Some years back I saw the John LeCarre movie The Constant Gardener. Not only was it a fine thriller, it was a great love story too! Ralph Fiennes is married to Rachel Weisz, and the movies about how she lives for this cause and he ends up living for it too, then she dies for that cause and he dies for it too! That's the sort of love story Hollywood is generally afraid to make these days.
My favorite romantic Disney movie is Lady and the Tramp. (It's funny how I can feel more comfortable watching love between animals than between people!) Another romantic movie I like is the western Stagecoach, with its romance between outlaw gunfighter John Wayne and outcast lady of the evening Claire Trevor.
Don't get me started on the romance genre today! Titanic was an exercise in shamelessness! These days they think the romantic rival has to be completely loathsome because they're afraid to allow any doubt about which guy the girl should prefer. Not to mention romances where the man is twenty-odd years older than the woman! (I guess that started with Audrey Hepburn being paired with Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper and Cary Grant...)
In the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin the heroine's Greek father says, "Love is what's left when being in love burns away."
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