# Best kisses on film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680 "2007-02-11T00:49:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/21 "2007-02-11T04:22:57Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] [Jack and Ennis, “Brokeback Mountain”, reunion kiss](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GM5X3n55t8) - best movie kiss EVAH! I can’t even describe it. They totally deserved the award they won for it. 😃 (It doesn’t hurt that the guys are freakin’ gorgeous, too.) [/QUOTE] That kiss changed me. I’m not particularly proud to admit that, while I have always fully championed gay rights, I had always been somewhat repulsed and freaked out seeing two guys kissing . It just _didn’t look right_ to me. Yet Jack and Ennis’ kiss after reuniting was so passionate, so joyful, so real that I didn’t feel anything but passion and joy right along with them. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/22 "2007-02-11T04:34:24Z")
_The Thomas Crown Affair_, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. I can honestly say that Steve McQueen made me a great kisser. If you need a refresher course, go rent this movie. Oh, baby. Oh. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/23 "2007-02-11T12:55:45Z")
Laura Harring and Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive. The whole scene aside, just the kissing was phenomenal! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/24 "2007-02-11T13:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] _Cinema Paradiso_ [/QUOTE] Oh man…I love this movie. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/25 "2007-02-11T13:36:40Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] What, in your opinion, is the best kiss on film? Most romantic, most perfectly chaste, most full of love, whatever. These can be romantic or platonic; I’m actually very interested to see if anybody can come up with some excellent platonic kisses. My vote is for the one between Thornton and Elizabeth at the end of the latest adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s [North & South](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgWGdTcR6mU). (Link goes to a video of it. About five minutes long, but worth it.) If I could find someone to kiss me like that . . . I’m not sure what I’d do, but I think everyone would be happy. Blissfully so. [/QUOTE] I always though the kiss between Jimmy Stewart & Donna Reed in “It’s A Wonderful Life” (when they’re on the phone with Sam “Hee Haw” Wainwright") was the PERFECT combination of innocence and flaming passion. My favorite movie kiss. 🙂 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/26 "2007-02-11T13:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=Hi, Neighbor!] After mere seconds of “deep” thought, my vote has got to be for Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair in _Cruel Intentions_. On second thought, that bridge of saliva was kind of disgusting. Oh well, it still gets my vote until further notice. [/QUOTE] I was thinking- the kiss in NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE… YOU KNOW WHICH KISS! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/27 "2007-02-11T14:15:22Z")
Not to break the mood, but I can’t help but visualize the scene in one of Steve Martin’s movies (can’t even remember which) where he starts licking his date’s face. They’re at a table in a restaurant, I think. Was it Bernadette Peters maybe? Rachel Ward? For me that was the biggest send-up of the exaggerated tongue action kisses had become all about. Wish I could remember which movie. What I love about as much is where boy meets girl, their eyes meet, they start undressing and poking out each other’s tonsils. I just saw _The Eagle Has Landed_ again after many years. I had remembered it as a decent movie. But the rapid-fire romance of Donald Sutherland’s character and whoever the girl was was on past ridiculous. They meet in one scene, bump into each other on the beach a little later (they may have kissed, they may not have, the scene is not all that memorable), and a short time later she’s ready to die for him. Talk about compressed time. More like the acceptance of the cliche’ that if their names are in the credits they will fall in love or at least have passionate sex within moments of meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/28 "2007-02-11T14:17:00Z")
Oooh, what about Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Ewan McGregor in _Velvet Goldmine_? “The world has changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/29 "2007-02-11T14:22:00Z")
When I was a senior in high school, my English teacher didn’t feel like teaching one day so she brought in _First Knight_. Guinievere said, “I owe you a kiss. I’m asking you.” Lancelot walks across the room and kissed her with a passion that made every girl in the room scream. After the movie was over, they begged to watch that scene again. That’s the kiss that gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/30 "2007-02-11T14:40:04Z")
Chistoper Reeves and Micheal Caine in Deathtrap. Right afthe he killed his wife. My black heart rejoiced. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/31 "2007-02-11T15:15:45Z")
Dylan McDermott and Holly Hunter in “Home for the Holidays,” when they’re standing outside her sister’s house, on the steps. My friend and I backed that one up and watched it over again about six times. We stopped because her dad caught us and hooted at us until we moved on. The one you’re all talking about from “It’s a Wonderful Life” is pretty spectacular, too. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/32 "2007-02-11T15:36:13Z")
What? Nobody’s mentioned the kiss on the beach in [From Here to Eternity](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/)? > [@](#): > > The MPAA banned photos of the famous Burt Lancaster-Deborah Kerr passionate kiss on the beach for being too erotic. Many prints had shortened versions of the scene because projectionists would cut out frames to keep as souvenirs. I thought that one was supposed to be the industry standard. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/33 "2007-02-11T17:37:47Z")
Absolon and the carpenter’s wife, in the Miller’s Tale, _The Canterbury Tales_. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/34 "2007-02-11T21:05:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Not to break the mood, but… Nah, if you wanted to break the mood, you’d post [this one](http://www.pootv.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/facehugger.jpg). Oh, and another one: From _The Little Mermaid_, the kiss at the end is of course pretty good, but it doesn’t compare to the one which _almost_ happened at the end of “Kiss the Girl”. The buildup for that one was just perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/35 "2007-02-12T00:17:50Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] In recent years, I’m rather partial to the [upside-down kiss](http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h169/dpunk226/spider/Spider-Man_kiss.jpg) in the rain in _Spider-Man 2_, between a partially-demasked Spidey (Tobey McGuire) and Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). [/QUOTE] Wasn’t that in #1? She tried to re-create it with John Jameson in the sequel and it just wasn’t anywhere near as good. Andrew “Dice” Clay and Lauren Holly in **The Adventures of Ford Fairlane** ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/36 "2007-02-12T00:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] What? Nobody’s mentioned the kiss on the beach in [From Here to Eternity](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/)? I thought that one was supposed to be the industry standard. [/QUOTE] See, I look at that, and all I can think is, “I bet she’s getting sand up her buttcrack with every wave.” Sometimes it sucks being this cynical. One of my favorite screen kisses is from a movie nobody but me likes, [Reality Bites](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110950/) . (What can I say, I was the perfect age for it and in love with Ethan Hawke and I wanted to grow up to be Winona Ryder and Ben Stiller is actually not irritating in it - not to mention Renee Zellweger (before her face got all weird) in a blink-and-you-miss it role with no dialog.) Anyway, when Troy and Lelaina finally “do it and get it over with”, I was aching to be in that kiss. “You realize this is going to change everything?” he says, and my silly romantic girly bits go “SQUEEEE!” Yes, I realize the movie hasn’t aged well. Go away and leave me to my nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680/37 "2007-02-12T01:35:05Z")
Grace Kelly’s entrance in _Rear Window_. “How’s your lovelife?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/391680.md?page=1)