Top 10 Movie Kisses That Happen Just Before Tragedy
Sometimes, the most romantic moment comes right before tragedy. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most memorable movie kisses that were immediately followed by heartbreak.
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00:00I love you.
00:05Welcome to MissMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the most memorable movie
00:10kisses that were immediately followed by heartbreak.
00:13Major spoilers here, so beware.
00:16Now, now.
00:18Who's looking at you, kid?
00:22Number 10.
00:23James Bond and Tracy on Her Majesty's Secret Service.
00:27Mrs. Bond shot up and doted it all at once.
00:32At the end of the sixth James Bond film, the secret agent is determined to retire and settle
00:37down with his new wife, Tracy.
00:39The newlyweds have escaped death once.
00:42This time, they won't be so lucky.
00:45As they stop beside the road to share a last kiss, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his henchwoman
00:51Irma Bundt blast their getaway car with bullets.
00:58The indestructible 007 is unscathed.
01:01Tracy is not so lucky.
01:03The film ends with a rare sight, an emotional James Bond.
01:07The agent cradles his dead wife's body, leaving viewers with an uncharacteristically somber
01:13ending for the high-flying spy franchise.
01:21Number 9.
01:22Sam and Molly, Ghost.
01:25It's easily one of the most famous love scenes in movie history, and it's amazing to think
01:30that the kiss comes so early in the film.
01:40Ghost single-handedly makes pottery sexy, and the song Unchained Melody is synonymous
01:45with movie romance.
01:47As Sam and Molly kiss and cuddle over her spinning pottery wheel, it is just hotness
01:51overload.
01:53As you watch the movie and see what comes next, you realize it's one of the couple's
01:57last happy times together.
02:04In the next sequence, Sam is murdered, causing a dead man to try and take care of unfinished
02:09business in the land of the living before moving on to the afterlife.
02:24Number 8.
02:25Chiron and Kevin, Moonlight.
02:27Teenagers Chiron and Kevin are forced to hide their budding attraction.
02:35Even after a profound and intimate moment on the beach, the two must act like they don't
02:40know each other at school.
02:42To maintain his status and keep his feelings a secret from his friends, Kevin is forced
02:46to haze Chiron.
02:52This culminates with Kevin having to hit Chiron.
02:56The scene is torturous.
02:58He begs Chiron to stay down, but Chiron refuses, taking the hit and forcing Kevin and his friends
03:04to go through with the beating.
03:13Number 7.
03:14Kim and Edward, Edward Scissorhands.
03:17Relationships are complicated.
03:20When one half of the couple has literal scissors for hands, it's bound to create a unique
03:25set of problems.
03:26Kim is a teenage girl who falls for the peculiar titular character, who more than lives up
03:31to his name.
03:33But after tragedy strikes and the townspeople turn on him, she realizes that if he's going
03:38to stay safe, she can never be with him.
03:47She must convince the gathered mob that Edward Scissorhands has died, but not before giving
03:52him one last kiss.
03:59The worst part is that they'll live the rest of their lives just up the road from
04:03each other.
04:04Talk about a bittersweet ending.
04:11Number 6.
04:12Vader and Thomas J, My Girl.
04:22This coming-of-age story about a mortician's daughter and her best friend is charming and
04:27low-key traumatizing.
04:29Vader Sultanfus and her friend Thomas J spend most of their time hanging out in the woods
04:34and talking about subjects too mature for them to really understand.
04:43After sharing a sweet and relatively innocent kiss one afternoon, a smiling Thomas J stumbles
04:48upon a beehive they'd knocked down earlier.
04:51He's swarmed by bees and dies of an allergic reaction off-screen.
04:56This scene is devastating and may have taught many young viewers about the suddenness of
05:01death and loss.
05:08Number 5.
05:09Tony and Maria, West Side Story.
05:12This musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet takes place among feuding gangs in the mid-century
05:18Manhattan.
05:19Caught between two warring gangs, Tony kills Maria's brother in a melee and begs her forgiveness.
05:25They reaffirm their love while singing the emotional ballad, Somewhere.
05:33They end the scene with an iconic kiss framed against beautiful colored lights pouring from
05:38the window.
05:54They have one more kiss after Anita arrives home and confronts Maria about the boy who
05:59killed her brother.
06:01Little do they know, it'll be their last embrace before Tony's death.
06:05He is shot down in the street before they can reunite and Maria's final kiss is upon
06:11Tony's dead lips.
06:18Number 4.
06:19Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund, Casablanca.
06:23Rick and Ilsa met and fell in passionate love in Paris only to have their love irrevocably
06:28changed by the Nazi occupation.
06:31Told in flashback, their last kisses are made as soldiers approach the city.
06:41The whole scene is full of longing and grief that's not apparent to him at first.
06:46It's just after this that Ilsa leaves him without warning or explanation and Rick's
06:51entire world changes.
07:00Her fateful request to kiss her like it's the last time is filled with even more meaning
07:05in retrospect.
07:12Though Ilsa's reasons are made clear later, the same war that tore them apart once does
07:17so again at the end of the movie.
07:19As Rick Blaine reminds his lost love,
07:22We'll always have Paris.
07:23Number 3.
07:24Scotty and Judy, Vertigo.
07:27Wracked with guilt over the death of Madeline, the woman he fell in love with, agoraphobic
07:32detective Scotty Ferguson spirals into obsession when he finds out he was the pawn in an elaborate
07:38murder plot.
07:39Judy, the woman's doppelganger and an accomplice to her murder, is similarly wracked with guilt.
07:45Feeling betrayed, Scotty takes her to the top of the bell tower, where Madeline supposedly
07:50took her life and made her confess.
08:00Their cathartic and intense kiss is interrupted by a nun, who emerges from the shadows like
08:05a ghost.
08:12Judy's panic and subsequent fall provides one of the most haunting endings in movie
08:17history.
08:25Number 2.
08:27Jack and Rose, Titanic.
08:29There are a lot of great kisses in James Cameron's epic love story, but the one right before
08:35the title ship hits the iceberg is by far the most curse.
08:40Rose tells Jack that when the ship docks in New York, she's leaving her fiancé behind
08:44and going with him.
08:50Rose's sacrifice is huge.
08:52Yes, her mother is terrible and her fiancé is worse, but she's throwing away everything
08:58she knows for him.
09:02The scene already has an air of sadness about it.
09:05We know what's coming, but they don't.
09:08They have no idea the ship will be at the bottom of the Atlantic by the next morning.
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09:36Number 1.
09:37Romeo and Juliet – Romeo plus Juliet
09:40The sumptuous but contemporary setting of Baz Luhrmann's remake of the Shakespeare
09:45classic made its famous climax all the more painful to watch.
09:49A series of misunderstandings leads Romeo to believe his love Juliet has died.
09:55He drinks poison rather than be without her, but not before kissing her supposedly lifeless
10:00corpse on the altar where she lies in repose.
10:08Of course she's not dead, but she's too late to stop him.
10:18Their shared fate is what helped Shakespeare's most famous tragedy set the standard for doomed
10:23lovers, and actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes brings it to heartbreaking life.
10:30Did these doomed romances break your heart?
10:38Cry us a river in the comments.