Valentine’s Day is a holiday that brings people together and also brings them apart. Some people like to celebrate, some don’t, some take it seriously, and some just go to the drugstore and buy chocolate.
No matter your relationship status, if you’re in the mood for a little romance, there’s a movie that will give you exactly what you’re looking for.
Here is a list of romantic comedies, dramas, period pieces, and even movies about Valentine’s Day that you can watch when you get home from dancing with your sweetheart or if you’re staying in bed all night by yourself.
P.S. I Love You
To help his young widow get over his death and go on with her life, the man’s husband leaves her 10 messages.
| Year | 2007 |
| Director | Richard LaGravenese |
| Actors | Hilary Swank Gerard Butler Harry Connick Jr. |
A Star Is Born
As the musician gets older and drinks more, his career goes downhill, so he helps a young singer become famous.
| Year | 2018 |
| Director | Bradley Cooper |
| Actors | Lady Gaga Bradley Cooper Sam Elliott |
La La Land
A pianist and an actress meet in Los Angeles and fall in love while they are both trying to reach their professional goals.
| Year | 2016 |
| Director | Damien Chazelle |
| Actors | Ryan Gosling Emma Stone Rosemarie DeWitt |
The Vow
After a car accident leaves Paige in a coma, her husband Leo makes it his mission to win her back despite her severe memory loss.
| Year | 2012 |
| Director | Michael Sucsy |
| Actors | Rachel McAdams Channing Tatum Sam Neill |
Once
A modern musical about a street performer and an immigrant who spend a week in Dublin writing, practicing, and recording songs that tell the story of their love.
| Year | 2007 |
| Director | John Carney |
| Actors | Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová Hugh Walsh |
The Notebook
Ryan Gosling plays an impoverished but passionate young guy who gives Rachel McAdams’ character (from a wealthy family) a taste of independence via love before their class disparities force them apart.
| Year | 2005 |
| Director | Nick Cassavetes |
| Actors | Gena Rowlands James Garner Rachel McAdams |
Titanic
The tragic love story of a seventeen-year-old aristocrat onboard the opulent, doomed R.M.S. Titanic.
| Year | 1997 |
| Director | James Cameron |
| Actors | Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Billy Zane |
Say Anything
In the summer before she leaves for college, a valedictorian and an honorable underachiever fall in love.
| Year | 1989 |
| Director | Cameron Crowe |
| Actors | John Cusack Ione Skye John Mahoney |
Beauty and the Beast
Unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps captive, a selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life.
| Year | 2017 |
| Director | Bill Condon |
| Actors | Emma Watson Dan Stevens Luke Evans |
Atonement
When Briony Tallis, 13, accuses her older sister’s boyfriend of a crime he didn’t do, she changes the lives of many people in a way that can’t be undone.
| Year | 2017 |
| Director | Joe Wright |
| Actors | Keira Knightley James McAvoy Brenda Blethyn |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
When a couple turns sour, one option is to remove each other from their memories surgically.
| Year | 2004 |
| Director | Michel Gondry |
| Actors | Jim Carrey Kate Winslet Tom Wilkinson |
Brokeback Mountain
Ennis and Jack are both shepherds, and they fall in love with each other. When they both get married to their girlfriends, it makes their relationship more complicated.
| Year | 2005 |
| Director | Ang Lee |
| Actors | Jake Gyllenhaal Heath Ledger Michelle Williams |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts to age backwards and what happens to him as a result.
| Year | 2008 |
| Director | David Fincher |
| Actors | Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Tilda Swinton |
Punch-Drunk Love
Barry Egan, who doesn’t have many friends, calls a phone-sex line to make himself feel less lonely. He has no idea that it will get him into a lot of trouble and hurt his relationship with the mysterious Lena.
| Year | 2002 |
| Director | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Actors | Adam Sandler Emily Watson Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Up in the Air
Ryan Bingham likes that his job lets him live out of a suitcase and travel around the country firing people. However, this way of life is threatened by a possible love interest and a new hire who brings a new business model.
| Year | 2009 |
| Director | Jason Reitman |
| Actors | George Clooney Vera Farmiga Anna Kendrick |
About Time
Tim finds out at age 21 that he can go back in time and change things that happen or have happened in his own life. It wasn’t as easy as you might think for him to decide that getting a girlfriend would make his life better.
| Year | 2013 |
| Director | Richard Curtis |
| Actors | Domhnall Gleeson Rachel McAdams Bill Nighy |
Love Actually
Follows the love lives of eight couples who are very different from each other. The stories are loosely connected and all take place in London, England, in the month before Christmas.
