Love At First Sight / Live-Action Films

• 10 Things I Hate About You: Cameron James is totally dumbstruck and in love with Bianca Stratford the instant she walks right by him, to the point that slow motion, wind and dramatic music all kick in right at that moment.
• The Amazing Spider-Man: Peter is smitten with Gwen Stacy when photographing her from afar as she's reading on a park bench. She then rescues him moments later from getting his ass handed to him by Flash as he tries to stop Flash from bullying another kid.
• Asako I & II: Asako meets an eccentric man named Baku. This happens.
• Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra: While at Cleopatra's palace, this is Asterix's reaction upong seeing her courtesan Guimieukis for the first time, all while "Ti amo" by Umberto Tozzi is playing in the background.
• A.W.O.L.: Joey and Rayna fall for each right off. They have sex on the very first night they meet, and soon start a passionate affair after this, pledging love for each other too.
• Back to the Future Part III: Doc Brown finds the whole trope ridiculous and declares that it could never happen to him. Marty claims that it can happen because when he first saw his girlfriend Jennifer, "we couldn't keep our eyes off each other". Naturally, he's shortly hit over the head with it (though it may have helped that he had just saved Clara's life).
• Happens with obese misfit Ricky at the end of Better Off Dead when he meets (essentially) his female equivalent.
• Big Fish: "They say that when you first see your true love, that time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts up again, it goes twice as fast to catch up."
• Blue Is the Warmest Color: The second Adèle sees Emma on the street one day, her heart is totally gone. (For bonus Closet Key points, this is the first time Adèle's ever been attracted to any woman.) It ultimately serves as foreshadowing that, while Emma and Adèle do love one another, their relationship is built mainly on physical attraction and raw passion, rather than shared interests and being able to talk to each other, which is part of what leads to their breakup at the end.
• The short musical film Boycrazy has a number parodying this. The two men involved do not hook up in the end.
  I don't know a thing about you...
  I don't know a thing about you...
  I don't know a thing about you... so this must be love!
• Carol: As soon as Carol as Carol and Therese see each other for the first time they are entranced with the other. It takes Therese a bit longer to realize exactly what it is.
• Castaways: Cara confesses she fell in love on first seeing Emily.
• In Cemetery Man people-hating gravekeeper Francesco Dellamorte spies a stunning woman at a funeral, ("The most beautiful living woman I have ever seen! Will I see her again?") a catalyst for an increasingly grisly series of events.
• Played for Drama in The Children's Hour. One of the first signs that Martha is in love with Karen comes from when the two discusses how they met. Later in her Anguished Declaration of Love to Karen, Martha admits to being in denial about it all these years.
  Martha: I remember how you used to dress in college. The first time I ever saw you, running across the quadrangle, your hair flying—
  Karen: At the time, I was running from a chemistry professor.
  Martha: I remember thinking "What a pretty girl"...
• Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away: Mia and the Aerialist only meet at the beginning once and don't even speak to each other, but spend the entire film looking for each other.
• Cloud Atlas. Nuclear scientist Isaac Sachs falls in love with Intrepid Reporter Luisa Rey. It's implied this is due to reincarnation; the two characters meet in the far future and fall in love over a longer period of time.
• Cynara: Poetry in Motion: Cynara and Byron appear drawn to each other immediately. It doesn't take long until both have fallen in love, fantasize and then begin a relationship together.
• In Date with an Angel, Jim is mesmerized by an Angel played by Emmanuelle Béart. He's engaged at the time, so he tries to fight it.
• The one-sided version occurs in Dead Poets Society, with Knox being instantly smitten with Chris. Even though the latter has a boyfriend who is more than willing to beat up any competition.
• En kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story). Per (fifteen) and Annika (thirteen) are drawn to one another the first time they set eyes on each other, and become a couple after one walk together and a few sentences of conversation.
• Played with in Enchanted. It was the way things were done in the Fairy Tale world, but in the real world, Robert has a failed marriage due to believing in it. As the worlds collide, the end result he and Giselle mutually learn is the lesson: Love at first sight is possible, but you should get to know the person to see if it's real before committing.
• A Fantastic Fear of Everything: Jack falls in love with Sangeet as soon as she walks into the laundrette.
• In Far and Away, Shannon tells Joseph this after he dies.
  Shannon: I loved you. I loved you from the first time I saw you.
