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. In honor of Valentine's Day, we rounded up the best romantic movies of all time. Check it out below: 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. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, see more here . How To Watch: Amazon 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. 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "The Way We Were" (1973) Columbia Pictures Corporation 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Grease" (1978) Paramount/Rso/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Dirty Dancing" (1987) Vestron/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Say Anything" (1989) Gracie/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Ghost" (1990) Peter Sorel/Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Pretty Woman" (1990) Touchstone/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) Walt Disney Studios 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Romeo + Juliet" (1996) Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "As Good As It Gets" (1997) Tristar/Gracie/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Director: James L. Brooks Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., see more here. Synopsis: An artist befriends and unlikely group of people after being assaulted in a robbery. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Titanic" (1997) 20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Shakespeare In Love" (1998) Laurie Sparham/Miramax/Universal/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Moulin Rouge" (2001) 20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Director: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Kylie Minogue, Jim Broadbent, see more Synopsis: A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan, while she is being courted by a wealthy duke. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "The Wedding Planner" (2001) Ron Batzdorff/Columbia/Intermedia/Pacifica/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "The Notebook" (2004) New Line/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. Ways To Watch: Amazon "50 First Dates" (2004) Columbia/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) Focus/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. Ways To Watch: Amazon Prime "Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011) Ben Glass/Warner Bros. Entertainment 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "This Means War" (2012) Overbrook/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime "Crazy Rich Asians" (2018) Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock 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. How To Watch: Amazon Prime Images in lead composite courtesy of New Line; 20th Century Fox; Paramount; Walt Disney Studios. Movie information sourced from IMDb.<doc-sep>5 films to watch on Netflix tonight if you're forever alone on Valentine's Day It's Valentine's Day - and you know what that means. Love. Everywhere. It's sickening. Advertisement And if you happen to be currently forever alone, chances are you probably won't be into the whole idea of romance tonight. If that is the case, great, because here's a nice list of films on Netflix that are so depressing, so scary, and so genuinely horrifying that you'll instantly feel better about your own meagre existence. Enjoy. 1. Se7en Think you're sad and alone? Honey, just witness how utterly despondent and hopeless Brad Pitt's character becomes in this thriller and you'll instantly feel 10 times better about everything. Se7en is also a great movie for reasons not related to Valentine's Day. It's clever, it's got Morgan Freeman, it's got a bangin' twist at the end - absolutely enough to distract you from the monotony of existence. Advertisement 2. Gone Girl Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike just can't admit that they don't really want to be together anymore. So instead, they cheat on each other, fake their own deaths, and even kill other people - all in the name of, eh, love. So if you're pushing 35 and are sad that you haven't tied the knot yet, don't worry. Advertisement If you had, you might've ended up like these two. Bleak. 3. Abducted in Plain Sight HE GAVE HIM A HANDJOB IN THE CAR? ! Advertisement Alright, not a feature film but a documentary film all the same - Abducted in Plain Sight is a horrifying watch, mainly because every single person in the film is the worst and should be locked up for the rest of their lives. Forget about being alone by frustrating yourself with the trials and tribulations of these stupid parents. You won't regret it. Advertisement 4. Gerald's Game Upset you won't get to do any vaguely kinky bits with your significant other this evening? Don't be, because Gerald's Game is a movie about why using handcuffs in the bedroom can lead to degloving of the hand and also death. It's also a movie about grief and fear and tall men who break into houses but honestly, the degloving scene is the only bit of this film you're going to want to talk about. Jessie accidentally kills her husband Gerald after he handcuffs her to the bed in their secluded getaway cabin. After that, she needs to figure out a way to escape while also facing some inner demons of her own. You know how this whole scenario could have easily been