Favorite romantic couples on screen

Wow, this is tough....
Drama
Scarlett and Rhett in Gone with the Wind (1939)
Myra and Roy in Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Charles and Paula in Random Harvest (1942)
Victoria and Julian in The Red Shoes (1948)
Genevieve and Guy in Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Richard and Elise in Somewhere in Time (1980)
Jack and Rose in Titanic (1997)
Jesse and Celine in Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013)

Comedy
Peter and Ellie in It Happened One Night (1934)
Alfred and Klara in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Holly and Paul in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Allen and Madison in Splash (1984)
Loretta and Ronnie in Moonstruck (1987)
Harry and Sally in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Joel and Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (I think you can see it as a drama or a comedy)

Action
Sarah and Kyle in The Terminator (1984)
Navarre and Isabeau in Ladyhawke (1985)
Tristan and Yvainne in Stardust (2007)

Animated
Amalthea and Lir in The Last Unicorn (1982)
Belle and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

YA/Teens
Tony and Maria in West Side Story (1961)
Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Romeo + Juliet (1996) (I can never pick a favorite between those two)
Bud and Deenie in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Lloyd and Diane in Say Anything... (1989)

TV
Catherine and Vincent in Beauty and the Beast (1987) (I don't like the current "remake")
Lionel and Jean in As Time Goes By (1992)
Ross and Rachel in Friends (1994)
Veronica and Logan in Veronica Mars (2004) (Thankfully the movie finally gave this couple some closure!)
Peter and Olivia in Fringe (2008)


Phew!

finally someone who answered
i liked many of your choices especially Romeo and Juliet. cnat belive i forgot them probably its because its considered such a classic story that i have a hard time putting the same category of someone like all the recent YA teen couples.


anyway i hope ill get more answers if not im gonna take this to a romantic flick baord with more movemnet.

I think it's just time consuming to come up with all those couples. That's the problem.

I had the same question about Romeo and Juliet. They're teens. Their youth is a part of the story and the tragedy. But I wouldn't call it YA in the same way I'd call say "Mortal Instruments" YA! Still since it IS a teen couple and that's important to the content I stuck it in that category rather than drama.

Probably that's why I didn't specified a number for each category.


Actually my original plan was just making it a 4 categories:. drama, comedy, action and YA but later thought that animated could be included for a nice change and latter didn't want to discriminate the small screen couples probably I should have sticked to 4 categories since very few care for animated and tv well there are forums for them.


Anyway on Romeo and Juliet I can perfectly see why it's just that I have a similar problem with them of the one that I have with Jack and Rose.
Which is their behavior is too mature for YA but technically they do belong on that category.

Actually I think I may have forgotten a few in each category since there are some many romance movies/shows with couples I love and I can't always think of them all at once! Maybe I'll update my list later.

What a great idea for a thread. If I listed all the couples I love my list would go on foreverso here's just a few of my favourites.


Romantic Drama

C.S Lewis and Joy Gresham in Shadowlands(1993)

Joe and Alice in Under The Clock(1945)

Charles and Paula in Random Harvest(1942)

Almasy and Katharine in The English Patient(1996)

Daniel and Lucy in The Ghost and Mrs Muir(1947)

Frank and Breezy in Breezy(1973)

James and Sarah in Children Of A Lesser God(1986)

Geoff and Bonnie in Only Angels Have Wings(1939)

Roy and Myra in Waterloo Bridge(1940)

Nickie and Terry in An Affair To Remember(1957)

Heathcliff and Cathy in Wuthering Heights(1939) and (1992)

Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton in That Hamilton Woman(1941)

Job and Fanny in Mr Skeffington(1944)

Hendrik and Pandora in Pandora and The Flying Dutchman(1951)

Maurice and Sarah in The End Of The Affair(1999)

Paul and Francis and Les and Miss Mead in The V.I.P.s(1963)

Michael and Alice in When A Man Loves A Woman(1994)

Johnny and Baby in Dirty Dancing(1987)

Bob and Helen in Magnificent Obsession(1954)

Barney and Laurie in Young At Heart(1954)

Griffin and Phoenix in Griffin and Phoenix(2006)

Rhett and Scarlett in Gone With The Wind(1939)

Devlin and Alicia in Notorious(1946)

Alec and Laura in Brief Encounter(1945)

Wade and Abbie in Dodge City(1939)

Robin and Marian in The Adventures Of Robin Hood(1938)

Andrew and Sydney in The American President(1995)


Romantic Comedy

Peter and Faith in Only You(1994)

Nick and Nora in The Thin Man(1934)

Edward and Vivian in Pretty Woman(1990)

Peter and Ellie in It Happened One Night(1934)

Mike and Eileen in Sunday In New York(1963)

Jean and Irene in Priceless(2006)

Longfellow and Babe in Mr Deeds Goes To Town(1936)

Joe and Ann in Roman Holiday(1953)

Linus and Sabrina and David and Sabrina in Sabrina(1954)

Sam and Tess in Woman Of The Year(1942)

Adam and Amanda in Adams Rib(1949)

Jim and Joan in If You Could Only Cook(1935)



Action- Romance

Rick and Evelyn in The Mummy(1999) and The Mummy Returns(2001)



Animated

The Beast and Belle in Beauty and The Beast(1991)

Dimitri and Anastasia in Anastasia(1997)

Aladdin and Jasmine in Aladdin(1992)



YA/ teens

Jack and Rose in Titanic(1997)



TV
Guy and Sarah and Hari and Daphne in The Jewel In The Crown(1984)

John Adams and Abigail Adams in John Adams(2008)

Rochester and Jane in Jane Eyre(1983)

Martin and Louisa in Doc Martin(2004 onwards)

Lionel and Jean in As Time Goes By(1992-2005)

Ross and Rachel in Friends(1994-2004)

Patrick and Teresa in The Mentalist(2008 onwards)



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Very nice choices and with Jack and Rose I guess I'm the only one in this world who doesn't place them as YA, I guess twilight and the notebook have given me a whole different perception on YA couples.

I have to check out some of the the films I haven't seen on this list!