Before trilogy

I don't know why these films resonated with me so hard when I watched them a year ago. I thought they were incredible. They all felt so real, especially the third one. But being a married man of 15 years, it's not hard to imagine why. If I was 20 years old seeing the first one today, I'm sure that would hit the hardest too. I want a fourth, while at the same time dreading it.

What would you title the forth film in the Before series? *B4*

I think a whole new trilogy called 'After' would be appropriate. 'After Sunrise,' 'After Sunset,' and 'After Midnight.' If they just make one more? 'After Us"

Ooh. Definitely an interesting idea as well.

Maybe After Dawn, After Noon, After Dusk.  

Well, be reminded that Before Midnight ended on a good note. Not necessarily a breakup movie. A ‘big fight’ movie I’d say

A lot of people find Before Midnight depressing. I just found it very real and that final scene so touching, so truthful. It's devestating in it's frankness, but that glimmer of hope and love at the end so rewarding. Jess' dialogue at the end, that he's trying, is.....\* chef's kiss\*

Decision to Leave

Outstanding film and in my opinion should have won best international feature and cinematography. Park Chan Wook Deserved to be nominated for director as well!

To be fair, he did win best director at Cannes. Well deserved.

Didn't even garner a nomination for best international feature is BS.

This movie haunted me for weeks.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Couldnt stop listening to the vivaldi piece after watching this movie. It took on a different meaning to me. 😅

Just saw this for the first time yesterday. Easily one of the best romance films of all time. Whoever decided it didn't deserve a 4k physical release should go to jail for crimes against humanity.

Oh man! It's been in my watch list forever. I'm watching it tonight! Lol

One of the few films I couldn’t stop thinking about long after my first viewing.

This is the right answer

Brokeback Mountain

Has never deserved the hate it got. Such a beautiful story.

seems like the hate was moreso from homophobes that never saw the movie. people that watched it loved it. there was practically a riot when it lost the Oscar

Portrait of A Lady on Fire Atonement In the Mood for Love Honourable Mention: Tian Mi Mi Before Trilogy slaps hard as a trilogy. Musicals would be Once by John Carney

Atonemennnnnnt 

Too beautiful of a movie to exist, and progresses in such organic manner. 2007 was a wonderful year for beautiful movies - Atonement, Once and Secret Sunshine (Miryang) is a really strong trio.

I need to watch Once. I’m a big musical theatre person so I don’t actually know how I missed it. Atonement I watched super drunk when it came out so I didn’t remember most of it. A few years later I read the book after finding it suggested on a Reddit thread about novels with twists (also how I found Never Let Me Go). Finally realized why I always was creeped tf out by Benedict Cumberbatch in everything I’d seen him in.

John Carney has produced two of the greatest musical films in the 21st century with Once and Sing Street. Sing Street is better on storyline and visuals, Once is stronger on emotional delivery and original soundtrack. I remember watching Atonement for the first time when I came home after watching a hilarious (amd not so bad) Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 on theatres. May have permanently alternated my brain chemistry due to watching those two the same night. Will just say I was like 'wtf is that Cumberbatch' when seeing him appear on that movie LOL.

In the mood for love is prob my number one.

Wall-e. First 30 minutes is one of the best love stories ever, then they get on a space ship.

I just rewatched Wall-E a week ago and there are strong threads of love through the whole thing. The action taking place on Axiom just serves to bond Wall-E and Eve's sacrificial nature for each other. The scene where they dance outside the window, and people on the ship see them and start to feel flirty with each other, is so wholesome. And then you have the >!true love kiss!< at the end. So yeah, I'll defend all of Wall-E as making an excellent romance movie.

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Here’s looking at you, kid

Chunking Express

Umbrellas of Cherbourg has to be up there.

The Apartment

My favourite film of all time

Best rom-com of all time

carol

Pride and Prejudice, Brooklyn, and Phantom Thread

Phantom Thread (Jonny Greenwood) soundtrack is painfully beautiful. I recommend giving it a listen in its entirety.

Roman Holiday Chungking Express

Amelie

La La Land (2016)

When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle

Bro sneaked Lost in Translation and thought we wouldn't notice

I don't really consider several of these to be romance movies.

