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The Heart of the Film
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The Heart of the Film

by Cynthia Whitcomb
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
4h 49m
English
Routledge
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Appendix One

The Top 100 Movie Love Stories (According to Whitcomb)

  • Across the Universe
  • An Affair to Remember
  • The African Queen
  • Age of Innocence
  • The American President
  • Ball of Fire
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Bridges of Madison County
  • Bridget Jones’s Diary
  • Brief Encounter
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Camille
  • Casablanca
  • Clueless
  • Cold Mountain
  • Coming Home
  • Crazy Stupid Love
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Emma (1996)
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • French Kiss
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Funny Girl
  • Ghost
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  • Gigi
  • Gladiator
  • Gone With the Wind
  • The Good-bye Girl
  • Good-bye, Mr. Chips
  • Harold and Maude
  • Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  • Holiday (1938)
  • The Holiday (2006)
  • I Know Where I’m Going
  • Iris
  • It Happened One Night ...
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