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Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American film, a historical epic and romance drama adapted from Margaret Mitchells Pulitzer winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard. Set in the 19th century American South, the film stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel, among others, and tells a story of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a Southern point of view. The film received 10 Academy Awards 8 competitive, 2 honorary, a record that stood for 20 years.[4] In the American Film Institutes inaugural Top 100 Best American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked fourth. Gone With the Wind has sold more tickets in the U.S. than any other film in history, and is considered one of the greatest and most popular films of all time and an enduring symbol of the golden age of Hollywood. The film was the longest American sound film made up to that time three hours and 44 minutes in length, plus a four minute intermission.

Director Leo McCarey Starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt. Plot Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from the reunion, and Nicky fears that she has married or does not love him anymore. Will he discover the truth behind her absence and reunite with his one true love, or has fate and destiny passed them by?

Taylor Hackford Starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr., David Keith, Lisa Blount. Plot Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.

Director Mike Newell Starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet. Plot The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks hes found Miss Right in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.

Director Nora Ephron Starring Dana Ivey, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie ODonnell. Plot Tom Hanks stars in this film as widower and single father Sam. When Sams son, Jonah Ross Malinger, calls into a talk radio program looking for a new mother, Sam ends up getting on the phone and laments about his lost love. Thousands of miles away, Annie Meg Ryan hears the program and immediately falls in love with Sam, despite the fact that she has never met him and that she is engaged to humdrum Walter Bill Pullman. Believing they are meant to be together, Annie sets out for Seattle to meet Sam, who, meanwhile, contends with an onslaught of letters from available women equally touched by his phone call. Will Annie and Sam ever unite?

Director James Cameron Starring Dana Ivey, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie ODonnell. Plot This fictional romance features Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the unsinkable ship RMS Titanic. But on 15 April 1912, Titanic meets with an accident on her maiden voyage. What happens to the lovers? Will their love survive?

Director Sydney Pollack Starring Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman and Lois Chiles. Plot The film tells the story of an intense Jewish woman who marries a carefree WASP following World War II. Fundamental differences in the way they engage the world as revealed in their responses to the rise of McCarthyism eventually pull them apart. The film is both a romance of star crossed lovers and a morality tale about the importance of commitment to both individuals and relationships.

Director Rob Reiner Starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Steve Ford. Plot This romantic comedy centres around Harry and Sally both of whom search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?

Director Jon Turteltaub Starring Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden. Plot This fairytale romance stars Sandra Bullock as a love starved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. who pines for regular customer Peter Peter Gallagher, and rescues him from almost being run over by a train. While he is in a coma in the hospital, his family mistakenly believes Lucu to be Peters fiancee. In this cofusion, Lucy finds true love in Jack Bill Pullman, Peters brother.

Director Hallee Hirsh, Michael Palin, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton Plot Kathleen Kelly, owner of a little and famous bookstore for childrens books falls in love with a man over the internet without knowing him in person. Suddenly, her business gets endangered by the opening of Fox Books discount store just around the corner. Although getting advice by her anonymous mail pal, she has to close down her store and is full of hatred for Fox Books. Will she ever know that her anonymous mail pal is actually Joe Fox, the son of the owner of Fox Books?