To End All Wars
20,000 leagues under the sea was pretty good and I don’t remember any women in it at all.
Oh, fudge!
I think calling it romance is a stretch. They wanted the females for purely procreative reasons. (Although maybe that alone could disqualify it from the OP’s criteria.)
My new entry: Apocalypse Now!
Ah, but in Apocalypse Now: Redux, Martin Sheen’s character get’s it on with a hot looking French gal, then there’s also the Playmates who work at “improving the crew’s morale.”
I thought the waitress had a speaking part in Reservoir Dogs as well, and was going to post as such, but a quick viewing of the opening scene just now confirmed that the waitress never actually speaks; they’ve already received the tab when the movie opens, and they leave before she comes to pick it up. So the entire duration of the movie goes by without a peep from a female (unless you count the screaming of the lady whose car Pink hijacks) - even the soundtrack is fully comprised of male-vocalist songs!
This was also the first time I noticed how Mr. Pink goes to take a sip of his coffee as Nice Guy Eddie is speaking, only to find it (presumably) empty and shoots a look of disgust towards their absentee waitress.
No romantic aspect that I recall, although my memory is notoriously faulty:
Das Boot
Apocolypse Now
The Seventh Seal
I think the top ones mentioned so far (including my own) are 2001, Bridge on the River Kwai, and City of Lost Children.
And in my interpretation, Lawrence of Arabia definitely had some homoerotic undertones
Doh! Forgot about the Playmates!
Boondock Saints
and, of course,
Koyaanisquatsi
No actors or characters at all! How much purer can you get?
Oops. That second sentence above was mine, not from Annie-Xmas.
Has anyone mentioned One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest yet? There is the scene with the hookers, but it would be a stretch to call that a “love” plot. I don’t remember anything else even approaching a romantic angle in the film, although it has been awhile since I saw it.
Same for A Clockwork Orange. There’s certainly some sex, but I don’t think anything in the plot resembles romantic love.
In A Clockwork Orange the writer loves his wife and is almost destroyed by her death.
In City of Lost Children Miette gets jelous when One tries to impress the hooker and…well…I don’t care what you think, there is something not quite “right” about the relationship between One and Miette. Maybe I’m just a dirty old man.
My nominee: The Lord of the Flies, especially the old B&W version.
Damn you! I was skimming through this whole thread, jus’ waitin’ to see if anyone would beat me to it.
I’ll enter: Mindwalk
Well, at least in the directors cut, there was the sub-plot about the crew member who had a lover in france who as carrying his baby. Lt. Werner was asked to deliver a batch of letters to her when he was to get off in spain.
I seem to remember at least one couple in there who was someone prominent.
**Silent Running
My Dinner With Andre
The Errand Boy
Dark Star
The Hot Rock
Beverly Hills Cop
All The President’s Men
Texas Chainsaw Massacre**
Silence of the Lambs
True, but there are several couples with their arms wrapped around one another in the film. So, that certainly seems to indicate that they are in love.
What about Babe ?
In Babe, the farmer is married, apparently quite happily.
Nobody’s mentioned Shawshank Redemption! Excellent film, one of my top 5, but no real love interest.
How about Vertigo ? That’s pretty much the earliest film i can think of with a purely platonic m/f friendship in it.
or Metropolis? Not much romance there!