IMHO, the kiss between Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer near the end of 'Dear Frankie' is the best on-screen kiss I have ever seen. So tentative, so beautiful, and they take their TIME. And the fact that GB is one of the kissers doesn't hurt.

I also like the kiss between Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in 'Brokeback Mountain' when they are reunited again after that first summer (the kiss that Heath Ledger's wife witnesses). Powerful!

What's your favorite movie kiss? and please tell us WHY it is your favorite!

How about that legendary smooch in Stephen Frears' MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE?



In the mid-1980's, same-sex smooches--- serious ones, not calculated for smirks and laffs-- were still a BIG taboo.... This kiss was lo-o-o-o-ong and incontrivertible... it kind of "broke the ice" in the cinema, I think.

I loved that big kiss between Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck in IN & OUT





You ask WHY these are my favorites? 'Cause I'm a big ol' fruitcake from WAY back.

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Good nomination! I agree.

Also Raplh Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in Wuthering Heights remake: he sucks the air out of her.

Another, a classic: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr. Passionate and makes the viewer share the passion.

Remember another one I like: the whole chess scene as a prelude to Mc Quin's and Dunaway's kiss.

The long kiss, with breaks for air (and to appease the censors), shared by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious.

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The final kiss in Talladega Nights...!

The one that comes to mind is from one of the Matrix movies, The Matrix Reloaded I think.

Monica wants a kiss from Keanu. She tells him Kiss me like you kiss Trinity.
Holy cow what a kiss!

Well I'm a huge Keanu fan so that why I love that one.

Well, except Grace Kelly/Cary Grant in Rear Window (which must be on the top ten introductions of a caracter in movie history) I just love Vivien Leigh/Clark Gable against the sunset in the middle of Gone with the wind. True, it's an old fashioned movie kiss, but have you read the description of it in the book? If not, you should.


Another great one!



Definitely a modern favorite. The fact that they simply stand there breathing for such a long time (shall I, shant I??) makes it soooo erotic!

Good god, I hate to say it since we are not crazy about him - Tom Cruise and Kelly McGinnis from Top Gun. A lot of lip action there.

The kiss of unrequited love between Robert Redford and Kristen Scott Thomas in The Horsewhisperer (and the dance scene, which always gets cut out of the TV-edited version, where Redford's arms/hands hug her tighter and tighter while the somewhat estranged husband is just sitting there gabbing at the barn dance.)

One that pops into my thoughts is "Love in the Afternoon", a late fifties black and white Billy Wilder comedy with Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. The kiss scene in the train station was sooo romantic. The movie was filmed in Paris and that just added to its allure.

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Lisa Carol, I'm with you . . . Scarlett and Rhett, set against the shuttered lamplight, in Aunt Pitty's parlor. That's the best . . .

The final kiss in Bridget Jones's Diary. Colin is a great kisser, among his many other fine attributes.

Also the many-times-interrupted-and-resumed (for ridiculous Hays Office reasons) kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious. As described on boomersint.org:

"While making the movie Notorious with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, the director wanted Grant and Bergman to have a long, smoldering kiss. However, the Hays Office - the official censor of the Hollywood film industry - had a rule that limited the length of onscreen kisses to around 5 seconds. Mr. Hays squared off
against Mr. Hitchcock. Mr. Hitchcock blinked. Then found a way around it. He had Grant and Bergman exchange short kisses in close-up, their faces never more than inches apart. The effect was more intimate
than the single kiss would have been. It was as if they couldn't bear to be far enough apart to breathe. As if they needed one another's oxygen to survive."

Wow, that's exactly the kiss that I thought of, too! I always have to rewind and watch it at least three times...

I love this particular scene from a weird move in the late 1960's, called "Head" (starring the musical pop group, "The Monkees.") In this scene, we get to see Jack Nicholson's old girlfriend slink around the room kissing all four of The Monkees. Her kiss with Monkee Mike Nesmith is very "swoon-worthy!"

My favorite kiss in GWTW is when Ashley kisses Scarlett - ooh la la! I recall an incredibly provocative scene in a historical romance on BBC many years ago - I think it may have been something on the life of Charles Dickens, but he is madly in love with a beautiful spirited young woman who deems herself to good for him and she is on horseback and demands that he kiss her riding boot - so very slowly and deliberately, he kisses the sole of her boot. That scene definitely made one feel hot under the collar.

These are some great kisses! And it makes me want to see all these movies...

I had forgotten about the kiss between Valeria Golino and Dustin Hoffman in 'Rainman'. When she says something like, "imagine you are tasting a juicy piece of fruit". Mmmmm......

Oh, Dem! The Paddock Scene, in GWTW is without a doubt, one of the most disturbingly erotic declarations of love, ever filmed. The test for this scene, was even MORE vivid!! Viv begged to do the Paddock exchange for a third time, insisting that it hadn't achieved the intensity of her original test . . . she was overruled. Still, an amazing give and take. Kiss, included!

Maybe it was just my youthful hormones my most memorable movie kiss came from the movie Ryan's Daughter. From the time that the British officer slowly pulls the scarf from Sara Miles throat till the ultimate kiss and tumble underneath the tree I just thought I'd just die.

Richard Gere and, well, anyone. This man has kissing down to a science! I love the way he caresses the woman's face, looking longingly into her eyes, then ever so slowly he goes in for the kill, I mean, kiss. Whew, is hot in here or is it me? The scene in Bull Durham between Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon where he's telling her what he believes in ending with, "I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last for 7 days." I know it's not so much the kiss as the way he says it. Have mercy!

It was in a movie from the forties. Kirk Douglas and actress laying on the beach with the waves washing
over them.

Classic!

Fabulous . . . Tommaso . . . Joan Crawford and Robert Mitchum were originally cast, for these roles . . . how do you think they'd have done, in 'Eternity?'

My favorite on-screen smooch is at the end of a "Strange Days" with Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett.

Not Tommaso but I'd say Robert probably would have been okay. I don't think Joan would have been right for the role--too predatory to fit the story.

Hi Fiveoaks . . . I'm not sure either, about Crawford, although she was VERY astute, and a superb craftswoman. And, she had a very fit, body. Personally, I'd have loved Lana Turner, in the part of Karen.

A very funny kiss between Jack Black and R. Lee Ermey at the end of SAVING SILVERMAN.

The Age of Innocence, where Daniel Day Lewis unbuttons Michelle Pfeifer's glove and kisses her wrist. Swoon.

Tommaso, that picture looks like the movie I'm thinking of. I got the actor wrong!

I agree!

My favorites:

In 'Ghost'- the finale in which Sam bid Molly goodbye before he passed on into The Light.

In 'Meet Joe Black'- intensely slow and tender kisses between the couple, in the library of the home.Aaaaah!
In ' Jerry Maguire '-on her porch and the kissing scene infront of her room! Tom Cruise is incredibly sexy here!

Anita...I am another fan of that kiss in "Strange Days".
You KNOW it's coming, you've waited through the whole movie...you can feel her longing...you see his realization...and...it's so...powerful.
Definitely one of my favorites.

The last of the mohicans.

Yeah...


There is another shot of him kissing her shoe. ;-)



Great movie!!!!! (Mann is a master)
Mr.Lewis can do no wrong in my books either.

Lewis and Stowe had great emotional chemistry, onscreen... that first kiss in the sieged fort was quite a scene. ;)