Ranking The 25 Best Rom-Coms of All-Time

13. It Happened One Night (1934)

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It Happened One Night captures lust and love without a whole lot. It involves an instantly iconic shirtless Clark Gable, and a road trip plot repeated endlessly in the decades since but never quite matched. This is screwball comedy, when women behaved wildly and and dialogue came quickly. The film stars Gable and Claudette Colbert, who plays the heiress on the run being hunted down by Gable. Their chemistry is hilarious and lovable, both perfectly matched in wits (until it turns irrepressibly romantic). The film went on to win all five major Academy Awards.