Good Date Movies

Good date movies give you the opportunity to cuddle up with the one you love. If you’re really lucky, good date movies may also lead to making out, roaming hands and maybe even an unplanned pregnancy or two.

Top date movies can come in all shapes and sizes, from action and adventure to romantic comedies and musicals. But whatever form they take, you can be sure that they’ll always leave you in the mood for love.

In the article below, I’ve gathered together a number of lists for the best date movies. The next time you have to select a film for you and your partner, just grab one of the following. This will allow you to avoid getting stressed out, and that extra energy can be used for the post-movie activities.

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AFI 100 Top Love Stories

Released in 2002, the following list is known as AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions. When is comes to the all-time best love stories, this list simply can’t be beat. In fact, if you can get someone to watch one of these movies with you in a darkened room, you’re almost guaranteed to score.

1. Casablanca
2. Gone with the Wind
3. West Side Story
4. Roman Holiday
5. An Affair to Remember
6. The Way We Were
7. Doctor Zhivago
8. It’s a Wonderful Life
9. Love Story
10. City Lights
11. Annie Hall
12. My Fair Lady
13. Out of Africa
14. The African Queen
15. Wuthering Heights
16. Singin’ in the Rain
17. Moonstruck
18. Vertigo
19. Ghost
20. From Here to Eternity
21. Pretty Woman
22. On Golden Pond
23. Now, Voyager
24. King Kong
25. When Harry Met Sally…
26. The Lady Eve
27. The Sound of Music
28. The Shop Around the Corner
29. An Officer and a Gentleman
30. Swing Time
31. The King and I
32. Dark Victory
33. Camille
34. Beauty and the Beast
35. Gigi
36. Random Harvest
37. Titanic
38. It Happened One Night
39. An American in Paris
40. Ninotchka
41. Funny Girl
42. Anna Karenina
43. A Star Is Born
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Sleepless in Seattle
46. To Catch a Thief
47. Splendor in the Grass
48. Last Tango in Paris
49. The Postman Always Rings Twice
50. Shakespeare in Love
51. Bringing Up Baby
52. The Graduate
53. A Place in the Sun
54. Sabrina
55. Reds
56. The English Patient
57. Two for the Road
58. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
59. Picnic
60. To Have and Have Not
61. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
62. The Apartment
63. Sunrise
64. Marty
65. Bonnie and Clyde
66. Manhattan
67. A Streetcar Named Desire
68. What’s Up, Doc?
69. Harold and Maude
70. Sense and Sensibility
71. Way Down East
72. Roxanne
73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
74. Woman of the Year
75. The American President
76. The Quiet Man
77. The Awful Truth
78. Coming Home
79. Jezebel
80. The Sheik
81. The Goodbye Girl
82. Witness
83. Morocco
84. Double Indemnity
85. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
86. Notorious
87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
88. The Princess Bride
89. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
90. The Bridges of Madison County
91. Working Girl
92. Porgy and Bess
93. Dirty Dancing
94. Body Heat
95. Lady and the Tramp
96. Barefoot in the Park
97. Grease
98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
99. Pillow Talk
100. Jerry Maguire

While all of these are great love stories, some are going to get your partner fired up more than others. You can bet on movies such as Body Heat, Ghost and Titanic to do the trick, but you might be wary of selecting King Kong, The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Vertigo. And if your partner does get turned on by hunchbacks, you may have found yourself a real keeper.

