Even guys love these romance movies. For this list, we’re disproving the stereotype and looking at romantic films guys totally dig.
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00:00 "Is this a kissing book?"
00:01 "Wait, just wait."
00:03 Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 20 Romantic Movies Even Guys Love.
00:09 "I enjoy Renee Zellweger in all the Bridget Jones movies. Her accent is pitch perfect, and her gift of physical comedy is grossly underrated."
00:15 "What?"
00:16 It may be assumed that guys don't like romantic movies, but for this list, we're disproving the stereotype and looking at romantic films guys totally dig.
00:25 What is your favorite movie on our list? Let us know in the comments.
00:29 20. 50 First Dates
00:31 A good first step in making a romantic movie even guys will love is casting Adam Sandler.
00:36 "Wait, I see you're sitting there alone. Do you want to come and sit down?"
00:41 "Sure, sure, that'd be great."
00:43 Well, Guy isn't going to be at least a little interested in a rom-com starring the guy who brought us Happy Gilmore.
00:50 Next, throw in the ridiculously lovable Drew Barrymore, make the film genuinely heartwarming and hilarious,
00:56 and guys will be lining up with their girlfriends to check it out.
00:59 "Well, I don't know how you get me to fall for that egg-shaped head every morning."
01:04 "All I have to do is slide on my designer jeans and just kind of wiggle in front of you. You go nuts."
01:10 The pair won us over in 1998 with The Wedding Singer, and six years later they did it again with 50 First Dates.
01:16 Watching Sandler's devotion to Barrymore's character, a woman with no short-term memory as a result of a car accident,
01:23 might even make your man try a little harder in the romance department.
01:27 "So, every day you help her to realize what happened and you wait patiently for her to be okay with it,
01:32 then you get her to fall in love with you again?"
01:35 "Yes, ma'am."
01:37 "Gosh, you a**hole. You don't even open the fricking car door for me anymore."
01:42 Number 19. Four Weddings and a Funeral
01:44 Made in six weeks for just over $4 million, Four Weddings and a Funeral was a huge hit,
01:50 surprising everyone with over $240 million at the box office and a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
01:57 "In short, to recap in a slightly clearer version, in the words of David Cassidy in fact,
02:03 while he was still with the Partridge family, 'I think I love you.'"
02:07 Sure, more guys probably went to see the $378 million-grossing True Lies in 1994,
02:14 but plenty of dudes had to have seen Four Weddings for it to make that much money.
02:19 And the truth is, we're pretty sure most of those guys were happy they did.
02:22 "Something happened. Yeah, it has a bit. This is a bloody great wedding, you know."
02:26 It didn't have a fight scene on a Harrier jet or an awkward Jamie Lee Curtis strip tease,
02:31 but Four Weddings had funny wedding rings, an endearing Hugh Grant, lots of laughs,
02:36 and a declaration of love in the rain. Even guys can't resist that.
02:40 "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed."
02:43 Number 18. Romancing the Stone
02:45 He likes action and adventure, and she likes romance. So what's a couple to do?
02:50 "I'll pay you $250."
02:52 "Now, I ain't cheap, but I can't be had."
02:57 This is like the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of movies.
03:00 One day, an action-adventure movie fell into a romance comedy, and romancing the stone was the result.
03:06 And just like said chocolate and peanut butter cups of deliciousness,
03:10 the film is an almost perfect combination of action, laughs, and romance.
03:15 "Get in!"
03:16 "Which way do we go?"
03:22 "Follow that stone!"
03:23 Murder, kidnapping, drug lords, antiquities smugglers, and a treasure map set the action in motion
03:30 while Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner bring on the romance.
03:34 This 80s hit makes for a fun movie night for all.
03:37 "This is the best time I've ever had."
03:40 "Never been anybody's best time before."
03:45 Number 17. True Romance
03:47 Most romance movies don't start out with a guy marrying a cool girl, then killing her pimp,
03:52 and taking off with a bag filled with cocaine the pimp had previously stolen from a couple of pushers.
03:58 But ones written by Quentin Tarantino do.
04:01 Which is what true romance is.
04:03 "I'm gonna go jump in the tub and get all wet and slippery and soppy and then hop in that waterbed and
04:09 watch X-rated movies till you get your ass back in my lovin' arms."
04:12 Tarantino changed his mind about directing the film, and eventually solved a script to help finance
04:16 his directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs, which came out the year before.
04:20 The movie is violent and energetic, and replete with some iconic Tarantino dialogue.
