2013 Update: I’ve changed the table to show a single column indicating if these are on instant or not, because virtually all of them are on the DVD service. It is a little disappointing that the instant list is not growing, rather some some movies seem to disappear. If you are a true movie buff you will want to pay the extra $8/mo for the DVD plan.
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Just in time for the holiday. I thought I’d compare the American Film Institute list of “Greatest Love Stories” with what is available on Netflix. For the record almost everyone of these titles is on DVD, but only about 20 of them (those highlighted) are on “Watch Instantly as of today. Enjoy.
| American Film Institute Top 100 | Instant |
| 1. “Casablanca” – 1942 | DVD only |
| 2. “Gone with the Wind” – 1939 | DVD only |
| 3. “West Side Story” – 1961 | DVD only |
| 4. “Roman Holiday” – 1953 | DVD only |
| 5. “An Affair to Remember” – 1957 | DVD only |
| 6. “The Way We Were” – 1973 | DVD only |
| 7. “Doctor Zhivago” – 1965 | DVD only |
| 8. “It’s a Wonderful Life” – 1946 | DVD only |
| 9. “Love Story” – 1970 | DVD only |
| 10. “City Lights” – 1931 | DVD only |
| 11. “Annie Hall” – 1977 | DVD only |
| 12. “My Fair Lady” – 1964 | DVD only |
| 13. “Out of Africa” – 1985 | DVD only |
| 14. “The African Queen” – 1951 | YES |
| 15. “Wuthering Heights” – 1939 | DVD only |
| 16. “Singing’ in the Rain” – 1952 | DVD only |
| 17. “Moonstruck” – 1987 | DVD only |
| 18. “Vertigo” – 1958 | DVD only |
| 19. “Ghost” – 1990 | YES |
| 20. “From Here to Eternity” – 1953 | DVD only |
| 21. “Pretty Woman” – 1990 | DVD only |
| 22. “On Golden Pond” – 1981 | DVD only |
| 23. “Now, Voyager” – 1942 | DVD only |
| 24. “King Kong” – 1933 | DVD only |
| 25. “When Harry Met Sally” – 1989 | DVD only |
| 26. “The Lady Eve” – 1941 | YES |
| 27. “The Sound of Music” – 1965 | DVD only |
| 28. “The Shop Around the Corner” – 1940 | DVD only |
| 29. “An Officer and a Gentleman” – 1982 | YES |
| 30. “Swing Time” – 1936 | DVD only |
| 31. “The King and I” – 1956 | DVD only |
| 32. “Dark Victory” – 1939 | DVD only |
| 33. “Camille” – 1937 | DVD only |
| 34. “Beauty and the Beast” – 1991 | DVD only |
| 35. “Gigi” – 1958 | DVD only |
| 36. “Random Harvest” – 1942 | DVD only |
| 37. “Titanic” – 1997 | DVD only |
| 38. “It Happened One Night” – 1934 | DVD only |
| 39. “An American in Paris” – 1951 | DVD only |
| 40. “Ninotchka” – 1939 | DVD only |
| 41. “Funny Girl” – 1968 | DVD only |
| 42. “Anna Karenina” – 1935 | YES |
| 43. “A Star is Born” – 1954 | DVD only |
| 44. “The Philadelphia Story” – 1940 | DVD only |
| 45. “Sleepless in Seattle” – 1993 | YES |
| 46. “To Catch a Thief” – 1955 | DVD only |
| 47. “Splendor in the Grass” – 1961 | DVD only |
| 48. “Last Tango in Paris” – 1972 | DVD only |
| 49. “The Postman Always Rings Twice” – 1946 | DVD only |
| 50. “Shakespeare in Love” – 1998 | YES |
| 51. “Bringing Up Baby” – 1938 | DVD only |
| 52. “The Graduate” – 1967 | YES |
| 53. “A Place in the Sun” – 1951 | DVD only |
| 54. “Sabrina” – 1954 | YES |
| 55. “Reds” – 1981 | YES |
| 56. “The English Patient” – 1996 | DVD only |
| 57. “Two for the Road” – 1967 | DVD only |
| 58. “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” – 1967 | DVD only |
| 59. “Picnic” – 1955 | DVD only |
| 60. “To Have and Have Not” – 1944 | DVD only |
| 61. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” – 1961 | YES |
| 62. “The Apartment” – 1960 | DVD only |
| 63. “Sunrise” – 1927 | DVD only |
| 64. “Marty” – 1955 | DVD only |
| 65. “Bonnie and Clyde” – 1967 | DVD only |
| 66. “Manhattan” – 1979 | YES |
| 67. “A Streetcar Named Desire” – 1951 | DVD only |
| 68. “What’s Up, Doc?” – 1972 | DVD only |
| 69. “Harold and Maude” – 1971 | YES |
| 70. “Sense and Sensibility” – 1995 | DVD only |
| 71. “Way Down East” – 1920 | DVD only |
| 72. “Roxanne” – 1987 | DVD only |
| 73. “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” – 1947 | YES |
| 74. “Woman of the Year” – 1942 | DVD only |
| 75. “The American President” – 1995 | DVD only |
| 76. “The Quiet Man” – 1952 | DVD only |
| 77. “The Awful Truth” – 1937 | DVD only |
| 78. “Coming Home” – 1978 | DVD only |
| 79. “Jezebel” – 1939 | DVD only |
| 80. “The Sheik” – 1921 | DVD only |
| 81. “The Goodbye Girl” – 1977 | DVD only |
| 82. “Witness” – 1985 | DVD only |
| 83. “Morocco” – 1930 | DVD only |
| 84. “Double Indemnity” – 1944 | YES |
| 85. “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing” – 1955 | YES |
| 86. “Notorious” – 1946 | DVD only |
| 87. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” – 1988 | DVD only |
| 88. “The Princess Bride” – 1987 | DVD only |
| 89. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” – 1966 | DVD only |
| 90. “The Bridges of Madison County” – 1995 | DVD only |
| 91. “Working Girl” – 1988 | DVD only |
| 92. “Porgy and Bess” – 1959 | DVD only |
| 93. “Dirty Dancing” – 1987 | DVD only |
| 94. “Body Heat” – 1981 | DVD only |
| 95. “Lady and the Tramp” – 1955 | DVD only |
| 96. “Barefoot in the Park” – 1967 | DVD only |
| 97. “Grease” – 1978 | DVD only |
| 98. “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” – 1939 | Yes |
| 99. “Pillow Talk” – 1959 | DVD only |
| 100. “Jerry Maguire” – 1996 | DVD only |
