Items49The creator’s order
  1. 1The Shop Around the Corner (1940)The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Jan 1940James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play hostile colleagues who unknowingly find intimacy through letters. Ernst Lubitsch makes each misunderstanding funny because the audience can see the tenderness neither character can yet recognise. The modest workplace gives this romantic fantasy a grounding…0
  2. 2When Harry Met Sally... (1989)When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Jul 1989Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan give years of friendship the texture needed to make a familiar question feel personal. Nora Ephron's writing turns jokes about dating into gradually revealing conversations. Choose it for romantic comedy in which knowing someone well creates as many complications as…0
  3. 3It Happened One Night (1934)It Happened One Night (1934) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased 22 Feb 1934An heiress and a reporter have to negotiate travel, money and each other before they can acknowledge attraction. Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable turn practical inconveniences into a lively contest of wills. Frank Capra gives the class differences enough bite to make their developing partnership…0
  4. 4The Apartment (1960)The Apartment (1960) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 21 Jun 1960Jack Lemmon's office worker hopes that lending his apartment to senior colleagues will help his career. Billy Wilder lets that bleak arrangement generate both sharp comedy and an affecting connection with Shirley MacLaine's lift operator. The film's suicide attempt and workplace exploitation make…0
  5. 5Bringing Up Baby (1938)Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Feb 1938Katharine Hepburn's unstoppable heiress repeatedly derails Cary Grant's attempts to preserve an orderly life. Howard Hawks builds the attraction out of escalating physical confusion, verbal collisions and a leopard. Watch for the precision beneath the apparent chaos: the pair's conflicting rhythms…0
  6. 6His Girl Friday (1940)His Girl Friday (1940) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Jan 1940Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant make overlapping newsroom talk sound like the most irresistible courtship language imaginable. Hildy's competence matters as much as attraction, and the comic tension depends on how well her former husband understands it. The manipulation and callous professional…0
  7. 7The Philadelphia Story (1940)The Philadelphia Story (1940) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 5 Dec 1940Katharine Hepburn's impending remarriage becomes an opportunity to reassess the ideal image everyone has made of her. Cary Grant and James Stewart offer different kinds of attraction, while George Cukor keeps the ensemble wonderfully nimble. The wit works best when it allows the heroine complexity…0
  8. 8The Lady Eve (1941)The Lady Eve (1941) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Feb 1941Barbara Stanwyck gives a con artist such intelligence and energy that Henry Fonda's sheltered heir scarcely stands a chance. Preston Sturges turns deception and changing appearances into a battle over who gets to define the relationship. The pratfalls are superb, but Stanwyck's shifts between…0
  9. 9Trouble in Paradise (1932)Trouble in Paradise (1932) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 30 Oct 1932Two thieves discover that professional compatibility can be a remarkably strong basis for attraction. Ernst Lubitsch makes the choice between shared mischief and wealthy security feel deliciously unstable. Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis give the polished surfaces enough emotional…0
  10. 10Some Like It Hot (1959)Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Mar 1959Billy Wilder lets disguise, desire and survival collide after two musicians witness a crime. Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon keep different comic and romantic plots moving at once. The gender jokes reflect their era, but the film's willingness to let attraction disrupt certainty gives…0