The Film: Wall-E (2008)

The Moment: It’s meet-extremely-cute for Wall-E and EVE when the excitable little droid shelters his lady crush from a dust storm and she discovers his man-cave of wonders.

Played out with zero dialogue (aside from some ‘bot sounds), it’s like a pristine romantic comedy beat with added animation glory.

In Their Own Words: “We wanted one of the early meetings of Wall-E and EVE to have the feeling of a first date,” explains story chief Jim Reardon.

“He brings her to his place, his truck. He wants her to like him, to like his stuff. We wanted to show that she's intelligent, so we had her solve his Rubik's Cube in two seconds. And we wanted to show that she finally starts warming up to him.

“We had to figure out how our characters could say, ‘I love you’ when neither of them really speaks English. We figured it should be the holding of hands. He sees people do it on the Hello Dolly tape and is yearning to try it with her.”