The Notebook – Noah + Allie
Rain + unrequited first love + Ryan Gosling = the stuff of every girl’s fantasies. This romantic smash may have come out 10 years ago, but the impact of this long-time-coming, passionate scene? “It still isn’t over.”
From Here to Eternity – First Sergeant Warden + Karen
In a time when TV couples were still sleeping in separate twin beds, From Here to Eternity’s wet and wild make-out was super scandalous due to its depiction of adultery and the actors’ no-holds-barred sexuality. More than 60 years later, the coming-up-for-air raciness of hotties Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling in the surf together still holds up. Legend has it that the two were supposed to remain standing in the script, but were swept off their feet by this kiss.
Cruel Intentions — Kathryn + Cecile
The most memorable kisses aren’t always the most romantic. Think of all those awkward first kisses captured in coming-of-age classics like My Girl,Sixteen Candles and Now and Then. But there’s something undeniably magical about a first kiss (as the 92 million views on Tatia Pilieva’s “First Kiss” video proves) and this bad-girl-on-good-girl tongue sesh from Cruel Intentions is no exception. When Sarah Michelle Gellar told Selma Blair to “close your eyes and wet your lips,” she taught a generation of 90s girls how to French kiss.
