Will Shakespeare, writer's block, and a muse in disguise while Romeo and Juliet takes shape.
An insurance clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs; Wilder at his most bitter and warm.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.
A deserter in 1931 Spain is taken in by a painter and his four daughters.
A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.
Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.
Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.
Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton fall in and out of love in a film that talks to the camera.
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.
A Nobel-winning poet returns to Gijon and the woman he left forty years before.
A painter is hired to paint a bride in secret on a Breton island in 1770.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.
A rage-prone salesman, a pudding coupon scheme and a harmonium left in the street.
A London couturier meets a waitress who will not be arranged.
Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.
A summer in northern Italy, a visiting graduate student, and a father's speech.
Two Wyoming sheepherders and twenty years of a love neither can name.
A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.
A lonely writer falls in love with an operating system, in a very warm Los Angeles.
A bookish girl follows a cat through Tokyo and decides to write.
Coppola's operatic, entirely in-camera vampire film.
Two neighbours in 1962 Hong Kong fall in love by never saying so.
Two married people meet in Yalta expecting a holiday affair and find they cannot end it; the story modern short fiction is measured against.
A Toronto slacker must defeat seven evil exes; O Malley's manga-styled indie epic.
Two boys at an English grammar school fall in love; the webcomic that became a Netflix series.
She sells her hair to buy him a chain for his watch; he sells the watch to buy her combs for her hair.
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