# Best Movie Kisses **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643 "2006-02-15T16:43:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/1 "2006-02-15T16:43:54Z")
A post-Valentine’s Day thread, inspired by an MSN listing of the movie kisses they thought were sexiest ([http://movies.msn.com/Movies/kisses\_intro](http://movies.msn.com/Movies/kisses_intro)). Some of their favorites I liked a lot too (“Brokeback Mountain”), but they missed some obvious all time greats (the clinch/kiss in “Witness”) What do y’all think? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/2 "2006-02-15T16:51:23Z")
I don’t seem to get that page when I click. Nevertheless, one of the All-TimeGreat Movie Kisses has to be at the end of **The Priness Bride** After all, they tell me that it’s one of the all-time greatest kisses, right? ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/3 "2006-02-15T17:37:45Z")
Whoops - I guess that link no longer works. Anyway, here’s the sexiest movie kisses that MSN listed: ones from “Spiderman”, “Brokeback”, “It’s A Wonderful Life”, “Vertigo”, “Notorious”, “Lost in Translation”, “Mulholland Drive”, and “Some Like it Hot”. For what it’s worth, I didn’t find any kiss in “Lost in Translation” to be sexy. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/4 "2006-02-15T17:50:00Z")
Absurd choices, reflecting the writer’s familiarity with only newer films. Howsabout that lovingly photographed (and lovingly restored, a few years back) kiss between Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart in **Rear Window**? Or Bogie and Ingrid Bergman in **Casablanca**? Or Rhett and Scarelett in **Gone With the Wind**? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/5 "2006-02-15T17:52:22Z")
Heck, Edison’s 1896 **The Kiss** deserves a place of honor as a first. It was apparently immensely popular (for a 20 second movie) when it came out: > **[The Kiss (Short 1896) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139738/)** > > The Kiss: Directed by William Heise. With May Irwin, John C. Rice. In a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides... ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/6 "2006-02-15T17:54:32Z")
Some that come to mind (no luck with the link either): From Here To Eternity Rebel Without A Cause On The Waterfront Thomas Crown Affiar (Dunaway-McQueen version) The Getaway (McQueen again) Vertigo (already mentioned, but I saw it just the other night and it ain’t all that hot after all) Godfather II (Pacino and Casale – Michael and Fredo) ---
**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 15, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/7 "2006-02-15T18:20:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Absurd choices, reflecting the writer’s familiarity with only newer films. _Notorious_, _It’s a Wonderful Life_, _Vertigo_ and _Some Like It Hot_ are “newer films”? I will, however, second your nomination of the first Stewart/Kelly kiss in _Rear Window_. If I were stuck watching 60 seconds of film over and over again for the rest of my life, Grace Kelly’s entrance in that film would be my choice. How about Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in _From Here to Eternity_? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/8 "2006-02-15T18:22:41Z")
What about Susan Sarandon & Catherine Deneauve in **the Hunger**? (It’s about the only reason to bother checking out this dated, campy schlockfest.) And Sean Connery with Ursula Andress /Daniela Bianchi /Honor Blackman /Claudine Auger /either of the two Japanese spy-babes in “Dr. No /From Russia, With Love /Goldfinger /Thunderball /You Only Live Twice?” Or even George Lazenby & Diana Rigg in “On Her Majesties’ Secret Service?” (I never found the Roger Moore flicks all that sexy IMO.) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/9 "2006-02-15T21:25:51Z")
The ending of **Cinema Paradiso**. 'nuff said. ---
**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 15, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/10 "2006-02-15T21:32:36Z")
When I was a senior in high school, my literature teacher had us watch [First Knight](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113071/). After the movie was over, all the girls said they wanted to see the kiss between Richard Gere and Julia Ormond again. They loved it just as much as, if not more than, the first time they saw it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/11 "2006-02-15T21:53:28Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > When I was a senior in high school, my literature teacher had us watch [First Knight](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113071/). Well that’s grounds for dismissal right there! ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/12 "2006-02-16T01:29:39Z")
Amelie, when she kisses him three times and he just stands there. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-kisses/344643/13 "2006-02-16T12:50:09Z")
Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman in _Spellbound_. They look so cute in their jammies, and when they kiss… all the symbolic doors fly open. That scene and the Dali-designed dream are the reasons I watch this film. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ewan McGregor in _Velvet Goldmine_. Excessively hot. That kiss, and the Ken doll scene shortly before, were what put this movie on my Must Have list.