This is on the top of my list. I am compiling a list of the 10 best love stories ever made. My favorite ten are:
A Summer Story
Love Story
Reality Bites
The Road Home (Chinese Movie with Ziyi Zhang)
Jude
Waterland
Serendipity
Love Actually
Dr Zhivago
Legends of the Fall
Feel free to add
agree this is one of the sweetest movie I have seen. can see how he falls for her. anyone one would.
shareI agree that "A Summer Story" is one great love story. What about the movie "Love Story" itself? I don't see "Legends of the fall" as much of a love story - it's more of a drama that has love stories within the greater family story.
My favorite movies featuring love stories:
"A Summer Story"
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (is as good as this movie)
"The New World"
"Leaving Las Vegas"
"Electric Dreams"
"Summer Lovers"
"The Last American Virgin"
"The Island"
"Just Like Heaven"
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This movie made me cry when I saw it at the theatre. I didn't like Love Actually at all - found it very forced.
sharethis is really amazing - "Summer Story" was my first movie job and it was great fun to do. I'm so thrilled it has had such an impact on all those who have seen it!
shareThat's pretty cool - what kind of job did you have on this movie?
“There is NO such thing as a free lunch.” - Milton Friedman
Well, I still remember watching this when I was younger, maybe actually influenced me.. as still longing for the same experience :) (ok, again..)
But a very nice one is "The notebook". It also made me cry..
I'd like to see a summer story again and will start looking..
Yes this gem is a 2-boxer (as in boxes of Kleenex)... and I rarely cry over a movie.
I think it's the best movie ever made about unrequited love. A real masterpiece.
Haven't really made a Top 10, but I know 2 others that would definitely be on it:
The Promise and Firelight. If you missed these, you ain't seen nothin.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I have not yet seen it, but looked it up because of my love of the music of Georges Delerue.
I can't say I liked "Love Story" (assuming you mean the 1970 Ryan O'Neal & Ali McGraw vehicle). I found it a bit forced. But I liked the 1940 "Love Story" featuring the magnificent Hubert Bath music. Here is my list - I note with interest that 4 of them involve time travel:
Somewhere in Time [1982, Christopher Reeve; time travel)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Rapture (1968, Patricia Gozzi; perfect score by Delerue)
Interlude (also 1968, Oscar Werner; & another brilliant Delerue score)
Starman (1984, Karen Allen at her most appealing; an amazing departure for Carpenter)
Kate & Leopold (2001, Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman; time travel)
The Lake House (2006, Sandra Bullock; time travel of a sort)
The Terminator (1982, see below; time travel)
Elvira Madigan (1967, Pia Degermark)
Romeo & Juliet (1968, Zefirelli version).
I include Terminator for its poignant subplot, with many echoes of "Somewhere in Time"... particularly that amazing moment when the origin of, and thinking at the time of, the pivotal photo are revealed... I still mist up at that superb point in the plot. I never thought a Swarzenegger movie could be moving, but then this was an early work by Jim Cameron.