  Joseph: I often wondered about that.
• Annie and Bryan in Father of the Bride (1991).
• Feast of Love: Kathryn falls for Jenny on first meeting her, which Harry notices at once. Her husband Bradley however is oblivious before she leaves him.
• The F Word: Allan is visibly taken with Nicole the moment she walks into his field of vision during the opening party scene. The attraction was mutual, as according to Nicole, "The night I met Allan I was so into him it wasn't until I woke up in his bed the next morning that I even remembered I already had a boyfriend." They end up Happily Married.
• In Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me, the moment when Dennis and Frankie first catch sight of each other is overplayed with Frankie telling a joke about a young gamekeeper who sees a beautiful girl in the woods.
• Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus has Lione and Diane noticing each other at first sight and they were intrigued by what they seen.
• The Godfather: In the first sequel, upon meeting Apollonia when he went to Sicily, Michael Corleone instantly fell in love with her. Even his Sicilian bodyguards comment that "he was hit by the thunderbolt".
• Good Burger: On their first date, when Monique asks Dexter if he likes her, Dexter admits to have fallen for her from the very first time he saw her.
• In a gay-themed The Film of the Book Holding the Man, it was later revealed that Tim's infatuation of his lover John was a first-love thing, as this quote shows:
  Tim: (To bedriddern John) In the schoolyard, I noticed a boy just listening to his friends with his hands in his pocket, smiling. What is it about his face? In class, lined up my books and tartan pencil case and watched the door. Then he walked in. The boy with the amazing eyelashes. John Caleo was in my class.
• The Hunger Games: Peeta says this about Katniss during his appearance on Flickerman's show as part of a gambit to increase popularity for both of them and gain more sponsors. Whether or not he actually means it is the real question. He does.
• If, Lindsay Anderson's 1968 schoolboy-rebellion film. Philips and Wallace have apparently never met, but Wallace has presumably seen Philips around and been attracted to him. Philips then falls for Wallace when he sees him perform a gymnastics routine. They start meeting secretly.
• Imagine Me & You : Rachel "knew after three seconds" that she was in love with Luce. However, the fact that she was walking down the aisle to marry her high school sweetheart at the time made things a little bit difficult.
• Played for Laughs with the insane Marcia in It's Love I'm After.
• Jason's Lyric: Jason is instantly smitten with Lyric from the moment he sees her on their first meeting. On the contrary, it takes her for a while to realize his sincerity.
• This happens to Gentaro towards Nadeshiko in Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie Wars Megamax.
• Kiss of the Damned: Djuna and Paolo run into each other, with a single glance being apparently enough for them to fall in love. Paolo is not only drawn to her intensely, he accepts Djuna making him a vampire, after which he's soon moved in and they act like a married couple functionally despite only knowing each other two or three days.
• Last of the Mohicans doesn't spend too long developing Cora and Hawkeye's romance, but they do talk a bit before falling in love. In comparison, Uncas and Alice share barely any dialogue, a few glances and a passionate embrace. Yet we know that they love each other. And it works. He dies trying to rescue her, and she commits suicide immediately after. Again, with zero dialogue. It turns out to be one of the movie's most touching plotlines, and many viewers prefer them to Hawkeye and Cora.
• Les amitiés particulières (This Special Friendship). One look at Alexandre Motier and Georges de Sarre is smitten.
• Listen to Your Heart: Roger tells Ariana Danny fell for her from the very first time he'd seen her in the restaurant where they met.
• In Looper, Old!Joe was completely head over heels with his wife when he met her the first time.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: In the Extended Edition, when Faramir first sees Éowyn at the Houses of Healing, he's immediately smitten with her.
• Maggie & Annie: Annie fell for Maggie within seconds of meeting her, but she took a long time accepting the fact due to having a husband and never finding women attractive before.
• Middle School The Worst Years Of My Life: Rafe Khatchadorian is instantly smitten with Jeanne Galletta the second he sees her on the stage at the school assembly. To the point that after her impassioned speech is interrupted by Principal Ken Dwight, he stands up and claps. It could also count for Jeanne when after that happens and she mouths "Thank you" to Rafe for doing so.
• Moonraker has this happen with mook Jaws and random civilian Dolly; it eventually leads to Jaws' Heel–Face Turn.
