Valentine’s Day plans snowed out? Here are 25 romance movies to watch with your partner
If you need new plans with your partner for a snowed-in Valentines day, you are in luck. There is no shortage of romance flicks to catch at home with your significant other.
Let us start with some classics and where you can watch them:
The Notebook (Hulu, Max): “An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.”
Love Jones (Paramount+, Showtime Anytime): “Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Mosley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they’ve got a “love thing” or are just “kicking it,” they hang out with their friend, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius’ feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.”
Casablanca (Max): “A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.”
Pride & Prejudice (Peacock): “Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?”
In the Mood for Love (Max): “Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.”
When Harry Met Sally…: “Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.“
Titanic (Paramount+, Showtime Anytime): “A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.”
Netflix has dozens to choose from, for starters. Here is a spread of choices to choose:
Along for the Ride: “The summer before college Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on a nightly quest to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.”
The Last Letter from Your Lover: “A pair of interwoven stories set in the past and present follow an ambitious journalist determined to solve the mystery of a forbidden love affair at the center of a trove of secret love letters from 1965.”
The Choice: “Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life’s most defining events.”
Look Both Ways: “On the eve of her college graduation, Natalie’s life diverges into parallel realities: one in which she becomes pregnant and remains in her hometown to raise her child and another in which she moves to LA to pursue her dream career.”
All the Bright Places: “The story of Violet and Theodore, who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they discover that even the smallest places and moments can mean something.”
Faraway: “Zeynep is unhappy. That’s why she flees to a Croatian island, where her deceased mother bought a house long ago. She hopes to find peace and relaxation finally – but she hasn’t reckoned with Josip, who still lives on the property.”
Many folks have Amazon Prime and, in turn, Prime Video as well. They have their own spread of romance films:
My Fault: “Noah has to leave her town, boyfriend and friends behind and move into the mansion of her mother’s new rich husband. There she meets Nick, her new stepbrother. They fall madly in love in secret.”
Upgraded: “When Ana is upgraded to first class on a work trip, she meets handsome Will, who mistakes Ana for her boss, Claire. A white lie then sets off a glamorous chain of events, romance and opportunity, until her fib threatens to surface.”
Red, White & Royal Blue: “When the feud between the son of the American President and Britain’s prince threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper.”
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things: “Two teens live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create a map of things to remember.”
Her (2013): “In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.”
Far from the Madding Crowd: “In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.”
How about a romance series? There’s plenty to pick from and binge for Valentine’s Day.
Sandition (Prime Video): “About Charlotte Heywood, a spirited and impulsive woman, who moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.”
Outlander (Netflix, Starz): “Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.”
The Empress (Netflix): “Two young people meet. A fateful encounter – the proverbial love at first sight. He is Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, she is Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Princess of Bavaria and the sister of the woman Franz is to marry.”
Elite: (Netflix): “When three working-class teenagers begin attending an exclusive private school in Spain, the clash between them and the wealthy students leads to murder.”
Wolf Like Me (Peacock): “Gary is an emotional wreck and struggles to provide for his daughter since the death of his wife. Mary has a secret she can’t bring herself to share with anyone. The universe brought these two together for a reason.”
Belgravia (MGM+, Prime Video): “Follows events when the emerging nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London’s established upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.”