04:25 As much as True Romance is a romantic movie even guys love,
04:29 it could also be deemed a crime movie even girls like.
04:32 But whatever you call it, you should definitely see it.
04:35 "Sure why not?"
04:37 "Nothing, nothing. Sure, a girl left my own heart, that's all."
04:40 Number 16. Love Actually
04:42 With several interconnected love stories, Love Actually really does have something for everyone,
04:48 regardless of gender.
04:49 "All I want for Christmas is you."
04:52 Who wouldn't smile over Sam's crush on Joanna, complete with a rom-com classic dashed through the airport?
04:58 Or maybe your heart is warmed by Jamie learning Portuguese for the woman he loves.
05:03 Or maybe it's angered by Harry's emotional infidelity.
05:06 "I am so in the mood. A classic fool."
05:11 "Yes, but you've also made a fool out of me. You've made the life I lead foolish too."
05:17 And on the happier end of the spectrum, you don't have to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
05:22 to appreciate David and Natalie's romantic journey.
05:25 Male or female, there's gonna be at least one of the stories and character arcs that you relate to in one way or another.
05:32 "It might be that the people I love is in fact you."
05:40 Number 15. Sleepless in Seattle
05:42 In the 90s, you could put Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in almost any movie together, and men and women would love it.
05:49 And how could the newer generation of filmgoers feel any different?
05:52 "I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly."
05:58 Their chemistry and ability to bring the rom and the com was evident in both You've Got Mail and of course 1993's Sleepless in Seattle.
06:07 "It's you." "It's me." "I saw you. In the street." "Are you Annie?"
06:14 And even though their characters don't meet in person until the very end of the movie, we're all rooting for them the entire time.
06:20 What guy or girl doesn't have a huge smile come over their face when Hanks and his son walk out of that elevator atop the Empire State Building?
06:28 "Shall we?"
06:39 Number 14. High Fidelity
06:41 "My desert island. All time, top five most memorable breakups, in chronological order, are as follows."
06:50 After a breakup, who among us hasn't taken a moment to wonder why it, along with the relationships before it, failed?
06:57 Was it us? Was it them?
06:59 That's the journey Rob Gordon goes on in 2000's High Fidelity.
07:03 Played wonderfully by John Cusack, Rob's journey is aided by some great music and top five lists, as well as a constant breaking of the fourth wall as Cusack talks right to the audience.
07:15 "It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it. Some people, as far as your senses are concerned, just feel like home."
07:23 Telling the story from the guy's perspective might make it more accessible to a male audience, but a movie this good is going to be a hit with both sexes regardless.
07:32 Rotten Tomatoes even ranked it the 14th best romantic comedy of all time.
07:37 "I've started to make a tape in my head for Laura. Full of stuff she'd like. Full of stuff that'd make her happy."
07:45 Number 13. While You Were Sleeping
07:48 There's no exact formula to guarantee a romantic comedy appeals to both men and women, but we're thinking that casting Sandra Bullock sure gives you better odds of success.
07:57 In this movie, she stars as Lucy, a transit token taker with a big crush on Peter, a rider she sees every day.
08:05 "We've never actually spoken, but I know someday we will. I know it. I just know it. And I know that someday I will find a way to introduce myself and that's gonna be perfect."
08:19 When he ends up in a coma, a series of misunderstandings leads to her posing as his fiancé, only to eventually fall for his brother Jack instead.
08:27 It's nothing groundbreaking, but Bullock's appeal is able to elevate the material.
08:32 "Give me your hand. Give me your hand."
08:36 The movie was also a huge hit back in 1995, grossing over $180 million and scoring an impressive A grade from the CinemaScore audience poll.
08:46 Don't sleep on this one.
08:48 "Leaning is whole bodies moving in like this. Leaning involves wanting and accepting."
08:58 "I wanna help you. I'm gonna help you rediscover your manhood. Do you have any idea, like, where you lost it?"
09:08 From the kid with a crush on his babysitter, to the divorced dad getting awkwardly back into the dating world, to the ridiculously handsome player with all the right moves,
09:17 2011's Crazy Stupid Love gives guys multiple romantic vantage points from which to enjoy the film.
09:24 And enjoy it they do.
09:26 "I will kill you."
09:28 This is a well-written movie with some quality laughs and characters that draw you in and make you care.
09:34 The film was a hit with audiences at the box office as well as with critics like the LA Times,
09:39 writing that it "conjures up the bittersweet magic of first loves, lasting loves, lost loves, and all the loves in between."
09:47 "I will never stop trying. Because when you find the one, you never give up."
