Best and Most Memorable
Film Kisses of All Time
in Cinematic History
Part 18
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Best and Most Memorable Part 18 |
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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Total Recall (1990)
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In the conclusion of the mind-bending science-fiction action film, Martian settler Melina (Rachel Ticotin) gazed at the breathtaking vista: "I can't believe it. It's like a dream," to which secret agent (?) Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) responded: "I just had a terrible thought. What if this IS a dream?" Melina replied invitingly: "Well then, kiss me quick before you wake up!" As they passionately kissed, the screen faded to a brilliant white, hinting with previous hidden clues that the entire film was indeed a fantasy memory implanted by Rekall, as promised by the "Blue Skies on Mars" dream vacation - Quaid was indeed waking up (or had Quaid had been lobotomized by a glitch in the programming?) | 
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Bugsy (1991)
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The scene of larger-than-life, East Coast 40s gangster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel's (Warren Beatty) first kiss with sassy, slinky, and leggy B-movie starlet Virginia "Flamingo" Hill (Annette Bening) was silhouetted in the light behind the screen of his own projected screen-acting test; she told him: "Do you always talk this much before you do it?" with his snappy reply: "I only talk this much before I kill someone" | 
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Delicatessen (1991, Fr.)
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In the outrageous scene at film's end, newly-hired handyman and circus clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) and near-sighted cello-playing girlfriend Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac) purposely flooded a bathroom to escape her murderous cannibalistic butcher-landlord father Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) - resulting in a torrent of water filling the entire tenement building and cleansing the filth; before the water was released, however, it was feared that the couple would drown together, as they shared their first kiss - underwater | 
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Frankie & Johnny (1991)
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A completely romantic kiss at long last -- revealingly in front of the back of a floral warehouse delivery truck filled to bursting with vividly colorful flowers (the door was lifted open as their lips touched), between ex-con Apollo Restaurant short-order cook Johnny (Al Pacino) and pretty blonde waitress Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) in NYC | 
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L.A. Story (1991)
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There were many kisses in this magical film about a fantasy Los Angeles between wacky weatherman Harris K. Telemacher (Steve Martin) and Sara McDowel (then-wife Victoria Tennant); in one scene, their car rolled on its own onto the highway, and a sentient traffic sign urged Harris to kiss her twice: ("Kiss her, you fool!"); in another scene after Harris and Sara left a stodgy dinner, he grabbed her and removed her reluctance to kiss him by telling her: "Let your mind go, and your body will follow" - followed by a fantasy in which the two of them were transformed into young children as they shared an innocent peck on the lips; and in the finale, Harris, by sheer force of will, summoned a thunderstorm to prevent Sara from returning back to England on a plane -- they shared a final passionate kiss as Harris narrated: "Forget for this moment the smog and the cars and the restaurant and the skating and remember only this. A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true" |   
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My Girl (1991)
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In one sweet, innocent scene, Thomas J. Sennett (Macauley Culkin) and Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) discussed the facts of life, before coming around to their first kiss: (Vada: "Have you ever kissed before?" Thomas: "No"), when Vada impulsively placed a peck on his lips, causing him to react with a gasp of surprise; the kiss was made poignant later in the film when Thomas died suddenly from a bee sting, and Vada dealt with the loss and was consoled by her father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) | 
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Ice-pick murder suspect/millionaire mystery novelist and bi-sexual Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) inflamed the lust of Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), especially with her openly seductive dance with lesbian girlfriend Roxy (Leilani Sarelle) in a nightclub to taunt him; Nick watched her sensual body movements and the way she kissed Roxy; when she became Nick's dance partner, she rubbed her butt against his crotch; he turned her, suddenly grabbed her ass, pressed her toward himself, and then started kissing her on her neck and lips; feverishly, they consumed each other in the middle of the writhing, turning bodies of other dancers |
 
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Bitter Moon (1992)
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Roman Polanski's ultra-kinky, voyeuristic drama/thriller set on a Mediterranean ocean liner bound for Istanbul featured a sexy dance and lesbian kiss during a shipboard party between sultry exhibitionist Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner, the director's own 27 year-old wife) and the previously-repressed and strait-laced Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas), uptight Nigel's (Hugh Grant) wife of seven years, as Mimi's wheelchair-bound, sexually-deviant husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) commented to Nigel: "Oh, stop sulking, man. You ought to be glad they're getting it on so well" |
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Candyman (1992)
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In this effective horror film by director Bernard Rose (from a Clive Barker story), the haunting and right-handed hook-wielding 'Candyman' (Tony Todd) maniac with a deep voice took lethal romantic interest in married graduate student and urban legends researcher Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen); he seduced her with the words: "Come with me and be immortal" - he then revealed buzzing bees swarming on his chest and pouring from his mouth before he kissed her |    
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The Cutting Edge (1992)
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Next to the ice during the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, Doug Dorsey (D.B. Sweeney) told stunned, temperamental and feisty Olympics skating partner Kate Moseley (Moira Kelly) just before they were performing, as the climax of their love/hate relationship: "Kate, somewhere in the middle of all this, I fell in love with you...I'm saying I love you. I'm saying it outloud"; as she went towards the ice, he pursued and told his teary-eyed lover: "Don't say we're not right for each other, because the way I see it, we may not be right for anybody else...It can't be any harder to stay together than it was to stay apart...Kate, I need you. I need you."; she then surprised him by informing him of a change in their routine "to win" -- after their stirring performance of the difficult routine (with a toss and twisting move high in the air), they held their final position as he told her: "You didn't have to do it" but she replied with her reason: "Because I love you" - to which he replied: "Just remember who said it first"; their lips came together for a kiss, as the audience cheered |
 
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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