• The first time Miss Piggy lays eyes on Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie immediately sends her into a musical dream sequence, complete with slow-motion romp through a meadow of flowers and long
• Deconstructed in Oldboy (2003). Mido and Oh Dae-su fall in love very shortly after meeting each other, but it's ultimately revealed that they've been hypnotized to do so as part of the villain's plan.
• Parodied in the 80's slasher-film spoof Pandemonium, when the heroine first meets the Mountie hero; they rush into each other arms and start singing a romantic duet.
• The Parent Trap (1998): the Parkers' housekeeper/nanny, Chessy, and the James' family butler, Martin, instantly fall in love from the moment they meet for the first time in a complicated situation: when the twins' mother finally discover her twins' intentions in setting up her and her ex-husband, Nick's, seemingly-coincidental reunion.
• In Pixels, Sam falls in love with Violet the moment he sees her, although for her it takes a bit longer.
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  • It’s shown that Elizabeth fell in love with Will when they were kids, as after spotting Will drifting on a raft and having him rescued from the water; she affectionately brushes his hair while he’s unconscious. Though he wakes up in a panic at her touch.
  • It was probably this for Will as well since he calms down after he gets a good look at her and they tell each other their names. As adults Will and Elizabeth are excited to see each other again.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides:
  • It's possibly the case between Philip and Syrena.
  • At the end of the movie, Angelica outright admits to Jack that she wanted to tell him that she loved him from the very first moment she saw him. Jack reciprocates. That does not stop him from ditching her.
• George falls for Angela instantly in A Place in the Sun, as he explicitly admits.
  "I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you."
• In A Room in Town, Edith and Francois fall in love immediately upon meeting, beginning a passionate affair.
• In the Marx Brothers comedy Room Service (1938), Leo and Hilda fall in love almost immediately after their first encounter. They plan to get married less than a week later.
• Shallow Hal, Hall falls in love with Rosemary as soon as he sees her.
• She: Ustane falls in love immediately with Leo—whom she has been sent to lead into a kidnapping—and tries to warn him off at the last second.
• Shoot to Kill: Sheriff Arnett claims that Knox and Sarah fell in love within seconds of meeting each other.
• In The Silence of Adultery, Michael first sees Rachel punching a file cabinet in frustration over her unreliable husband. This makes him immediately fall in love with her, as he realizes she is a passionate woman.
• In Star Wars, Anakin at nine years old asks a fourteen year-old Padme Amidala if she's an angel, and calls her one of the most beautiful creatures in the universe, even though he should still be afraid of cooties. Ten years later he comes back into her life, courts her, and they marry. They get bonus points for also being star-crossed lovers when he's on the front lines of war. However, their marriage ends up... badly.
• Summer with Monika: Monika and Harry met at a cafe and Monika promptly suggested that they ran off together and explore the world.
• In The Terminator, Reese has been in love with Sarah Connor for years just from looking at her photograph. She comes around in a day or two and a Rescue Romance.
• Tootsie: Michael is instantly smitten with Julie from the moment he meets her for the first time when she's helping him collecting his scattered papers.
• In TRON: Legacy, Quorra was more or less ready to die for Sam Flynn the moment she unveiled herself in the Light Runner scene. Justified, since Sam's arrival was the first time she ever experienced romantic sensations for anyone, hence why she doesn't know how to express those feelings for him. Luckily for Quorra, Sam admits similar feelings for her in the Solar Sailer scene.
• Truman Burbank finds himself falling for a college co-ed sitting across the lawn from him. Unfortunately, he's the title character of a program called The Truman Show, so the show's producers have other ideas for who he should fall in love with.
• In the short film Un beau jour un coiffeur (One Fine Day a Haidresser), a young man falls in love at first sight with a hairdresser who turns out to be straight. Then the young man falls in love at first sight with a physical training instructor, who seems...not to be straight.
• In Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Al and Madonna go from meeting each other to becoming inseparable soul mates in six hours.
• The gay-themed Were the World Mine both obeys and betrays this tope, as love at first sight happens thanks to a Love Potion.
• West Side Story (1961). In the film, complete with the hazy effect around everything that is not the two principal characters, Tony and Maria, looking at each other. But then again, the musical is based on Romeo and Juliet.
• Where Hands Touch: The feeling Kerstin describes upon meeting Leyna's father.

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