Best romance films 1971 – 1980 - Charts
Best romance films 1971 – 1980
1. Animal (1977)
France, Comedy / Action
Directed by: Claude Zidi
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch
4. Avanti! (1972)
USA / Italy, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills
9. Play It Again, Sam (1972)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
10. Same Time, Next Year (1978)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda
12. Grease (1978)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
13. Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
West Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem
14. The Front Page (1974)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
15. Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers (1973)
Spain / USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Richard Lester
Cast: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch
16. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal
18. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
USA, Western / Comedy
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Paul Newman, Richard Farnsworth
19. The Four Musketeers (1974)
Spain / Panama, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Richard Lester
Cast: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch
20. Love Between the Raindrops (1979)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Karel Kachyňa
Cast: Vladimír Menšík, Lukáš Vaculík
22. The Raging Moon (1971)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman
23. Days of Heaven (1978)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams
27. The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn
28. The Scoundrel (1971)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert
30. The Lacemaker (1977)
France / Switzerland, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Claude Goretta
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton
31. The Way We Were (1973)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford
33. And Now My Love (1974)
France / Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Marthe Keller, André Dussollier
34. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
USA, Drama / Road movie
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III
35. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Vladimir Menshov
Cast: Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov
36. A hundred days after childhood (1974)
Soviet Union, Romance / Poetic
Directed by: Sergei Solovyov
Cast: Tatyana Drubich, Irina Malysheva
37. Turkish Delight (1973)
Netherlands, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer
38. Outlaw Blues (1977)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Richard T. Heffron
Cast: Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James
39. The Shooting Party (1978)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Эмиль Лотяну
Cast: Oleg Yankovskiy, Кирилл Лавров
40. The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: François Truffaut
Cast: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey
41. My American Uncle (1980)
France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia
43. Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Italy / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont
44. Dvadtsat dney bez voyny (1976)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Aleksey German
Cast: Jurij Nikulin, Ludmila Gurchenko
45. Un amour de pluie (1974)
France / Italy, Romance
Directed by: Jean-Claude Brialy
Cast: Romy Schneider, Nino Castelnuovo
46. Fedora (1978)
France / West Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: William Holden, Marthe Keller
47. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Italy / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider
48. The Goodbye Girl (1977)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason
49. Lovers in the Year One (1973)
Czechoslovakia, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Jaroslav Balík
Cast: Marta Vančurová, Viktor Preiss
50. Léto s kovbojem (1976)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ivo Novák
Cast: Daniela Kolářová, Jaromír Hanzlík
51. The Slipper & the Rose (1976)
UK, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Hordern
52. Tess (1979)
France / UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Roman Polański
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth
54. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
Italy / Spain, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Sergio Martino
Cast: George Hilton, Edwige Fenech
55. César and Rosalie (1972)
France / Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Claude Sautet
Cast: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider
57. A Little Romance (1979)
France / USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane
58. Laura, Shadows of a Summer (1979)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: David Hamilton
Cast: Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap
60. I Love, You Love (1980)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Dušan Hanák
Cast: Roman Kłosowski, Iva Janžurová
61. Tom Horn (1980)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: William Wiard
Cast: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans
62. The Csárdás Queen (1971)
Hungary / West Germany, Music / Comedy
Directed by: Miklós Szinetár
Cast: Anna Moffo, René Kollo
64. You Are Not Alone (1978)
Denmark, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Lasse Nielsen, Ernst Johansen
Cast: Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg
65. Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: John Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel
66. Heaven Has No Favorites (1977)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Al Pacino, Marthe Keller
67. Perceval (1978)
France / Italy, Drama / Music
Directed by: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier
68. Queen of the Gypsies (1975)
Soviet Union / Moldova, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Эмиль Лотяну
Cast: Svetlana Tomová, Григорий Григориу
70. Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
USA, Crime / Western
Directed by: William A. Graham
Cast: Cliff Potts, Harry Dean Stanton
71. Another Man, Another Chance (1977)
France / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Cast: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold
72. The Danube Pilot (1974)
Hungary, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Miklós Markos
Cast: Gábor Koncz, Gábor Agárdi
74. Lyubov moya, pechal moya (1978)
Soviet Union / Turkey, Romance
Directed by: Azhdar Ibragimov
Cast: Türkan Şoray, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
75. Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon
78. Moskva, lyubov moya (1974)
Soviet Union / Japan, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Aleksandr Mitta
Cast: Komaki Kurihara, Олег Видов
79. Impossible! (1975)
Soviet Union, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Leonid Gaidai
Cast: Mikhail Pugovkin, Evgeniy Zharikov
80. The Best Way to Walk (1976)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Claude Miller
Cast: Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Bouchitey
84. Nijinsky (1980)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Cast: Alan Bates, George de la Peña
85. Follow Me! (1972)
UK, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Carol Reed
Cast: Mia Farrow, Margaret Rawlings
86. That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
France / West Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Andrzej Zulawski
Cast: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi
87. The Electric Horseman (1979)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda
88. I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
USA, Comedy / Music
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco
89. Time After Time (1979)
USA, Adventure / Sci-fi
Directed by: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner
90. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
USA, Comedy / Action
Directed by: Hal Needham
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field
91. Malicious (1973)
Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Salvatore Samperi
Cast: Laura Antonelli, Turi Ferro
92. Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (1980)
Soviet Union, Romance
Directed by: Aleksandr Zarkhy
93. Ballad for a Bandit (1978)
Czechoslovakia, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Vladimír Sís
Cast: Miroslav Donutil, Petr Maláč
94. Majstor i Margarita (1972)
Yugoslavia / Italy, Drama / Fantasy
Directed by: Aleksandar Petrović
Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer
96. India Song (1975)
France, Drama / Fantasy
Directed by: Marguerite Duras
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale
98. The Go-Between (1971)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Cast: Julie Christie, Alan Bates
99. Je vous ferai aimer la vie (1979)
France, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Serge Korber
Cast: Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar
100. The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Elaine May
Cast: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd