Love comedies Russian and foreign: the list of the best

Love comedies are films of a special genre, lyrical and soulful. Each director considers it his duty to film at least a few movies in the style of a romantic comedy, since with rare exceptions the success of such a film is assured.

Old and new movies

Love comedies abroad are removed, as a rule, in Hollywood, in pavilions equipped with the latest technology. Such film studios as "Metro Goldwyn Mayer", "20th Century Fox", "Paramount Pictures", "Walt Disney", shoot several films a year. Russian comedies are also shot regularly. Especially popular are the popular films of the fifties and sixties, such as "Wedding with a dowry," "Kuban Cossacks," "Caucasian captive." More modern - "The irony of fate, or With a light steam," "Love and Doves" - are also popular and beloved by millions of moviegoers.

Russian and Soviet films of the past years were shot by naive, unsophisticated subjects, when the viewer knows in advance what will end. Love intrigue in the picture was without imagination, simple and predictable. The best love comedies are radically different from the usual, in them and the actors are well-known, from the top ten, and the sponsors financially finance the project without restrictions. Thus, it turns out that love comedies can also be mediocre sometimes.

"The Caucasian captive"

In 1966, a comedy film was shot at the Mosfilm studio, in which there is love and betrayal, humor and folk traditions, violation of public order and even kidnapping of the bride.

The film was staged by the famous director Leonid Gaidai, whose asset by that time was already a whole series of comedies. Originally, the film was called "Shurik in the mountains," but later renamed the "Caucasian captive." In the center of the plot is a student of ethnographic faculty named Shurik, a collector of folklore, who came to the Caucasus for legends, fairy tales and toasts. However, he did not take into account that toasts are necessarily accompanied by a drink.

In the same days and at the same village, Nina, a student of the Pedagogical Institute, came to her relatives for a summer vacation. Beauty, sportswoman, Komsomol member, Nina liked the local leader comrade Saakhov very much. He decided to marry her. About what came of it, and tells the film.

"Three plus two"

Another romantic comedy was filmed in 1963 by director Heinrich Oganesyan on the novel by Sergei Mikhalkov "Savages."

Three young people, a veterinarian Roman, a diplomat-trainee Vadim and a physicist Stepan Ivanovich Sundukov, came by car to the wild coast of the Crimea to relax. Friends spread a tent, lit a fire. And suddenly it turned out that the place on which they had settled was already occupied.

On "Zaporozhets" came two beautiful girls and said that they have been resting here for more than a year.

"How to steal a million"

A film in which the most bizarre way intertwined love and crime. Simon Dermot (Peter O'Toole) and Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) started a kidnapping of a valuable but fake sculpture from the Paris Museum "Lafayette". Than it ended, it is not difficult to guess, of course, love. The statuette was stolen - and justice triumphed.

The picture was taken in 1966 and immediately became a bestseller. The box office broke all records. The film "How to steal a million" and today is watched all over the world.

"Beautiful girl"

The romantic comedy, created by director Harry Marshall in 1990, made a real sensation. Millions of moviegoers felt empathy with Vivienne Ward, a girl of easy virtue who, like everyone else, wants a simple woman's happiness. Her role was perfectly played by actress Julia Roberts. The image of the protagonist Edward Lewis was made by Hollywood actor Richard Gere.

"Sleepless in Seattle"

A very kind romantic comedy, in which three people immediately find their happiness. Early widowed Sam, the father of a young child, is trying to find a wife. He gives an interview on the radio, tells millions of people about his misfortune. The next day, the postal van brings Sam several bags of letters with the offer of hands and hearts from women from across America.

However, he did not have to choose, fate decided otherwise. Another letter was written by a journalist named Annie. She offers Sam to meet on the roof of the New York skyscraper "Empire State Building" on Valentine's Day, at sunset.

The meeting was predetermined by fate, and it took place, although it almost fell through for a number of reasons. In the role of Sam, the popular actor Tom Hanks, in the image of Annie the actress Meg Ryan.

"Roman holiday"

The film tells about the adventures of Princess Anne, who escaped from the care and went to travel through the night Rome.

For a young girl, everything was a curiosity, and when she met Joe Bradley, a correspondent of a popular newspaper on a deserted street, she was not at all surprised. Together they went further, experienced a lot of impressions, and the next day continued their journey around Rome.

The film "Roman Vacations" with the inimitable Audrey Hepburn as Princess Anne and Gregory Peck in the image of a journalist was recognized as having a special cultural and aesthetic significance.

"Seven brides for seven brothers"

The romantic comedy, created by director Stanley Donen in 1954, was a reflection of the American way of life, when people come together to rebuild a house to one of them, and then mark the end of the construction with a grandiose holiday.

In the center of the plot are seven brothers living in the mountains. None of them are married, and women's caring hands "oh, how would not disturb." The elder brother Adam soon finds a wife and leads her into the house. Winter is coming. The remaining six decide to steal brides for themselves in the nearby town. Said - done, six innocent girls kidnapped.

About how the winter months passed, and in the spring kissed love, this is what the movie "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" tells about.

"Serenade of the Sun Valley"

The pre-war love comedy directed by Bruce Humberstone, a film musical about the adventures of musicians from the orchestra of Glenn Miller. The film is filled with magnificent music, winter pictures and patriarchal landscapes of the Sun Valley.

The events unfold around the middle-aged pop singer, her young rival and handsome pianist.

"Love and pigeons"

A wonderful romantic comedy called "Love and Doves" was created by director Vladimir Menshov in 1984. The film tells about the simple family of Vasily Kuzyakin, a passionate pigeon-breeder. About how Vasya left for the resort and got into the network of a single woman Raisa Zakharovny. And about what kind of inhuman efforts it cost him to break out of these networks and return to his family, to his beloved wife Nadya and children.

The film is permeated with warmth, humanity, it wants to watch more and more. In the lead roles, Alexander Mikhailov and Nina Doroshina, Sergei Jurassic and Natalia Tenyakova. Razuchnitsa Raisa Zakharova is played by Lyudmila Gurchenko.

Love Comedy: List of the best

Popular films from the past periodically return to the screen. This is mostly love comedies, like viewers. Modern also enjoys well-deserved popularity. Below is a list of the best comedy films:

• "Office romance" (1977).
• "Moscow does not believe in tears" (1979).
• "Hello and Goodbye" (1972).
• "Three poplars on Plyushchikha" (1967).
• "The girl without the address" (1957).

Foreign:

• "Diary of Bridget Jones" (2001).
• "Tutsi" (1982).
• "Exchange holiday" (2006).
• "To you the letter" (1998).
• "Groundhog Day" (1993).

Love comedies, the list of which could be continued, is an example of true art. Romantic films leave no one indifferent, moviegoers genuinely sympathize with the heroes, they are ready to support them and help to get out of the difficult situation, in which the characters often turn out. Proceeding from all above-stated, it is possible to draw a conclusion, that love comedies represent the best part of cinema art.