Best romance films 1941 – 1950 - Charts
Best romance films 1941 – 1950
1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
USA, Drama / Fantasy
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed
2. Nebe a dudy (1941)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Vladimír Slavínský
Cast: Jindřich Plachta, Jana Romanová
3. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March
4. Casablanca (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
5. Cinderella (1950)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
Cast: Eleanor Audley, June Foray
6. The Red Shoes (1948)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
7. The Poacher's Foster Daughter or Noble Millionaire (1949)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Music
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Hana Vítová, Oldřich Nový
9. Brief Encounter (1945)
UK, Romance / Drama
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
10. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane
11. Mildred Pierce (1945)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson
12. In a Lonely Place (1950)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame
14. Spellbound (1945)
USA, Film-Noir / Psychological
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
15. Notorious (1946)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
16. Children of Paradise (1945)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Marcel Carné
Cast: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault
17. Easter Parade (1948)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Charles Walters
Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire
18. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Max Ophüls
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
19. You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Cast: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth
20. The Talk of the Town (1942)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur
21. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
22. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
UK, Fantasy / Romance
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter
23. Orpheus (1950)
France, Fantasy / Drama
Directed by: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Marais, François Périer
24. You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth
25. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Ray Milland, John Wayne
26. Out of the Past (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
27. Ball of Fire (1941)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
28. Divá Bára (1949)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Vladimír Čech
Cast: Vlasta Fialová, Robert Vrchota
29. The Bishop's Wife (1947)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Henry Koster
Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young
30. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
USA, Musical / Family
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
31. Murderers Among Us (1946)
Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Wolfgang Staudte
Cast: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer
32. Father of the Bride (1950)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett
33. The Major and the Minor (1942)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland
34. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
USA, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison
35. Red River (1948)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
36. It Started with Eve (1941)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Henry Koster
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton
37. Little Women (1949)
USA, Drama / Family
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford
38. Obsession (1943)
Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti
39. The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)
France / Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Christian-Jaque
Cast: Gérard Philipe, Renée Faure
40. Nocturnal Butterfly (1941)
Czechoslovakia, Romance / Drama
Directed by: František Čáp
Cast: Hana Vítová, Svatopluk Beneš
41. Ministry of Fear (1944)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds
42. Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
France, Drama / War
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane
43. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
44. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
UK, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: James McKechnie, Vincent Holman
45. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: H.C. Potter
Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy
46. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: John Cromwell
Cast: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison
47. To Have and Have Not (1944)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan
48. Samson and Delilah (1949)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature
49. Holiday Inn (1942)
USA, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
50. Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
USA, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Sonja Henie, John Payne
51. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan
52. Woman of the Year (1942)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
53. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: George Sidney
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson
54. The Lady Eve (1941)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
55. Young Man with a Horn (1950)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall
56. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
France, Fairytale / Drama
Directed by: Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day
57. A Foreign Affair (1948)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich
58. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Japan, Drama / Romance
Directed by: 黒澤明
Cast: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita
59. Penny Serenade (1941)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
60. Meet John Doe (1941)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
61. On the Town (1949)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra
62. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
USA, Drama / Western
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
63. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
65. The Stratton Story (1949)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sam Wood
Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson
66. You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: H.C. Potter
Cast: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart
67. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
68. Random Harvest (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson
69. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sam Wood
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
70. Madame Curie (1943)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
71. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
USA, Romance / War
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal
72. Come Live with Me (1941)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr
73. That Hamilton Woman (1941)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Alexander Korda
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier
74. Song of Love (1947)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid
75. Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors
76. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
77. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
78. Variety Lights (1950)
Italy, Drama / Music
Directed by: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Cast: Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina
79. The Wedding Ring (1944)
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Vlasta Fabianová
80. Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
USA, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Cast: June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven
81. Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti
82. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell
83. Arch of Triumph (1948)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer
84. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
USA, Fantasy / Comedy
Directed by: Alexander Hall
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes
85. The Eternal Return (1943)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Jean Delannoy
Cast: Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais
86. Tales of Manhattan (1942)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth
87. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche
88. Jane Eyre (1943)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine
89. Mr. Skeffington (1944)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains
91. Unconquered (1947)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard
92. Broken Arrow (1950)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Cast: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler
93. Muži nestárnou (1942)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Vladimír Slavínský
Cast: Jan Pivec, Zita Kabátová
94. Pursued (1947)
USA, Thriller / Western
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum
95. The Black Swan (1942)
USA, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara
96. I Shot Jesse James (1949)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton
97. The More the Merrier (1943)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea
98. Now, Voyager (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid
99. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Robert Bresson
Cast: Paul Bernard, María Casares
100. The Dancing Girl (1943)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: František Čáp
Cast: Marie Glázrová, Jiřina Štěpničková