AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions explained

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 and Humphrey Bogart each have five movies on the list. They co-starred in Sabrina.

The list

FilmDirectorYearActressActor
1 Casablanca
2 Gone with the Wind
3 West Side Story
4 Roman Holiday
5
6
7 Doctor Zhivago
8 It's a Wonderful Life
9 Love Story
10 City Lights
11 Annie Hall
12 My Fair Lady
13 Out of Africa
14
15 Wuthering Heights
16 Singin' in the Rain
17 Moonstruck
18 Vertigo
19 Ghost
20 From Here to Eternity
21 Pretty Woman
22 On Golden Pond
23 Now, Voyager
24 King Kong Kong
Bruce Cabot
25 When Harry Met Sally...
26
27
28
29
30 Swing Time
31
32 Dark Victory
33 Camille
34 Beauty and the Beast
35 Gigi
36 Random Harvest
37 Titanic
38 It Happened One Night
39
40 Ninotchka
41 Funny Girl
42 Anna Karenina
43
44
45 Sleepless in Seattle
46 To Catch a Thief
47 Splendor in the Grass
48 Last Tango in Paris
49
50 Shakespeare in Love
51 Bringing Up Baby
52
53
54 Sabrina
55 Reds
56
57 Two for the Road
58 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
59 Picnic
60 To Have and Have Not
61 Breakfast at Tiffany's
62
63 Sunrise
64 Marty
65 Bonnie and Clyde
66 Manhattan
67
68 What's Up, Doc?
69 Harold and Maude
70 Sense and Sensibility
71 Way Down East
72 Roxanne
73
74 Woman of the Year
75
76
77
78 Coming Home
79 Jezebel
80
81
82 Witness
83 Morocco
84 Double Indemnity
85 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
86 Notorious
87
88
89 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
90
91 Working Girl
92 Porgy and Bess
93 Dirty Dancing
94 Body Heat
95 Lady and the Tramp
96 Barefoot in the Park
97 Grease
98
99 Pillow Talk
100 Jerry Maguire

Criteria

The list uses the following criteria:[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions . American Film Institute . February 5, 2024 . en.