09:55 Number 11, Casablanca.
09:57 "Well, you were asking about Rick and here he is. Mademoiselle, may I present..."
10:00 "Hello, Walter."
10:01 "Hello, Rick."
10:02 "Oh, you've already met Rick, Mademoiselle."
10:04 The word "classic" is thrown around a lot when it comes to movies, often incorrectly.
10:09 But with Casablanca, not only is it an apt term, it almost feels like an understatement for how popular,
10:16 significant, and beloved this 1942 film has become in the last 80-plus years.
10:21 "Wherever they put you, and wherever I'll be, I want you to know that."
10:30 The stunningly beautiful and talented Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart,
10:35 possibly the greatest Hollywood star of all time, carry this film to perfect heights of intrigue and romance.
10:41 They might not end up together in the end, but they're still one of the greatest on-screen love stories of all time.
10:47 If you don't watch this movie, you'll regret it.
10:49 "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."
10:53 Number 10, Annie Hall.
10:55 Judy Allen's seminal romantic comedy about the banality of life and the perplexing nature of human relationships
11:01 is one of the director's all-time best.
11:04 "Get out of here with that thing! Jesus! Talk to him, you speak shellfish!"
11:10 The film is an intellectual examination of love and sexuality that ignores all of the conventions of the modern rom-com.
11:16 "You got a car?"
11:18 "No, I was gonna take a cab."
11:21 "Oh, no, I have a car."
11:24 "You have a car?"
11:25 From breaking the fourth wall and giving his characters mental subtitles
11:29 to the simple fact that the protagonists don't end up together,
11:33 Annie Hall is truly a unique cinematic experience.
11:37 Perhaps that's why men and women alike continue to find it so appealing.
11:41 "La-dee-da, la-dee-da, la-la, yeah."
11:44 Number 9, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
11:47 "Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm gonna make them alive."
11:53 Honestly, who doesn't love this movie?
11:56 A subtle sci-fi rom-com unlike any you've ever seen,
11:59 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is set in a world where people can have their painful memories erased.
12:05 Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet are fantastic in the lead roles,
12:09 with equally strong supporting performances from Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Kirsten Dunst.
12:15 A critical and commercial success, the film is sweet and hilarious, quirky and heartfelt,
12:21 and above all, a wholly unique story about two people falling in and out of love.
12:27 "If only I could meet someone new.
12:29 I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished,
12:33 seeing that I'm incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don't know."
12:37 You can lock this one in as your next date night movie.
12:41 "I could die right now, Clem.
12:43 I'm just...
12:47 happy."
12:49 Number 8, 500 Days of Summer.
12:52 "I love the Smiths."
12:53 "Sorry?"
12:54 "I said I love the Smiths."
12:56 Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an absolute revelation in this film,
13:00 turning in a sweet and salty performance that has something for everyone.
13:15 While your male companion will probably be more focused on the always lovely Zooey Deschanel,
13:20 that doesn't mean he won't enjoy all of the other quirks this film has to offer.
13:24 The movie has a non-linear narrative, unlike any you've seen before,
13:28 skipping to different points in the tumultuous relationship between the titular Summer and Tom,
13:33 an aspiring architect working at a run-of-the-mill greeting card company.
13:37 500 Days of Summer is dripping in style and wit,
13:40 and will definitely have you examining your own relationship by the time the credits roll.
13:45 Number 7, before Sunrise franchise.
13:48 "You know, maybe we're only good at brief encounters,
13:53 walking around in European cities, in warm climate."
13:56 If you enjoy watching talented actors walk around European cities discussing life and love,
14:01 then this film trilogy is for you.
14:03 After a serendipitous meeting aboard a European train,
14:07 a young American backpacker and a vacationing French student
14:11 decide to spend the day together wandering the streets of Vienna.
14:14 "I'm gonna take your picture, so I never forget you, or, uh, or all this."
14:22 As the years - and films - roll by,
14:24 the two struggle to bridge the gap between their very different lives.
14:28 Jesse and Celine have the love story many wish they had.
14:31 Being able to watch their story unfold over the course of three decades is an absolute treat.
14:36 Grab your significant other and settle in for one of the most romantic film series ever made.
14:42 "Will you be able to put up with me for another 56 more years?"
14:45 "I am looking forward to it."
14:47 Number 6, The Princess Bride.
14:49 Try to watch this movie without busting a gut laughing.
14:52 Go ahead. We dare you.
14:54 "You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."
14:57 "You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."
