1) Most British Dating Experience: Notting Hill



William Thacker (Hugh Grant), a single Notting Hill bookshop owner, and Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), the world's most beautiful actress, go for a walk and decide to jump over a fence into a private garden. William's lumbering fence-jumping is the most memorable and endearingly British thing about this date.

2) Most Arty First Date: American Beauty

Jane (Thora Birch) and Ricky (Wes Bentley) bond over what Ricky believes to be the most beautiful camcorder footage he has ever filmed, that of a plastic carrier bag dancing in the wind.

3) Most Successful First Date: True Romance

Comic book store clerk Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) meets Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette), at the cinema. Afterwards they go for coffee and pie and talk about films. Later that night, Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a call girl hired by his boss as a birthday present, but that she has fallen in love with him. They marry the next day.

4) Most Cringeworthy Dating Film: There's Something About Mary

Awkward schoolboy Ted (Ben Stiller) lands a prom date with his dream girl, Mary (Cameron Diaz), but a painfully humiliating zip accident means that it never takes place. Thirteen years later, he asks her out again. When she arrives she cheerfully assumes the goo on his earlobe is hair gel, takes some and puts it in her hair.

5) Most Unwise First Date: Bridget Jones' Diary

After a flurry of suggestive skirt-related emails, Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) goes on a date with her boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), a man of questionable character. Things go well and back at Jones' flat, Cleaver discovers she is wearing enormous pants, but doesn't seem to mind.

6) Most Unlikely Dating Venue: Four Weddings and a Funeral

Charles (Hugh Grant - again) goes searching for wedding dresses with Carrie (Andie MacDowell), who is about to marry another man. They go to a cafe and she tells him about each of her previous lovers - she turns out to be a lot more experienced than him. They part ways but then he suddenly runs up to her in the street to profess his true feelings.

7) Most Adorable First Date: Sliding Doors

Helen Quilley (Gwyneth Paltrow) and James Hammerton (John Hannah) cross paths in a lift when he picks up her earring. Then they meet in a tube train and he woos her with Monty Python quotes. For their first official date they go out for milkshakes.

8) Most Unlikely Kindred Spirits: Lost in translation

Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a world-weary American film actor, visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and meets melancholic philosophy graduate Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) in the hotel bar. They discover an unlikely connection in a foreign land.

9) Most Drawn-out Dating Scenario: Groundhog Day

TV meteorologist Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is stuck repeating the same day over and over again. His attempts to seduce his producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell), when they meet each day in a cafe are met with repeated failure. Finally, after professing his true love to her, he wakes up to a new day.

10) Most Stylish First Date: Pulp Fiction

Vincent Vega (John Travolta) takes strip club owner Marsellus' beautiful wife Mia (Uma Thurman), out for dinner to keep her entertained. At Jack Rabbit Slim's, a theme restaurant, they dance the twist and win an award.