12 movies to watch with your sweetheart this Valentine's Day

12 February 2016 - 02:00 By Staff Reporter
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Looking for a movie to snuggle up and watch with your sweetheart this Valentine's Day? We've pulled together a list of our favorite sappy movies to help you create the ultimate romantic movie marathon

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1) Serendipity

Do you believe in love at first sight? Or do you think fate has a plan for us all? Sara leaves the possibility of love between her and Jonathan in the hands of destiny. Ten years later they meet up to find out whether they are indeed truly meant for one another.

 

2) Something New

Kenya is a hardworking, ambitious young woman from a wealthy black family who's looking for 'black love'. When a friend sets her up with a landscape architect - who is white - she is initially infuriated. When she hires him to work on her garden however, things begin to change...

 

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3) Love Actually

The ultimate romantic movie; various loosely interrelated tales follow the love lives of eight very different couples in the frantic run up to Christmas.

 

4) Love and Basketball

Two childhood friends hellbent on making it into the NBA face hardships on and off the basketball court as they fall in love. Can their love stand the test?

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5) (500) Days of Summer

A hopeless romantic (Tom) falls for a cynic (Summer) who doesn't believe in love. Summer ends their romantic fling, until one day they bump into each other at a mutual friend's wedding.

 

6) Love Jones

It's love at first sight for a poet and (recently unemployed) photographer who meet at a swanky nightclub. The attraction quickly escalates and they find themselves unsure where their relationship will lead. She's battling unresolved feelings from previous relationships and he isn't sure whether he's ready to commit.

 

7) Brokeback Mountain

This story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years, made history as one of the first gay romance movies to cross over to mainstream cinema.

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8) Carol

Cate Blanchett in exquisite 1950s costumes, Rooney Mara in top broody form, and swoony direction from the masterful Todd Haynes. You’ll need a stiff drink after the all-round fabulousness that is Carol.

 

9) Brown Sugar

A music critic and music executive realise that a moment on a street corner 15 years earlier was the defining moment of what holds them together... hip hop.

 

10) Bridget Jones Diary

Follow the ups-and-downs of Bridget Jones who is determined to improve herself and find love - and she's going to start by keeping a diary.

 

11) Titanic

It's been nearly 20 years since we were swept up in Jack and Kate's love story on board a doomed passenger ship - and we're happy to go back for more this Valentine's Day.

 

12) Notting Hill

The life of a simple bookshop owner - who lives in a house with a blue door - changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.

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