| Year | 2003 |
| Director | Richard Curtis |
| Actors | Hugh Grant Martine McCutcheon Liam Neeson |
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
In a magically real version of Toronto, a young man must beat each of his new girlfriend’s seven bad ex-boyfriends one by one to win her heart.
| Year | 2010 |
| Director | Edgar Wright |
| Actors | Michael Cera Mary Elizabeth Winstead Kieran Culkin |
The Wedding Singer
Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both married, but to the wrong people. Luck steps in and helps them find each other.
| Year | 1998 |
| Director | Frank Coraci |
| Actors | Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore Christine Taylor |
Gone With The Wind
In this American film classic, a manipulative woman and a shady man have a rocky relationship during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
| Year | 1939 |
| Director | Victor Fleming George Cukor Sam Wood |
| Actors | Margaret Mitchell Sidney Howard Oliver H.P. Garrett |
Up
Carl Fredricksen, who is 78 years old, takes his balloon-equipped house to Paradise Falls and accidentally takes a young stowaway with him.
| Year | 2009 |
| Director | Pete Docter Bob Peterson (co-director) |
| Actors | Edward Asner(voice) Jordan Nagai(voice) John Ratzenberger(voice) |
Sleepless in Seattle
A man’s son calls a radio talk show to try to find a partner for his father, who just lost his wife.
| Year | 1993 |
| Director | Nora Ephron |
| Actors | Tom Hanks Meg Ryan Ross Malinger |
10 Things I Hate About You
A pretty, popular teenager can’t go on a date until her bad-tempered older sister does.
| Year | 1999 |
| Director | Gil Junger |
| Actors | Heath Ledger Julia Stiles Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Save the Last Dance
A white girl from the Midwest moves to Chicago, where she meets her new boyfriend, a rough-around-the-edges black teen from the South Side.
| Year | 2001 |
| Director | Thomas Carter |
| Actors | Julia Stiles Sean Patrick Thomas Kerry Washington |
The Age of Adaline
After an accident, a young woman who was born at the turn of the 20th century no longer ages. After living alone for a long time, she meets a man who changes the way she lives forever.
| Year | 2015 |
| Director | Lee Toland Krieger |
| Actors | Blake Lively Michiel Huisman Harrison Ford |
Crazy, Stupid, Love
When the wife of a middle-aged man asks for a divorce, his life changes in a big way. He tries to get back to being a man by learning how to pick up girls at bars with the help of a new friend, Jacob.
| Year | 2011 |
| Director | Glenn Ficarra John Requa |
| Actors | Steve Carell Ryan Gosling Julianne Moore |
The Best of Me
When they go back to their small hometown after many years, the two people who were in love in high school see each other again.
| Year | 2014 |
| Director | Michael Hoffman |
| Actors | James Marsden Michelle Monaghan Luke Bracey |
(500) Days Of Summer
Tom Hansen is a hopeless romantic. When the girl he thinks is his soulmate breaks up with him, he thinks back on their relationship to figure out what went wrong and how he can get her back.
| Year | 2009 |
| Director | Marc Webb |
| Actors | Zooey Deschanel Joseph Gordon-Levitt Geoffrey Arend |
The Holiday
Two women who are having trouble with guys swap houses and move to each other’s countries. There, they each meet a local guy and fall in love with him.
| Year | 2006 |
| Director | Nancy Meyers |
| Actors | Kate Winslet Cameron Diaz Jude Law |
Elizabethtown
During a memorial for his Kentucky-born father in his hometown, a young man meets a stewardess who seems too good to be true.
| Year | 2005 |
| Director | Cameron Crowe |
| Actors | Orlando Bloom Kirsten Dunst Susan Sarandon |
Remember Me
A romantic drama about two people who fall in love: Tyler, whose parents broke up after his brother killed himself, and Ally, who lives every day to the fullest after seeing her mother killed.
| Year | 2010 |
| Director | Allen Coulter |
| Actors | Robert Pattinson Emilie de Ravin Caitlyn Rund |
A Walk to Remember
Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan from North Carolina end up living together after Landon gets in trouble and has to do community service.
| Year | 2002 |
| Director | Adam Shankman |
| Actors | Mandy Moore Shane West Peter Coyote |
Dear John
A romantic drama about a soldier who falls in love with a conservative college student while he’s home on leave.
| Year | 2010 |
| Director | Lasse Hallström |
| Actors | Channing Tatum Amanda Seyfried Richard Jenkins |
