# AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions is a list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 11, 2002, in a CBS television special hosted by Candice Bergen.
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn are tied for the most films in the list, with six each. They co-starred in two of them – Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story. Audrey Hepburn has five movies on the list putting her in second place.

## The list

| # | Film | Director | Year | Actress | Actor |
| 1 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | Ingrid Bergman | Humphrey Bogart |
| 2 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 | Vivien Leigh | Clark Gable |
| 3 | West Side Story | Robert Wise Jerome Robbins | 1961 | Natalie Wood | Richard Beymer |
| 4 | Roman Holiday | William Wyler | 1953 | Audrey Hepburn | Gregory Peck |
| 5 | An Affair to Remember | Leo McCarey | 1957 | Deborah Kerr | Cary Grant |
| 6 | The Way We Were | Sydney Pollack | 1973 | Barbra Streisand | Robert Redford |
| 7 | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | 1965 | Julie Christie Geraldine Chaplin | Omar Sharif |
| 8 | It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 | Donna Reed | James Stewart |
| 9 | Love Story | Arthur Hiller | 1970 | Ali MacGraw | Ryan O'Neal |
| 10 | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 | Virginia Cherrill | Charlie Chaplin |
| 11 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 | Diane Keaton | Woody Allen |
| 12 | My Fair Lady | George Cukor | 1964 | Audrey Hepburn | Rex Harrison Jeremy Brett |
| 13 | Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | 1985 | Meryl Streep | Robert Redford |
| 14 | The African Queen | John Huston | 1951 | Katharine Hepburn | Humphrey Bogart |
| 15 | Wuthering Heights | William Wyler | 1939 | Merle Oberon | Laurence Olivier |
| 16 | Singin' in the Rain | Gene Kelly Stanley Donen | 1952 | Debbie Reynolds | Gene Kelly |
| 17 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | 1987 | Cher | Nicolas Cage |
| 18 | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 | Kim Novak | James Stewart |
| 19 | Ghost | Jerry Zucker | 1990 | Demi Moore | Patrick Swayze |
| 20 | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | 1953 | Deborah Kerr Donna Reed | Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift |
| 21 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | 1990 | Julia Roberts | Richard Gere |
| 22 | On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | 1981 | Katharine Hepburn | Henry Fonda |
| 23 | Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | 1942 | Bette Davis | Paul Henreid |
| 24 | King Kong | Merian C. Cooper Ernest B. Schoedsack | 1933 | Fay Wray | Kong Bruce Cabot |
| 25 | When Harry Met Sally... | Rob Reiner | 1989 | Meg Ryan | Billy Crystal |
| 26 | The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 1941 | Barbara Stanwyck | Henry Fonda |
| 27 | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | 1965 | Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer |
| 28 | The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 | Margaret Sullavan | James Stewart |
| 29 | An Officer and a Gentleman | Taylor Hackford | 1982 | Debra Winger | Richard Gere |
| 30 | Swing Time | George Stevens | 1936 | Ginger Rogers | Fred Astaire |
| 31 | The King and I | Walter Lang | 1956 | Deborah Kerr | Yul Brynner |
| 32 | Dark Victory | Edmund Goulding | 1939 | Bette Davis | George Brent |
| 33 | Camille | George Cukor | 1936 | Greta Garbo | Robert Taylor |
| 34 | Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise | 1991 | Paige O'Hara | Robby Benson |
| 35 | Gigi | Vincente Minnelli | 1958 | Leslie Caron | Louis Jourdan |
| 36 | Random Harvest | Mervyn LeRoy | 1942 | Greer Garson | Ronald Colman |
| 37 | Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 | Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 38 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 | Claudette Colbert | Clark Gable |
| 39 | An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | 1951 | Leslie Caron | Gene Kelly |
| 40 | Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch | 1939 | Greta Garbo | Melvyn Douglas |
| 41 | Funny Girl | William Wyler | 1968 | Barbra Streisand | Omar Sharif |
| 42 | Anna Karenina | Clarence Brown | 1935 | Greta Garbo | Fredric March |
| 43 | A Star Is Born | George Cukor | 1954 | Judy Garland | James Mason |
| 44 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 | Katharine Hepburn | Cary Grant James Stewart |
| 45 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | 1993 | Meg Ryan | Tom Hanks |
| 46 | To Catch a Thief | Alfred Hitchcock | 1955 | Grace Kelly | Cary Grant |
| 47 | Splendor in the Grass | Elia Kazan | 1961 | Natalie Wood | Warren Beatty |
| 48 | Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1973 | Maria Schneider | Marlon Brando |
| 49 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 | Lana Turner | John Garfield |
| 50 | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | 1998 | Gwyneth Paltrow | Joseph Fiennes |
| 51 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 | Katharine Hepburn | Cary Grant |
