Casablanca – The absolute classic love story.  What is perfect about it is that it ends the way real life treats you.  He doesn’t get the girl in the end, and he will always love her. I know that feeling all too well. They will always have Paris. 

Breakfast at Tiffany's – A story about a man that tames a wild thing.  She is the epitome of what most women are.  She wants more than what any real man can give, but she knows only real love comes from a real man.  Not a rich man without a soul.

The Notebook – A story about two people that know each other so well, that nothing can keep them apart. Sincere love is always rewarded.  But it has to on both sides.

Waterloo Bridge – Here is one no one will know.  It’s about a woman that was picked up and loved by a perfect gentlemen.  He was her prince taken away by the war and thought to have been killed in action she gives up on life, her soul is broken and the end is purely Shakespearean in nature. I loved this story at 20, and still do.

Wuthering Heights – Here is one that I identify with immensely.  Heathcliff was written off as a loser and his heart was broken so badly that he exacted revenge by becoming a somebody.

Pride and Prejudice – And here we have a story where two bright lights in the Universe overcome the stigma of “position” and are rewarded with everlasting love. 

I've got a couple personal favorite movies that don't fit in to the purely romantic story concept. But they are none-the-less very heartfelt and have an element of romance that perhaps only the lonely can truly appreciate.

Local Hero

A story about a single man that is utterly incomplete and knows it.  He is sent to a quiet Scottish town to buy it for his huge oil company.  But he is almost immediately swept up in the seaside and falls in love with another man's wife from afar. In the end his love for the ocean pulls his heartstrings. You have to be a single guy that finds solace in the beach to understand.