I'm not a big fan of romantic movies. Movies like Love Story and Titanic are shameless, manipulative adolescent fare. But there are a few that I particularly like. One is the John Ford western Stagecoach. The main story features John Wayne as a gunfighter heading to a deadly confrontation and Claire Trevor as a saloon girl who's been thrown out of town. Their developing love, combined with fear of loss, is very believable.
My favourite animated Disney movie is Lady and the Tramp, with a romance between a dainty, house bred female dog and a shrewd male street dog. The story involves discovery, decency and courage. There's a cute scene where they're eating the same spaghetti noodle. It's a '50s movie in the best sense.
More recently, there was the movie of John LeCarre's The Constant Gardener. As well as international intrigue involving a pharmaceutical corporation, it has a great love story. It's about Ralph Fiennes being initially uninterested in his wife Rachel Weisz' causes, then living for the same cause she lives for, then dying for the same ideal she died for.
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