# 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:** 4
**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 17, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/61 "2019-11-17T18:31:33Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest McMurphy sneaks two women, including his girlfriend Candy, into the ward and arranges for Billy Bibbit to lose his virginity to Candy. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/62 "2019-11-17T18:32:55Z")
Isn’t that more lust than love? Next you’ll be paying Annie Wilkes loved Paul Sheldon. ---
**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 17, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/63 "2019-11-17T18:43:44Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Isn’t that more lust than love? McMurphy and Candy appear to have genuine affection for one another, and Billy Bibbit is smitten by Candy. I’m sure Billy thinks he’s in love with her. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/64 "2019-11-17T18:55:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > McMurphy and Candy appear to have genuine affection for one another, and Billy Bibbit is smitten by Candy. I’m sure Billy thinks he’s in love with her. I was just going to say this. One of the greatest movies ever. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/65 "2019-11-17T20:16:17Z")
_The Hobbit_ (1977). _Pinocchio_ _The Red Balloon_ _Kon-Tiki_ I didn’t particularly notice any love interest in _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ ---
**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:** [November 17, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/66 "2019-11-17T23:08:12Z")
\*\*Flight of the Phoenix Sleuth\*\* (both versions. Although love is referred to, it’s never on-stage) \*\*Duel The Call of Cthulhu The Whisperer in Darkness The Human Centipede The Quatermass Xperiment/The Crawling Unknown Quatermass 2/Enemy from Space Quatermass and the Pit/20 Million Years to Earth 50 Million Miles to Earth Conquest of Space War of the Worlds The Andromeda Strain Kronos \*\* ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/67 "2019-11-17T23:25:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The titular characters literally get married during the course of the play. Sure. After having known each other for, what, a day or two? Done in real time, the whole play, and by extension the whole romance, fits into a long holiday weekend. Worse, apart from their lying in bed together, they hardly have a moment together that’s not depicted explicitly in the two hour run-time of the film or play, and so by extension their time together amounts to less than 24 hours. Little more than a dusk till dawn “romance.” I’ll grant that in the context of Hollywood, a brief fling amounts to a “love interest,” but let’s not fall into the trap of thinking that R&J is really about love so much as it is about teenage lust and the deleterious effects of long-standing blood feuds. > [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > The Manchurian Candidate Assuming we’re talking about the original (I’ve seen the remake, but wasn’t paying too much attention to how closely it followed the original, and it was forgettable in its own right), the love interest is the Senator’s daughter, and her tragic relationship with the other Senator’s son\*. \*ETA: Or is he a stepson? You know, Angela Lansbury’s kid, the “war hero.” ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/68 "2019-11-18T03:06:45Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Mystery Men The romance between Mr. Furious and the waitress at their favorite diner is a fairly major subplot. Also, the Shoveler is married, although his wife only appears in one brief scene and he briefly references her in another, those two scenes are pivotal to his character and his rallying of the Mystery Men. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/69 "2019-11-18T03:08:57Z")
_Koyaanisqatsi_ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/70 "2019-11-18T03:27:56Z")
War of the Worlds– Not what you’re asking, the total opposite. In the original War of the Worlds film, 1953, there’s a scene where the male/female survivors are out on a farm or in a pasture looking far off at the tripods destroying kingdom come, and they have this little moment of typical romance. “NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ROMANCE.” Good grief. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/71 "2019-11-18T05:29:13Z")
Battleship Potemkin. ---
**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 18, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/72 "2019-11-18T05:49:28Z")
My Dinner with Andre Ravenous Captains Courageous ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/73 "2019-11-18T06:04:31Z")
I know there is foreplay and copulation in just about every Bond film, but do they actually have any real love stories, or just laid stories? ---
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/74 "2019-11-18T13:50:45Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I know there is foreplay and copulation in just about every Bond film, but do they actually have any real love stories, or just laid stories? Obviously you’ve never seen _On Her Majesty’s Secret Service_ ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/75 "2019-11-18T13:52:50Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > The romance between Mr. Furious and the waitress at their favorite diner is a fairly major subplot. Also, the Shoveler is married, although his wife only appears in one brief scene and he briefly references her in another, those two scenes are pivotal to his character and his rallying of the Mystery Men. You are so right. ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/76 "2019-11-18T13:55:30Z")
Dead Man Walking ---
**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 18, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/77 "2019-11-18T17:21:15Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I know there is foreplay and copulation in just about every Bond film, but do they actually have any real love stories, or just laid stories? > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Obviously you’ve never seen _On Her Majesty’s Secret Service_ Bond also falls in love with Vesper in _Casino Royale_ (2006), and she’s in love with him, to the point where they are discussing marriage. Bond is probably only in lust with most other Bond girls, but some of them are in love with him. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/78 "2019-11-18T18:08:20Z")
Unless you disqualify it on account of Jack’s wife being shown for a half-minute near the beginning, _The Hunt for Red October_ should count. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/79 "2019-11-18T18:25:03Z")
_Hot Fuzz_ has no love interest. Just an overly focused cop and his partner. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/80 "2019-11-18T18:39:11Z")
_Incident at Loch Ness_ It has been a while since I last _Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai_, but I am not remembering any kind of love interest element in it. _Men Who Stare at Goats_ _Dark Star_ I want to say _Dead Man_, except most of the events of the movie devolve from a brief incident at the beginning where the two lovers end up dead because of jealous rage, which is insignificant other than being the cause of the story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554.md?page=5)