AFI Top 100 Movies

In addition to their special list devoted to love stories, the American Film Institute also releases a list of the 100 greatest movies every decade. If you want to see how well top date movies stack up against other cinematic masterpieces, just take a look:

• 3. Casablanca
• 5. Singin’ in the Rain
• 6. Gone with the Wind
• 17. The Graduate
• 20. It’s a Wonderful Life
• 22. Some Like It Hot
• 28. All About Eve
• 29. Double Indemnity
• 35. Annie Hall
• 37. The Best Years of Our Lives
• 44. The Philadelphia Story
• 46. It Happened One Night
• 47. A Streetcar Named Desire
• 51. West Side Story
• 80. The Apartment
• 83. Titanic
• 88. Bringing Up Baby
• 90. Swing Time
• 91. Sophie’s Choice

The definition of a date movie can be a little fuzzy sometimes, but I tried to distill the list down to the best options. Three classic romances made the top 10 with Casablanca, Singin’ in the Rain and Gone with the Wind, while The Graduate and It’s a Wonderful Life helped round out the top 20.

Titanic, one of the best date movies of all time, also came in at #83. I was surprised that It Happened One Night didn’t rank any higher, especially considering all the Oscar wins it had under its belt.

Netflix Top 100 Movies

Netflix keeps a list of their most popular movies, so I thought I’d include it to give you an idea of which top date movies the average Americans are watching. Keep in mind that this list changes all the time.

• 9. The Notebook
• 11. Walk the Line
• 12. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
• 15. The Holiday
• 18. The Illusionist
• 21. Knocked Up
• 24. Failure to Launch
• 33. Wedding Crashers
• 36. The Lake House
• 52. Rumor Has It
• 53. The Break-Up
• 59. Hitch
• 61. Sideways
• 71. P.S. I Love You
• 73. Fool’s Gold
• 75. Just Like Heaven
• 81. Must Love Dogs
• 83. Music and Lyrics
• 84. In Her Shoes
• 87. The Family Stone
• 90. Brokeback Mountain
• 91. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
• 94. Because I Said So
• 96. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• 97. 27 Dresses

The Notebook is a film which seems to have strange supernatural powers over women. If you want to get your girlfriend in the mood for some lovemaking, just pop this one into the DVD or Blu-ray player. As long as you have most of your teeth, that should be all that’s required.

MTV Movie Awards – Best Kiss

Each year, the MTV Movie Awards give out a prize for the Best Kiss. If a movie’s got great kissing, there’s a good chance that it’s a great date movie, right? Here are some of the nominees over the past decade.

• Briana Evigan & Robert Hoffman – Step Up 2 the Streets
• Amy Adams & Patrick Dempsey – Enchanted
• Shia LaBeouf & Sarah Roemer – Disturbia
• Ellen Page & Michael Cera – Juno
• Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen – Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• Cameron Diaz & Jude Law – The Holiday
• Columbus Short & Meagan Good – Stomp the Yard
• Mark Wahlberg & Elizabeth Banks – Invincible
• Jake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
• Anna Faris & Chris Marquette – Just Friends
• Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt – Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Rosario Dawson & Clive Owen – Sin City
• Rachel McAdams & Ryan Gosling – The Notebook
• Jennifer Garner & Natassia Malthe – Elektra
• Elisha Cuthbert & Emile Hirsch – The Girl Next Door
• Owen Wilson, Carmen Electra & Amy Smart – Starsky and Hutch
• Keanu Reeves & Monica Bellucci – The Matrix Reloaded
• Jim Carrey & Jennifer Aniston – Bruce Almighty
• Tobey Maguire & Kirsten Dunst – Spider-Man
• Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner – Daredevil
• Nick Cannon & Zoë Saldaña – Drumline
• Adam Sandler & Emily Watson – Punch-Drunk Love
• Julia Stiles & Sean Patrick Thomas – Save the Last Dance
• Ben Affleck & Gwyneth Paltrow – Bounce
• Jason Biggs & Seann William Scott – American Pie 2
• Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor – Moulin Rouge!
• Mia Kirshner & Beverly Polcyn – Not Another Teen Movie
• Heath Ledger & Shannyn Sossamon – A Knight’s Tale
• Renée Zellweger & Colin Firth – Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair, Cruel Intentions
• Drew Barrymore and Michael Vartan, Never Been Kissed
• Katie Holmes and Barry Watson, Teaching Mrs. Tingle
• Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny, Boys Don’t Cry
• Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare in Love
• George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, Out of Sight
• Matt Dillon, Denise Richards and Neve Campbell, Wild Things
• Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz, There’s Something About Mary

10 Top Date Movies from Simply Romantic Ideas

The website Simply Romantic Ideas is filled with all kinds of ways to enhance your love life. Part of this is knowing the right romantic movie to select on a stay-at-home date night. Here are the 10 movies they recommend most.

