The original story of forbidden love is updated to a modern setting, but ends in tragedy nonetheless. Where's our Romeo/Leo?
Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria's affection for each other is interrupted by their ties to the local rival gangs, his Jets and her family's Sharks.
Happily, not all tales of forbidden love turn out tragically...
You're the one that I want! Woo-hoo, honey! The most successful movie musical of all time is all about a summer fling between two unlikely soul mates.
Patrick Swayze, that music and those moves. What more do you need to have the time of your life?
Though toned down for the big screen, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Nabokov's classic novel is still one of the most provocative love stories of all time.
She's a beauty, he's a beast: It's all wrong! But happily the Disney heroine sees her Beast's inner beauty.
Let's just say the heroine's family did not approve when settler John Smith washed up on their shores.
Finally, once Sam learns Josie isn't really a high school student, he realizes he's not a creep and seals the deal with that perfect kiss.
The revolutionary romantic epic followed Ennis and Jack's tortured love affair over two decades.
A very hot scene between Ben (Bradley Cooper) and Anna (Scarlett Johansson) is the epitome of the passion that comes with a secret affair.
And the longest courting award goes to these two friends, who meet every July 15 for 20 years.
Who should Daisy end up with, her rich brute of a husband or the social climber who only climbed so that he could be with her? So many shirts...
Will we spend next Valentine's Day with our own operating system?
The chemistry is palpable when a bank robber and a federal marshal share a very steamy car ride snuggled up in the trunk. But what comes next for these two on the opposite sides of the law?
This one about two hotties from opposite sides of the tracks might actually just make you want to make out with someone.
How do you make it work when the guy you're in love with is Death incarnate?
You're going to need a tissue, or 100, when you watch Hilary Swank's Oscar-winning performance as a transgender man who's desperately trying to keep his secret.
Marlena and Jacob's shared love for Rosie the elephant turns into them falling crazy in love with each other. If only Marlena weren't already married to the sadistic circus master...
Vampires, werewolves and a mere mortal teenage girl. Why do we always want the bad boys (or the strangely pale classmate who sparkles in the sun)?
No forbidden-love movie list is complete without Titanic. Jack and Rose's love that transcends first- and third-class on the ill-fated ship will go on FOREVER.