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 special hosted by Candice Bergen.

Screen legends Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant starred in six films each, followed by another Hepburn, Audrey, with five. Top directors were William Wyler and George Cukor, credited with four movies apiece.

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)
Film Scores – (2005)
Musicals – (2006)
100 Cheers – (2006)
100 Movies (10th Anniversary) – (2007)
AFI’s 10 Top 10 – (2008)

Rank
Title
Year

1
Casablanca
1942

2
Gone with the Wind
1939

3
West Side Story
1961

4
Roman Holiday
1953

5
An Affair to Remember
1957

6
The Way We Were
1973

7
Doctor Zhivago
1965

8
It’s a Wonderful Life
1946

9
Love Story
1970

10
City Lights
1931

11
Annie Hall
1977

12
My Fair Lady
1964

13
Out of Africa
1985

14
The African Queen
1951

15
Wuthering Heights
1939

16
Singin’ in the Rain
1952

17
Moonstruck
1987

18
Vertigo
1958

19
Ghost
1990

20
From Here to Eternity
1953

21
Pretty Woman
1990

22
On Golden Pond
1981

23
Now, Voyager
1942

24
King Kong
1933

25
When Harry Met Sally…
1989

26
The Lady Eve
1941

27
The Sound of Music
1965

28
The Shop Around the Corner
1940

29
An Officer and a Gentleman
1982

30
Swing Time
1936

31
The King and I
1956

32
Dark Victory
1939

33
Camille
1936

34
Beauty and the Beast
1991

35
Gigi
1958

36
Random Harvest
1942

37
Titanic
1997

38
It Happened One Night
1934

39
An American in Paris
1951

40
Ninotchka
1939

41
Funny Girl
1968

42
Anna Karenina
1935

43
A Star Is Born
1954

44
The Philadelphia Story
1940

45
Sleepless in Seattle
1993

46
To Catch a Thief
1955

47
Splendor in the Grass
1961

48
Last Tango in Paris
1972

49
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946

50
Shakespeare in Love
1998

51
Bringing Up Baby
1938

52
The Graduate
1967

53
A Place in the Sun
1951

54
Sabrina
1954

55
Reds
1981

56
The English Patient
1996

57
Two for the Road
1967

58
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
1967

59
Picnic
1955

60
To Have and Have Not
1944

61
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
1961

62
The Apartment
1960

63
Sunrise
1927

64
Marty
1955

65
Bonnie and Clyde
1967

66
Manhattan
1979

67
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951

68
What’s Up, Doc?
1972

69
Harold and Maude
1971

70
Sense and Sensibility
1995

71
Way Down East
1920

72
Roxanne
1987

73
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947

74
Woman of the Year
1942

75
The American President
1995

76
The Quiet Man
1952

77
The Awful Truth
1937

78
Coming Home
1978

79
Jezebel
1938

80
The Sheik
1921

81
The Goodbye Girl
1977

82
Witness
1985

83
Morocco
1930

84
Double Indemnity
1944

85
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955

86
Notorious
1946

87
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988

88
The Princess Bride
1987

89
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966

90
The Bridges of Madison County
1995

91
Working Girl
1988

92
Porgy and Bess
1959

93
Dirty Dancing
1987

94
Body Heat
1981

95
Lady and the Tramp
1955

96
Barefoot in the Park
1967

97
Grease
1978

98
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939

99
Pillow Talk
1959

100
Jerry Maguire
1996

External links

  • AFI’s list

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