Top 27 Romance Movies Fan Favorites from 1954

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims. Read about On the Waterfront / IMDB / YouTube

After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her. Explore Sabrina / IMDB / YouTube

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. Explore White Christmas / IMDB / YouTube

When a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. More about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers / IMDB / YouTube

After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob. Look into Johnny Guitar / IMDB / YouTube

In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral. See more about A Star Is Born / IMDB / YouTube

This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry Dawes, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy. Get info on The Barefoot Contessa / IMDB / YouTube

The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others. Explore River of No Return / IMDB / YouTube

An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. Read about Journey to Italy / IMDB / YouTube

When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de . . . sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Find out about The Earrings of Madame De... / IMDB / YouTube

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944. Get info on The Glenn Miller Story / IMDB / YouTube

Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past. Info on Brigadoon / IMDB / YouTube

Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him. Get info on Hobson's Choice / IMDB / YouTube

A self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson. Explore The Far Country / IMDB / YouTube

A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process. Learn about Magnificent Obsession / IMDB / YouTube

A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation. Read about Summer Interlude / IMDB / YouTube

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet. Info on Human Desire / IMDB / YouTube

During the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. Explore The Bridges at Toko-Ri / IMDB / YouTube

Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. See more about Carmen Jones / IMDB / YouTube

Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer. Check out The Long, Long Trailer / IMDB / YouTube

A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman. Read about An Inspector Calls / IMDB / YouTube

Three short stories about pleasure. Get info on Le Plaisir / IMDB / YouTube

Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out. Get info on A Story from Chikamatsu / IMDB / YouTube

After a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight. Read about It Should Happen to You / IMDB / YouTube

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him. Learn about Executive Suite / IMDB / YouTube

The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants. Get info on The Naked Jungle / IMDB / YouTube

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting. Get info on Gate of Hell / IMDB / YouTube