Best romance films 1951 – 1960 - Charts
Best romance films 1951 – 1960
1. Roman Holiday (1953)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
2. Some Like It Hot (1959)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis
3. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor
4. The Big Country (1958)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons
5. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
Cast: Peggy Lee, Verna Felton
6. North by Northwest (1959)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
7. The Apartment (1960)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
8. Vertigo (1958)
USA, Mystery / Romance
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak
9. The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
France / Italy, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Robert Vernay
Cast: Jean Marais, Lia Amanda
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
Czechoslovakia, Animation / Puppet
Directed by: Jiří Trnka
Cast: Rudolf Pellar, Jack Gwillim
11. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mikhail Kalatozov
Cast: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov
12. The African Queen (1951)
UK / USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
13. The Proud Princess (1952)
Czechoslovakia, Fairytale / Comedy
Directed by: Bořivoj Zeman
Cast: Alena Vránová, Vladimír Ráž
14. Sabrina (1954)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn
15. Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)
Italy / France, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Christian-Jaque
Cast: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida
16. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Italy / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Cast: Giulietta Masina, François Périer
17. The Million Pound Note (1954)
UK / USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ronald Neame
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire
18. Hiroshima, My Love (1959)
France / Japan, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
19. Giant (1956)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson
20. The Rainmaker (1956)
USA, Romance / Western
Directed by: Joseph Anthony
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn
21. From Here to Eternity (1953)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift
22. The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson
23. A Place in the Sun (1951)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
24. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Grigoriy Chukhray
Cast: Vladimir Sergeyevich Ivashov, Zhanna Trofimovna Prokhorenko
25. The Fugitive Kind (1960)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward
26. Quo Vadis (1951)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr
27. We're No Angels (1955)
USA, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray
28. The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: André Hunebelle
Cast: Jean Marais, Bourvil
30. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood
31. I Vitelloni (1953)
Italy / France, Drama / Parable
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Cast: Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi
32. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas
33. Othello (1952)
USA / Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir
34. Love in the Afternoon (1957)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn
35. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell
36. Merry-Go-Round (1956)
Hungary, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Zoltán Fábri
Cast: Mari Törőcsik, Imre Soós
39. The Adventure (1960)
Italy / France, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti
40. Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)
France / Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Roger Vadim
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe
41. Summer Interlude (1951)
Sweden, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten
42. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: Clyde Geronimi
Cast: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley
44. Romeo and Juliet (1954)
Italy / UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Renato Castellani
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Flora Robson
45. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Sweden, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck
46. An Affair to Remember (1957)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
47. Shoot the Pianist (1960)
France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: François Truffaut
Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois
48. War and Peace (1956)
USA / Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: King Vidor
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda
49. An American in Paris (1951)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron
50. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Cast: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver
51. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson
53. Le Notti Bianche (1957)
Italy / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni
54. Summer with Monika (1953)
Sweden, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg
55. Funny Face (1957)
USA, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire
56. The Quiet Man (1952)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
57. Sayonara (1957)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Joshua Logan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens
58. Hobson's Choice (1954)
UK, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Charles Laughton, John Mills
59. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Cast: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field
60. Love Is My Profession (1958)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Claude Autant-Lara
Cast: Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot
61. To Catch a Thief (1955)
USA, Mystery / Romance
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
63. The Chasers (1959)
Norway, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Erik Løchen
Cast: Rolf Søder, Bente Børsum
64. Separate Tables (1958)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth
65. Indiscreet (1958)
UK, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
66. Carrie (1952)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones
67. Ivanhoe (1952)
USA / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor
68. Vesna (1953)
Yugoslavia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: František Čáp
Cast: Metka Gabrijelcic, Stane Sever
69. Home from the Hill (1960)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker
71. Father's Little Dividend (1951)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett
72. Human Desire (1954)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame
73. Friendly Persuasion (1956)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire
74. The Moon Over the River (1953)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Poetic
Directed by: Václav Krška
Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, Zdeňka Baldová
75. Written on the Wind (1956)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall
76. Voyage in Italy (1954)
Italy / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
77. The Knight of the Night (1954)
France, Horror / Romance
Directed by: Robert Darène
Cast: Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Servais
78. Summertime (1955)
UK / USA, Romance / Drama
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi
79. Kiss Me Kate (1953)
USA, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: George Sidney
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel
80. The Rose Tattoo (1955)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Cast: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster
82. The Band Wagon (1953)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse
83. The Gates of Paris (1957)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: René Clair
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Henri Vidal
84. Golden Marie (1952)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jacques Becker
Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
85. Desk Set (1957)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Walter Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
86. Black Orpheus (1959)
Brazil / France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Marcel Camus
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn
87. The Wanton Countess (1954)
Italy, Drama / War
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Alida Valli, Farley Granger
88. Pat and Mike (1952)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
89. Die Deutschmeister (1955)
Austria, Music / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Magda Schneider
90. The Emperor of the Mughals (1960)
India, Drama / War
Directed by: K. Asif
Cast: Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala
91. High Society (1956)
USA, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: Charles Walters
Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly
92. Beauties of the Night (1952)
France / Italy, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: René Clair
Cast: Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol
93. The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
France / Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Max Ophüls
Cast: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux
94. The Far Country (1954)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: James Stewart, Ruth Roman
95. The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Richard Quine
Cast: William Holden, Nancy Kwan
96. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
USA, Drama / Music
Directed by: Charles Vidor
Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney
97. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
USA, Drama / Family
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Charlton Heston, James Stewart
98. That Naughty Girl (1956)
France, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Michel Boisrond
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jean Bretonnière
99. Solomon and Sheba (1959)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: King Vidor
Cast: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida
100. Wild River (1960)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick