The Postman Rings Twice 1946 This film noir as the star-crossed lovers driving along the highway. Frank (John Garfield) asked for a long-awaited kiss. Cora (Lana Turner) who was painting her lips with lipstick, promised: "When we get home, Frank, then there'll be kisses, kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death." Frank "I hope I don't wait." Cora "Darling" (they kiss, but she soon cried out frantically) "Look out, Frank!" Distracted by the kiss Frank runs off the road, killing Cora (a kiss that ends in death)
 

From Here to Eternity 1953  Most famous for its  entwined beach forbidden kissing between Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster) and adulterous  Captain's wife Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr) on an sandy Hawaiian beach with waves lapping at their bodies. After their clinch, Kerr rose, walked up the sand, and collapsed onto their blanket. Warden followed and stood above her, dropped to his knees, and found her lips. Karen "I never knew it could be like this. Nobody ever kissed me the way you do" Warden "Nobody?" Karen "No, nobody" Warden  "Not even one, out of all the men you've been kissed by? Can't you give me a rough estimate?" Karen "Not without an adding machine. Do you have your adding machine with you?"

Breakfast at Tiffany's1961 Paul: Driver, pull over here. (turns to Holly) You know What's wrong with you, Miss whoever-you-are? You're chicken. You got no guts. You're afraid to say, "okay, life's a fact." People do fall in love. People do belong to each other because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness. You call yourself a free spirit. A wild thing. You're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded by Tulip, Texas or Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. Here, I've been carrying this thing around for months. (Paul hands Holly a ring box) I don't want it anymore" (Holly changes her mind) Jumps out the taxi to find the cat she dumped into an alley. Holly "Here, cat! Cat! Paul (behind her) Where's the cat? Holly "I don't know.  Cat! Cat! Cat! Cat! Oh, cat. [meow] Here cat. Oh... (finds the cat,  finds love. The kiss)
 

On the road out of Atlanta against a fiery red sky, Rhett...  "Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me. Kiss me, once"

Casablanca 1942
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
"The day you left Paris, if you knew what I went through.
 If you knew how much I loved you, 
how much I still love you"

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