiny audiences in small gyms and second-rate auditoriums.

The story is pointedly set in the late 1980s, years before the establishment of the WNBA, so Monica's prospects for pro ball lie exclusively in Europe, while Quincy steps into the pros at home. It's a pleasure to see a character as passionate and fully developed as Monica, and Lathan gives a fiery portrayal (she had never played ball before the film, but you'd never tell from her performance). Prince-Bythewood favors her struggle over Quincy's and opens our eyes to her unique challenges with a sharp, savvy contrast. Alfre Woodard costars as Monica's harping mom (always trying to get her to be more ladylike) and Dennis Haysbert is Quincy's philandering father. Hoops fan Spike Lee produced. --Sean Axmaker / Amazon.com​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 10

Romeo + Juliet

Hét klassieke liefdesverhaal, toch? Hoewel de onderstaande kritiek niet erg gunstig uitvalt en het misschien ook een 'lastige' en rommelige film is om te volgen, is ie wel heel mooi. Dat komt, in mijn optiek, doordat Buz Luhrman (die van Moulin Rouge) ook hier aan het stuur staat. Ik vind 'm mooi.

Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) takes a shot at reinventing Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers as a visual pastiche inspired by MTV imagery, Hong Kong action-picture clichés, and Luhrmann's own taste for deliberate, gaudy excess. The result is explosive chaos, both in terms of bullets and visual sensibility, which some may find impossible to stick with for more than a few minutes. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the leads, though not with much distinction, while Pete Postlethwaite makes a huge impression as this movie's version of Friar Laurence. The film is successful in spots, but overall its fever-dream game plan is difficult to ride out. --Tom Keogh / Amazon.com ​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 9

An officer and a gentleman

Coole film. Ik vind 'm niet pure romantiek, maar misschien is dit er één die de mannen (ook) wat meer aanspreekt? Want Richard Gere is natuurlijk wel een vreselijke macho in deze film. Ik had door de film heen wel vaak zoiets van "asshole" ( ) maar hij maakt een hoop goed aan het eind. Eind goed, al goed, heet dat dan

Richard Gere plays an enrollee at a Naval officers candidate school, and Debra Winger is the woman who wants him. That's pretty much it, story-wise, in this romantic drama, which is more effective in a moment-to-moment, scene-by-scene way, where the two stars and Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr.--as Gere's tough-as-nails drill instructor--are fun to watch. Sexy, syrupy, with occasional pitches of high drama (Gere having a near-breakdown during training is pretty strong), An Officer and a Gentleman proves to be a no-brainer date movie. --Tom Keogh / Amazon.com​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 8

Eerlijk? Ik vond Gone with the wind veeeeeel te lang duren. Klassieker, tuurlijk, dus ik moest en zou 'm uitkijken toen ie, jaren geleden, op TV was. Ik had moeite mijn aandacht erbij te houden, maar er zijn zo van die films (en boeken en muziekstukken) die bij je algemene opvoeding, kennis en interesse zouden moeten horen, geloof ik.... Zo ook deze, vond ik.

Plot Synopsis: Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

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[M's girl]

Nummer 7

Nog meer eerlijk? Ik vond Love Story een beetje too much. Kan je nagaan. Ik! Ik vond de personage Jennifer Cavalleri ronduit een zeurpiet en verwaand. Tuurlijk is ze vreselijk zielig omdat ze dood gaat (toch?) maar het is niet meer van deze tijd. Misschien houd ik te veel van de sterke-vrouwen-no-nonsense tiepjes.... maybe it's just me....

De film zal, vanwege het hoge klassieker-gehalte ongetwijfeld terecht hoog in de lijst staan... maar ik hoef 'm niet nog eens te zien

Plot Synopsis: Harvard Law student/hockey jock (Oliver Barrett IV) meets Radcliffe music wonk (Jennifer Cavalleri), and the couple soon enter into a relationship. When the couple decide to get married, Oliver's father (Oliver Barrett III) threatens to disinherit him from the family will, leaving Oliver and Jennifer to start their marriage at rock-bottom. Jennifer and her dad (Phil Cavalleri) do what they can to bring father and son back together, but the two prefer to remain at war with one another. Years go by, and the young couple attempt to have children, only to discover that she is malfunctioning.

