Top Ten Romantic Movies: Great Idea for a Cheesy Date or Girls Night

My top ten romantic movies are definitely memorable and mostly tear-jerking! I like romantic movies a lot, so I feel they deserve a top ten list, too! Here's my top ten romantic movies, listed alphabetically.

The Bodyguard (1992)

Sure, this is one of the personal top ten romantic movies that was basically made to showcase the singing of Whitney Houston, but what the heck! Not only is the singing by Whitney good, but we come to see via this film one real aspect of romantic love; that being the sense of security that one can feel in another as Houston plays pop rock star Rachel Marron who's being stalked by some mysterious person, who turns out to be totally unexpected. The threats on Marron's life bring Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner), a celebrity security expert, to the rescue. The ending of this film just brings chills down my spine just by thinking of it because of Houston's I Will Always Love You song finale.

84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

There's no hot love scenes nor mushy talk in this film about a struggling New York writer named Helene Banff (Anne Bancroft) and a London bookseller named Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins), for they never meet in person. Yet they share the romance of quality literature via the hard to find books that Banff writes Doel for over the course of twenty years. Numerous letters and packages go across the pond, with each letter and package forming a stronger bond between New Yorker and Londoner, in what seems to me a bit of a "de facto romance" on one level. This top ten romantic movies selection proves how the personal letter can close the gap of geographical distances. I've been to the spot in London where such an 84 Charing Cross Road could've been, though it was occupied by a chain book store that had another address number.

Endless Love (1981)