avoided? By not having a husband. Easy. 5. The Invitation Slow, but steady and absolutely worth it for the pay off, The Invitation is a psychological thriller that'll leave you feeling tense, paranoid, and pretty glad that you never joined a cult or whatever. It'll also make you fairly delighted that you don't have a boyfriend, girlfriend, or an ex-wife that has decided to invite you to her new home with a load of random people who are absolutely not alright. If you did, you'd have to go a party just like the above. And then you'd die. So just be glad you're alone, thanks. Special mention for Requiem for a Dream which was recently removed from Netflix despite being unreal. Look lads, if there's any sort of narrative that's going to make you think 'huh, maybe things aren't so bad for me' it's this one. Requiem for a Dream will destroy you. It will assault you from the inside out, rip out your heart, and ensure that you spend your entire evening sobbing violently and blocking diet pills ads from your feed. It's harrowing, it's upsetting, it's hopeless - and it's definitely worse than any sort of loneliness you're feeling right now.<doc-sep>
Sixteen Candles is one of the best romantic comedies of the 1980s. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days isn't just a romantic movie. It has an inspirational backstory behind it. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, perhaps like me, you might be in the mood for binge-watching some classic romantic movies. For those of you who have gotten to know me, you likely recall that my cultural reference point is generally all that occurred in the 1980s and moment’s ever since. Yes, I will likely be chastised for not having movies like Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, and Love Story on my list. But I feel like most folks would likely fall back on those classics if asked anyway. Hopefully, you will find my thinking a little more out-of-the-box. Below are my suggestions for the best romantic movies. Sixteen Candles I couldn’t have a list without at least one John Hughes films on it. That said, this is perhaps my favorite. The story of a girl turning sweet 16 and pining for the dreamiest boy in school. In unison — Jake Ryan. If the 1980s were your formative years then you remember his name. He had the hair, the voice, the car and most of all the heart of a romantic. Who doesn’t just die each time when Samantha (Molly Ringwald’s character) and Jake kiss over a candlelit table on his parent’s dining room table. Clueless You might find this choice odd, but I get so giddy every time I watch Clueless due to the fun fashion and snappy one-liners. (Remember: “Do you prefer fashion victim or ensembly challenged?”) SHOP DE BEERS Swipe Next At its core, this is a love story between Cher and Josh. Albeit, it always creeped me out that they were “technically” brother and sister. If you love this ’90s classic as much as me, then definitely consider heading to the Wheelhouse this Wednesday, February 13 for a Galentine’s Day Cabaret Extravaganza. Creator and performer Brigham Mosley and director Janielle Kastner will bring their wildly successful “Movies That Should Be Musicals” series to the restaurant with a brand new presentation of Clueless. Selected scenes from the film will be interspersed with live music, dance and hilarious commentary for a cabaret-style musical performance. So find a fabulous yellow plaid outfit and plan on sipping on the signature cocktails: “The Snob & A Half” and “The Way Harsh Tai.” Clueless is a modern classic for a reason. Brokeback Mountain I had to have at least one serious film on the list. This amazing love story, based on the novel by Annie Proulx is definitely a tear-jerker. It’s also the first gay-themed movie to be honored with an Academy Award nomination. In addition to being an amazing love story of two cowboys played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, it is an incredibly beautiful film. Ang Lee’s canon of work is so incredibly diverse from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Ice Storm. However, Brokeback Mountain is my favorite. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days I saved this for last as I have a story to share. Hopefully, you will find it very inspiring. I lived in Los Angeles in the late 1990s when I was in my twenties. Quite a few friends of mine that I grew up with in Tallahassee had made their way to the Left Coast. I was one of the last to arrive on those sunny shores. We were all quite poor, working entry-level jobs (me at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Two of my closest girlfriends, Jeannie Long and Michelle Alexander, realized they would have no money to buy Christmas presents. They had been inspired for years by those around them who were writing for televisions shows or scripts for movies. The two of them decided to write a book. What about? Well, something they thought they knew lots about — how to chase away men. They spent months writing the book and finally went to Kinkos to have it printed and bound for holiday gifts. Michelle’s brother happened to work for a talent agency and, well, the rest is history. If you feel like you have a story in you, then be disciplined and start writing it down. Who knows, maybe Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson will turn it into box-office gold?