# What is your favorite love story movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554 "2016-01-09T03:16:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/21 "2016-01-09T15:25:39Z")
_Falling in Love_, with DeNiro and Streep. If I ever watch romance at all, I really appreciate those that have a bittersweet tinge to them. [Going from memory] And although the idea is a little schlocky, for me it encapsulates just how miserable you can be without really verbalizing it. Until that epiphany. In this case, they just try to forge a friendship within their own moral constraints, to only find that it’s bigger than they are. Sometimes love, and apathy / complacency, are like that. Plus, Meryl was beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/22 "2016-01-09T16:20:05Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > _Falling in Love_, with DeNiro and Streep. If I ever watch romance at all, I really appreciate those that have a bittersweet tinge to them. [Going from memory] And although the idea is a little schlocky, for me it encapsulates just how miserable you can be without really verbalizing it. Until that epiphany. In this case, they just try to forge a friendship within their own moral constraints, to only find that it’s bigger than they are. Sometimes love, and apathy / complacency, are like that. > > Plus, Meryl was beautiful. Beat me to it. I’m not much for love stories myself, but these two actors really bring an incredible level of talent to the screen. I saw this quite a few years ago, and it definitely stuck in my mind as a remarkable film. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/23 "2016-01-09T16:35:26Z")
Dare I say it…? _ **Casablanca** _, of course! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/24 "2016-01-09T16:38:32Z")
Does **The 40-Year-Old Virgin** count? Steve Carell and Catherine Keener’s romance is adorable. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/25 "2016-01-09T16:38:49Z")
_ **The Apartment** _, _ **Waterloo Bridge** _, _ **Sense and Sensibility** _, _ **The Best Years of Our Lives** _, and _ **Stairway to Heaven** _ are also on my list, and I don’t even care much for love stories in general. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/26 "2016-01-09T16:57:15Z")
I happened to think [Possession (2002)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(2002_film)) with Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart was fantastic. Two parallel love stories, one in the present day and one in Victorian England! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/27 "2016-01-09T16:58:43Z")
Henry V ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/28 "2016-01-09T17:35:27Z")
" Of human bondage" Not sure if I got the name exactly right. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/29 "2016-01-09T17:46:28Z")
Joe VS The Volcano. A silly story with cliche writing, but fantastic acting saves it and makes in indeering. I put it on in the background all the time. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/30 "2016-01-09T18:10:36Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > " Of human bondage" Not sure if I got the name exactly right. Thats an exercise in sadism and masochism, Mildred iirc her name was the first literary mention of a ho. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/31 "2016-01-09T18:15:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’ve never seen a good love story in a movie, and I’m not convinced it’s possible. A good love story takes a lot of time. In a two-hour movie, you have room for infatuation, or lust, or an already-established love, but you don’t have room for the whole messy complicated process. > > Now, a TV show, over the course of a few seasons, yeah, that’s doable. The best example that comes to mind is Adama and Roslin from _Battlestar Galactica_. Id recommend a go at another HK classic C’est le Vie, Mon Cheri. Its a heartbeeaking tale of a young woman with cancer and the love she finds. Anita Yuen, in one of her first roles, gives a complex yet accessible performance. It would make The Expendibles cry. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/32 "2016-01-09T18:21:23Z")
_Somewhere in Time_. Schmaltz, science fiction, and Jane Seymour in her prime. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/33 "2016-01-09T18:37:25Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Thats an exercise in sadism and masochism, Mildred iirc her name was the first literary mention of a ho. The movie I had in mind was about a medical student who fell in love with a cafeteria worker. She later became a prostitute and he became a respected Dr. I think she died of syphillis at the nd and he was still in love with her. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/34 "2016-01-09T19:10:15Z")
I have a slightly off-beat one: **Secondhand Lions** with Rovert Duvall, Michael Caine, and Haley Joe Osment. One doesn’t think of it as a ‘love story’ (albeit much of the middle is taken up by the memories of Duvall’s character romance with a mid-East beauty), but watching it several times you see it speak to family, what love really is, how we show it, how families do love one another. Damn, going to have to go watch it again, now… ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/35 "2016-01-09T19:10:20Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > The movie I had in mind was about a medical student who fell in love with a cafeteria worker. She later became a prostitute and he became a respected Dr. I think she died of syphillis at the nd and he was still in love with her. She used and tortured him. Read the book. Its brutal and heartbreaking but brilliant. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/36 "2016-01-09T19:13:53Z")
I meant tortured in the emotional sense ftr. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/37 "2016-01-09T19:16:53Z")
> [@drm](#): > > I always liked **Sense and Sendibility** (Ang Lee). I found Elinor to be quite relatable emotionally for me. Also, aside from that, it’s just a well put together movie. Great cast. I love this one, too, because I can see my own progression from being a Marianne in my younger days to an Elinor. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/38 "2016-01-09T20:29:11Z")
**While You Were Sleeping** is a favorite. I love the bigger story of her finding a family and not just the guy, plus I have a soft spot for Bill Pullman. “I’ve had a really lousy Christmas, you’ve just managed to kill my New Year’s, if you come back on Easter- you can burn down my apartment.” Also **The Big Easy**. Sexy and romantic and I love that they showed them married at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/39 "2016-01-09T20:34:55Z")
_Pride & Prejudice_, the 2005 version with Keira Knightley (le sigh) and Matthew Macfadyen. Touching, funny, romantic, with a great cast and a great script, stunning cinematography and an Oscar-nominated classical score. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/40 "2016-01-09T20:48:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _Pride & Prejudice_, the 2005 version with Keira Knightley (le sigh) and Matthew Macfadyen. Touching, funny, romantic, with a great cast and a great script, stunning cinematography and an Oscar-nominated classical score. Keira Knightly is lovely and I’ve liked her in other things, but I thought her depiction of Elizabeth was all wrong. Instead of charming and wry, she came off as almost bitchy. It was a very pretty movie, but for me, seriously miscast. (Misdirected?)/ P&P fangirl hijack …oh, and _The Ghost & Mrs. Muir_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554.md?page=3)