14:59 The film tells the story of Buttercup and Wesley,
15:02 two star-crossed lovers who will do anything to be together.
15:05 The Princess Bride is the definition of an 80s classic.
15:08 "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
15:15 The film is peppered with fantastically hilarious and wholly original moments,
15:19 the likes of which haven't been matched since.
15:22 Cary Elwes and Robin Wright lead a stellar cast,
15:26 whose strengths are on full display from start to finish.
15:29 Honestly, if your man doesn't enjoy this film, then he is beyond saving.
15:34 "Inconceivable!"
15:35 Number 5, La La Land.
15:37 Guys and musicals don't always mix.
15:44 But director Damien Chazelle's Los Angeles-set flick
15:48 about an aspiring actress and her tumultuous relationship
15:51 with an up-and-coming jazz musician doesn't feel like a musical.
15:55 "I hate jazz."
15:56 "Are you okay?"
15:59 "What do you mean you hate jazz?"
16:01 "Just means that when I listen to it, I don't like it."
16:04 The film explores the tenuous nature of going after your dreams,
16:07 something we can all relate to.
16:09 La La Land is visually stunning and jam-packed with star performances
16:13 led by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone,
16:16 the latter of which took home an Academy Award for her performance.
16:19 If you still haven't seen this film, we recommend dropping everything
16:23 and dashing home immediately.
16:25 No, seriously, go!
16:27 "And I ran, ran so far away."
16:32 "I couldn't get away."
16:35 Number 4, When Harry Met Sally.
16:37 "It's amazing. You look like a normal person, but actually you are the angel of death."
16:42 The best films are the ones that can stand the test of time.
16:45 When Harry Met Sally is as good now as it was when it first released.
16:49 A sharp-witted rom-com starring two actors at the top of their game,
16:53 the film made millions, won numerous awards,
16:56 and is consistently ranked among the funniest movies of all time.
17:00 "I'll have what she's having."
17:01 However, that's not why guys love it.
17:04 The film avoids the typical pitfalls of the romantic comedy genre
17:07 and puts forth a number of relationship-related issues
17:10 that had previously been ignored on screen.
17:13 In the end, the film is a warm reminder of the fact that if you fail,
17:17 you can always try again.
17:19 "And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve.
17:22 I came here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody,
17:27 you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
17:29 3. Lost in Translation
17:32 When Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson headline a film,
17:35 you can bet your bottom dollar that both sexes will be down to see it.
17:39 "More than this, you know there's nothing more than this."
17:50 Lost in Translation is the story of a fading movie star
17:53 who travels to Tokyo to shoot a commercial.
17:55 While there, he strikes up a relationship with a young, newly married woman.
17:59 "I'm trying to organise a prison break. I'm looking for like, what, an accomplice?"
18:04 Directed by Sofia Coppola, the film is a beautifully shot and well-acted dramedy
18:10 that was nominated for four Academy Awards.
18:12 The chemistry between Murray and Johansson is palpable
18:15 and will grab your attention every time they appear on screen together.
18:19 This is a must-watch for any and all movie buffs.
18:23 "Cheers to that, huh?" "Cheers to that. Kanpai."
18:27 2. The Graduate
18:29 "Do you find me undesirable?" "Oh no, Mrs Robinson, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that."
18:35 When a recent college grad, Benjamin Braddock, returns home to devise a plan for his future,
18:39 his world is turned upside down when he enters into an adulterous affair with a much older woman,
18:44 Mrs Robinson.
18:46 "Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
18:49 A classic of 60s cinema, The Graduate is far from your typical love story,
18:53 as an awkward love triangle soon develops between Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and her daughter, Elaine.
18:59 The film turned Dustin Hoffman and folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel into household names
19:05 and was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
19:08 "Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again."
19:16 As of 2007, the film is ranked 17th on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time.
19:25 So, yeah, it's worth checking out.
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19:43 1. Titanic
19:46 James Cameron's semi-fictionalized retelling of one of the greatest shipwrecks in history
19:50 broke all kinds of records when it was first released.
19:53 "You jump high, John Bright."
19:55 Aided considerably by two star-making performances from Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio,
20:01 the film pushed the boundaries of what could be accomplished on the silver screen.
20:04 From the sets to the effects and everything in between, the film has a little something for everyone.
20:10 Which makes sense, because it appears as if the whole world saw it when it came out.
20:15 And if you don't believe us, go check out how much money it took home at the box office.
20:19 We'll give you a hint, it's more than $2 billion.
20:23 "I'm the king of the world!"
20:26 "Woohoo!"
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