Okay, I can add some.
The long-awaited kiss in the rain between Wayne and O'Hara in The Quiet Man. One of the most erotic kisses in cinema. With both characters upright and fully clothed, yet. Just watch them try to do that in a movie nowadays; modern audiences would scarcely be able to comprehend it, and would post on IMDB about how "boring" and "unrealistic" it was.
Meggy and Father Ralph's reunion kiss on the beach in The Thorn Birds. You want so badly for him to find her before time runs out; you want them to run into each other's arms. You've been waiting and hoping and aching for it for countless episodes, and the tension is dragged out to an almost unbearable degree. The payoff after all that is pure gold.
The almost-kiss between Hepburn and Grant in the final scene of Holiday. It's better than if it had been a real kiss - but so frustrating at the same time, because you've been waiting for it and wanting it so badly.
The oh so tender fifty year reunion kiss in Letters to Juliet. If you can get past the insipid script and bad acting by Seyfried and just concentrate on how ethereally lovely Vanessa Redgrave is, and allow yourself to get lost in her love story, then it's just achingly satisfying.
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