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Moonstruck 1987

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All Movies planned to push into Plex

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Romantic movies best for Valentine's Day. Listed by Popularity.

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Romantic Drama, Comedy, Love Films

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AFI's 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time

Regardless of genre, in these films, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film's narrative. These movies possess a "passion" which has enriched America's film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.

The jurors were asked to consider the following criteria while making their selections:

  • Feature-Length Fiction Film: The film must be in narrative format, typically more than 60 minutes in length.
  • 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.

Source: http://www.afi.com/100Years/passions.aspx

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AFI's 100 Funniest American Movies Of All Time

Regardless of genre, the films on this list possess a total comedic impact that creates an experience greater than the sum of the smiles. These movies provide laughs that echo across time, enriching America's film heritage and inspiring artists and audiences today.

A wide array of funny films — from slapstick comedy to romantic comedy; from satire and black comedy to musical comedy; from comedy of manners to comedy of errors — were nominated for this distinction.

AFI distributed a ballot with 500 nominated films to a jury of 1800 leaders from the film community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers, etc.), critics, historians and film executives. The jurors were asked to consider the following criteria while making their selections:

  • Feature-Length Fiction Film: The film must be in narrative format typically over 60 minutes in length;
  • American Film: The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States;
  • Funny: Regardless of genre, the total comedic impact of a film's elements that creates an experience greater than the sum of the smiles;
  • Legacy: Laughs that echo across time, enriching America's film heritage and inspiring artists and audiences today.

Source: http://www.afi.com/100Years/laughs.aspx

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Bit of action also. Some obvious ones missing

