As New Yorkers are in the midst of the winter season and are bundled up every time they go out, the month of February is known for being the shortest month of the year. The month is often associated with Valentine’s Day on the 14th, celebrating love and affection. The day is dedicated to expressing someone’s adoration by giving cards, flowers, and gifts with their significant others, friends, or family members. The holiday is directed to couples celebrating their relationship, but it has evolved to encompass various expressions of love and kindness. However, for people who do and do not celebrate, here are some romantic movies you can watch this Valentines Day:
1. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days:
Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. However, Andie Anderson is the, “How To,” girl in the Women’s Magazine Composure company. She tries to push out of her boundaries by trying to write an article and experiencing how to lose a guy in 10 days.
2. Valentine’s Day:
A group of people who have interconnected stories. They all live in Los Angeles, California, going through high and lows of love during the day of Valentine’s Day. This can range from first dates, commitments, crushes, and heartbreak.
3. 500 Days of Summer:
Tom Hansen is a writer for greeting cards even though his passion is towards architect. He meets Summer Finn who he believed was the love of his life. Through the 500 days after the breakup, he reflects over their relationship and tries to figure out what went wrong between the two of them and how he can get her back.
4. 10 Things I Hate About You:
Bianca Stratford is a likable girl at her school. However, there is a rule she has to follow, she cannot date until Kat, her sister, has a boyfriend. With the help of Cameron James, who wants to date Bianca, he pays Patrick Verona, a new transfer student, to charm Kat.
5. When Harry Met Sally:
Harry and Sally met each other while sharing a car ride from Chicago to New York. During the car ride, they had a heated conversation whether a man and women can really be in a platonic relationship. Years later, they would go their separate ways and eventually cross paths, questioning if they could be in a romantic relationship.
6. 13 Going On 30:
Jenna Rink is a 13-year-old girl who makes an unusual wish on her birthday, wanting to become older. Thanks to a magic dust, she wakes up as her 30-year-old self. Trying to figure out what happened, she realizes everyone around her has lived 17 years of their lives while she’s still a 13-year-old girl in a 30-year-old body.
7. Crazy Rich Asians:
Rachel Chu is an ordinary woman living in New York City as a Economics professor at NYU. Her long-term boyfriend, Nick Young, on the other hand, is not. As they go to Singapore for his best friend’s wedding, she realizes the extreme wealth Nick’s family has. Rachel now has to navigate the whole journey in Singapore trying to fit into Nick’s family lifestyle.
8. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before:
Lara Jean writes letters every time her feelings are intense about someone and keeps it in a hatbox her mother gave her. Each letter is directed to guys who she has had crushes on in the past. But one day, they get sent out and her world gets turned upside down.
9. Before Sunrise:
While on his way to Vienna, Jesse meets a woman by the name of Celine, a student returning to Paris. After having conversations with each other, they forged a connection and Jesse asks Celine if she would like to venture around Vienna before he goes back the US. With no plans and no money, they get to know each other more and experience Vienna as is.
10. Me Before You:
Louisa Clark is hired as a caretaker for Will Traynor, who is confined to a wheelchair after being hit by a motorcycle. As the two spend time with one another, their bond depends, they start to realize their love for one another.
11. 27 Dresses:
Jane is a wedding planner and a perennial bridesmaid. She always puts the needs of others before herself. When Jane’s sister, Tess, falls in love with the man Jane secretly liked, she finds herself wondering why she does the whole wedding thing to begin with. While planning for her sister’s wedding, she meets a reporter who writes wedding announcements under the pseudonym Malcom.
12. The Proposal:
Margaret Tale is a executive editor in chief of a book publishing company in New York City. Due to her personality, not many are fond of her within her workplace. But when a situation arises due to her visa unable to be renewed, she is afraid she would get departed back to Canada. In order to prevent that from happening, she ends up marrying her assistant, Andrew Paxton.
13. La La Land:
Sebastian and Mia are passionate to follow their dreams. But as their success mounts, they are faced with the difficult decision on whether to put their success first or their love first.
14. The Notebook:
At a carnival in South Carolina, Noah Calhoun sees Allison Hamilton for the first time. He tries to pursue her and they both fall madly in love for one another. Yet with disapproving parents from Allie and Noah serving in World War II, their love affair ends. Allie moves on and gets involved with another man but Noah never forgot. Years later, it is clear that their romance was never over to begin with.