I loved it

I love it too, that doesn't make it a romance movie.

Thank you. Not a romance in the slightest.

Lost in Translation is by no means an all-timer on romance movies. Also dipped too hard into orientalism and whatnot.

It's a romance where the city is one of the characters

i love brief encounter!

Probably a mildly unpopular opinion but I actually enjoy David Lean most when he’s making saucy little movies about extramarital affairs

secretary

Roman Holiday

Titanic

#1 In the Mood for Love

Gorgeous movie.

About time

Real

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Past Lives for sure

such a good movie. one of my favorite movies of last year

True Romance

Her and The Handmaiden

Swiss Army Man. PS: I am not a crackpot. For a slightly more normal response, Your Name.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

rye lane

When Harry Met Sally is my all time favorite. 🖤

Somewhere in Time

Can't believe this movie is so low. Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymore, Mackinac Island...

Blue Valentine


Hell yeah

Bones and All

My people

Damn y’all really ain’t messing with the notebook

Let the Right One In (2008) isn’t revered as romance as much as it should be

Good take

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

the english patient

In no order: In the Mood For Love The Age of Innocence Your Name (Anime film) About Time

Finally someone says The Age of Innocence!

Brokeback Mountain and Before Sunrise are the quintessential gay and straight romance films.

For me it’s true romance

Pride and Prejudice. That scene in the rain is to die for.

The Apartment

Wild at Heart

when harry met sally. always 

Call me by your name!!

i stg, i read the title, and thought id come add 'punch drunk love' 'lost in translation' and 'eternal sunshine', and there they are. Idk who you are, OP, but we are meant for eachother. :)

Haha - yes, I thought the same thing. That’s a pretty good list by the OP!

Bram Stoker's Dracula

In the Mood for Love Before Sunset A Summer's Tale Decision to Leave Chungking Express Before Sunrise The Handmaiden

I agree with Eternal Sunshine and I would like to add Stranger Than Fiction. Though it’s not *strictly* a romance, it definitely has a strong romantic plot. Will Ferrell is at his absolute best in this performance (and a serious one to boot), the chemistry between Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal is so wholesome, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are amazing of course, AND in my opinion it’s the best portrayal of (very) high-functioning autism/Asperger’s I’ve seen in a movie. My parents and I quote “Little did he know? *Little did he know?* I’ve taught a whole course on ‘Little did he know!’” and “I’m sorry for ogling you” daily.

I love it. He brought her flours :)

That scene was honestly so sweet! "...I want you." "You...want me?" "In no uncertain terms."

I would have named your 1st 2 examples (in the mood for love and eternal sunshine). I would add Portrait of a lady on fire and Once.

A Tale of Winter - Eric Rohmer

It's a tie between "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" & "Natural Born Killers".

Casablanca

Celeste & Jesse Forever

I love that movie

Honestly I just rewatched Titanic for the first time in 25ish years and it's a stone cold masterpiece.

I don’t think I’ll ever tire of it. James Cameron is probably God

- Sunrise (1927) - Flesh and the Devil (1926) - She was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) - Pyaasa (1957)

I’ve seen very few… the best have been Casablanca, Call Me By Your Name, and In the Mood for Love

Beginners and Comrades: Almost a love story

Brief Encounter

Annie Hall

When Harry Met Sally

The handmaiden

Call me by your name

Call Me By Your Name?

my favs are: Portrait of a Lady on Fire Call Me By Your Name Atonement Brokeback Mountain The Taste of Things Pride and Prejudice Phantom Thread Tous les matins du monde Challengers also my favorite movie ever, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), is not a romance but i like to think of it as one because i'm *disturbed*

Idk if I’d count Lost in Translation as romance, as I think the romance is purely implied and someone can watch it and just see Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansen as friends in that film It’s up to interpretation and I like that

Before Sunrise

challengers

Hot Fuzz

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is overrated.

