When in Rome
Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel meet at her sister's wedding in—where else?—Rome. The cute couple endures romance setbacks and blunders back home in NYC before finally falling on love and returning to the Italian city to get hitched themselves.
Under the Tuscan Sun
A recently divorced writer (Diane Lane) buys a villa in the small town of Cortona to escape her sorrow. There, she begins an affair with Italian local Marcello. While their love doesn't last, she does end up meeting a fellow American writer on vacation (perfect match!).
The Tourist
This flick is a cat and mouse chase through Venice with Angelina Jolie's character on the run and Johnny Depp caught in the middle. Crazy plot twists aside, let's just say that these two manage to evade the law and escape in time to spend the rest of their lives together.
Romeo and Juliet
Could there be a more famous romance than this? William Shakespeare's classic love tale about star-crossed lovers from feuding families in the city of Verona has been remade time and time again.
To Rome With Love
Woody Allen's 2012 film follows the relationships of different tourists and residents in Rome, specifically the complicated romance between Jesse Eisenberg and Greta Gerwig's characters once he falls for her best friend. That's amore!
Letters to Juliet
Amanda Seyfried stars as a young American woman you travels to Verona with her fiancé Victor, only to embark on a journey to help an elderly woman named Sophie find her long lost love. In the end, Sophie finds her man and Seyfried falls for—wait for it!—Sophie's grandson.
Roman Holiday
The 1953 film follows Audrey Hepburn as a princess who escapes her guardians for a whirlwind adventure through Rome. Along the way, she falls for an American journalist (Gregory Peck) with whom she sets out on a romantic sightseeing trip with through the city.
Nine
Romance is consumed by scandal in this flick, with Daniel Day-Lewis starring as famed Italian film director Guido Contini who struggles with balancing his love for his wife (Marion Cotillard) and the many other women in his life (calling Penélope Cruz and Kate Hudson!).
Stealing Beauty
In this 1996 movie, Liv Tyler plays a 19-year-old girl who travels to Tuscany to search for her father and to meet a boy she met there four years earlier. Along the way, she encounters a variety of eccentric locals and even falls in love with one special guy.
Swept Away
While on a Mediterranean cruise, a storm leaves a wealthy woman (Madonna) shipwrecked on an island with her ship's Italian first mate. While working together to survive, the two can't help putting their differences aside and falling in love each other. Swoon.
Casanova
Heath Ledger is the adventurous and promiscuous Venetian hunk Casanova who is nearly put to death for his immoral ways before escaping the city with his love Francesca (Sienna Miller).
La Dolce Vita
Director Federico Fellini's 1960 classic follows a journalist's week in Rome in search of happiness and love that never comes, despite the multiple women he meets along the way.
Malèna
This 2000 flick is set in Sicily during World War II and follows Malèna (Monica Bellucci), a woman who's husband is off to war and is forced into prostitution and shunned by her town.