21 Best Valentine's Day Movies Ever: From Classics To Rom Coms
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21 Best Valentine's Day Movies Ever: From Classics To Rom Coms
Watch the best romantic movies of all time this Valentine's Day, from classics like 'Casablanca' to modern rom-coms like 'Crazy Rich Asians'
Valentine's Day 2019 is just around the corner, and whether celebrating with a loved one or yourself, you'll want to catch these top romantic films.
From the classic "Casablanca" in 1942 and all the way through last year's "Crazy, Rich Asians," the theme of love has been one of the most common core themes in film history. In 1997, the love story of Jack and Rose in "Titanic" went on to gross over $600 million domestically, while crossing $1 billion overseas.
In honor of Valentine's Day, we rounded up the best romantic movies of all time. Check it out below.
"Casablanca" (1942)
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Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Ingrid Bergman , Claude Rains , see more here .
Synopsis: Ex-patriate Rick Blaine runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during World War II. Blaine faces unforeseen complications when a former lover Ilsa and her husband show up in the cafe.
"Love Story" (1970)
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Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Ali MacGraw , Ryan O'Neal , John Marley , Ray Milland, see more here .
Synopsis: Despite their opposite backgrounds, Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share undeniable chemistry and embark on life together with the notion that love can fix anything.
"The Way We Were" (1973)
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Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Barbara Streisand, Robert Redford, see more here .
Synopsis: Current events and politics drive a wedge in between the romance of a young couple.
"Grease" (1978)
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Director: Randal Kleiser
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing , Jeff Conway, see more here .
Synopsis: The hit musical about teen romance in the 1950s, which follows the love story of summer sweethearts Danny and Sandy as the two reunite months later in the halls of Rydell High.
"Dirty Dancing" (1987)
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Director: Emile Ardolino
Cast: Patrick Swayze , Jennifer Grey , Jerry Orbach , Cynthia Rhodes , Kelly Bishop, see more here .
Synopsis: A girl falls in love with the dance instructor at her camp, while spending the summer with her family in the Catskills.
"Say Anything" (1989)
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Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: John Cusack , Ione Skye , John Mahoney , see more here
Synopsis: A young couple fall in love the summer before going off to college.
"Ghost" (1990)
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Director: Jerry Zucker
Cast: Patrick Swayze , Demi Moore , Whoopi Goldberg , see more here .
Synopsis: A young woman is guided through unforeseen circumstances by the spirit of her recently murdered boyfriend.
"Pretty Woman" (1990)
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Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander, see more here .
Synopsis: A businessman hires a beautiful prostitute to escort him on social events, but ends up finding himself falling in love her.
"Beauty and the Beast" (1991)
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Directors: Gary Trousdale , Kirk Wise
Cast: Paige O'Hara , Robby Benson , Jesse Corti , Angela Lansbury, see more here .
Synopsis: A selfish prince is cursed to become a beast forever, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.
"Romeo + Juliet" (1996)
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Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio , Claire Danes , John Leguizamo , Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino , Brian Dennehy , Paul Rudd , see more here .
Synopsis: Shakespeare's romantic tale about star-crossed lovers is retold in a modern-day setting of the city of Verona Beach.
"As Good As It Gets" (1997)
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Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Jack Nicholson , Helen Hunt , Greg Kinnear , Cuba Gooding Jr. , see more here .
Synopsis: An artist befriends an unlikely group of people after being assaulted in a robbery.
"Titanic" (1997)
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Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio , Kate Winslet , Billy Zane , Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, see more here .
Synopsis: A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a poor artist aboard ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
"Shakespeare In Love" (1998)
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Director: John Madden
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow , Joseph Fiennes , Geoffrey Rush , Judi Dench see more here .
Synopsis: A young, broke Shakespeare meets the perfect woman who inspires him to write one of his most famous plays.
"Moulin Rouge" (2001)
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Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman , Ewan McGregor , John Leguizamo , Kylie Minogue , J im Broadbent , see more
Synopsis : A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan, while she is being courted by a wealthy duke.
"The Wedding Planner" (2001)
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Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Judy Greer, Justin Chambers, Kathy Najimy, see more here .
Synopsis: San Francisco's most successful wedding planner knows all about the rules of love, until she breaks the most important one of all: falling for the groom.
"The Notebook" (2004)
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Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, Ed Grady, Kevin Connolly , see more here .
Synopsis: A poor man falls in love with a wealthy woman, but social differences drives their whirlwind romance to an end.
"50 First Dates" (2004)
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Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Adam Sandler , Drew Barrymore , Rob Schneider , Dan Akyroyd, see more here .
Synopsis: Henry Roth finally meets the girl of his dreams, Lucy, but discovers she has short-term memory loss and she forgets him the next day.
"Brokeback Mountain" (2005)
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Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal , Heath Ledger , Michelle Williams , Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid see more here .
Synopsis: Two sheep herders form a deep connection that leads to a forbidden budding romance.
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011)
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Directors: Glenn Ficarra , John Requa
Cast: Steve Carell , Ryan Gosling , Julianne Moore , Emma Stone, Joey King, see more here .
Synopsis: A middle-aged man's life is turned upside down after his wife asks him for a divorce.
"This Means War" (2012)
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Director: McG
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Abigail Spencer, Chelsea Handler, see more here .
Synopsis: Two C.I.A. operatives get extremely competitive with one another once they realize that they are dating the same woman.
"Crazy Rich Asians" (2018)
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Director: Jon M. Chu
Cast: Constance Wu , Henry Golding , Michelle Yeoh , Awkwafina, Gemma Chan, Harry Shum Jr., see more here .
Synopsis: An American-born Chinese professor travels meets her boyfriend's family when she travels to his hometown of Singapore for his best friend's wedding.
Images in lead composite courtesy of New Line; 20th Century Fox; Paramount; Walt Disney Studios. Movie information sourced from IMDb .
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A classic romantic movies best list WITHOUT An Affair to Remember? "Inconceivable" I would add Sleepless in Seattle and The Princess Bride as well.
What would YOU add?
You opened a floodgate for me. There are so many wonderful romance movies.
I would add Murphy's Romance (Sally Fields/James Gardner).
While You Were Sleeping
Pride and Prejudice - with Colin Firth
Philadelphia Story - with Katherine Hepburn & Gary Grant
French Kiss
Notting Hill
The Holiday
Sabrina - with Harrison Ford
Wedding Date
Crocodile Dundee. The two stars had so much chemistry they ended up getting married in real life afterwards.
Subway Scene
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Spencer Tracy speech
.....there is nothing, absoIuteIy nothing...that your son feeIs for my daughter... that I didn't feeI for Christina.
Old? Yes.
Burnt out? Certainly.
But l can tell you the memories are stllI there--
cIear, intact, indestructibIe.
And they'll be there if l Live to be... ....
Where John made his mistake, I think...
was attaching so much importance to what her mother
and I might think.
Because in the final anaIysis, it doesn't matter a damn what we think.
The onIy thing that matters is what they feeI...and how much
they feeI...for each other.
And if it's haIf...of what we feIt...
that's everything.
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The studio did not want him to do the film due to ill heath. Katherine Hepburn put her salary up because she knew her life long love was the only one who could do the role justice.
Steven Spielberg's ALWAYS