Ghost (1990)

The Notebook (2004)

A Walk To Remember (2002)

Titanic (1997)

Casablanca (1942)

Grease (1978)

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Pretty Woman (1990)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Far and Away (1992)

Not a lot of stretches on this list, as names like Casablanca, Ghost and Titanic will pop up again and again on every list of good date movies. Also notice that The Notebook is listed, once again demonstrating its magical ability to get women all worked up.

Box Office Mojo Top 100 Date Movies

The folks over at Box Office Mojo were nice enough to list their 100 top date movies. The usual suspects are included, but you’ll also find some hidden gems which you might not be familiar with.

1. Titanic
2. Ghost
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Jerry Maguire
5. An Officer and a Gentleman
6. Cold Mountain
7. Out of Africa
8. Brokeback Mountain
9. The Notebook
10. City of Angels
11. The English Patient
12. The Horse Whisperer
13. The Bridges of Madison County
14. Legends of the Fall
15. Dirty Dancing
16. Hope Floats
17. Far and Away
18. The Blue Lagoon
19. P.S. I Love You
20. Message in a Bottle
21. The Lake House
22. Up Close and Personal
23. Sommersby
24. A Walk in the Clouds
25. Urban Cowboy
26. Romeo + Juliet
27. Meet Joe Black
28. Always
29. Sense and Sensibility
30. Nights in Rodanthe
31. A Walk to Remember
32. The Piano
33. Autumn in New York
34. Bounce
35. For Love of the Game
36. Dying Young
37. The Accidental Tourist
38. The Age of Innocence
39. Children of a Lesser God
40. Random Hearts
41. Endless Love
42. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
43. Great Expectations
44. Shadowlands
45. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
46. Sweet November
47. Angel Eyes
48. Against All Odds
49. Shining Through
50. A Room with a View
51. Say Anything
52. Bed of Roses
53. Untamed Heart
54. Some Kind of Wonderful
55. Love Affair
56. White Palace
57. crazy/beautiful
58. Mad Love
59. In Love and War
60. Snow Falling on Cedars
61. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
62. The Wings of the Dove
63. Love Jones
64. Falling in Love
65. The End of the Affair
66. Here on Earth
67. The Scarlet Letter
68. Possession (2002)
69. Somewhere in Time
70. Mr. Jones
71. Mississippi Masala
72. Before Sunset
73. Before Sunrise
74. Persuasion
75. Jane Eyre (1996)
76. A Walk on the Moon
77. Fire with Fire
78. Dangerous Beauty
79. Beyond Borders
80. Mrs. Soffel
81. Playing by Heart
82. Breaking the Waves
83. Blue Sky
84. The Man in the Moon
85. Return to the Blue Lagoon
86. Washington Square
87. Wide Sargasso Sea
88. Deja Vu (1998)
89. Charing Cross Road
90. Love Field
91. Anna Karenina (1997)
92. Firelight
93. Passion of Mind
94. Guinevere
95. All the Real Girls
96. Jude
97. Swept from the Sea
98. Dogfight
99. Every Time We Say Goodbye
100. Waking the Dead

This is a solid list filled with a lot of quality romance films and date movies. Flicks like Mrs. Soffel and Urban Cowboy have been overlooked on other lists, but it appears that nothing gets past the writers at Box Office Mojo. If you love happy endings, stay away from City of Angels at #10.

