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Top 10 romantic movies Everyone loves a romantic movie, right? Here's what the Guardian and Observer's critics think are the 10 most romantic movies of all time. Let us know what you think in the comments below Mon 7 Oct 2013  14.44 BST First published on Mon 7 Oct 2013  14.44 BST Shares 1,855 Comments 1,209   Sun up to sun down ... Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise Peter Bradshaw on romantic movies Romantic longing has provided the cinema with some of its most glorious and idealistic movies: Casablanca and Brief Encounter are films with an unabashed, unironic passionate flame at their centre. Movies such as Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago lent something grand and epic to romantic love, but it was perhaps the much-loved weepie An Affair to Remember that did the most to introduce us to the more domestic idea of the chick flick or the date movie – the romantic film adored by women and tolerated by t...

Top 10 arthouse movies Elitist and pretentious, or an endangered species? Whatever your feelings, there's no doubt that arthouse movies are among the finest ever made. Here the Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best •   Mon 21 Oct 2013  16.28 BST First published on Mon 21 Oct 2013  16.28 BST Shares 489 Comments 837   Red rag to a bull ... A Clockwork Orange Peter Bradshaw on art movies This is a red rag to a number of different bulls. Lovers of what are called arthouse movies resent the label for being derisive and philistine. And those who detest it bristle at the implication that there is no artistry or intelligence in mainstream entertainment. For many, the stereotypical arthouse film is Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin was a classic art film from the 1920s and Luis Buñuel investigated cinema's potential for surreality like no one before or since. The Italia...