Love’s not going out of style anytime soon, no matter how cynical some people might feel about it, and its endurance is visible throughout much of cinema history. Stories about love go back way further than the advent of the moving image, of course, but films are being focused on here. Specifically, movies from the past century.

Admittedly, there aren’t many all-time great romance films that are more than 100 years old, though some Buster Keaton films (like Our Hospitality , from 1923) and Harold Lloyd films (like 1923’s Safety Last and 1924’s Girl Shy ) do get disqualified for present purposes. But in the interest of going back almost a full century, the earliest movie below was released in 1931, and the newest in 2013, which… okay, yeah, that’s an 82-year period, but tha

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