7 Best Cinema Loves

7.  Jesse and Celine, Before Sunset  
It's fascinating that Jesse and Celine found each other again and can rediscover a love that was kindled one night ten years ago. What's even more amazing that Celine still digs Jesse, given that she is an accomplished woman of high class and fashion, and he babbles annoyingly about metaphysical scientific studies. 

6.  The Tramp and Peg, Lady and the Tramp  
Peg is the "other dog," who Lady meets while holed up in the pound.  It becomes clear that Peg is the one who really understands Tramp's passions and motivations ... a true fit for a misfit.  Lady, on the other hand, represents Tramp's small desire to be civil and genteel.  It's tragic to watch Peg croon her love song, "...and I wish that I could travel his way."  But we all know that once Tramp has been married to Lady for a couple of years, he and Peg will hole up together in some by-the-hour hotel room, smoke cigarettes and make furious love.

5.  Harold and Maude, Harold & Maude
Harold's obsession with a senior women would surely seem to be motivated by his love for attending funerals.  However, Maude takes Harold on a ride that is more about celebrating life than death.  Is there anyone next for Harold once Maude is gone, or will he forever haunt her grave, showering the tombstone with kisses? One things for sure, most of his "type" will die out before he's thirty.

4.  Lucy and Syd, High Art
The problem with these lovers is that they are in a Bermuda love triangle with heroin, and only one of them will make it out alive.  The most memorable relationship moment is the sexy love scene where Syd cries, saying "I'm scared.  I've never felt this before."  No heroin is involved in their aching passion, adding a vision of what could be possible if the couple could espace its hold.

3.  Paul and Noel, All the Real Girls
It's hard to tell if the characters or the small, dilapidated northeastern town fuel the romance in All the Real Girls.  Both Paul and Noel are molting in their own way.   Noel has just returned from her first year at college and Paul is deciding if he really wants to spend the rest of his life drinking beer with his high school buddies.  They see a challenge in each other that neither of them has ever faced:  the challenges of intimacy and fucking up. 


2.  Jeffery and Dorothy, Blue Velvet
Good, god-a-fearin' Jeffery navigates the space of his own dark side with his relationship to Dorothy.  Jeffery is playing detective to find Frank, a gas mask wearing terror, who is responsible for horrific acts of murder.  For the whole film, Dorothy remains a true and honest character ... clear in her desires, ("Hit me," she whispers during lovemaking), and in her boundaries.  Jeffery, on the other hand, doesn't know his own darkness and through his explorations with Dorothy, begins more and more to resemble the Frank who he fears ... and loathes.


1.  Lana and Brandon,Boys Don't Cry
Lana and Brandon are quite possibly the greatest example of boy – girl teenage love.  They are awkward, and their motivations are based on fascination and pure lust.  A runner-up could be Angela and Jordan Catellano from My So Called Life, but Brandon and Lana go way deeper into a love connection that is … I don't know … like … how it is.