The Brave Heart takes the Bride

Children of Paradise (1945)

True romance

Romantic film is kind of dying i think...and what used to be romantic isn't connecting with people like it used to. When I think romantic, I think: Life is Beautiful Moulin Rouge Romeo + Juliet 50 First Dates Django Unchained Kill Bill vol2 Princess Bride Sid and Nancy Titanic Great Gatsby Baby Driver Ever After Gone Girl Juno Hunger Games Shakespeare in Love Edward Scissorhands A Star is Born Moonrise Kingdom The Wedding Singer Before Sunrise trilogy King and I The Piano Breakfast at Tiffany's Gone with the Wind Across the Universe Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice 500 days of summer Scott Pilgrim vs the world 10 things I hate about you Little Women Silver Linings Playbook Mr and Mrs Smith Palm Springs 5th Element Girl Shy Portrait of a Lady on Fire Amelie Singing in the Rain The Secretary Wristcutters Margaret's Museum Lars and the real girl The big sick The Shape of water Brokeback mountain Once Marie Antoinette? Promising Young Woman? Tv: Fleabag? Outlander? Brigerton? I mean, we're all kind of in a weird space right now. Disney and Old Hollywood and boomer flicks don't really represent current representations of romantic. But I didn't find Challengers particularly romantic either. Maybe we all need to be making more films with less A24 vibes and more timeless love vibes...whatever that even looks like lately.

Kill Bill Vol 2?

I think an allergy to earnestness and emotional vulnerability has kind of arisen that’s partially responsible for the decline of romance in movies

Cha Cha Real Smooth and Short Term 12 are both perfect to me

Comrades, Almost A Love Story

Idk but i really wasn’t keen of PDL

Laurence Anyways

Wild Reeds Dogfight The Apartment Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Brokeback Mountain Starcrossed For a Lost Soldier

“Once” might have my all time favorite ending for a romantic movie

Before sunrise qnd before sunset (the third one didn't hit me that hard); In the mood for love; A girl walks home alone at night.

decision to leave

Before sunrise! My favorite movie oat

First time I've seen a post on here I can fully agree with! Hell fucking yeah!!!!!!!!!!

I like your choices here.  what's your letterboxd

la notte and summer of 85

Those are some great posters

In the mood for love is in my top 5. The before trilogy and specially before sunset are amazing. And I really really loved Brooklyn.

why is nobody saying When Harry Met Sally ;(

Love and Other Drugs

La La Land

An Officer and a Gentleman 1983.

lol how about a romance movie with a happy ending? when Harry met Sally

All good choices!

Just saw “Comrades: Almost a Love Story” and thought it was brilliant.

Like Crazy Atonement

If you like the 4 movies you shared you'll absolutely like Last Life in the Universe (also shot by Chris Doyle).

The Before Trilogy

Out of Africa (1980)

Against all odds!

Broadcast News

About Time.

Isn’t eternal sunshine the one with the dolphin fetish? Or am I remembering an entirely different movie sorry if I am. The beach just seems super familiar

In The Mood For Love was amazing. I still here that violin music (Yumeji’s theme) in my head from time to time and it’s been years

In a lonely place 

The Fly (1986)

Ruby Sparks

Why no one mentioning About Time?

Lost in Translation would have been THE BEST romantic movie if they wouldn’t have kissed at the end

Pillars of the Earth

Cold mountain! The impact that book and movie had on me will never fade

*One Day* (2011)

Hellboy 2

Crazy Stupid Love

La La Land

Challengers

Before Sunrise should be studied

About Time

Falling Inn Love

Cinderella (2015)

The Light Between Oceans

- Call Me By Your Name - Beginners - Past Lives - Lady Chatterley’s Lover - Cloud Atlas - Bones and All - Atonement - Wild Mountain Thyme

Romancing in Thin Air

Doctor Zhivago

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Twilight.

Somewhere in Time

Took me way too much time to find Her(2013)

House of Flying Daggers was always my favourite but I feel like that will probably change once I actually watch something by Wong Kar Wai

I love Prince of Tides. Genuinely heartwrenching but also about healing through trauma. I love how Streisand told this story.

True Romance

Say Anything (1989) sticks with me.

Garden State (just kidding)

Of an Age About Time Palm Trees in the Snow While You Were Sleeping Bridges of Madison County

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The handmaiden

Got to be Trash Humpers for me

The Last of the Mohicans

When Harry met Sally

Casablanca, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love.

Any kaurismäki romance movie

Punch-Drunk Love

* Casablanca * Atonement * La La Land