Romance film genre Clichés

1. The cliché that serves as the basic infrastructure of the classic romance genre is that the female lead almost never ends up with the man she was originally supposed to spend the rest of her life with. The other popular cliché is the formula for a romance story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again. Whichever cliché you want to follow, romances all have the same underlying moral message that romances  is an obstacle course, but if you keep your nose to the grindstone, the rewards can be immense.   
2. The cliché that Prince Charming actually exists, but he may be a bit rough around the edges or temporarily unavailable. It helps a lot if the woman initially hates the man or Prince Charming finds the female lead a bit annoying.
3. Romantic films have a habit of wending their way to the altar. Powerful, ubiquitous clichés associated with the genre include the bride or groom suddenly being ditched at the altar.
4. Opposites attract. The traditional belief that opposites attract is a cliché in most films. 
5. Characters often featured in romantic films: The pushy but loveable mother, the harried, befuddled father, the fat mouthy but highly supportive girlfriend who wears glasses, the gay neighbour or colleague, and the male leads loveable slob of a friend. Quite cliché characters.
6. A popular cliché is teenage romance films, teenagers out of town find it hard to fit in so they start hanging around social misfits, goths, vampires etc.
7. Dance can save a relationship. Popular cliché in many teenage films again.
8. Misfortune frequently brings lovers together,  such as the film Titanic.
9. Scenes at airports, taxi cabs or career changing meetings, where the hero realises he could be making the biggest mistake of his life and leaves or changes route to the one he loves.
10. The dead or near-dead make excellent partners. It seems to suggest that the dead make better company than the living. All clichés involving this drive home the fact that a good man is hard to find, as is a good woman.
    
    These are all popular clichés used in many romantic films. Having a unique story as well as a classic cliché makes a good romance film. I had a good plot for a romantic genre for our opening two minutes but it seemed better to stick to the horror genre as we had thought about it more.