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[M's girl]

Nummer 6

Sleepless in Seattle

Jaaaah! Leuk! Simpel maar leuk. Waar zal ik eens beginnen? Rosie O'Donnell (talkshow host in USA) speelt de zooo grappige collega/vriendin en Tom Hank's zoontje is cute (en zijn vriendinnetje leuk ondernemend!). De vrouw van Hank's vriend (of broer geloof ik) in de film is in het echte leven zijn vrouw. Rob Reiner (director) speelt een klein, grappig rolletje en de hysterische date van Hanks (tevens zijn interior designer ) is geweldig vervelend, met de nadruk op geweldig. Romantische bui? Kijken!

The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they're destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible, and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight.

What happens from there is ... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. --Jeff Shannon / Amazon.com​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 5

Ha! De Top 5! Ow... A walk to remember.... Nah... wel van gehoord (in de verte) maar nooit gezien. Het verhaal klinkt alsof de film leuk zou kunnen zijn....

Plot Synopsis: Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie (Moore) was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn't care. Landon (West) hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club's spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.​

 

[Iris_M]

Ik heb beide Baz Luhrman films op dvd ze zijn romantisch ja maar beiden eindigen zo tragisch vooral Moulin Rouge.
Ik kan elke keer nog janken om die.

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 4

Pretty Woman. Maar natuurlijk! Ja, leuk genoeg... Modern sprookje. Welkom in The Corporate Finance World where every man (woman) is a God...

Plot Synopsis: Edward is a rich, ruthless businessman who specializes in taking over companies and then selling them off piece by piece. He travels to Los Angeles for a business trip and decides to hire a prostitute. They take a liking to each other and he offers her money if she'll stay with him for an entire week while he makes the "rich and famous" scene (since it doesn't do for a man of his stature to be alone at society parties and polo matches). Romantic comedy (and complications) ensue.​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 3

Ghost.

Gewéldige Whoopy Goldberg (Oda Mae Brown). Pure romantiek en schitterend decor (appartement, kwijl)....

Plot Synopsis: Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn't even realise that her powers were real.​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 2 (almost there)

Titanic.

Mooi. Pik je stiekum nog een stukje historie/geschiedenis mee ook. Kan je als excuus gebruiken (voor de mannen )

Kathy Bates is grappig.

Plot Synopsis: Its name stirs the imagination... Titanic. The unsinkable ship. The unimaginable catastrophe. The untold stories that lay in mystery two and a half miles beneath the waves of the North Atlantic. What buried tale of love, bravery, treasure and treachery, hidden by time and tragedy, waits here to be discovered? A beautiful socialite. A penniless artist. A priceless diamond. A romance so passionate that nothing on earth could stop it. A destiny so incredible that no one could have imagined it. A collision of lives that could only have happened on Titanic, the ship of dreams. The secrets are about to unfold...​

 

[M's girl]

Nummer 1!

Kijk. Da's dan weer jammer... The Notebook. Nooit van gehoord. Zo te zien gaat het verhaal het "eerste liefde vergeet je nooit" principe bevestigen. Aan mij niet besteed.... haha. Nou, evengoed maar op het lijstje, denk ik. Hij staat tenslotte wél op numero uno!

Plot Synopsis: The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.​

Zo, jongens.... en meisjes ook.... dat was 'm (pffffff)... Commentaar graag!

 

[M's girl]

Welke titels mis jij?

Op de nominatie staan voor mij:

• Moonstruck
• While you were sleeping
• How to make an American quilt
• Love me if you dare (Jeux d'enfants)
• Indochine

Misschien ben ik er een paar vergeten, die volgen later dan wel...

 

[Shadowz]

niet mijn top 20 iig

waar zijn titels zoals before sunrise en het vervolg before sunset?? dat zijn pas mooie films

 

[M's girl]

niet mijn top 20 iig

waar zijn titels zoals before sunrise en het vervolg before sunset?? dat zijn pas mooie films

Nooit van gehoord.... is dat erg?
Ik zal ze (morgen) eens opzoeken...

 

[wolf2002]

Blegh, wat een wijvenfilms... dit is dus de soort romantiek waar ik echt niet tegenkan...