27 Romantic Movies to Watch This Valentine's Day

A "Pride and Prejudice" for the '00s, this rom-com centres on a protagonist who's a bit more of a relatable mess than Jane Austen's most beloved heroine. Bridget is stuck in a dead-end job with a crush on her playboy boss, while also juggling drama with her parents and an instant dislike for Mark Darcy, a former childhood acquaintance. Desperately trying to get her life together, Bridget faces as many embarrassments as she does wins, all whle slowly realising that her impressions of Mark might have been all wrong.

The Nora Ephron classic is the ultimate blueprint for friends-to-lovers romances. Harry and Sally are the best of friends (despite getting off on the wrong foot), but when sex and romance enter the equation, their relationship will never be the same.

Since childhood, Monica and Quincy have shared two things: a tight friendship and a dream of being professional basketball players. Through the years, they flirt, fight, and fall in love, all while pursuing their dreams despite obstacles from every corner, and finally must decide if their love is one of those dreams worth fighting for.

One of the most iconic romantic dramas, "The Notebook" seems tailor-made for Valentine's viewing. Wealthy Allie falls in love with Noah, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, until her parents put an end to their teenage romance. Years later, their paths cross again, leading them to rediscover the passion they once had — and forcing Allie to make a choice between who her family wants her to be and who she wants to be.

This iconic romantic comedy pairs up two of the biggest stars from Hollywood's golden age: Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. Sick of her stifling life as a princess, Ann escapes her embassy and sets out to have a day of adventures. She's joined by Joe, an American journalist who initially tries to win her trust to get the scoop for his paper, but soon finds himself completely charmed by her.

Lonely and unwilling to face her sister's wedding alone, Kat impulsively hires an escort, Nick, to be her date for the week. As she struggles with her family drama, as well as having to face her ex — the best man — Kat starts to develop a connection with Nick, but the lines between what's real and what's fake get blurred in some very messy ways.

Based loosely on a true story, this sweeping historical romance centres on Dido Elizabeth Belle, a biracial British heiress in the 18th century. As her uncle, the highest judge in the land, weighs the evidence in a case with enormous implications for slavery in the British empire, Dido considers a match with a charming aristocrat but finds herself increasingly drawn to John, a firebrand young abolitionist and lawyer.

Glittering, glamorous, and romantic, this comedy blends together extravagant family drama with a delicious love story. Rachel is excited to finally meet her longtime boyfriend Nick's family, but she's shocked when she finds out that they're one of the richest families in Singapore. Battling the antics of rich mean girls and the disapproval of Nick's mother, the pair struggle with the weight of expectations as they try to build the future they both want.

Baz Luhrmann's iconic movie is both a madcap musical and a devastating romance. Penniless writer Christian falls headlong into a love affair with Satine, the most desired courtesan at the Moulin Rouge. They grow closer as they work together on a performance that could save the nightclub, but a jealous Duke obsessed with Satine — as well as Satine's secret illness — threaten to tear them apart forever.

This bittersweet drama tells the story of a love overcoming all. Tish and Fonny are childhood friends who fall in love and just want to get married and start a life together. Facing the racism and oppression of 1970s New York, they struggle to build their future, and when Fonny is falsely accused of a crime, Tish will stop at nothing to save the love of her life.

This sweet teen romantic drama is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a romance. Simon is a teenager trying to figure himself out, eventually coming to realise that he's gay. As he navigates his identity and the frustrations of high school gossip, he also starts falling for an anonymous pen pal known to him only by the nickname "Blue."

Toula loves her huge, loud, Greek family, but she's tired of being looked down on for being 30 and single. Pushing herself outside her comfort zone, she changes up her look and begins pursuing a career outside her family's restaurant. When she falls for sweet schoolteacher Ian, he seems like her perfect match, but she fears they'll never make it to the altar with all her familial complications in the way.

Dial-up internet may be a thing of the past, but the charm of this movie certainly isn't! Independent bookseller Kathleen struggles to keep the bookstore she inherited from her grandmother afloat, especially with the arrival of a giant chain book shop down the street. She instantly clashes with Joe, one of the chain store's executives, but neither realise their real-life nemesis is, in fact, the online pen pal they trust with their deepest thoughts.