AskMen.com’s Top Date Movies

AskMen’s list of good date movies gives a male perspective on the subject. While we’ve seen many of the titles before, a few new movies are included.

1. There’s Something About Mary
2. Four Weddings and a Funeral
3. Pretty Woman
4. Say Anything
5. Swingers
6. Titanic
7. Cocktail
8. Reality Bites
9. Sleepless in Seattle
10. Ghost

I would’ve never guessed that Reality Bites would make the list. I haven’t seen it in years, but I can’t shake the feeling that it would seem awfully dated now (kind of like Singles). It’s good to see Pretty Woman rated at #3, as it’s always seemed like the quintessential modern romance to me. Notice that The Notebook is not included, proving that men are immune to its strange powers.

Independent Film Channel’s 50 Greatest Sex Scenes

God bless the Independent Film Channel! Their writers sifted through hours of steamy cinematic sex scenes and compiled this list of the hottest ones. While good date movies don’t have to have a sex scene, there’s really no substitute for getting you and your partner in the mood.

1. Ken Park (2002)
2. Laurel Canyon (2002)
3. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2007)
4. The Dreamers (2003)
5. Sex Lies and Videotape (1987)
6. Breaking the Waves (1996)
7. Poison (1991)
8. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
9. High Art (1998)
10. High Fidelity (2000)
11. The Lover (1992)
12. The Piano (1993)
13. Shortbus (2006)
14. Shaft (1971)
15. Boogie Nights (1997)
16. Network (1976)
17. The End of the Affair (1999)
18. The Last Seduction (1994)
19. Being John Malkovich (1999)
20. Storytelling (2001)
21. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
22. 9 Songs (2004)
23. Henry and June (1990)
24. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
25. Out of Sight (1998)
26. Female Trouble (1974)
27. The Cooler (2003)
28. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
29. The Wayward Cloud (2005)
30. The Kiss (1896)
31. Bound (1996)
32. Sex and Lucia (2002)
33. Unfaithful (2002)
34. Body Heat (1982)
35. Coming Home (1978)
36. Get Carter (1971)
37. Team America: World Police (2004)
38. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
39. The Night Porter (1974)
40. Ecstasy (1933)
41. Young Frankenstein (1974)
42. The Big Easy (1987)
43. Secretary (2002)
44. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
45. Betty Blue (1985)
46. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
47. Risky Business (1983)
48. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
49. A History of Violence (2005)
50. Don’t Look Now (1973)

I’m thrilled to see that Donald Sutherland is one half of the greatest sex scene ever. When I think of pure, unbridled sexuality, I immediately think of Donald Sutherland.

All kidding aside, there are plenty of unusual choices on this list. While I wouldn’t suggest Team America or Get Carter to fire up your lover, movies such as The Last Seduction and Sex Lies and Videotape should more than make up the difference.

My Mom’s Top 20 Romantic Movies

No list would be complete without 20 good date movies which have my mother’s stamp of approval. Still, this could be a handy guide if you’re looking to court a woman over the age of 50. Listed in no particular order:

1. Pretty Woman
2. First Knight
3. The Wedding Date
4. A Walk in the Clouds
5. The Wedding Planner
6. Maid in Manhattan
7. Dance With Me
8. Dirty Dancing
9. Open Range
10. The Replacements
11. Jersey Girl (1992)
12. While You Were Sleeping
13. Never Been Kissed
14. Ever After
15. Working Girl
16. Notting Hill
17. Monster-In-Law
18. 50 First Dates
19. Quigley Down Under
20. The Lake House

I should also mention that my mother won’t watch a movie unless it ends well. That means you can enjoy the above movies with your lover and not worry about the main character drowning in a storm or getting backed over by a logging truck.

Now that you’ve got an idea of some of the best date movies and romantic films currently available, all that remains is to find someone you’re attracted to, dim the lights, and prepare to do your best Barry White impression.

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