# The greatest love stories on film according to the AFI

Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, West Side Story, Roman Holiday, An Affair to Remember and The Way We Were: the top twenty of AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions, the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the greatest American love stories.

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- Mar 9, 2019 · monsieurfromager
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## Top 20

1. **Gone with the Wind (1939)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Victor Fleming.
2. **It's a Wonderful Life (1946)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Frank Capra.
3. **West Side Story (1961)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins.
4. **Doctor Zhivago (1965)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — David Lean.
5. **Love Story (1970)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Arthur Hiller.
6. **City Lights (1931)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Charlie Chaplin.
7. **Wuthering Heights (1939)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — William Wyler.
8. **Singin' in the Rain (1952)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen.
9. **An Affair to Remember (1957)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Leo McCarey.
10. **Casablanca (1942)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Michael Curtiz.
11. **Annie Hall (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woody Allen.
12. **My Fair Lady (1964)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — George Cukor.
13. **The African Queen (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — John Huston.
14. **Moonstruck (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Norman Jewison.
15. **Ghost (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jerry Zucker.
16. **From Here to Eternity (1953)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fred Zinnemann.
17. **Roman Holiday (1953)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — William Wyler.
18. **The Way We Were (1973)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Sydney Pollack.
19. **Out of Africa (1985)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Sydney Pollack.
20. **Vertigo (1958)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Alfred Hitchcock.

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