| 52 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 | Katharine Ross | Dustin Hoffman |
| 53 | A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | 1951 | Elizabeth Taylor | Montgomery Clift |
| 54 | Sabrina | Billy Wilder | 1954 | Audrey Hepburn | Humphrey Bogart |
| 55 | Reds | Warren Beatty | 1981 | Diane Keaton | Warren Beatty |
| 56 | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | 1996 | Juliette Binoche Kristin Scott Thomas | Naveen Andrews Ralph Fiennes |
| 57 | Two for the Road | Stanley Donen | 1967 | Audrey Hepburn | Albert Finney |
| 58 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer | 1967 | Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton | Spencer Tracy Sidney Poitier |
| 59 | Picnic | Joshua Logan | 1955 | Kim Novak | William Holden |
| 60 | To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | 1944 | Lauren Bacall | Humphrey Bogart |
| 61 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | 1961 | Audrey Hepburn | George Peppard |
| 62 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 | Shirley MacLaine | Jack Lemmon |
| 63 | Sunrise | F. W. Murnau | 1927 | Janet Gaynor Margaret Livingston | George O'Brien |
| 64 | Marty | Delbert Mann | 1955 | Betsy Blair | Ernest Borgnine |
| 65 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 | Faye Dunaway | Warren Beatty |
| 66 | Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979 | Diane Keaton | Woody Allen |
| 67 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | 1951 | Vivien Leigh | Marlon Brando |
| 68 | What's Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich | 1972 | Barbra Streisand | Ryan O'Neal |
| 69 | Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | 1971 | Ruth Gordon | Bud Cort |
| 70 | Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | 1995 | Emma Thompson Kate Winslet | Hugh Grant Alan Rickman |
| 71 | Way Down East | D. W. Griffith | 1920 | Lillian Gish | Richard Barthelmess |
| 72 | Roxanne | Fred Schepisi | 1987 | Daryl Hannah | Steve Martin |
| 73 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1947 | Gene Tierney | Rex Harrison |
| 74 | Woman of the Year | George Stevens | 1942 | Katharine Hepburn | Spencer Tracy |
| 75 | The American President | Rob Reiner | 1995 | Annette Bening | Michael Douglas |
| 76 | The Quiet Man | John Ford | 1952 | Maureen O'Hara | John Wayne |
| 77 | The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey | 1937 | Irene Dunne | Cary Grant |
| 78 | Coming Home | Hal Ashby | 1978 | Jane Fonda | Jon Voight |
| 79 | Jezebel | William Wyler | 1938 | Bette Davis | Henry Fonda |
| 80 | The Sheik | George Melford | 1921 | Agnes Ayres | Rudolph Valentino |
| 81 | The Goodbye Girl | Herbert Ross | 1977 | Marsha Mason | Richard Dreyfuss |
| 82 | Witness | Peter Weir | 1985 | Kelly McGillis | Harrison Ford |
| 83 | Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | 1930 | Marlene Dietrich | Gary Cooper |
| 84 | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 | Barbara Stanwyck | Fred MacMurray |
| 85 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Henry King | 1955 | Jennifer Jones | William Holden |
| 86 | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 | Ingrid Bergman | Cary Grant |
| 87 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | 1988 | Juliette Binoche | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| 88 | The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 1987 | Robin Wright | Cary Elwes |
| 89 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | 1966 | Elizabeth Taylor Sandy Dennis | Richard Burton George Segal |
| 90 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | 1995 | Meryl Streep | Clint Eastwood |
| 91 | Working Girl | Mike Nichols | 1988 | Melanie Griffith | Harrison Ford |
| 92 | Porgy and Bess | Otto Preminger | 1959 | Dorothy Dandridge | Sidney Poitier |
| 93 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino | 1987 | Jennifer Grey | Patrick Swayze |
| 94 | Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | 1981 | Kathleen Turner | William Hurt |
| 95 | Lady and the Tramp | Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Clyde Geronimi | 1955 | Barbara Luddy | Larry Roberts |
| 96 | Barefoot in the Park | Gene Saks | 1967 | Jane Fonda | Robert Redford |
| 97 | Grease | Randal Kleiser | 1978 | Olivia Newton-John | John Travolta |
| 98 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | William Dieterle | 1939 | Maureen O'Hara | Charles Laughton |
| 99 | Pillow Talk | Michael Gordon | 1959 | Doris Day | Rock Hudson |
| 100 | Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | 1996 | Renée Zellweger | Tom Cruise |

## Criteria

The list uses the following criteria:
   * Feature-length fiction film: The film must be in narrative format, typically more than 60 minutes long.
   * American film: The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
   * Love story: Regardless of genre, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film’s narrative.
   * Legacy: Films whose "passion" have enriched America’s film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.