#14 Greatest Romance Films Of All Time

We’re Nnt sure why romantic films often have to be really, really sad, but “The Notebook” is definitely one you should only be prepared to watch if you have a minimum of three full boxes of tissues next to you. The tears will fall. Ryan Gosling stars as Noah, a handsome young man infatuated with the upper-class Allie (Rachel McAdams) in the 1940s. They have an on-again, off-again relationship that involves fights, failed engagements, and the renovation of one seriously gorgeous manor house (yeah, okay, it’s a former plantation, but you can’t have everything), 

And this is sweet and all, but the real tragedy is in the framing story of an old man reading this romantic story to, it turns out, the elderly version of Allie, who now has dementia and has forgotten all about her epic love with Noah. Also, not for nothing, but “The Notebook” was directed by Nick Cassavetes, son of legendary filmmaker John Cassavetes, and he cast his own mother, Gena Rowlands, in the role of the older version of Allie — which is, you know, just another thing to make you cry.