That’s because they wern’t lovers!!!
Can’t we just take the story at it’s word and believe two people can become vitally important to each other without it being romantic…even if they have differing genitalia??
That it wasn’t a romance is one of the things I always liked about that story 
Or another Hopkins-as-repressed-Englishman-stock-character-number-12 flick 84 Charing Cross Road, a true story which for those who haven’t seen it is about a London bookseller who for 30 years discusses books, the universe & everything with Helen Hanff, a Jewish NYC writer, and the two gradually become very close friends and at least implicitly fall in love yet never meet- they only communicate through letters and are never even on the same continent
Don Bluth’s Titan A.E.
Which almost, sort of, counts. Kinda.
But it was! Why do you think Shaw named the source play after Pygmalion? It’s a lover story about two very damaged people.
Of course, she did marry Freddy…
Well there is the line not all men are…confirmed bachelors… like me and the colonel, but I think that generally speaking most people do see it as a romance. Pygmalion can be argued either way (I’ve always seen Higgins as either gay or asexual, in part due to the confirmed bachelors line- though a gay man and a straight-woman can have romantic feelings for each other), but it would be far more difficult to argue that My Fair Lady is not a love story:
1: Higgins becomes livid when Liza mentions leaving him for Freddy
2: In the firefight after the ball, Pickering ignores Liza just as much as Higgins does, but she doesn’t get even a fraction as mad at him as towards Higgins
3: In the song I Could Have All Night (which wasn’t just a celebration of finally conquering a diction exercise) she sings
I only know when he
began to dance with me
I could have danced danced danced… all night
She had danced with both Pickering and Higgins that night but there’s no doubt who the he she was referring to is- she didn’t say “they” did she?
4: She NEVER sings a lovesong about Freddy other than the sexually frustrated Show Me which follows her fight with Higgins
5: The final song I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face was definitely a love-song, at least according to Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote it for his third wife Nancy Olson (of Sunset Blvd fame) and worked it into the musical. (The original title of the song was My God You’re Lovely and it was written when he was looking at her one day and, in that way all longtime lovers do, suddenly realized just how beautiful she was all anew and why he fell in love with her to begin with. To him it was the moment when Higgins finally realizes he is in love with Eliza, but he won’t admit it even to himself so he couches it as “I’m accustomed to her… she’s second nature to me.” [Let’s hope it worked better for Higgins than for Lerner- Nancy divorced him soon after My Fair Lady opened and he married five more times; he once said that twixt the alimony paid by him and his bud Rex Harrison they’d supported more women than the Cross Your Heart Bra. Source: The Street Where I Live, Alan Jay Lerner.)
Every Bollywood musical ever made.
Well, if you really want to get into it… “in which the lovers never kiss.”
I always thought he had Oedipal issues going on, personally… 
The X-Files: Fight the Future . Mulder tells Scully about how she has given him courage and made him a whole person. They are about to kiss, but one of the bees from the large colony that they encountered earlier stings her and makes her weak, and he has to get her medical help.
Didn’t Forrest Gump and his lady fair kiss at least once? Certainly, they made love.
And I’m pretty sure that Mulder and Scully kissed in one of the TV episodes, but it was at a New Year’s party, so might not count.
Are you sure they don’t kiss? Admittidly, I’ve never seen the movie, but I’m currently reading the play, and I’m quite sure that in the play, they kiss. Also, it could be argued that at one point Roxane is in love with Chrischan, and they kiss multiple times.
Okay, maybe it was the drugs, the booze, or the near-naked girl that distracted me last night, but while watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit? again, I kinda noticed… did Eddie and Dolores ever get some lip-lockin’? I recall two times when they were going to, but they were interrupted by Roger both times (and Eddie and Roger got some good smoochin’, but hey, everybody kisses the rabbit, eventually).
No, I wouldn’t count that either, but they did kiss “for real” in the last episode where Mulder was a regular.
Oriental Ass Masters vs Big Booty Ghetto Gals - …I don’t recall a single kiss in that movie
[sub] I kid the porn industry… I do![/sub]
So why does Eliza come back to Professor Higgins in the end? She doesn’t need any more grammar lessons, does she?
Actually, at the end of Shaw’s Pygmalion, Eliza goes off with young aristocrat, Freddy Arnsford-Hill, leaving Higgins to seethe in inexplicable jealousy. At the end of the movie My Fair Lady[ (and, for all I know, at the end of the Broadway musical, too) Higgins sings “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face,” Eliza comes back, and Higgins triumphantly calls for his slippers. They never kiss, but a domestic future is definitely implied.