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List of winners:
1937 — Gale Sondergaard as Faith Paleologus in "Anthony Adverse"
1938 — Alice Brady as Molly O'Leary in "In Old Chicago"
1939 — Fay Bainter as Aunt Belle Massey in "Jezebel"
1940 — Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in "...Gone with the Wind"
1941 — Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath"
1942 — Mary Astor as Sandra Kovak in "The Great Lie"
1943 — Teresa Wright as Carol Beldon in "Mrs. Miniver"
1944 — Katina Paxinou as Pilar in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1945 — Ethel Barrymore as Ma Mott in "None but the Lonely Heart"
1946 — Anne Revere as Mrs Araminty in "National Velvet"
1947 — Anne Baxter as Sophie MacDonald in "The Razor's Edge"
1948 — Celeste Holm as Anne Dettrey in "Gentleman's Agreement"
1949 — Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo"
1950 — Mercedes McCambridge as Sadie Burke in "All the King's Men"
1951 — Josephine Hull as Veta Louise Dowd Simmons in "Harvey"
1952 — Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1953 — Gloria Grahame as Rosemary Bartlow in "The Bad and the Beautiful"
1954 — Donna Reed as Alma Burke in "From Here to Eternity"
1955 — Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle in "On the Waterfront"
1956 — Jo Van Fleet as Cathy Ames / Kate Trask in "East of Eden"
1957 — Dorothy Malone as Marylee Hadley in "Written on the Wind"
1958 — Miyoshi Ukemi as Katsumi Kelly in "Sayonara"
1959 — Wendy Hiller as Pat Cooper in "Separate Tables"
1960 — Shelley Winters as Petronella Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank"
1961 — Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains in "Elmer Gantry"
1962 — Rita Moreno as Anita in "West Side Story"
1963 — Patty Duke as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker"
1964 — Margaret Rutherford as The Duchess of Brighton in "The V.I.P.s"
1965 — Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense in "Zorba the Greek"
1966 — Shelley Winters as Rose-Ann D'Arcey in "A Patch of Blue"
1967 — Sandy Dennis as Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1968 — Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde"
1969 — Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet in "Rosemary's Baby"
1970 — Goldie Hawn as Toni Simmons in "Cactus Flower"
1971 — Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett in "Airport"
1972 — Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper in "The Last Picture Show"
1973 — Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Baker in "Butterflies Are Free"
1974 — Tatum O'Neal as Addie Loggins in "Paper Moon"
1975 — Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlsson in "Murder on the Orient Express"
1976 — Lee Grant as Felicia Karpf in "Shampoo"
1977 — Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher in "Network"
1978 — Vanessa Redgrave as Julia in "Julia"
1979 — Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in "California Suite"
1980 — Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1981 — Mary Steenburgen as Lynda West-Dummar in "Melvin and Howard"
1982 — Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman in "Reds"
1983 — Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols in "Tootsie"
1984 — Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously"
1985 — Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore in "A Passage to India"
1986 — Anjelica Houston as Maerose Prizzi in "Prizzi's Honor"
1987 — Dianne Wiest as Holly in "Hannah and Her Sisters"
1988 — Olympia Dukakis as Rose Castorini in "Moonstruck"
1989 — Geena Davis as Muriel Pritchett in "The Accidental Tourist"
1990 — Brenda Fricker as Bridget Fagan-Brown in "My Left Foot"
1991 — Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown in "Ghost"
1992 — Mercedes Ruehl as Anne Napolitano in "The Fisher King"
1993 — Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in "My Cousin Vinny"
1994 — Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath in "The Piano"
1995 — Dianne Wiest as Helen Sinclair in "Bullets over Broadway"
1996 — Mira Sorvinino as Leslie Ash / Linda Ash / Judy Cum in "Mighty Aphrodite"
1997 — Juliette Binoche as Hana in "The English Patient"
1998 — Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken in "L.A. Confidential"
1999 — Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love"
2000 — Angelina Jolie as Lisa Rowe in "Girl, Interrupted"
2001 — Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner in "Pollock"
2002 — Jennifer Connely as Alicia (Lardé) Nash in "A Beautiful Mind"
2003 — Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in "Chicago"
2004 — Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes in "Cold Mountain"
2005 — Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator"
2006 — Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle in "The Constant Gardener"
2007 — Jennifer Hudson as Effie White in "Dreamgirls"
2008 — Tilda Swinton as Karen Crowder in "Michael Clayton"
2009 — Penélope Cruz as María Elena in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
2010 — Mo'Nique as Mary Lee Johnston in "Precious"
2011 — Melissa Leo as Alice Eklund-Ward in "The Fighter"
2012 — Octavia Spencer as Minerva 'Minny' Jackson in "The Help"
2013 — Anne Hathaway as Fantine in "Les Misérables"
2014 — Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey in "12 Years a Slave"
2015 — Patricia Arquette as Olivia Evans in "Boyhood"
2016 — Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener in "The Danish Girl"
2017 — Viola Davis as Rose Lee Maxson in "Fences"
2018 — Allison Janney as LaVona Fay Golden in "I, Tonya"
2019 — Regina King as Sharon Rivers in "If Beale Street Could Talk"
2020 — **Laura Dern
as Nora Fanshaw in "Marriage Story"
2021 — Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja in "Minari"
2022 — **Ariana DeBose
as Anita in "West Side Story"
2023 — Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdre im "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

