# Movies With No Love Interests **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554 "2019-11-16T21:50:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/1 "2019-11-16T21:50:59Z")
From the 1930-70s. Any country. “12 Angry Men” is the one that comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/2 "2019-11-16T21:56:19Z")
Old Man and the Sea (1958)? ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/3 "2019-11-16T22:05:22Z")
All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930 ---
**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:** [November 16, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/4 "2019-11-16T22:09:13Z")
_Star Wars_, maybe? The sequels had a romance, but it wasn’t really there in the original beyond there being characters of the same species but different genders. I’m pretty sure _2001_ would be another. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/5 "2019-11-16T22:10:23Z")
Night of the Living Dead Arsenic and Old Lace ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/6 "2019-11-16T22:16:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > _Star Wars_, maybe? The sequels had a romance, but it wasn’t really there in the original beyond there being characters of the same species but different genders. Luke had an obvious (and later, embarrassing) boner for Leia, though. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/7 "2019-11-16T22:21:34Z")
_Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Women Fantasia Dumbo_ ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/8 "2019-11-16T22:30:52Z")
Billy Elliot Driving Miss Daisy The Efficiency Expert Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T Fly Away Home Hairspray The Inn of the Sixth Happiness The Iron Giant The King of Masks Lawrence of Arabia A Man For All Seasons Men In Black Microcosmos My Father’s Glory Mystery Men Nanook of the North Not One Less October Sky Quiz Show The Secret of Roan Inish The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao Seven Samurai Shrek Smoke Signals Straight Story To Kill A Mockingbird Twelve Angry Men Waking Ned Devine Wallace and Gromit The Wizard of Oz Some of these I am not sure there is absolutely nothing as it’s been awhile since I’ve seen most of them. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/9 "2019-11-16T22:33:09Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930 I’ve been meaning to see this for years. Thanks for the reminder. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” is one of my favorites. We were having a conversation about this elsewhere, whether or not its a Western or not. Great movie nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/10 "2019-11-16T22:37:37Z")
The Great Escape The Longest Day ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/11 "2019-11-16T22:43:18Z")
The Guns of Navarone ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/12 "2019-11-16T22:44:42Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Arsenic and Old Lace Not that one. The whole basis for the plot is the marriage between Mortimer (Cary Grant) and Elaine (Priscilla Lane) and Mortimer trying to keep how crazy his family is from her. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/13 "2019-11-16T22:56:14Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Not that one. The whole basis for the plot is the marriage between Mortimer (Cary Grant) and Elaine (Priscilla Lane) and Mortimer trying to keep how crazy his family is from her. Good catch. I misremembered. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/14 "2019-11-16T23:02:27Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T There’s a budding romance between Bart’s mother and the plumber Mr. Zablowski. > [@](#): > > Hairspray ? There are romances between Tracy and Link and Penny and Seaweed. > [@](#): > > The Iron Giant Hogarth’s mother Annie and Dean end up in a relationship. > [@](#): > > Lawrence of Arabia It’s not explicit, but Daud may have been Lawrences’s love interest.😉 > [@](#): > > The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao There’s a romance between Cunningham the newspaper owner and Angela the librarian. > [@](#): > > Shrek ???The whole thing is a romance between Shrek and Fiona, not to mention Donkey and the Dragon. > [@](#): > > Wallace and Gromit Only the first film, _A Grand Day Out_. In the others Wallace is usually smitten by some femme fatale. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/15 "2019-11-16T23:05:33Z")
_ **The Thing** _ (1982), of course. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/16 "2019-11-16T23:11:22Z")
Zero Dark Thirty Alien ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/17 "2019-11-16T23:11:54Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Seven Samurai The samurai Katsushiro falls in love with the villager Shino. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/18 "2019-11-16T23:13:48Z")
_Twentieth Century_ (1934) - Although Carole Lombard and John Barrymore are top-billed, there is no “love” or romantic interest between their characters. _Ice Station Zebra_ Many prison movies (e.g., _Caged_, _Riot in Cell Block 11_, _Escape from Alcatraz_, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/19 "2019-11-16T23:17:36Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ Tim Holt had a young lady (never shown, except maybe in a photo) he was encouraged to return to at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/20 "2019-11-16T23:23:53Z")
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