Best and Most Memorable
Film Kisses of All Time
in Cinematic History
Part 17
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Best and Most Memorable Part 17 |
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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Bull Durham (1988)
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In this romantic drama about the Carolina minor leagues (the Durham Bulls), veteran, romantic-minded, minor league catcher "Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner) confronted the bold affections of English teacher and sexually-seductive baseball groupie Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon); in her living room, he gave her a classic, philosophical speech about what his beliefs were, including this classic kiss-related sentence: "...and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Good-night"; she responded with a breathless reply: "Oh my!", and was later able to sample his beliefs in a candle-lit bathtub scene |
  
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Cocktail (1988)
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Bartender Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) working at a Jamaican bar found romance with vacationing aspiring NY artist/waitress Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue); during a waterfall swimming scene, they both kissed and then their passions ignited when both removed their swimming suits underwater and kissed again; in the next scene, their kissing silhouettes were seen before a nighttime fire, and then they hugged each other and dreamed about idylically living on the beach together |    
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Rain Man (1988)
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In a Las Vegas casino elevator that she had stopped, Susanna (Valeria Golino) instructed idiot savant autistic Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) how to kiss - she told him to slightly open his lips, and then gave him a slow kiss - with his eyes shut; his reaction when asked how it was: "Wet!" | 
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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After 'toon Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer), Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) and his girl Dolores (Joanna Cassidy) had escaped the clutches of the evil Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd), Eddie and Dolores shared an intimate moment while hiding out in a movie theater as cartoon shorts and news reports played on the screen; Eddie apologized for embroiling her in danger: (Eddie: "Dolores, you oughta find yourself a good man" Dolores: "But I already have a good man"); when they leaned in to kiss, they were interrupted by sentimental Roger - whose pupils turned into small red hearts and ears became heart-shaped - he leaned expectantly over the seat in front of them, and romantically swooned: "P-p-p-please. Don't mind me." After Roger had broken the romantic spell, Dolores turned business-like: "You'd better get going, Eddie" |  
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After Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) had been defeated and Toontown saved, Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer) offered to shake hands with Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), who was immediately shocked by Roger's prank joy buzzer. Eddie was unamused and glowersed menacingly. Roger gulped nervously: "Don't tell me you lost your sense of humor already?" Valiant grabbed him by the neck and replied: "Does this answer your question?" - and gave him a big wet, noisy kiss (after being repulsed earlier in the film by Roger's attempt to give him one), to the cheers of the denizens of Toontown, who began singing Smile, Darn Ya, Smile | 
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Cinema Paradiso (1989)
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This film had the euphoric scene of middle-aged Italian film director Salvatore Di Vitto (Jacques Perrin) returning to his childhood, small-town Sicilian home after 30 years to revisit the condemned Paradiso theatre, where he screened one last reel left by projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) - composed of all the excised and censored kisses (presented in an amorous montage - two stills shown to the right) that the village priest Father Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste) had removed from dozens of films shown there |  
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Say Anything... (1989)
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The three second kiss between beautiful straight-A student Diane (Ione Skye) and Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) in the pouring rain was outranked by the more famous scene of Lloyd serenading Diane by holding aloft his boom-box that was playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes", and the additional scene of them kissing and passionately making out in a steamed-up parked car | 
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Although they had kissed earlier in the film, the best kissing scene was in the New Years' Eve sequence at the film's conclusion; Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) made a race through Manhattan toward a formal party where Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) was located - he found her painfully lonely after ditching her date; he professed his long-last love for her, just after the stroke of midnight: "I love that you get cold when it's seventy-one degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're lookin' at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely. And it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." Although she felt manipulated, she also melted: "You see. That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you, and I hate you, Harry. I really hate you. I hate you." -- they kissed and kissed; after discussing the meaning of the song Auld Lang Syne, they kissed again as the camera pulled up and away from them, showing them engulfed by others on the dance floor |   
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Ghost (1990)
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During a sensuous scene at a hypnotically-spinning pottery wheel - molding, forming and sculpting a phallic-shaped clay object to the tune of "Unchained Melody," Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) kissed his lover Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) as he was seated behind her -- he assisted her in reshaping a collapsed piece of pottery by putting his hands together with hers; the sequence continued with their extended love-making and kissing in their darkened apartment; and in the finale, recently-murdered ghost-spirit Sam bid grieving Molly goodbye before he passed on into The Light |   
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Pretty Woman (1990)
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In the film's famous Cinderella-like fairy tale ending, rich businessman client Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) pulled up outside Hollywood prostitute Vivian's (Julia Roberts) hotel apartment in a white limousine with the horn-honking and opera music blaring; from the open sunroof, he held out his arms to her with a closed black umbrella in one hand and a bouquet of red roses in the other; he called out: "Vivian, come down!" and then commented: "It had to be the top floor, right?"; fearing heights, he climbed up her outside fire-escape ladder with the bouquet of flowers clenched between his teeth while she climbed down partway on the ladder to meet him; he held out his arms with the roses and professed his love, by asking about the ending of her childhood fantasy of a knight's rescue: "So what happened after he climbed up the tower and rescued her?" and she responded: "She rescues him right back"; the film ended with the camera pulling back, overhearing the words of a Happy Man (Abdul Salaam El Razzac) crossing the street: "Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here. This is Hollywood! The land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't. But keep on dreamin'. This is Hollywood! Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'" |
  
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Introduction: What makes
a memorable screen kiss? Is it the passion, the circumstances, the buildup,
the dialogue, the unpredictability, the awkwardness, the sexiness or
eroticism, the cinematography, the unique quality...? Although any list
of the best, most romantic, and most indelible kisses through film history
is difficult to create, there are a number of kissing scenes in movies
that are unforgettable and deserve special mention. 
are the films that