The 20 Best Valentine's Day Movies

The 20 Best Valentine's Day Movies

The Time Traveler's Wife

Release Date 2009
Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: New Line Cinema, Plan B Entertainment Director: Elizabeth Tremblay, Robert Schwentke Stars: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Nolden

Summary: Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.

Casablanca

Release Date 1943
Rating : 8.5 Production Companies: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Michael Curtiz, Lee Katz Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Summary: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Romeo + Juliet

Release Date 1996
Rating : 6.7 Production Companies: Bazmark, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Director: Monica Castellanos, Harry Jarvis, Miguel Lima Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Jesse Bradford

Summary: In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

Say Anything...

Release Date 1989
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Gracie Films, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Director: Ray Quiroz, Bryan Denegal, Jerry Ziesmer Stars: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney

Summary: Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about everyone-including himself-when she returns the sentiment. But Diane's over-possessive, divorced Dad disapproves and it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.

The Sound of Music

Release Date 1965
Rating : 8.1 Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 20th Century Fox Director: Ridgeway Callow, Robert Wise Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker

Summary: In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

While You Were Sleeping

Release Date 1995
Rating : 6.8 Production Companies: Caravan Pictures, Hollywood Pictures Director: Jon Turteltaub, Bruce Franklin, Alicia Accardo Stars: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher

Summary: A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

EverAfter

Release Date 1998
Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 20th Century Fox Director: Scott Printz, Andy Tennant, Laurent Herbiet Stars: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott

Summary: Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.

Pride & Prejudice

Release Date 2005
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal Director: Guy Heeley, Thomas Napper, Sue Hills Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn

Summary: A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

When Harry Met Sally...

Release Date 1989
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment Director: Rob Reiner Stars: Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby

Summary: During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.

You've Got Mail

Release Date 1998
Rating : 6.7 Production Companies: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Dianne Dreyer, Nora Ephron, David Sardi Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear

Summary: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Release Date 2011
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Warner Bros., Carousel Productions (II) Director: Jayne-Ann Tenggren, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra Stars: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore

Summary: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

Love Actually

Release Date 2003
Rating : 7.6 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal Director: Richard Curtis, Alex Oakley, Christopher Newman Stars: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth

Summary: Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.

Dirty Dancing

Release Date 1987
Rating : 7 Production Companies: Great American Films Limited Partnership, Vestron Pictures Director: Herb Gains, Marilyn Bailey, Nathalie Vadim Stars: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach

Summary: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

Sleepless in Seattle

Release Date 1993
Rating : 6.8 Production Companies: TriStar Pictures Director: Nora Ephron, Mary A. Kelly, James W. Skotchdopole Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman

Summary: When Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he is left to bring up his eight-year-old son Jonah alone, and decides to move to Seattle to make a new start. On Christmas Eve, Jonah rings a radio phone-in with his Christmas wish to find a new wife for his dad. Meanwhile in Baltimore, journalist Annie Reed, who is having doubts about her own relationship, is listening in.

A Walk to Remember

Release Date 2002
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Di Novi Pictures, Gaylord Films Director: Adam Shankman, Timothy M. Bourne, J. David Brightbill Stars: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote

Summary: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

Ghost

Release Date 1990
Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: Paramount Director: Jerry Zucker, Faye Brenner, Joseph Ray Stars: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg

Summary: After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

The Notebook

Release Date 2004
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: New Line Cinema, Avery Pix Director: Nick Cassavetes, Melinda Taksen Stars: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands

Summary: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Pretty Woman

Release Date 1990
Rating : 7.1 Production Companies: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV Director: Garry Marshall, Bettiann Fishman, Ellen H. Schwartz Stars: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy

Summary: When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.

Titanic

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Director: Shelley Crawford, James Cameron, Josh McLaglen Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

Summary: 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.