Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales)

This article ranks the best romance movies of all-time based on inflation-adjusted domestic gross box office sales, according to Boxoffice, the official publication of the National Association of Theatre Owners.

The ten biggest romance movies of all-time have collectively earned more than $7 billion and 50 Academy Awards. Four of these films are rated PG, three G, and two PG-13.

Listed below for each of the best romance movies of all-time are inflation-adjusted gross box office sales, directors, producers, writers, main casts, ratings, running times, distributors, and number of Academy Awards earned.

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1. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Gone with the Wind (1939)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $1.84 billion
Director: Victor Fleming
Producer: David Selznick
Writer: Sidney Howard
Main Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Haller, and Max Steiner
Rating: G
Running time: 3 hours, 58 minutes
Distributor: MGM
Academy Awards: 10

2. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Titanic (1997)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $1.03 billion
Director: James Cameron
Producers: Rae Sanchini, James Cameron, Pamela Easley, Jon Landau, Sharon Mann, Al Giddings, Grant Hill
Writer: James Cameron
Main Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Kathy Bates
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 3 hours, 14 minutes
Distributors: Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Academy Awards: 11

3. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $800 million
Director: David Lean
Producers: Arvid Griffin, Carlo Ponti
Writers: Boris Pasternick, Robert Bolt
Main Cast: Omar Shariff, Jeffrey Rockland, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tussingham
Rating: PG
Running time: 3 hours, 17 minutes
Distributor: MGM
Academy Awards: 5

4. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Forrest Gump (1994)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $632 million
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producers: Steve Starkey, Steve Tisch, Wendy Finerman, Charles Newirth
Writer: Eric Roth
Main Cast: Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Robin Wright, GarySinisi, Mykelti Williamson
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 2 hours,21 minutes
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Academy Awards: 6

5. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Grease (1978)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $585 million
Director: Randal Kleiser
Producers: Allan Carr, Neil A Machlis, Robert Stigwood
Writers: Warren Casey, Jim Jacobs, Bronte Woodard, Allan Carr
Main Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci, Kelly Ward, Didi Conn, Jamie Donnelly, Dinah Manoff
Rating: PG
Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Academy Awards: 0

6. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): My Fair Lady (1964)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $577 million
Director: George Cukor
Producers: Jack L. Warner, James C. Katz
Writers: Alan Jay Lerner, George Bernard Shaw
Main Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper
Rating: G
Running time: 2 hours, 50 minutes
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Academy Awards: 8

7. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Love Story (1970)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $540 million
Director: Arthur Hiller
Producers: David Golden, Howard G. Minsky
Writer: Erich Segal
Main Cast: Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Tommy Lee Jones, Ray Milland
Rating: PG
Running time:1 hour,40 minutes
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Academy Awards: 1

8. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Cleopatra (1963)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $503 million
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer: Walter Wagner
Writers: Sidney Buchman, Randall MacDougall, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Main Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Rating: G
Running time: 3 hours, 12 minutes
Distributor: 20th Certury Fox
Academy Awards: 4

9. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $462 million
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Producers: Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon
Writers: Theodore St. John, Frederick M. Frank, Frank Cavett, Barre Lyndon
Main Cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame
Rating: G
Running time: 2 hours, 32 minutes
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Academy Awards: 2

10. Best Romance Movies of All Time (Box Office Sales): Rocky (1976)

Adjusted gross box office sales: $433 million
Director: John G. Avildsen
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Main Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Rating: PG
Running time: 1 hour, 59 minutes
Distributor: United Artists
Academy Awards: 3

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" All Time Domestic Gross (Adjusted) ," BOXOFFICE.COM
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" The Official Academy Awards Database ," The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences