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Top 10 Romantic Movie Moments

Posted Jan 27, 08 4:11 PM CST in Arts & Living    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – There's nothing like these classic scenes of on-screen romance. CNN's Screening Room lists cinema's top 10 romantic moments:

  1. Casablanca: Humphrey Bogart's "We'll always have Paris" monologue.
  2. City Lights: When Virginia Cherrill recognizes Chaplin's tramp as her lover.
  3. Roman Holiday: Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck's scene at the Mouth of Truth sculpture.
  4. From Here to Eternity: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing in the surf.
  5. Amélie: The young couple's breathtaking bike ride through Paris.

  1. Annie Hall: The first meeting between Woody Allen's Alvy and Diane Keaton's Annie.
  2. La Dolce Vita: When Marcello Mastroianni is enchanted by Anita Eckberg at the Trevi fountain.
  3. Before Sunrise: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy getting to know each other's music taste in a record store listening booth.
  4. Lost in Translation: Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson's final goodbye.
  5. When Harry Met Sally: Not the orgasm-in-the-deli scene, but the couple's final electric fight before getting together for good.

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Actress Scarlett Johansson, actor Bill Murray, and director Sofia Coppola arrive to the screening of 'Lost In Translation' at the 60th Venice Film Festival August 31, 2003 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by...   (Getty Images)
Undated file photo taken during a scene of Fred Zinnemann's 1953 film 'From here to Eternity' in Los Angeles shows US actor Burt Lancaster and British actress Deborah Kerr. AFP PHOTO   (Getty Images)
Burt Lancaster kisses Deborah Kerr passionately in a beach scene in the 1953 film "From Here To Eternity." (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures)   (Associated Press)
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