Rachel McAdams’ 6 Most Romantic Movie Moments

"It's not over!" Of course we had to include this—it's the iconic moment where Ryan Gosling and Rachel's characters admit that they never stopped loving each other even though her mother stopped his letters and she's engaged to someone else.

The fact that the actors were dating around this time lends a lot more credulity to this scene, where they kiss in the rain before finally consummating their relationship (having been interrupted years before).

It's difficult to parse out just one moment from this drama of a man who travels through time and the woman who waits for him, but the wedding scene has always stuck out in my mind. Eric Bana's character Henry time travels when he gets emotional, so of course his wedding day causes him to disappear for a little. Clare (Rachel's character) anxiously walks up the aisle, only to find an older version of Henry waiting for her at the altar. His older self knew to be there for when his younger self was too scared. Few gestures are more romantic than that.

Long before she was professing her love for Ryan Gosling and Eric Bana, Rachel brought this tender moment to the otherwise ridiculous The Hot Chick. (You might remember that it starred Rob Schneider as her character Jessica trapped in a male body.)

The way that Jessica's boyfriend Billy (Matthew Lawrence) knows that it's actually her is when she says the above quote: "You're the only boy who can make my heart beat faster and slower at the same time."

The best advice you hear is to fall in love with your best friend. What better way, then, for Rachel and Owen Wilson to fall for each other than with this adorable, teasing scene in The Wedding Crashers? First he impresses her by deciphering the wrapped gifts and then mocks her lackluster wedding speech. The rest of their romance gets swallowed up by the intrigue of Owen and Vince Vaughn getting caught for faking their identities, but this moment, with the spark of romance, is wonderful.

OK, I had to grab a second moment from this film. Something I've always loved about The Time Traveler's Wife is how Henry and Clare find each other again and again. Well, Rachel kills it in her first scene with him: They run into each other at a library, where she's overjoyed because she's known him her whole life and waited until she was 20 for their first meeting... and he has no idea who she is, because at 28 he hasn't started traveling backwards in time to her childhood. The fact that she can play totally in love with Eric Bana's character while he's staring at her blankly—kind of a reverse of The Vow, actually!—tells you how skilled she is.

Playing love interest and former adversary to Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes allows Rachel to be part bad girl, part femme fatale as Irene Adler. But what's more romantic than being saved from certain death by Sherlock Holmes?

We haven't actually seen the movie yet, but the trailers have already given us plenty of moments fraught with romantic intrigue: Paige and Leo's impromptu wedding in a museum; her hunched over photographs trying to remember him; and when she says, "I hope that one day I can love the way that you love me."