20 of Our Favorite Movie Couples

Boy goes on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and endures torture not to get rich but to find the girl he so long ago lost. How could you not bawl when they reunite?

The chemistry that Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix brought to June Carter and Johnny Cash took us not only through their romance but also to an understanding of a messy, real-life love story.

I could have done without the up-and-away balloon scenes and happily cried through a whole movie about Carl and Ellie.

I expected The 40-Year-Old Virgin to be about his mortifying first time, but instead it was a charming and complicated love story, sans sex.

How could I resist? They're both gorgeous, and their characters are in desperate can't-eat-can't-sleep love.

They're outsiders. They hate each other. They finally admit they're smitten. What isn't there to love about Kat and Patrick in 10 Things I Hate About You?

After seeing both trapped in miserable relationships, you can only root for the adorable Robbie and Julia.

The 10 or so love stories Love Actually juggles may make it sickly sweet, but the romance between the novelist and Portuguese waitress is actually lovely.

The drama, the fun, and the heartbreak of Clementine and Joel keep you entwined until you figure WTF is going on in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

While the relationship that makes you cry in Big Fish is between father and son, the picture-perfect romance between young Ed and Sandra is like a dream. Maybe because it is!

How can life go from so tragically beautiful to so innocently disastrous? With one nosy little girl, apparently! But the love between these two is forbidden by class and every bit genuine. The perfect storm!

Once again a love story with a sad ending. Never mind acceptance by society, Brokeback Mountain is about two men's struggles to accept their love for each other.

Yes, she's a Nazi and a pedophile, but the relationship is as complex as it is sweet. Even after he is grown up and discovers her past, he remains loyal, visiting her in prison until her death.

"Please don't let them get together," I thought throughout this entire movie. Most fortunately, they did not. However, their mutual loneliness made a better love story than even the most together couple.

This movie may be best known for every man's favorite sex scene, but it also holds the secret to a successful marriage: do whatever works.

OK, so Margot and Richie may be brother and adopted sister, but they are the only people who understand each other in this wonderfully messed-up movie.

As much as I adored Scarlett Johansson channeling Woody Allen's neuroticism and Penelope Cruz's comprehensive psychoticness, I had to root for the two least likely to fall in love.

There is no sparkling, or dietary restrictions, or daylight for vampire Eli, but there is a genuine friendship with her neighbor Oskar in this Swedish vamp flick. Let's hope the American remake is as bloody.

It's no secret we loved The Young Victoria, but we also loved the couple under the crowns. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert lived in a time when arranged marriage was the norm, but they found each other and loved on their own terms.

Maybe Alvy and Annie didn't work out, but Alvy learns one of the most important lessons one can take away from a relationship: I am happy I had her in my life while I did.