By Glenn Kenny
Special to MSN Movies
The romance is perhaps the most durable and honored of all film genres; it
certainly gets more respect, critically and awards-wise, than sci-fi or crime
films do. The fact that a romance can be easily slotted INTO any other genre is
one reason why. For our guide to 50 great romance movies, we took in a lot of
pictures that did their part to define the genre, even if in doing so they
didn't find favor with serious cinephiles, but we also tried to honor pictures
that made the heart well up while also honoring the taste and intelligence of
the viewer. Fifty aren't nearly enough to cover all the really wonderful
and/or seminal romantic movies out there, but we hope you find this list easy to
love anyway.
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