10 timeless love movies that have been tested over the years

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Hundreds of love films are released annually, but not all of them are able to win the hearts of viewers. But there are such pictures about feelings that can be revisited countless times, rediscovering details, capturing shades of intonation and wondering how accurately the actors managed to convey the emotional excitement of their characters. Today we want to remember about these films, which have not lost their relevance over the years.

City Lights, 1931, USA, director Charlie Chaplin

This picture brings together several talents of the great Charlie Chaplin. He played one of the roles in the film, wrote music for it, became a co-writer, editor, director and producer. City Lights is a film about love capable of any feat. No wonder the tape ranks first in the list of the best romantic comedies according to the American Film Institute.

Gone with the Wind, 1939, USA, directors Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood

For more than 80 years, this film has conquered the hearts of viewers around the globe. 10 Oscars out of 13 possible speak volumes. As well as the fact that the painting based on the work of the same name by Margaret Mitchell held the record for the highest box office for a quarter of a century. No wonder "Gone With the Wind" is called one of the greatest films of all time. It seems that he will never become old-fashioned.

"Casablanca", 1942, USA, directed by Michael Curtitz

This film was filmed, as they say, from the sheet, because from the end of the script to the start of filming, it took only three days. True, the play "Everybody Comes to Rick" by Murray Barnett and Joan Alison, which formed the basis of the film, was written two years before the film was released. But it has never been staged in the theater. And what will be the final of "Casablanca", no one knew almost until the last day of filming. Despite all the confusion of the film, he managed to win three Oscars at once.

"Roman Holiday", 1953, USA, directed by William Wyler

A beautiful love story of a young princess and a journalist who can never be together. Surprisingly, despite the lack of a classic happy ending, the film gives hope and leaves a pleasant aftertaste of a real miracle that happens when you believe in it. Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck have been giving viewers an endless tale of eternal love for more than sixty years.

"Spring on Zarechnaya Street", 1956, USSR, directors Marlen Khutsiev and Felix Mironer

At one time, it was this film that was called a cult film for the first time in the USSR, and the audience's love for it, it seems, has not waned at all for half a century. Some dialogues have long been memorized, and the last words about the ellipsis sound like a promise of eternal love. This lyrical comedy can rightfully be called one of the best films in its genre, shot in the Soviet Union.

"Girls", 1961, USSR, director Yuri Chulyukin

The funny and direct heroine of Nadezhda Rumyantseva from the film by Yuri Chulyukin has been known and remembered for several generations of viewers. However, every actor who starred in this picture has become a real star. Svetlana Druzhinina, Nikolai Rybnikov, Luciena Ovchinnikova, Stanislav Khitrov, Inna Makarova, Nina Menshikova, Roman Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin - many of them are no longer alive, and the created images will remain with us forever.

"Three Poplars on Plyushchikha", 1968, USSR, director Tatiana Lioznova

This story is already more than half a century old, and the audience still squeezes their hearts from inexpressible tenderness, light sadness and hidden sadness that make adults cry. It seems that this simple story about the meeting of a simple village woman with an elderly Moscow chauffeur is nothing special. But there is so much sincerity, trust and purity in the film that sometimes it seems that everything that happens on the screen is life itself. And it doesn't matter that the 21st century is already outside the window. Feelings and emotions do not know age.

"The Star of Captivating Happiness", 1975, USSR, director Vladimir Motyl

About love and history, about patriotism and sacrifice, about happiness and the country, about the Motherland and honor - this is all the "Star of Captivating Happiness". Once again, you can enjoy this eternal history and see the brilliant play of real actors who starred in a magnificent film: Irina Kupchenko, Alexei Batalov, Natalia Bondarchuk, Oleg Strizhenov, Eva Shikulsku, Igor Kostolevsky, Oleg Yankovsky and others.

"Office Romance", 1977, USSR, director Eldar Ryazanov

It seems that even today you can quote this film from anywhere, laugh at the ridiculous Novoseltsev, sympathize with Lyudmila Prokofievna and experience with the naive Olenka. And also watch how the timid feelings of two middle-aged people arise, in whose life there were trials and betrayals, griefs and problems, small joys and dreams. There was only love, without which life is so boring.

"You never dreamed of", 1980, USSR, director Ilya Fraz

A gentle and touching story about the first feelings of two adolescents who, on their way to each other, have to overcome the confrontation of the most dear people, face incomprehension and indifference. And again hurry towards each other and your happiness. Nikita Mikhailovsky and Tatiana Aksyuta, who played the main roles, are the Russian Romeo and Juliet of the 1980s version, and therefore their story will remain relevant and ageless.

Almost a century and a half have passed since the first "moving images" appeared, and over the years cinema has undergone significant changes. The teachers of the VGIK production department have compiled a list of films recommended for viewing for their students. In total, it contains more than 900 positions, we offer you to get acquainted only with the most rated films and TV series.