You need to read the “slash fiction” versions of those, where Robinson and Friday have a romantic entanglement,
and so do Ahab and The White Whale.
**This **is the girl he kissed:
Escape From New York
Escape From Los Angeles
(The movies with Snake Plissken, who we all thought was dead.)
Who’s the top? 
Since we seem to have completely abandoned the “to the 70s” timeframe:
Pacific Rim. The two main characters have a very close emotional bond, and they’re of opposite genders, and they very easily could have written in romance between them… but they didn’t. And most of the other people sharing such a bond were family members, so there’s no implication that it had to be romantic.
And perhaps a bit obvious, but Gravity. Though it’s not hard to avoid romance when almost the entire movie is one character.
Actually, I was referring to the best known version, by Luis Bunuel (1954). The 1997 version with Pierce Brosnan evidently adds a subplot in which Crusoe kills his friend in duel over his childhood love Mary and flees to sea. He’s reunited with Mary at the end.
[Obligatory Family Guy reference]
Chris: Dad, what’s the blowhole for?
Peter: I’ll tell you what it’s NOT for son, and then you’ll understand why I can never go back to SeaWorld
[/OFGR]
Shrek doesn’t have a love interest? What’s Fiona then?
Just how much romance is there in *The Hobbit *(which I have not seen, but read) and the Lord of the Rings series?
I don’t remember “Los Olvidados” having a love interest, but its been a while since I’ve seen it.
I remember a really good one… “La Caza” (The Hunt), directed by Carlos Saura.
Not only no love interest, but there isn’t even a line of dialog by a woman.
I’m not sure there was even an female extra (although there was one bar scene so I could be incorrect on this last point).
[whispering urgently] “I *told *you never to call me here!”
Off the top of my head:
*The Hidden
Midnight Run
Men in Black
Dredd
Yojimbo
The Silence of the Lambs
Glory
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Nice Guys
The Bad News Bears
Absolute Power
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Seven Samurai
Misery
The Favourite
The Guilty
The Florida Project
Seven Samurai is still incorrect.
There’s a fair amount of romance in LOTR, including Aragorn and Arwen, Eowyn (unrequited) for Aragorn, Samwise and Rosie, and Gollum and Shelob.
The romances are made more prominent in the movies than in the books.
There is no romance to speak of that I recall in The Hobbit book. In the films, a love affair was introduced between the dwarf Kili and the elf Thranduil (who was not in the book). :rolleyes:
Yes. See post #17.
I asked someone if there was a movie that described modern life, and he recommended this one. Is it good though?
Nitpick: Tauriel. Thranduil is an elven leader of the Mirkwood.
:smack:
But hey, a romance between Thranduil and Kili might be cool.
J and the coroner was definitely a thing
There was some stuff going on in that. Kirk and Carol, most notably, but also the relationship between Khan and Marla from Space Seed bleeds over into the movie.
Oh, now that leads to some squicky territory that I do not yearn to visit.