# The greatest love stories in American film (AFI)

The top of AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions (2002), the greatest love stories of American cinema.

- 116 votes · 12 items
- Feb 16, 2020 · N. Clark
- https://even.best/en/l/1903/the-greatest-love-stories-in-american-film-afi

## Top 12

1. **Casablanca (1942)** (16 · ▲16 ▼0) — Number one: Rick, Ilsa and «we'll always have Paris».
2. **Gone with the Wind (1939)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
3. **West Side Story (1961)** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Romeo and Juliet in New York, with Bernstein's music.
4. **The Way We Were (1973)** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
5. **Roman Holiday (1953)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on a Vespa in Rome.
6. **It's a Wonderful Life (1946)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — George and Mary Bailey.
7. **An Affair to Remember (1957)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and the Empire State Building.
8. **Love Story (1970)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — The film that made half the world cry in 1970.
9. **City Lights (1931)** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — Chaplin's tramp and the blind flower girl.
10. **My Fair Lady (1964)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle.
11. **Doctor Zhivago (1965)** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — David Lean's epic romance in revolutionary Russia.
12. **Annie Hall (1977)** (0 · ▲4 ▼4) — Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.

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