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The greatest love stories on film according to the AFI

The top 3 according to 16 votes from people: Gone with the Wind (1939) · It's a Wonderful Life (1946) · West Side Story (1961). (Updated Mar 9, 2019.)

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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Top 20

  1. 1

    Gone with the Wind (1939)

    Victor Fleming.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  2. 2

    It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    Frank Capra.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  3. 3

    West Side Story (1961)

    Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  4. 4

    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    David Lean.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  5. 5

    Love Story (1970)

    Arthur Hiller.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  6. 6

    City Lights (1931)

    Charlie Chaplin.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  7. 7

    Wuthering Heights (1939)

    William Wyler.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  8. 8

    Singin' in the Rain (1952)

    Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  9. 9

    An Affair to Remember (1957)

    Leo McCarey.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  10. 10

    Casablanca (1942)

    Michael Curtiz.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  11. 11

    Annie Hall (1977)

    Woody Allen.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  12. 12

    My Fair Lady (1964)

    George Cukor.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  13. 13

    The African Queen (1951)

    John Huston.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  14. 14

    Moonstruck (1987)

    Norman Jewison.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  15. 15

    Ghost (1990)

    Jerry Zucker.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  16. 16

    From Here to Eternity (1953)

    Fred Zinnemann.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  17. 17

    Roman Holiday (1953)

    William Wyler.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  18. 18

    The Way We Were (1973)

    Sydney Pollack.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  19. 19

    Out of Africa (1985)

    Sydney Pollack.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  20. 20

    Vertigo (1958)

    Alfred Hitchcock.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1

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