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'The Notebook' (2004) - Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams clinging together forever.

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'The Big Sleep' (1946) - Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall getting to grips with each other.

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'Basic Instinct' (1992) - Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone about to sizzle between the sheets. 

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'Age of the Innocence' (1993) - Neither Daniel Day-Lewis or Michelle Pfeiffer look particularly innocent in this scene.

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'Some Like It Hot' (1959) - Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis getting hot under the collar. 

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'Sleeping Beauty' (1959) - How else do you rouse a beautiful Disney princess from an enchanted sleep?

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'From Here to Eternity' (1953) - Surf's up! Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr and their notorious kiss on the beach scene.

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'My Girl' (1991) - Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky enjoy a first kiss.

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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1961) - Rain doesn't stop play as far as George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn are concerned. 

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'The Mask' (1994) - Jim Carey kissing Cameron Diaz is enough to make anyone green with envy. 

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'Angels with Dirty Faces' (1938) - Gangster James Cagney necking with Ann Sheridan.

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'Saturday Night Live' (2014) - Host Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone trying out tongue-twisters on each other.

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'Godfather Part II' (1974) - Robert De Niro greets Giuseppe Sillato... before slicing his stomach open with a knife.

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'Lady and the Tramp' (1955) - Who would have thought a spaghetti dinner could be so romantic? 

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'Romeo and Juliet' (1968) - "Wherefore art thou ..?" The original romantic drama starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting.

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'Gone with the Wind' (1939) - "You should be kissed, by someone who knows how." Clark Gable's immortal intention to Vivien Leigh.

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'Batman Returns' (1992) - Er, cat got your tongue? Michelle Pfeiffer licks Michael Keaton into shape. 

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'The Graduate' (1967) - Dustin Hoffman graduates with honors as Anne Bancroft considers his score. 

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'La La Land' (2016) - Emma Stone swept off her feet by Ryan Gosling. 

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'Ghost' (1990) - Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore enjoying the spirit of the occasion. 

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Who's that girl? - Madonna and Christina Aguilera lock lips at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.

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'Breathless' (1983) - Richard Gere about to resuscitate Valérie Kaprisky.

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'Idlewild' (2006) - Paula Patton and André Benjamin get wet together.

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'The Princess Diaries' (2001) - Anne Hathaway making a note of her date Robert Schwartzman.

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'Meet Joe Black' (1998) - Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani bow-tied together. 

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70th Cannes Film Festival - Actress Monica Bellucci gives vigorous mouth-to-mouth to actor Alex Lutz on stage.

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'Jack & Diane' (2012) - Riley Keough and Juno Temple both like it rough. 

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66th Cannes Film Festival - Taken from the official poster of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, the image shows Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman kissing during the shooting of the aptly named 'A New Kind of Love' (1963).

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'Isn't it Romantic' (2019) - Liam Hemsworth and Rebel Wilson share a dramatic kiss. 

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'Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring' (2001) - Even hobbits need tender loving care. Elijah Wood bows to Cate Blanchett.

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The first kiss on film - 'The Kiss' (1896) was one of the first films ever shown commercially to the public. Around 18 seconds long, it depicts a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice from the final scene of the stage musical 'The Widow Jones.' This is the very first kiss on film, denounced as shocking and obscene by early moviegoers.

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