The best Deborah Kerr’s romance movies

Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

30/09/1921- 16/10/2007
We present our ranking of the best Deborah Kerr’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Deborah Kerr.
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Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis
7.1/10
Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity, Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome, laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero as the empire of Rome collapses around them.

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity
7.6/10
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1945
  • Character: Catherine Wilson
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1957
  • Character: Terry McKay
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 26/07/1943
  • Character: Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Beloved Infidel

Beloved Infidel
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/11/1959
  • Character: Sheilah Graham
Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.

The King and I

The King and I
7.4/10
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/01/1958
  • Character: Anne Larson
Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.

The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/08/1964
  • Character: Hannah Jelkes
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Young Bess

Young Bess
6.6/10
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.

The Arrangement

The Arrangement
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1969
  • Character: Florence Anderson
Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one time lover, Gwen. Meanwhile his wife conspires to take his fortune.

Separate Tables

Separate Tables
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/12/1958
  • Character: Sibyl Railton-Bell
Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.

The Journey

The Journey
6.8/10
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/02/1955
  • Character: Sarah Miles
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson), a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr), whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.

The Gypsy Moths

The Gypsy Moths
6.3/10
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Marriage on the Rocks

Marriage on the Rocks
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/09/1965
  • Character: Valerie Edwards
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake.

The Grass Is Greener

The Grass Is Greener
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/12/1960
  • Character: Hilary Rhyall
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.

Dream Wife

Dream Wife
5.9/10
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!

The Hucksters

The Hucksters
6.7/10
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

The Proud and Profane

The Proud and Profane
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/06/1956
  • Character: Lee Ashley
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley (Deborah Kerr) arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck (William Holden), but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.

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