AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions

AFI 100 Years… series
	100 Movies – (1998); 100 Stars – (1999); 100 Laughs – (2000); 100 Thrills – (2001); 100 Passions – (2002); 100 Heroes and Villains – (2003); 100 Songs – (2004); 100 Movie Quotes – (2005); 100 Film Scores – (2005); 100 Musicals – (2006); 100 Cheers – (2006); 100 Movies (10th Anniversary) – (2007); AFI's 10 Top 10 – (2008)

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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions is a list of the top 100 love stories in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 11, 2002 in a CBS television special hosted by American film/TV actress Candice Bergen.

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in six films each, followed by another Hepburn, Audrey, with five, and by Humphrey Bogart and James Stewart in 4 films each. Several other actors appeared in 2 or 3 films each (see below: Multiple roles). Top directors were William Wyler and George Cukor, credited with four movies apiece.

Rank	Title	Year	Actors
1	Casablanca	1942	Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
2	Gone with the Wind	1939	Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland
3	West Side Story	1961	Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood
4	Roman Holiday	1953	Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn
5	An Affair to Remember	1957	Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
6	The Way We Were	1973	Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand
7	Doctor Zhivago	1965	Omar Sharif and Julie Christie
8	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	James Stewart and Donna Reed
9	Love Story	1970	Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw
10	City Lights	1931	Charles Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill
11	Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen and Diane Keaton
12	My Fair Lady	1964	Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn
13	Out of Africa	1985	Meryl Streep and Robert Redford
14	The African Queen	1951	Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn
15	Wuthering Heights	1939	Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
16	Singin' in the Rain	1952	Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds
17	Moonstruck	1987	Cher and Nicolas Cage
18	Vertigo	1958	James Stewart and Kim Novak
19	Ghost	1990	Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore
20	From Here to Eternity	1953	Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr
21	Pretty Woman	1990	Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
22	On Golden Pond	1981	Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn
23	Now, Voyager	1942	Bette Davis and Paul Henreid
24	King Kong	1933	The ape and Fay Wray
25	When Harry Met Sally...	1989	Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
26	The Lady Eve	1941	Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck
27	The Sound of Music	1965	Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer
28	The Shop Around the Corner	1940	James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan
29	An Officer and a Gentleman	1982	Richard Gere and Debra Winger
30	Swing Time	1936	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
31	The King and I	1956	Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner
32	Dark Victory	1939	Bette Davis and George Brent
33	Camille	1936	Robert Taylor and Greta Garbo
34	Beauty and the Beast	1991	Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson (voice actors)
35	Gigi	1958	Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan
36	Random Harvest	1942	Greer Garson and Ronald Colman
37	Titanic	1997	Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
38	It Happened One Night	1934	Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert
39	An American in Paris	1951	Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron
40	Ninotchka	1939	Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas
41	Funny Girl	1968	Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
42	Anna Karenina	1935	Greta Garbo and Fredric March
43	A Star Is Born	1954	Judy Garland and James Mason
44	The Philadelphia Story	1940	Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart
45	Sleepless in Seattle	1993	Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
46	To Catch a Thief	1955	Cary Grant and Grace Kelly
47	Splendor in the Grass	1961	Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty
48	Last Tango in Paris	1973	Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider
49	The Postman Always Rings Twice	1946	Lana Turner and John Garfield
50	Shakespeare in Love	1998	Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes
51	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn
52	The Graduate	1967	Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
53	A Place in the Sun	1951	Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
54	Sabrina	1954	Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden
55	Reds	1981	Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton
56	The English Patient	1996	Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas
57	Two for the Road	1967	Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney
58	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967	Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
59	Picnic	1955	William Holden and Kim Novak
60	To Have and Have Not	1944	Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
61	Breakfast at Tiffany's	1961	Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard
62	The Apartment	1960	Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
63	Sunrise	1927	Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien
64	Marty	1955	Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair
65	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway
66	Manhattan	1979	Woody Allen and Diane Keaton
67	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh
68	What's Up, Doc?	1972	Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal
69	Harold and Maude	1971	Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon
70	Sense and Sensibility	1995	Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant
71	Way Down East	1920	Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess
72	Roxanne	1987	Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah
73	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir	1947	Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney
74	Woman of the Year	1942	Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
75	The American President	1995	Michael Douglas and Annette Bening
76	The Quiet Man	1952	John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
77	The Awful Truth	1937	Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
78	Coming Home	1978	Jane Fonda and Jon Voight
79	Jezebel	1938	Bette Davis and Henry Fonda
80	The Sheik	1921	Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres
81	The Goodbye Girl	1977	Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason
82	Witness	1985	Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis
83	Morocco	1930	Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
84	Double Indemnity	1944	Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck
85	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	1955	William Holden and Jennifer Jones
86	Notorious	1946	Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
87	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	1988	Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin
88	The Princess Bride	1987	Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Penn
89	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
90	The Bridges of Madison County	1995	Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep
91	Working Girl	1988	Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford
92	Porgy and Bess	1959	Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge
93	Dirty Dancing	1987	Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
94	Body Heat	1981	William Hurt and Kathleen Turner
95	Lady and the Tramp	1955	Barbara Luddy & Larry Roberts (voice actors)
96	Barefoot in the Park	1967	Jane Fonda and Robert Redford
97	Grease	1978	John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
98	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1939	Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, and Edmund O'Brien
99	Pillow Talk	1959	Rock Hudson and Doris Day
100	Jerry Maguire	1996	Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger

[edit] Multiple roles

Several actors or actresses appeared in multiple films in the list, portraying multiple roles. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant starred in six films each, followed by Audrey Hepburn with five, and by Humphrey Bogart and James Stewart in 4 films each. Other actors were in 2 or 3 films:

Greta Garbo (3), Bette Davis (3), Henry Fonda (3), Deborah Kerr (3), William Holden (3), Warren Beatty (3), Robert Redford (3), Barbra Streisand (3), Diane Keaton (3).
Woody Allen (2), Clark Gable (2), Vivien Leigh (2), Maureen O'Hara (2), Barbara Stanwyck (2), Ingrid Bergman (2), Rex Harrison (2), Gene Kelly (2), Elizabeth Taylor (2), Natalie Wood (2), Omar Sharif (2), Jane Fonda (2), Richard Gere (2), Harrison Ford (2), Meg Ryan (2), Meryl Streep (2), Patrick Swayze (2) and Kate Winslet (2).

Other actors may have appeared again, in supporting roles in other films in the list.

[edit] Other films in general 100

Some other films with notable romantic roles, which were excluded from the list (of the top "100 Passions"), were listed instead in the general top 100, from 1998 or 2007. They include:

From the 1998 list: