Top 27 Romance Movies Editor's Choice from 1958

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. Check out Vertigo / IMDB / YouTube

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. Learn about Gigi / IMDB / YouTube

A New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land. Get info on The Big Country / IMDB / YouTube

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead. Find out about Bell Book and Candle / IMDB / YouTube

An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle. Find out about Auntie Mame / IMDB / YouTube

An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him--although he's already married. Info on Indiscreet / IMDB / YouTube

A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat. Check out Houseboat / IMDB / YouTube

On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission. Read about South Pacific / IMDB / YouTube

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals. Get info on Some Came Running / IMDB / YouTube

A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals. More about Peyton Place / IMDB / YouTube

Spoiled Cecile, 17, spends her summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy dad and Elsa. Anne, her late mom's friend, visits and brings changes to all. Check out Bonjour Tristesse / IMDB / YouTube

A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him. Read about Teacher's Pet / IMDB / YouTube

On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind. Get info on A Time to Love and a Time to Die / IMDB / YouTube

Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise. Look into Party Girl / IMDB / YouTube

A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant. Read about Damn Yankees / IMDB / YouTube

Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia. Info on The Brothers Karamazov / IMDB / YouTube

During the War of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet. More about The Buccaneer / IMDB / YouTube

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog. Info on Zero Hour! / IMDB / YouTube

In 1856, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan encounters the hostility of the local authorities and the love of a young geisha. Get info on The Barbarian and the Geisha / IMDB / YouTube

A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl. Check out The Quiet American / IMDB / YouTube

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their great-grandfather, but problems related to poverty, infidelity, unemployment, and booze threaten to destroy their family. Find out about God's Little Acre / IMDB / YouTube

While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its Debutante Season. Check out The Reluctant Debutante / IMDB / YouTube

Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her. Find out about Kings Go Forth / IMDB / YouTube

A bank teller discovers an accounting error and becomes rich. Learn about We Only Live Once / IMDB / YouTube

Chronicling the last year of the life of Modigliani, an Italian painter living in abject poverty in Paris who falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents do not approve of him. Get info on Montparnasse 19 / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives. Learn about The Key / IMDB / YouTube

Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge, and their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott. Get info on The Badlanders / IMDB / YouTube