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52 of the Best Love Story Movies

As long as writers and romantics exist, there will be love stories like these. Characters, conflict, sacrifice, and that little bit of serendipity all come together in the best love story movies and remind us why love is so powerful. Everyone has a favorite big-screen love story from recent years, but when you dig into the movie archives and head back a decade (or six!), you get to see how romance has changed.

iMOM has created a list of 52 of the best love story movies that will make your heart flutter and give you all the feels. There’s one for every week of the year, so why not switch out that series you’re bingeing for one love story per week? By this time next year, you’ll have had plenty of black and white romance in your full-color life.

  1. Casablanca  – 1942
  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. Love Story – 1970
  9. My Fair Lady – 1964
  10. The African Queen – 1951
  11. Wuthering Heights – 1939
  12. Singin’ in the Rain – 1952
  13. Moonstruck – 1987
  14. Ghost – 1990
  15. From Here to Eternity – 1953
  16. On Golden Pond – 1981
  17. Now, Voyager – 1942
  18. The Sound of Music – 1965
  19. The Shop Around the Corner – 1940
  20. Swing Time – 1936
  21. The King and I – 1956
  22. Beauty and the Beast – 1991
  23. Gigi – 1958
  24. It Happened One Night – 1934
  25. An American in Paris – 1951
  26. Funny Girl – 1968
  27. A Star is Born – 1954
  28. The Philadelphia Story – 1940
  29. Sleepless in Seattle – 1993
  30. Shakespeare in Love – 1998
  31. Bringing Up Baby – 1938
  32. Sabrina – 1954
  33. Two for the Road – 1967
  34. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – 1967
  35. Picnic – 1955
  36. To Have and Have Not – 1944
  37. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – 1961
  38. Sense and Sensibility – 1995
  39. Way Down East – 1920
  40. Roxanne – 1987
  41. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – 1947
  42. Woman of the Year – 1942
  43. The Quiet Man – 1952
  44. The Sheik – 1921
  45. The Goodbye Girl – 1977
  46. Witness – 1985
  47. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing – 1955
  48. Notorious – 1946
  49. The Princess Bride – 1987
  50. Lady and the Tramp – 1955
  51. Barefoot in the Park – 1967
  52. Pillow Talk – 1959

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