Top 20 Wedding Movies of All Time

Top 20 Wedding Movies of All Time

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Release Date 1994
Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: Channel Four Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Director: Mike Newell Stars: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas

Summary: Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

The Quiet Man

Release Date 1952
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Republic Pictures Director: John Ford Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen

Summary: An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Monsoon Wedding

Release Date 2001
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: The Criterion Collection, Mirabai Films Director: Anjali Panjabi, Monsoon Bissell, Michael Shea Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah

Summary: As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality.

The Wedding Banquet

Release Date 1993
Rating : 7.6 Production Companies: Ang Lee Productions, Good Machine Director: Ang Lee Stars: Gua Ah-leh, Sihung Lung, May Chin

Summary: A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

Father of the Bride

Release Date 1950
Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Vincente Minnelli Stars: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor

Summary: Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

Bridesmaids

Release Date 2011
Rating : 6.8 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media Director: Paul Feig, Sheila Waldron Stars: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne

Summary: Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she’ll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you’ll go for someone you love.

Royal Wedding

Release Date 1951
Rating : 6.7 Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Arvid Griffen, Stanley Donen Stars: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford

Summary: Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.

Rachel Getting Married

Release Date 2008
Rating : 6.7 Production Companies: Clinica Estetico, Independent Television Service (ITVS) Director: Jennifer Truelove, Nate Grubb, H.H. Cooper Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin

Summary: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Release Date 1954
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Carl Roup, Ridgeway Callow, Stanley Donen Stars: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards

Summary: In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

After the Wedding

Release Date 2006
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Zentropa Entertainments, Det Danske Filminstitut Director: Susanne Bier Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Fischer Christensen, Sidse Babett Knudsen

Summary: A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Corpse Bride

Release Date 2005
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Tim Burton Animation Company, Will Vinton Studios Director: Mike Johnson, Tim Burton, Joe Barlow Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson

Summary: Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

I Love You, Man

Release Date 2009
Rating : 7 Production Companies: DreamWorks SKG, The Montecito Picture Company Director: Scott Robertson, Jonas Spaccarotelli, John Hamburg Stars: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones

Summary: Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates."

Meet the Parents

Release Date 2000
Rating : 7 Production Companies: DreamWorks SKG, Universal Pictures Director: Marco Schnabel, Richard Cowan, Deanna Leslie Stars: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo

Summary: Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.

Black Cat, White Cat

Release Date 1998
Rating : 8 Production Companies: CiBy 2000, Pandora Film Director: Emir Kusturica Stars: Bajram Severdžan, Srđan 'Žika' Todorović, Zabit Memedov

Summary: Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

The Hangover

Release Date 2009
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Legendary Pictures, Green Hat Films Director: Paul Schneider, Kevin O'Neil, David Mendoza Stars: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis

Summary: When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time.

Melancholia

Release Date 2011
Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: Zentropa Entertainments, Det Danske Filminstitut Director: Lars von Trier, Anders Refn, Jonas Eskilsson Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland

Summary: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Wedding Crashers

Release Date 2005
Rating : 7 Production Companies: New Line Cinema, Tapestry Films Director: David Dobkin, Christophe Le Chanu, Vincent Lascoumes Stars: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken

Summary: John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like.

Muriel's Wedding

Release Date 1995
Rating : 7.2 Production Companies: CiBy 2000, Film Victoria Director: Angella McPherson, John Martin, Tony Mahood Stars: Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths

Summary: A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

The Philadelphia Story

Release Date 1940
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: George Cukor, Edward Woehler Stars: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart

Summary: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

The Princess Bride

Release Date 1987
Rating : 8 Production Companies: Act III Communications, The Princess Bride Ltd. Director: Ceri Evans, Rob Reiner Stars: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin

Summary: In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.