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Gone With The Wind
When you\'re down or broken-hearted, or just looking for a romantic evening in with your loved one, which movie do you turn to for a good weep? Take a look through our personal favourites and let us know if we’ve picked one of yours by leaving us a comment…
Amélie (2001)
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Amelie
Director: Jean-Pierre JeunetThis is a divine love story from one of the world\'s most original and highly respected directors. The young Amélie overcomes her painful shyness and her parents\' nuttiness to search out love. It\'s hilarious, heart-rending and just - ooh - gorgeous!
Dr Zhivago (1965)
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Dr Zhivago
Director: David LeanLean\'s epic story set in Russia is not only a fascinating depiction of the Bolshevik revolution but is at the same time a heart-rendering love story. Starring Omar Sharif as the tortured Dr Zhivago and Julie Christie as his life-long true love, this is as complicated a love story as it gets. Take the phone off the hook, gather supplies of your choice and settle in for at least three hours of pure girlie pleasure
Breakfast At Tiffany\'s (1961)
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Breakfast at Tiffanys
Director: Blake Edwards Romance, yes – but not like you\'d expect. Audrey Hepburn\'s iconic Holly Golightly is rather an unlikely romantic heroine. A keen party animal and socialite, Holly doesn\'t have the time or inclination for romance (even in the form of the lovely George Peppard). But it looks like her hard exterior is actually a cover for a life more ordinary that she has tried to escape from. Will the ultimate party girl let love into her life? Funny, charming, and a delight to watch
Chocolat (2001)
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Chocolat
Director: Lasse HallstromHallstrom is a master at creating intimate and convincing worlds, inhabited by colourful and original characters. \'Chocolat\', based on Joanne Harris\'s novel, is a gentle tale of someone who wants to belong. Full of humour and depth, and delivered with a deft touch, \'Chocolat\' has just the right amount of sweetener - delicious!
The Way We Were (1973)
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The Way We Were
Director: Sydney PollackBarbra Streisand (playing college girl, Katie) just seems to have this knack for hitting all your weepy buttons. The gorgeous Robert Redford plays her college sweetheart and the couple form an unlikely pairing during their studying years. But back when politics could ruin a romance they go their separate ways only to hook up once again years later with all the rose tint, blurry filters and weepy music imaginable. Cry, laugh and enjoy the diva at her best!
Ghost (1990)
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Ghost
Director: Jerry ZuckerThis is a powerful love story, told amidst an intriguing backdrop of murder and revenge. Using the tried-and-tested formula of good versus evil, the skilled director Jerry Zucker (famed for his very unromantic hit film \'Airplane\'! and \'The Naked Gun\' series) \'Ghost\' is possibly the
ultimate feel-good film. If you don\'t cry every time you see it, it\'s just possible that there\'s something wrong with you
Gone With The Wind (1939)
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Gone With The Wind
Director: Victor FlemingAdapted from Margaret Mitchell\'s best-selling novel, this epic drama is one of the most gripping and dramatic movies of all time. Heroine, Scarlett O\'Hara, is besotted with local boy Ashley. But if only she\'d realise that it\'s Rhett Butler she really loves! Civil war may be raging though this feisty Southern belle\'s country but it\'s nothing compared to the turmoil she goes on to face after the war. And when Rhett says those famous words, \'Frankly my dear I don\'t give a damn\', even if you\'ve seen the film loads of times, it\'s still so powerful!
House Of Flying Daggers (2004)
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House of Flying Daggers
Director: Zhang Yimou House of Flying Daggers stars Ziyi Zhang (of \'Memoirs of a Geisha\' fame). Here she plays a dancer called Mei in the Tang dynasty in China, who\'s purportedly a member of a group of assassins. When she\'s arrested, a heart-rending love triangle develops between her and the two policemen involved in her capture. Passionate stuff!
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
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Moulin Rouge
Director: Baz LuhrmannThis is a real visual extravaganza that\'s hilarious and highly emotional. Set in a cabaret club in Paris in the nineteenth century, it stars Nicole Kidman as dancer Satine, Ewan McGregor as the poet, Christian; and John Leguizamo as the artist, Toulouse-Lautrec. Dazzling and very, very moving too
Pretty Woman (1990)
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Pretty Woman
Director: Garry MarshallThis is the highly predictable, yet highly loveable Hollywood fairy tale about a successful corporate mogul Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) who meets carefree call-girl Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts). Their two lives are worlds apart but Vivan\'s energetic spirit challenges Edward\'s no-nonsense approach to life, and soon they are not only learning from each other but also falling in love
Romeo & Juliet (1996)
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Romeo and Juliet
Director: Baz LuhrmannShakespeare never looked so good as when it was put into the capable hands of Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes in the lead roles, a modern day setting of Verona Beach (US), an excellent soundtrack and editing techniques that would have surely impressed the Bard himself, this interpretation of the greatest love story ever told is hip, dangerous, cool and heartbreaking – all at the same time
Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
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Sleepless in Seattle
Director: Nora EphronTom Hanks is Sam, a young widower with a lively eight-year-old son. In an attempt to get over the death of his wife, Sam moves to Seattle and, once there, his son calls a network radio phone-in and gets Sam to unburden his angst over the air. On the other side of the US in Baltimore, Annie (Meg Ryan), a journalist who is already engaged, yet she somehow falls in love as she hears Sam talk. The suspense is kept up right to the end - an absolute killer!
Titanic (1997)
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Titanic
Director: James CameronThis one has it all - romance, humour, tragedy. The characters are occasionally a tad unbelievable but for some reason we care about them - oh boy, do we care about them! The unlikely and ill-fated couple Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) will stay in the hearts of all womankind forever more
True Romance (1993)
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True Romance
Director: Tony ScottSome folk like their romance with hearts and flowers – others like it with guns, torture, the mafia and lots of red lipstick. Cue Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as Clarence and Alabama. He works in a video store and she\'s a hooker but they both like Kung-Fu movies so they do the sensible thing and get married. But after stealing her pimp\'s coke things get a tad violent. Will love save the day? With a supporting cast including Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken and Gary Oldman this cult classic won\'t make you cry but it will make you realise that romance comes in all guises
West Side Story (1961)
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Westside Story
Directors: Jerome Robbins & Robert WiseThese guys were amongst the first to get wise to the concept of updating Shakespeare and here the ultimate love story, Romeo & Juliet, gets updated for a modern audience (well circa 1961) with a Latin twist. Tony (Richard Beymer) and Maria (Natalie Wood) are on the fringes of rival New York gangs (the Jets and the Sharks) but nonetheless fall for each other big time. All singing and all dancing, the songs are unforgettable and tragedy complete. Any man, women or beast that doesn\'t cry must clearly have a heart of pure stone
Wild At Heart (1990)
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Wild at Heart
Director: David Lynch\'This whole world\'s wild at heart and weird on top\' runaway, Lula, tells her jailbird boyfriend, Sailor - and she couldn\'t have captured the spirit of David Lynch\'s hip and heartfelt \'90s love story better. Nic Cage and Laura Dern play the leads who run away together after Lula\'s psychotic mother hires a hit man to kill Sailor. And you thought you mother was bad? A hypnotic blend of madness, heavy metal, weird, romance and bizarre – this is pure Lynchian gold
