Looking for a little low-key romance this Valentine’s Day? You can get that loving feeling with a few of our favorite passion-infused flicks. Celebrate the spirit of this holiday by grabbing some chocolate, pouring a little wine, and cozying up with your significant other to enjoy these funny, sad, messy, and wonderful stories of movie love.
Love Actually (2003)
It’s a movie about a ton of love stories. Some of them might be kind of messy, complicated, twisty, and confusing, but that’s love. Actually. So for Valentine’s Day, it’s totally appropriate.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
It’s a love story with depth and it’s considered one of the best films of the past decade by many. In this sci-fi flick, a man is heartbroken when he finds out his girlfriend has undergone a procedure to erase their time together. To ease his pain, he decides to do the same, but when his memories are playing backward as they’re getting wiped away, he finds he’s still desperately in love, which is a pretty rough time to have that realization. We know it sounds weird, but this movie is fantastic. Heartbreakingly, uplifting-ly fantastic. Oh, just see the movie.
The Notebook (2004)
Every girl on the planet wishes she had a passionate relationship like Noah and Allie’s. Oh, and for some weird reason, this movie seems to be many men’s guilty pleasure, which we totally love. Go figure.
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Remember that scene in Sleepless in Seattle (another great Valentine’s Day movie option that narrowly missed our list!) where Rita Wilson’s character bawls her eyes out over the epically beautiful ending of this movie? We may not have gotten quite that emotional, but we could totally feel where she was coming from. If you’re not saying, “Aw!” and feeling all teary-eyed with utter happiness on V-day, then we have a problem.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
It’s the ultimate chick flick. And even if guys can’t exactly appreciate it like girls can, they need to understand the fascination with a rich, handsome, misunderstood hottie like Mr. Darcy and the fact that he’s willing to toss family expectations out the window to be with Elizabeth. That’s totally swoon-worthy, and women love it. So men just have to suck it up.
Titanic (1997)
It’s pretty much the quintessential tale of star-crossed lovers of the modern era. Guys can get on board (no pun intended) with the shipwreck sequences, and girls can fall in love with the romance and a baby-face Leo DiCaprio.
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The movie is hilarious, the dialogue is witty, and the chemistry between Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal is spot on. Plus that last scene where Harry goes to the New Year’s Eve party to declare his love for Sally always melts our hearts into puddles of lovey goo. We should probably think its cliché and sappy, but we don’t.
