Top rated romantic movies on TCM

Check out today’s highest ranked romantic movies on TCM! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best romantic movies on TCM, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 In the Mood for Love (2000)

In Hong Kong of 1962, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow, a journalist, move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their respective spouses creates an intimate bond between them.

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2000-09-29 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung

Rating

rating icon 8.111
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #62 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #67 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #68 for
    like The Last Picture Show

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2 Manhattan (1979)

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

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1979-04-25 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

Rating

rating icon 7.746
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #83 for
    vainglorious
  3. Ranked #96 for
    narcissist

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Manhattan trailer
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3 Cabaret (1972)

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

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1972-02-13 | Music / Drama

Cast

Liza Minnelli, Michael York

Rating

rating icon 7.385
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #7 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #15 for
    decadent
  3. Ranked #15 for
    deservedly won awards

Trailer

Cabaret trailer
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4 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

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1989-12-12 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    sexually explicit
  2. Ranked #98 for
    sassy
  3. Ranked #151 for
    eventually falling in love

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5 Tom Jones (1963)

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

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1963-08-24 | Comedy / Adventure

Cast

Albert Finney, Susannah York

Rating

rating icon 5.969
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #48 for
    raucous
  2. Ranked #54 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #59 for
    Oscar nomination deserving

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6 Victor/Victoria (1982)

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

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1982-04-25 | Music / Comedy

Cast

Julie Andrews, James Garner

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #85 for
    machismo
  2. Ranked #93 for
    antiquated
  3. Ranked #93 for
    crowd-pleaser

Trailer

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7 The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.

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1982-12-17 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #90 for
    callow
  2. Ranked #94 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #107 for
    waggish

Trailer

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8 Funny Girl (1968)

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedian and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

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1968-09-19 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Barbra Streisand, Omar El-Sherif

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #48 for
    vaudevillian
  3. Ranked #110 for
    waggish

Trailer

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9 The King and I (1956)

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

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1956-06-29 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #53 for
    resonant vocal
  2. Ranked #54 for
    great soundtrack
  3. Ranked #68 for
    deservedly won awards

Trailer

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10 A Patch of Blue (1965)

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Info

1965-12-10 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    didactic
  2. Ranked #87 for
    mawkish
  3. Ranked #132 for
    sluttish character

Trailer

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