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List of winners:
1929 — Janet Gaynor as Angela in "Street Angel", as Diane in "7th Heaven" and as The Wife in "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans"
1930 — Mary Pickford as Norma Besant in "Coquette"
1930 — Norma Shearer as Jerry in "The Divorcee"
1931 — Marie Dressler as Min Divot in "Min and Bill"
1932 — Helen Hayes as Madelon Claudet in "The Sin of Madelon Claudet"
1934 — Katharine Hepburn as Eva Lovelace in "Morning Glory"
1935 — Claudette Colbert as Ellen Andrews in "It Happened One Night"
1936 — Bette Davis as Joyce Heath in "Dangerous"
1937 — Luise Rainer as Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld"
1938 — Luise Rainer as O-Lan in "The Good Earth"
1939 — Bette Davis as Julie Marsden in "Jezebel"
1940 — Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in "...Gone with the Wind"
1941 — Ginger Rogers as Kitty Foyle in "Kitty Foyle"
1942 — Joan Fontaine as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in "Suspicion"
1943 — Greer Garson as Kay Miniver in "Mrs. Miniver"
1944 — Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous in "The Song of Bernadette"
1945 — Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in "Gaslight"
1946 — Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce in "Mildred Pierce"
1947 — Olivia de Havilland as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris in "To Each His Own"
1948 — Loretta Young as Katie Holstrom in "The Farmer's Daughter"
1949 — Jane Wyman as Belinda MacDonald in "Johnny Belinda"
1950 — Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper in "The Heiress"
1951 — Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn in "Born Yesterday"
1952 — Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1953 — Shirley Booth as Lola Delaney in "Come Back, Little Sheba"
1954 — Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann in "Roman Holiday"
1955 — Grace Kelly as Georgie Elgin in "The Country Girl"
1956 — Anna Magnani as Serafina Delle Rose in "The Rose Tattoo"
1957 — Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff / Anastasia in "Anastasia"
1958 — Joanne Woodward as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane in "The Three Faces of Eve"
1959 — Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in "I Want to Live!"
1960 — Simone Signoret as Alice Aisgill in "Room at the Top"
1961 — Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Wandrous in "BUtterfield 8"
1962 — Sophia Loren as Cesira in "Two Women"
1963 — Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker"
1964 — Patricia Neal as Alma Brown in "Hud"
1965 — Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in "Mary Poppins"
1966 — Julie Christie as Diana Scott in "Darling"
1967 — Elizabeth Taylor as Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1968 — Katharine Hepburn as Christina Drayton in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
1969 — Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" / Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in "The Lion in Winter"
1970 — Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
1971 — Glenda Jackson as Gudrun Brangwen in "Women in Love"
1972 — Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in "Klute"
1973 — Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret"
1974 — Glenda Jackson as Vickie Allessio in "A Touch of Class"
1975 — Ellen Burstyn as Alice Hyatt in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
1976 — Louise Fletcher as Nurse Mildred Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1977 — Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in "Network"
1978 — Diane Keaton as Annie Hall in "Annie Hall"
1979 — Jane Fonda as Sally Hyde in "Coming Home"
1980 — Sally Field as Norma Rae Webster in "Norma Rae"
1981 — Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter"
1982 — Katharine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer in "On Golden Pond"
1983 — Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowski in "Sophie's Choice"
1984 — Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway in "Terms of Endearment"
1985 — Sally Field as Edna Spalding in "Places in the Heart"
1986 — Geraldine Page as Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful"
1987 — Marleen Matlin as Sarah Norman in "Children of a Lesser God"
1988 — Cher as Loretta Castorini in "Moonstruck"
1989 — Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias in "The Accused"
1990 — Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan in "Driving Miss Daisy"
1991 — Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in "Misery"
1992 — Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in in "The Silence of the Lambs"
1993 — Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel in "Howards End"
1994 — Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath in "The Piano"
1995 — Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall in "Blue Sky"
1996 — Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking"
1997 — Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in "Fargo"
1998 — Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly in "As Good as It Gets"
1999 — Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps in "Shakespeare in Love"
2000 — Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry"
2001 — Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in "Erin Brockovich"
2002 — Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball"
2003 — Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in "The Hours"
2004 — Charlize Teron as Aileen Wuornos in "Monster"
2005 — Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald in "Million Dollar Baby"
2006 — Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line"
2007 — Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen"
2008 — Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in "La Vie En Rose"
2009 — Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader"
2010 — Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side"
2011 — Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers in "Black Swan"
2012 — Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady"
2013 — Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell in "Silver Linings Playbook"
2014 — Cate Blanchett as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis in "Blue Jasmine"
2015 — Julianne Moore as Alice Howland in "Still Alice"
2016 — Brie Larson as Joy "Ma" Newsome in "Room"
2017 — Emma Stone as Mia Dolan in "La La Land"
2018 — Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
2019 — Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in "The Favourite"
2020 — Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in "Judy"
2021 — Frances McDormand as Fern in "Nomadland"
2022 — Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"
2023 — Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang in "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

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an ever evolving list of movies I have watched

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