I did a search back a few years and can’t find this covered. Rather than romantic movies, how about romantic scenes?
I’m just trying to imagine a couple.
- Airport scene in Casablanca
- The Ghost and Mrs Muir (final scene where she pops her clogs)
and?
Revenge of the Sith.
“You had me at hello.” from Jerry Maguire.
When Colin Firth proposes in terrible Portuguese in Love Actually (though there are other scenes from the film that can also be nominated).
I liked a few scenes from Last of the Mohicans including where they make love at the fort, “Wherever you go, I will find you!” and Alice’s despair and jump.
I like the scene in The Age of Innocence where Daniel Day Lewis (him again) and Michelle Pfeiffer are sitting in a carriage in the winter in ca. 1880 New York City. She is bundled from head to toe in a fur hat, long coat with high collar, boots, even a muff that she has her gloved hands tucked into. Daniel is consumed with lust. They have never so much as touched. He silently reaches for her gloved hand, turns it over wrist-side-up, and slowly unbuttons two buttons, exposing about one square inch of skin… the only skin exposed on her entire body except for her face. He raises her hand to his lips and fervently kisses that spot while she and every woman in the audience s-w-o-o-o-n…
For me, the scene from “Ladyhawke” where the sun is beginning to rise and, for a few moments, Rutger Hauer is no longer wolf and Michelle Pfeiffer is not yet hawk, and they see each other as they once were, human and in love. For a fleeting wisp of time, they see and touch as human before the rising sun turns Michelle into a hawk and the moment is gone.
An honorable mention to the brief unspoken scene in LOTR where Aragorn is leading King Theodens people to Helms Deep early in the story. He befriends the fair Eowyn (played by the lovely Miranda Otto), and they find they have a mutual attraction to each other.
During the trek, their party is attacked by Wargs, and there is a scene where Aragorn is riding off to fight, but turns in his saddle to look back at Eowyn, his horse slowly turning and rearing up as Aragorn and Eowyns eyes lock on each other for a moment, then he spurs off to battle.
Ahh, I am an old man who loves such silly fantasy too much, but these two scenes do pull at my heart every time I see them.
The final scene in Ghost.
Richard Gere carrying Debra Winger off in An Officer and A Gentleman
The final scene in Titanic. Also, when Rose jumps off the lifeboat.
The African Queen. Katherine Hepburn as the completely repressed spinster, Humphrey Bogart as the alcoholic steamer captain. The build-up is so long and so strong, her trnaformation is so complete, that the moment when she surrenders – when she puts her hand on his, I think, is great.
Dang, I need to watch that movie again.
In The Name of the Rose, when the young monk finds the girl. But that’s more hot than romantic.
Dog Fight was a romance movie, but the kiss scene was one of the best I’ve ever seen. So tentative, so awkward. And the scene when he comes home from the war – aww!
In Once: guy and girl are flirting, and she’s teaching him phrases in her native Czech. They start talking about the girls plan to go back to her estranged husband, and guy asks girl how you say “do you love him” in Czech, and then repeats what she says. She responds with a phrase in Czech which the guy (and presumably the non-Czech speaking) audience don’t understand, but the actress is good enough that her facial expression makes her meaning clear to the viewer.
The rendezvous in the tunnel in Irreversible
In 1776, when Abigail and John Adams sing “Yours, Yours, Yours” for the last time, and he receives the gift she’s sent him.
When Anne reads Wentworth’s letter in Persuasion. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…”
Arthur’s last meeting with Guenevere in Excalibur.
Westley tumbling down the hill shouting “As you wish!”
The wedding scene in the graduate, that is until Dustin Hoffman shows up and ruins it.
Spaghetti dinner in “Lady and the Tramp”
