Love is ... Many will remember this chewing gum with cute candy wrappers, from which one could draw a lot of romantic, and often wise phrases. But life is more complicated than pictures, and everyone understands love in their own way. And how love is understood in world cinema, you can find out by watching films from our “love selection”. IN top 10 best films about loveWorth seeing, there are films that can squeeze a tear from anyone - be it a romantic schoolgirl or a seasoned trucker. The selection is based on ratings and reviews on the KinoPoisk website and includes films with years of release from 2000 to 2017.
10. Hurry to love (2002)
Rating - 7.9
The list of the best films about love opens with a film about teenagers - the modest and unprepossessing daughter of the pastor and the first guy at school, impudent, beautiful and passionate. The Taming of the Shrew is, of course, one of the most common plots in the global cultural space, but the picture “Hurry to Love” was shot with captivating sincerity. Get ready to shed a sea of tears!
9. Real love (2003)
Rating - 7.9
On the set of "Real Love", screenwriter Richard Curtis sat in the director's chair for the first time in his life - and the result was very successful. The film contains ten stories about a wide variety of loves - kindred, friendly, touching, funny, sensual and passionate - which are unlikely to leave the audience indifferent.
8. Barefoot on the pavement (2005)
Rating - 7.9
A touching, sincere and slightly “out of this world” story that you can find your soul mate in the most unexpected places. Some points to the Russian viewer may seem, to put it mildly, unusual (foreign mentality!), But they only add a story of sincerity.
7. Artist (2011)
Rating - 7.9
The film-homage to the era of the "great silent" Hollywood is a stylish black and white movie, fully sustained in the style of the beginning of the century, from credits to strict matching in costumes and hairstyles of ladies. Against this brilliant background, a history of relations unfolds between a Hollywood star, a handsome man with a prefabricated mustache, and little-known statistics.
6. The Great Gatsby (2013)
Rating - 7.9
“Be afraid of your desires - they may come true.” These words could be an epigraph to the film based on the novel by F.S. Fitzgerald, whose action takes place in the jazz twenties, when the skirts became shorter, the moral is freer, but the gap between the rich and the poor has remained the same. Picture
It is an interesting fusion of historical and modern - heroes in costumes of the twenties dance to the song of Beyoncé.
5. Memoirs of a geisha (2005)
Rating - 7.9
In fifth place in the top 10 films about love are "Memoirs of a Geisha" - the mysterious closed world of Japanese courtesans, filmed according to Hollywood patterns. A girl sold to a geisha school as a child carries through her whole life a sense of passion for one person. In addition to starring Zhang Ziyi, the magnificent and tragic play of Gong Li, one of the best modern Chinese actresses, attracts attention.
4. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Rating - 7.9
“Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen is one of the most often screened novels, from the exact following of an era and plot, as in the 1995 BBC series, until the new reading in the Indian version of “The Bride and Prejudice”. The 2005 film is an interesting fusion of old and new - a half-tale story about how a poor girl found her rich prince. Separately, it is worth noting the excellent work of the operator.
3. Amelie (2001)
Rating - 8
It is unlikely that anyone in Russia or all over the Earth has not watched this airy, light and magical film, filled with secret joys, which for sensible people look ridiculous and ridiculous, but for initiates - treasures. And, of course, love is like the sun over Paris.
2. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Rating - 8
Is love a fate or just a coincidence? Is it possible to completely forget a loved one, even if you really want it? And if you cross it out of your memory, will it be possible to make the heart believe it? A sad and touching picture of two good people who suddenly got a second chance.
1. The diary of memory (2004)
Rating - 8.2
What allowed this movie to collect full halls and provided him with the first line in our rating? The fact is that this is one of the best films about great and pure love, carried through decades. Like in a fairy tale, they lived happily ever after and died on the same day. And who does not like fairy tales with a happy outcome?
Brief plot of the tape: an elderly man reads an old woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the love story of a young man and a girl from an old shabby diary. The young man is poor, she is rich, her parents are against, and then the Second World War begins.
