Best romance films 1961 – 1970 - Charts
Best romance films 1961 – 1970
1. My Fair Lady (1964)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
2. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
UK / Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier
4. How to Steal a Million (1966)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole
5. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
UK / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie
6. Cactus Flower (1969)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Gene Saks
Cast: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman
7. Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Czechoslovakia, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Cast: Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt
9. Barefoot in the Park (1967)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Gene Saks
Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda
10. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark
11. Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Italy / USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
12. Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (1964)
USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Cast: Daws Butler, Mel Blanc
13. The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot
14. Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
USA, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick
15. West Side Story (1961)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer
16. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Italy / France, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
17. Cleopatra (1963)
UK / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
18. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
USA, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Gene Kelly
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau
19. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard
21. Jules and Jim (1962)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: François Truffaut
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner
22. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Soviet Union / Ukraine, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sergei Parajanov
Cast: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Igor Dzyura
24. El Cid (1961)
Italy / USA, Romance / War
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
25. The Last Adventure (1967)
France / Italy, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Robert Enrico
Cast: Lino Ventura, Alain Delon
26. The Trap (1966)
Canada / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Sidney Hayers
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed
27. The Hustler (1961)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Robert Rossen
Cast: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason
28. Green Gold (1964)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Ladislav Rychman
Cast: Vladimír Pucholt, Ivana Pavlová
29. Vengeance of the Three Musketeers (1961)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot
30. Stolen Kisses (1968)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade
32. Ryan's Daughter (1970)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard
33. Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Italy / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
34. Romance for Bugle (1966)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Otakar Vávra
Cast: Jaromír Hanzlík, Július Vašek
35. Lolita (1962)
USA / UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: James Mason, Shelley Winters
36. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
France / Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina
37. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Carol Reed, Lewis Milestone
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard
38. The Leopard (1963)
Italy / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
39. Walking the Streets of Moscow (1963)
Soviet Union, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Georgiy Daneliya
Cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev
41. Le Bonheur (1965)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Cast: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot
42. Funny Girl (1968)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
43. Kwaidan (1964)
Japan, Horror / Romance
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Rentarô Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai
45. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Italy / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo
47. Any Number Can Win (1963)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Henri Verneuil
Cast: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon
48. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty
49. The Misfits (1961)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe
50. The Pink Panther (1963)
UK / USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers
51. Two for the Road (1967)
UK, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney
52. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen
53. Irma la Douce (1963)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
55. The Little Soldier (1963)
France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Michel Subor, Anna Karina
56. Goodbye Again (1961)
France / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand
57. Anna Karenina (1967)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Aleksandr Zarkhy
Cast: Tatyana Samoylova, Vasili Lanovoy
58. The Beginning (1970)
Soviet Union, Romance
Directed by: Глеб Панфилов
Cast: Inna Churikova, Leonid Kuravlyov
59. The Great Race (1965)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
60. This Property Is Condemned (1966)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford
61. The Peach Thief (1964)
Bulgaria, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Vulo Radev
Cast: Nevena Kokanova, Rade Markovic
62. Come September (1961)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida
64. A Matter of Resistance (1966)
France, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret
67. The Strawberry Statement (1970)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Stuart Hagmann
Cast: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby
69. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen
71. Sunday at Six (1965)
Romania, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Lucian Pintilie
Cast: Irina Petrescu, Dan Nutu
72. The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison
73. The High Wall (1964)
Czechoslovakia, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Karel Kachyňa
Cast: Radka Dulíková, Vít Olmer
75. The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry (1966)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Cast: Iya Savvina, Aleksandr Surin
76. The Great Love (1969)
France, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Pierre Étaix
Cast: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini
77. The Lost Talisman (1968)
Hungary, Romance / Historical
Directed by: Zoltán Várkonyi
Cast: Imre Sinkovits, György Bárdy
78. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway
79. The AristoCats (1970)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
Cast: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor
80. Deep End (1970)
West Germany / UK, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown
81. Ship of Fools (1965)
USA, Drama / Parable
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret
82. The Lost Talisman (1968)
Hungary, Romance / Historical
Directed by: Zoltán Várkonyi
Cast: Imre Sinkovits, György Bárdy
83. Zabriskie Point (1970)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Marc Frechette, Daria Halprin
84. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
France / Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
85. La Collectionneuse (1967)
France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Patrick Bauchau, Haydée Politoff
86. Father Goose (1964)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
87. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
France, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris
89. What a Way to Go! (1964)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman
90. A Nest of Gentry (1969)
Soviet Union, Romance
Directed by: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Cast: Irina Kupchenko, Леонид Кулагин
91. The Fortune Cookie (1966)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
92. Donkey Skin (1970)
France, Family / Musical
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais
93. A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Sweden, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Roy Andersson
Cast: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman
94. Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1967)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Martin Scorsese
95. Lover Come Back (1961)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day
96. Summer Holiday (1963)
UK, Music / Romance
Directed by: Peter Yates
Cast: Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters
98. A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Japan, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Tomu Uchida
Cast: Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari
100. The Last Relic (1969)
Estonia / Soviet Union, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Grigori Kromanov