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Best and Most Memorable Part 16 |
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Most of these scenes come from vintage, classic Hollywood films, rather than more recent films, and even stretch back to the scandalous The Kiss (1896)! Other discussions of notable romantic or sexual scenes (with more examples of great kissing scenes) may be found elsewhere in this site: Romance Films Genre, or Erotic/Sexual Films Genre, or the History of Sex in Cinema. Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star |
| (in chronological order by film title) Introduction | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 |
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Howard the Duck (1986)
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After being befriended by struggling Cleveland, Ohio punk-rock musician Beverly Switzler (Lea Thompson), visiting Howard T. Duck from a parallel universe was invited to share her bed, where she proceeded to seductively consider what it would be like to fall in love with a duck: "Aw, maybe I might find happiness in the animal kingdom, duckie?" After more come-on lines, such as: "OK, let's go for it, Mr. Macho" and "I just can't resist your intense animal magnetism", she proposed to the nervous duckie, "Just one goodnight kiss, sweet duckie" - which was viewed in silhouette after she turned out the light; however, three intruders interrupted them; as Carter (Miles Chapin) witnessed what was going on, he stated: "My god, this relationship defies all the laws of nature." |
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A Room With a View (1986)
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In this typically-Edwardian, Merchant Ivory-produced repressed romance, young feisty, passionate and ravishing Britisher Miss Lucy Honeychurch's (Helena Bonham Carter) heart and sexuality were awakened during a chaperoned trip to Florence - after an unexpected, sensuous and impetuous kiss in a wheat field by handsome and intense free-spirited admirer George Emerson (Julian Sands), she was forced to break her engagement to prissy suitor Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis) |
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Top Gun (1986)
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Although it was a cliched, sometimes unbelievable and distracting romance in this homoerotic, adrenalized and formulaic film ("I feel the need, the need for speed"), it was nonetheless stylishly-executed; arrogant and cocky Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) - a naval ace fighter pilot entered into a romance with surprise! -- his intelligent, civilian-contracted instructor Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood (Kelly McGillis) whom he first met at a bar and serenaded karaoke-style with "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" -- amidst the aerial scenes and muscle-bound volleyball game scenes; in one dark scene they kissed each other during a make-out session, to the tune of "Take My Breath Away" |
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Dirty Dancing (1987)
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In this popular teen dance film, macho Catskill Mountains resort hotel resident dance instructor and sexy suitor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), while teaching 17 year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman (Jennifer Grey) expressive R 'n' B, hip-to-hip dance moves, also put other romantic moves on her; dancing shirtless with her, she also stripped down to her white bra and jeans, as he caressed and kissed her |
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A Man in Love (1987)
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French director Diane Kurys told a tale of infidelity in an art film about the life of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, between self-possessed married movie star Steve Elliott (Peter Coyote) and his earthy and sensual leading lady co-star Jane Steiner (Greta Scacchi), as Gabriella, Pavese's last love; they had a passionate off-screen love affair that occurred at a hotel room - with the unbuttoning of her blouse, then kissing, then love-making |
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Moonstruck (1987)
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In a memorable scene in Ronny's apartment, 37 year-old Italian widow Loretta Castorini (Cher) after being widowed for seven years, was recently engaged to Momma's boy Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello); she cooked up a steak, served with a bottle of whiskey, to Johnny's younger estranged and tortured brother Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage) who was still cynical about love; a bread-slicer bakery accident five years earlier involving Johnny had left him maimed and without a fiancee; both called each other "stupid" for not following through with love since their mutual life-altering events; Loretta confessed to Ronny about the loss of her previous husband: "I got no man, no baby, no nothin'. You know, how did I know that that man was a gift I couldn't keep. My one chance at happiness"; she also offered unsolicited advice to him about his life, calling him a wolf: "That woman didn't leave you, OK. You can't see what you are, and I see everything...You are a wolf!...That woman was a trap for you. She caught you and you couldn't get away. So you, you chewed off your own foot. That was the price you had to pay for your freedom...And now, now you're afraid because you know the big part of you is a wolf that has the courage to bite off its own hand to save itself from the trap of the wrong love. That's why there's been no woman since that wrong woman. OK? You're scared to death of what the wolf would do if you try and make that mistake again!"; then Loretta admitted why she was marrying Johnny - whom he called a 'fool': "Because I have no luck"; Ronny stood up: "He [Johnny] made me look the wrong way and I cut off my hand. He could make you look the wrong way, you could lose your whole head!"; Ronny called her: "A bride without a head" and she retorted back: "A wolf without a foot"; and then, Ronny tossed the dining table aside and grabbed Loretta for a passionate kiss. For a moment, Loretta pushed him away with: "Wait a minute! Wait a minute!", but then lunged back for another kiss; he cried out: "Son of a bitch," as he carried her into his bedroom ("To the bed!") and she surrendered to him: "Take me to the bed. I don't care about anything"; during the night, they both stood in the moonlight (that "looks like a big snowball") and kissed again In the climactic breakfast proposal scene, after Johnny broke off his engagement to Loretta, Ronny proposed to Loretta instead (with Johnny's stunned reaction: "WHAT?!"), using the same engagement ring; he requested her hand in marriage: "Loretta Castorini: "Will you marry me?" - Loretta accepted and assured her mother of her love: "I love him awful"; they kissed to seal the deal, after Johnny smiled: "She loves me"
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The Princess Bride (1987)
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In this classic fairy tale by director Rob Reiner, the Grandfather (Peter Falk) was reading a bedtime story to his grandson (Fred Savage) who was often perturbed by the many kissing parts: "They're kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?"; the young boy asked: "Is this a kissing book?" as evidenced by an early kissing scene before a golden sunset between the two fairy tale characters; ultimately it was a "kissing book" - the Grandfather introduced the "most passionate" kiss between Buttercup/Princess Bride (Robin Wright) and white horseback-riding Westley (Cary Elwes) to the grandson: "Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End" |
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Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
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Lone outsider and high school senior Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz) had tomboy friend Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) - who was secretly in love with him - help him to learn how to kiss, since he was smitten with and had a crush on the unattainable and pretty Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), and had just been offered a date |
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Big (1988)
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Young teen Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) - in a 35 year old's body - awkwardly fell in love with yuppie toy executive Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins) - who earlier had asked to spend the night for a 'sleep-over' followed by Josh's guileless reply about sleeping on the top bunk: "Well, OK, but I get to be on top"; later, they shared a tender, simple and innocent scene in which he gently touched her breast through her bra before offering her a sweet kiss |
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Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)
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This was the second installment of the big-screen series (following Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)) starring Paul Reubens as gawky man-child Pee Wee Herman, in which he was involved in an unlikely love-triangle; he shared a 1.5-minute kiss (whittled down from 3 minutes) - his first screen kiss - with trapeze artist Gina Piccolapupula (Valeria Golino) in a traveling circus; his sweet, chaste schoolteacher fiancee Winnie Johnston (Penelope Ann Miller) noted that his lustful smooch beside a waterfall (while Gina's elephant took a bath) was inevitable: "You're a man. She's Italian"; the kiss was accompanied by views of symbolic, orgasmic images -- fireworks, a train entering into a tunnel, surf crashing on rocks, oozing and bubbling volcanic lava, etc.; when Winnie caught him kissing Gina - who learned that Pee-Wee was engaged, Gina slapped him in the face and left |
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