Best Romance movies of 2003

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth,
Directors : Peter Webber,

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, George Clooney, Billy Bob Thornton,

A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet, Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Nancy Meyers,

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney,
Directors : Richard Curtis,

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Actors : Kevin Costner, Diego Luna, Abraham Benrubi, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Kevin Costner,

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Actors : Anna Chancellor, Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

Actors : Daniel Brühl, Florian Lukas, Chulpan Khamatova, Katrin Saß,
Directors : Wolfgang Becker,

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Actors : Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Goldberg,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure" magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made.

Actors : Renée Zellweger, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson, Ewan McGregor,
Directors : Peyton Reed,

In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

Actors : Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Eugene Levy, Seann William Scott,
Directors : Jesse Dylan,

It's the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister.

Actors : Sandra Oh, Raoul Bova, Diane Lane, Lindsay Duncan,
Directors : Audrey Wells,

A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.

Actors : Ed Harris, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Robert Benton,

When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.

Actors : Leonor Watling, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, Sarah Polley,
Directors : Isabel Coixet,

A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.

Actors : Paul Schneider, Shea Whigham, Zooey Deschanel, Patricia Clarkson,
Directors : David Gordon Green,

Small-town love story of a young man with a reputation for womanizing and his best friend's sister.

Actors : Jason Biggs, Woody Allen, Danny DeVito, Christina Ricci,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls head over heels in love with a beautiful but flighty girl, Amanda.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Tim Robbins, Togo Igawa,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.

Actors : Mekhi Phifer, Romeo Miller, Missy Elliott, Jessica Alba,
Directors : Bille Woodruff,

Honey is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.

Actors : Frederick Weller, Rachel Weisz, Paul Rudd, Gretchen Mol,
Directors : Neil LaBute,

A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation.

Actors : Ashton Kutcher, David Moscow, Brittany Murphy, Christian Kane,
Directors : Shawn Levy,

A young newlywed couple honeymoon in Europe, where obstacles challenge their ability to sustain the marriage.

Actors : Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Justin Bartha, Terry Camilleri,
Directors : Martin Brest,

The violent story about how a criminal lesbian, a tough-guy hitman with a heart of gold, and a mentally challenged man came to be best friends through a hostage.