In June 2002, as part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI unveiled their 100 Years…100 Passions list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema.
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 |
| 2 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 |
| 3 | West Side Story | 1961 |
| 4 | Roman Holiday | 1953 |
| 5 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 |
| 6 | The Way We Were | 1973 |
| 7 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 |
| 8 | It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 |
| 9 | Love Story | 1970 |
| 10 | City Lights | 1931 |
| 11 | Annie Hall | 1977 |
| 12 | My Fair Lady | 1964 |
| 13 | Out of Africa | 1985 |
| 14 | The African Queen | 1951 |
| 15 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 |
| 16 | Singin’ in the Rain | 1952 |
| 17 | Moonstruck | 1987 |
| 18 | Vertigo | 1958 |
| 19 | Ghost | 1990 |
| 20 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 |
| 21 | Pretty Woman | 1990 |
| 22 | On Golden Pond | 1981 |
| 23 | Now, Voyager | 1942 |
| 24 | King Kong | 1933 |
| 25 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 |
| 26 | The Lady Eve | 1941 |
| 27 | The Sound of Music | 1965 |
| 28 | The Shop Around the Corner | 1940 |
| 29 | An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 |
| 30 | Swing Time | 1936 |
| 31 | The King and I | 1956 |
| 32 | Dark Victory | 1939 |
| 33 | Camille | 1936 |
| 34 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 |
| 35 | Gigi | 1958 |
| 36 | Random Harvest | 1942 |
| 37 | Titanic | 1997 |
| 38 | It Happened One Night | 1934 |
| 39 | An American in Paris | 1951 |
| 40 | Ninotchka | 1939 |
| 41 | Funny Girl | 1968 |
| 42 | Anna Karenina | 1935 |
| 43 | A Star Is Born | 1954 |
| 44 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 |
| 45 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 |
| 46 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 |
| 47 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 |
| 48 | Last Tango in Paris | 1973 |
| 49 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 |
| 50 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 |
| 51 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 |
| 52 | The Graduate | 1967 |
| 53 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 |
| 54 | Sabrina | 1954 |
| 55 | Reds | 1981 |
| 56 | The English Patient | 1996 |
| 57 | Two for the Road | 1967 |
| 58 | Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner | 1967 |
| 59 | Picnic | 1955 |
| 60 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 |
| 61 | Breakfast at Tiffany’s | 1961 |
| 62 | The Apartment | 1960 |
| 63 | Sunrise | 1927 |
| 64 | Marty | 1955 |
| 65 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 |
| 66 | Manhattan | 1979 |
| 67 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 |
| 68 | What’s Up, Doc? | 1972 |
| 69 | Harold and Maude | 1971 |
| 70 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 |
| 71 | Way Down East | 1920 |
| 72 | Roxanne | 1987 |
| 73 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 |
| 74 | Woman of the Year | 1942 |
| 75 | The American President | 1995 |
| 76 | The Quiet Man | 1952 |
| 77 | The Awful Truth | 1937 |
| 78 | Coming Home | 1978 |
| 79 | Jezebel | 1938 |
| 80 | The Sheik | 1921 |
| 81 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 |
| 82 | Witness | 1985 |
| 83 | Morocco | 1930 |
| 84 | Double Indemnity | 1944 |
| 85 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | 1955 |
| 86 | Notorious | 1946 |
| 87 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 |
| 88 | The Princess Bride | 1987 |
| 89 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 |
| 90 | The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 |
| 91 | Working Girl | 1988 |
| 92 | Porgy and Bess | 1959 |
| 93 | Dirty Dancing | 1987 |
| 94 | Body Heat | 1981 |
| 95 | Lady and the Tramp | 1955 |
| 96 | Barefoot in the Park | 1967 |
| 97 | Grease | 1978 |
| 98 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 |
| 99 | Pillow Talk | 1959 |
| 100 | Jerry Maguire | 1996 |