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Top 10 Movies To Watch On Valentines Day
These are the top 10 Movies To Watch On Valentines Day, Whether cuddling up alone or with your partner on February 14.
It’s the most beautiful time of the year and valentines day is at the corner, and the best way to enjoy this year’s valentine is to curl on your couch and watch romantic movies, there are countless movies in the romance genre, I’m here to help you narrow them down.
Make a delicious dinner for two. Then, exchange gifts with your partner, complete with Valentine’s Day wish he will never forget. After all, that’s done, settle in with one of these romantic movies on Netflix and other streaming platforms.
Here are 10 of the most romantic movies out there. Be sure to have popcorn and tissues at the ready!
La La Land
A big red Valentine to Los Angeles, and the dreamers who inhabit it, La La Land has gorgeous costumes, dizzying choreography, and singing, dancing Ryan Gosling. What’s not to love?
Quote: “You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that’s as interesting as you are.” —Sebastian
The Notebook
That iconic rain-soaked kiss makes The Notebook a romantic classic, powered by the palpable chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, but what really brings on the tears is the relationship between their older characters, played by James Garner and director Cassavetes’s mother Gena Rowlands.
Quote: “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.” —Noah
The Thin Man
Fast-talking, cocktail-swilling married detectives Nick and Nora Charles are the definition of #relationshipgoals.
Quote: “The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time.” — Nick Charles
Romeo + Juliet
Shakespeare’s greatest love story, rendered in Baz Luhrmann’s inimitably pop-culture pastiche style—with teen heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio no less.
Quote: “And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” —Juliet
Pride & Prejudice
There is a slew of adaptations of Jane Austen’s classic. We like this one for its earthy sensibility that still maintains the humor, wit, and (yes) sexual tension between Lizzie Bennet (Keira Knightley) and Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfayden).
Quote: “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” —Mr. Darcy
Magic Mike
This is the origin story of Channing Tatum, which does, yes, start in an all-male exotic dance revue (it’s a strip club). But aside from the eye candy, this film boasts creative flair, a sweet love story between Mike (Tatum) and Paige (Cody Horn), and Matthew McConaughey as the unforgettable club MC, Dallas.
Quote: “Fact is, the law says you cannot touch … but I think I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house tonight.” —Dallas
Beginners
Aside from the sweet romance between Ewan McGregor and Mélanie Laurent, his father’s (Christopher Plummer) late-in-life coming out reminds us that romance is ageless and for everyone.
Quote: “We didn’t go to this war. We didn’t have to hide to have sex. Our good fortune allowed us to feel a sadness that our parents didn’t have time for and happiness that I never saw with them.” —Oliver (McGregor)
Valentine’s Day
Sort of the Love Actually of Valentine’s Day, this rom-com follows a handful of Los Angeles locals as they navigate the most romantic day of the year (for some). An all-star cast makes this movie the perfect, feel-good V-Day treat.
Quote: “If you’re ever with a girl that’s too good for you, marry her.”
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson turns his stylized lens to a forbidden childhood romance and the results are just as endearing, picturesque, and hilarious as you’d hope.
Quote: “We’re in love. We just want to be together. What’s wrong with that?“ —Suzy
An Affair To Remember
A benchmark romance about two unavailable and engaged strangers who meet on an ocean liner trip in Europe and … you guessed it, they fall in love. Prior to arriving back stateside, they agree that in six months if they still feel the same way they will meet at the top of the Empire State Building. But bad timing and a misunderstanding prevent their rendezvous from occurring as planned. Will they be able to recover the love they thought they lost?
Quote: “Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories… we’ve already missed the spring!”—Terry McKay