American Film Institute
Romantic Comedy
Top Ten Romantic Comedies Presented by AFI
Top Ten Romantic Comedies Presented by AFI
#1 City Lights
At an outdoor dedication ceremony, a tramp is discovered sleeping in the arms of a statue as it is being unveiled before a crowd.
#2 Annie Hall
Follow the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer ponders the modern quest for love.
#3 It Happened One Night
Spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews escapes from her millionaire father Alexander's yacht when he kidnaps her after she elopes.
#4 Roman Holiday
While in Rome during a multi-city goodwill tour, Princess Anne, the youthful heir to a European crown, impresses the guests of an embassy ball with her charm and poise.
#5 The Philadelphia Story
Tracy, a rich girl, has doubts on the eve of her second marriage and, after an episode of self-discovery, remarries her first husband.
#6 When Harry Met Sally
The film opens with the two strangers, both newly graduated from the University of Chicago, share a car trip from Chicago to New York.
#7 Adam's Rib
Doris Attinger, a mother of three who is fed up with her husband Warren's philandering, arms herself with a gun and follows her husband to the apartment of his mistress.
#8 Moonstruck
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance's brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
#9 Harold and Maude
After another in a series of mock suicides staged by 20-year-old Harold Chasen fails to gain the attention he craves from his wealthy, socialite mother.
#10 Sleepless in Seattle
It's Christmas Eve and radio talk show psychologist Marcia Fieldstone has asked her listening audience what they are wishing and dreaming.
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