Love is an eternal topic for human beings, and love movies are also a genre that audiences never get tired of watching. Do you know what are some of the best romantic movies in the United States? This article has compiled the top 10 romantic movies in the United States for you, these American romantic movies include Gone with the Wind, Love Before Dawn, Heartbeat, Roman Holiday, Casablanca, Edward Scissorhands, Ghost Love, etc., which ones have you watched?
1. Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a romantic movie based on Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cook, Sam Wood, starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, etc., it was released in the United States on January 17, 1940. The film is set in the American Civil War and tells the ups and downs of a love story between the protagonist Scarlett and Rhett. In 1940, the Academy Awards won ten awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. In 1998, the film was ranked fourth on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century.
2. Love before dawn
Love Before Dawn is a romance film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpe, Andrea Eckert, and Hanno Bossier. The film tells the story of Jesse, a young American who meets Selina, a French schoolgirl, on the train, and the two have a good conversation. They tour the city and talk about each other's pasts. Eventually, they decided not to see each other again and just spend a nice night together. The lovers come to the park and drink their wine in front of a bright moon, and they decide to meet at the same date place in half a year. The film was released on January 27, 1995.
3. Heartbeat
Heartbeat is directed by Rob Reiner and starring Madeline Carroll and Karan McOllieffy. Based on the original book of the same name by Wendeline Van de la Annan**, the film depicts an interesting war between boys and girls in adolescence, and Julie Baker religiously believes in three things: that trees are holy, that the eggs from the chickens she raises in her backyard are the most hygienic, and that one day she will kiss Bryce Rosky. In second grade, the moment she saw Bryce's blue eyes, Julie's heart was struck by him. The film was released in the United States on August 6, 2010.
4. Roman holidays
Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic film made by Paramount in the United States, which tells the story of a romantic relationship between a princess of a European principality and an American journalist in Rome, Italy, in one day. Directed by William Wheeler and starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, the film was a huge success and became a classic of Hollywood black and white films. Audrey Hepburn also won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film, which won Best Screenplay at the 26th Academy Awards. The film was released in the United States on August 27, 1953.
5. Casablanca
Casablanca is a romantic film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Michael Curtis and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Reignes, Paul Henred, etc. The film tells the story of the arrival of anti-Nazi Victor and his wife Ilsa during World War II, when the arrival of Rick and Ilsa, a businessman holding a precious pass, rekindled the old love between Rick and Ilsa, and the two faced emotional and political contradictions. The film was released in the United States on November 26, 1942. In 1944, the film won three awards at the 16th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. In 2007, the Screenwriters Guild of America selected the "101 Greatest Movie Screenplays" of all time, and the film ranked first.
6. Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands is a film about robots directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Diana West, Vincent Price, and more. The film tells the story of Edward the robot who lives alone in the castle until Peg accidentally breaks into the castle and brings him back to his home, and falls in love with Peg's daughter Kim but can't be together. The film premiered in the United States on December 14, 1990, and won many awards such as the Best Fantasy Film Award at the 18th Saturn Awards and the Best Art Direction Award at the 45th British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
7. The love of people and ghosts is not over
Directed by Jerry Zucker, written by Bruce Joy Robin, and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Tony Godwin, the film was released in the United States on July 13, 1990. The movie tells the story of Sam, a young bank clerk, who is deeply in love with his fiancée, Milie. And when she returned from a play, Sam was robbed by gangsters and shot to death, and Meili was grief-stricken. Sam becomes a ghost who discovers that his friend Carl was behind his death. In order to steal a huge amount of money from the bank, he wants to obtain the password that Sam has in his possession, and he pursues Milie.
8. Soul Broken Blue Bridge
Broken Blue Bridge is a romantic movie produced by MGM Pictures, directed by Melvin Leroy and starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. The film tells the story of Army Captain Cronin who meets a ballerina Mara on vacation, after which the two fall in love and engage each other for life. On May 17, 1940, the film was released in the United States. The film's screenwriter, Robert E. Sherwood, was also the screenwriter of the film "Butterfly Dreams" starring Vivien Leigh's husband Oliver while writing the script for "Broken Blue Bridge". Robert Taylor, the male protagonist of "Broken Blue Bridge", was dug up from college by a talent scout. Before that, Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh worked together on the same crew.
9. Titanic
Titanic is a romance film produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Company and Paramount Pictures, directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The film is based on the 1912 Titanic cruise ship that ran into an iceberg and sank when it set sail, telling the story of two poor painters in different classes, Jack and the aristocratic woman Ruth, who abandoned worldly prejudices and fell in love, and finally Jack gave up the chance of life to Ruth's touching story. The film was released in the United States on December 19, 1997, and won Best Picture at the 70th Academy Awards.
10. Warm and warm with light
"Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind" is directed by Michelle Gonrey, co-written by Michelle Gonray and Charlie Kaufman, and co-starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst. The movie mainly tells the story of Joel who found that his ex-girlfriend Clementina washed away the unpleasant memories of the two with the help of advanced equipment, so Joel also decided to wash away the memories. But when the memories are washed away bit by bit, he rediscovers Clementina's merits and does everything possible to preserve the remaining memories. The film was released in the United States on March 19, 2004.