10 romantic films that have already become ageless classics

This collection contains films of the nineties and noughties that are relevant today, look in one breath and make you think. Who hasn't seen these masterpieces of the genre yet, we recommend watching at your leisure, if you like melodramas.

Seventeen-year-old Frances, whom everyone calls Baby, a naive idealist, comes with her family to a boarding house where patriarchal mores reign (it's 1963). One day, the main character discovers the wrong side of the boarding house's life: workers arrange parties at night with unbridled dancing. Meanwhile, Baby has an affair with a dance teacher (Patrick Swayze). After learning about this, the girl's father resists this relationship.

A touching, sincere, heartfelt film about how love helps the heroine to grow up dramatically, and her lover, a man with experience, to experience a real feeling. The picture evokes sadness and tenderness, nostalgia for youth.

Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Dami Moore), lovers and happy spouses, encounter robbers on a dark street who kill Sam. However, he remains on earth as a ghost — in order to find out who benefits from his death. One day Sam meets a clairvoyant charlatan (Whoopi Goldberg), who sees and hears him. By blackmail, the ghost forces the woman to contact Molly, the three of them must expose a former family friend.

Here humor is closely intertwined with lyrics. Despite the fact that we are talking about death, the tape sets up a positive mood and gives hope that after death we will meet with loved ones. Whoopi Goldberg is unique.

He is a rich businessman. She is a street prostitute. They met by chance, spent the night together, and then signed a contract for 6 days, according to which the girl had to accompany him to business meetings. The more the hero gets to know his companion, the more he likes her: direct, kind, sincere, impulsive, eager to help people.

The film is beautiful, but not vital, because the heroine has no taste, no knowledge of etiquette, no good manners, or even special intelligence. Whereas a person from high society appreciates all this very much. In addition, the girl could hardly have retained so many virtuous qualities with such a cynical profession. Nevertheless, the picture turned out to be high-quality, spectacular, which aroused great interest among the public. Perhaps because of the chemistry between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, who played the main roles.

Diane (Dami Moore) and David (Woody Harelson) happy together, but they have nothing to pay for the apartment. One day at the casino, where they spent the last money, a billionaire (Robert Redford) offers the couple a million dollars for a night with Diane. Not immediately, but they agree. After that, they can no longer live together — the ghost of infidelity poisons the lives of both. She goes to the billionaire, and he suffers alone. Some time passes, and it becomes obvious to all three that the love between the spouses has not passed.

An interesting study of the human psyche: it would seem that the violation of moral norms is small, and only once, but sin has already penetrated into the soul and began to corrode it. In life, it is unlikely that the couple would be reunited. And the film was clearly a success, especially thanks to the acting, because everything is built on the smallest movements of souls.

An inconspicuous railway station employee Lucy (Sandra Bullock) falls in love with a handsome man who passes by her every morning. One day she saves his life, but he falls into a coma. It turns out that the victim's family takes Lucy for his fiancee. Communicating with these charming people, the heroine scolds herself more and more for lying. Moreover, the relationship between her and the brother of the "groom" goes beyond friendly.

The film is good for an amazing family atmosphere, when native people are really close, support each other, unconditionally accept into their circle and give warmth even to a stranger, knowing nothing about him.

One of the main films of the 90s and probably the most famous melodrama. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet play passionate love against the backdrop of a fashionable giant ship sinking among icebergs. The shot of the heroine with her arms outstretched on the bow of the ship has become a hackneyed meme and one of the most recognizable frames in the history of cinema.

James Cameron shoots epic pictures, each of which becomes an event. The story of the Titanic amazes with the scale of the disaster and the degree of scope of the director's plan. But the main thing in the picture is the genuine emotions of the actors. Few people did not cry over the last words of Jack Dawson, who was dying in cold water.

The owner of a small bookstore (Hugh Grant) and a very famous actress (Julia Roberts) accidentally meet and feel sympathy for each other. Throughout the film, these two will quarrel and reconcile, make mistakes and correct them, get into an awkward situation and try to get out of it. And only by the end will they realize that they are made for each other.

Hugh Grant plays an ordinary, slightly naive and timid young man who thinks about others more than about himself. Therefore, the film turned out to be vital, even though his partner in this story is a successful and confident actress. Fortunately, she is sane, understood everything about passing worldly glory and therefore adequate. A very sweet melodrama with a touch of comedy.

A man and a woman who have regular partners spend a wonderful pre-Christmas evening in the restaurant. They don't want to part, but the obligations are higher. Then they decide to rely on intuition. He writes his phone number on a banknote, and she writes hers on the cover of a random book. After that they break up, but they continue to remember this meeting for many years, secretly hoping someday to find each other's phones. And one day a miracle will happen.

Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack made a wonderful screen couple. There is some softness in them that makes the film sentimental to tears. This movie is for romantics who do not want to part with their dreams even in adulthood. It is best to watch on New Year's Eve in order to revive the memory of a child's enthusiastic sense of celebration.

Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) — actors of the first magnitude. They have to arrive at a certain hotel for the premiere of a new movie. The problem is that young people have recently divorced and the relationship between them is tense. In addition, Eddie is undergoing rehabilitation at the clinic and is completely unprepared to meet his ex-wife. A film employee (Billy Crystal) tries to convince the couple to forget their grievances for a while. Gwen's sister Kiki (Julia Roberts), who is in love with Eddie, will come to his aid.

The film is more a comedy than a melodrama, and the comedy is really funny, with an interesting plot and without silly American humor below the belt. As often happens in satirical films, there is a place for drama, philosophy, and morality. In the final, as usual, stupidity and treachery will be put to shame, and love will triumph.

Several short stories connected by one theme — the theme of love. A confused writer and his assistant (who speaks almost no English), a slightly confused prime minister and his secretary, a young man in love with a friend's wife and many other characters create an atmosphere of something valuable and fundamental.