Top Movie Couples

by Helen Earnshaw | 9 September 2011

Friends With Benefits sees Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis team up to become the latest in a very long line of movie couples.

Dylan and Jamie soon discover however that adding the act of sex to their friendship does lead to complications.

So to celebrate the release of the movie we take a look at some of our favourite movie couples over the years:

Edward and Vivien in Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman was the movie that made Julia Roberts back in 1990 - hard to believe that it was over twenty years ago.

Anyway it was the central relationship between Roberts and Richard Gere that was the heart and soul of the movie - the pair having a genuine chemistry that set the screen alight.

Pretty Woman is a modern day Cinderella story that celebrates a love story that blossoms against all odd.

Vivien wants nothing more than to better her life and she opens the eyes of Edward - showing him that it isn't all about money and material things.

Norman and Ethel in On Golden Pond

Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn play husband and wife in this moving drama about the importance of family.

This is the only movie that Fonda and Hepburn starred in together and it was a last big screen appearance for Fonda back in 1981.

Hepburn's role of Ethel is the glue that has tried to keep her family together - despite her husband Norman's difficult relationship with their daughter Chelsea.

On Golden Pond is a great swan song for both actors this is a touching tale about morality and running out of time.

Clarence and Alabama in True Romance

1993's True Romance is one of my fave films of all time - the central performances from Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are superb, as it the script by Quentin Tarantino.

True Romance is a fast paced exciting Romeo and Juliet tale for the 1990s not shying away from excessive violence, lurid sex, and rampant drug use all off which come by the bucket load.

The casting of this movie is fantastic as Arquette and Slater sizzle together as the misfit couple who find love.

True Romance may be a crime/thriller but it is a love story at it's very heart and you are rooting for Clarence and Alabama's romance to stand firm during everything that is thrown at them.

Harry and Sally in When Harry Met Sally

It was back in 1989 when Billy Crystal joined forces with Meg Ryan to bring to the big screen one of the best love romance movies When Harry Met Sally.

Crystal and Ryan are absolutely terrific together and the comedy is as fresh now as it was when it was released.

They kicked off the whole friends who could be or might not be lovers and the chemistry between the pair just sizzled.

When Harry Met Sally remains one of the best movie in the rom com genre and had paved the way for many of the movies that followed.

Jack and Rose in Titanic

Now I'm afraid that you can't have a best couples list without Jack & Rose being on it as Titanic swept us all away when it was released back in 1997.

The movie was a huge platform for both actors but it was their performance together that really melted the hearts of all cinema go-ers - many of us blubbing into our popcorn when Rose has to let Jack go.

Titanic may have been a sweeping epic that focused on a huge event in our history but it was the love story that really packed the punch in this movie as both characters dreamed of a better life together once they reached New York - only to find themselves fighting for each other as the seemingly impossible happened.

Allie and Noah in The Notebook

Another romance movie that turns every girl into a blubbering wreck, however I do not include myself in this, is The Notebook.

Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams joined forces back in 2004, this movie still remains the performances that they are mostly fondly remembered for.

Allie and Noah are not from the same walks of life - and their difference in social standing is what stands between them.

But love is never so easily defeated as Allie and Noah discover over the years!

Johnny and Baby in Dirty Dancing

Now I don't know about you but the thought of a Dirty Dancing remake fills me with absolute horror!!! And nothing can even come close to the 1987 original.

Not too hot on each other when they first meet both Johnny and Baby discover that there's than meets the eye with one another as they begin to know one another better.

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey are perfectly cast in the two lead roles and their bickering, dancing, jokes and good times make you root for them.

I'm sorry but no one if going to be able to recreate this chemistry and on screen relationship that we all got swept away with with the original!