When awkward teenager Jenna makes a wish to be "30 and flirty and thriving," she wakes up the next day to find that it's all come true. Unfortunately, she quickly discovers that her adult self has become a pretty terrible person — and, even worse, she's lost touch with her BFF Matt. With some help from grown-up Matt and a little bit of magic, Jenna is determined to set right all the things that have gone wrong.

Marianne, a young artist in 18th-century France, is commissioned to paint a portrait of Héloïse, a young woman engaged to an Italian nobleman. Over the course of the painting process, the two women become friends and fall in love, but both know that their time together is all too short.

Who doesn't love the loathing-to-loving sparks between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy? Both strong personalities, the two get off to a terrible start with very negative first impressions of one another. Over time, however, they start to realise that, beneath the loathing, there's a very inconvenient attraction, and their love story plays out against the background of their friends' and families' romantic tribulations.

Jesse and Céline meet on a train and impulsively decide to stay up all night together and roam the city of Vienna. As they stroll around the city, they open up to each other and form a strong, instant connection, but the fact remains that they both are set to leave in the morning.

A fresh twist on the Cinderella fairytale, this romance is set in Renaissance-era France, where Danielle is a young woman forced into servitude after the death of her parents. When she disguises herself as a noblewoman to save the life of a servant, she catches the eye of Prince Henry, and the two begin to fall in love. Danielle continues to conceal her true identity, all while her wicked stepmother tries to foist her own awful daughter on the prince, and Henry must contend with his own parents' pressure to marry a foreign princess.

A group of gay men makes their annual summer trip to Fire Island, and plenty of romantic misadventures follow. One pair, Howie and Charlie, fall for each other almost right away, while their respective friends, Noah and Will, instead despise each other on first sight. Over the summer, they all try to navigate their complicated feelings and see if any of their connections will make it when they return home.

Lucy, a lonely transit worker, develops a crush on a commuter, Peter, who she sees every day. When she rescues Peter after a mugging, she goes with him to the hospital and impulsively goes along with a nurse's misunderstanding that she is his fiancée. The longer the deception goes on, the more Lucy grows to love Peter's warm, loving family — and the more she and Peter's brother Jack begin to develop feelings for each other.

The one that made us all cry at some point: "Titanic" is a classic romance for a reason. On the ill-fated voyage, Rose, a young woman forced into an engagement with a wealthy man to save her family, meets Jack, an impoverished artist. The two fall madly in love over the course of a few days, but when tragedy strikes, even love might not be enough.

The '90s and '00s were packed with modern-day teen-movie adaptations of classic literature, but this one is definitely among the best of the bunch. Awkward Cameron wants to ask out popular girl Bianca, but she's forbidden to date by her protective dad unless her prickly older sister, Kat, gets a boyfriend too. Cameron strikes a deal with Patrick, the school bad boy, to pursue Kat so he can ask Bianca out, but things get complicated when Patrick and Kat start to have real feelings for each other in this adaptation of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew."

William, a shy and quiet bookseller, has his life turned upside down when Anna, an American movie star, walks into his shop. They're immediately drawn to each other and begin a tentative romance, but when Anna's career — and all the trappings of fame — get in the way, neither is sure if what they feel for each other is enough to withstand the pressure.

Jeremy, the "Mr. Malcolm" of the title, develops something of a reputation in Regency-era England: he has a list of qualities he insists upon in a potential wife. After being spurned by Jeremy, Julia asks her old school friend Selina to help her get revenge. The plan is to make Jeremy fall in love with Selina, only for her to reject him based on a "list" of her own. But the chaotic plan gets even messier when Selina starts to really fall for Jeremy, while even Julia finds a potential new love of her own.

Lara Jean is a hopeless romantic, even if she's never had a real relationship. She secretly writes letters to the five boys she's fallen for in her life, but things go awry when the letters somehow get sent to their subjects, including popular jock Peter. Since he's going through some romantic drama of his own, Peter makes a deal with Lara Jean to fake date and and stop the rumour mill, but the more time they spend together, the more they start to wish it wasn't fake after all.

In need of a date to get her mother off her back, economist Asha makes a deal with app-date-gone-wrong Ravi: pretend to be in a relationship until "wedding season" is over. The pair attend wedding after wedding together and slowly start to fall for each other, but they've both got some issues from their past that need resolving before they can make a future together.