These romantic movies will woo you, stir your soul and set your heart on fire
The 60 Best Romance Movies of All Time
The Idea of You
Released: 2024
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I didn’t know my being happy would piss so many people off.”
The Idea of You, featuring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, is one of the best romantic comedies of 2024. This romantic movie is about a 40-year old mom who starts an unexpected and swoon-worthy romance with a 24-year-old boy band member. Cue the romance and cue the drama! A hopefully happily-ever-after? You’ll have to watch to find out.
Irish Wish
Released: 2024
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “You think a woman can’t ask a man to marry her?”
We’re deeming this Lindsay Lohan film one of the best romantic movies on Netflix! What happens when Maddie (played by Lohan) makes a wish for true love after her crush gets engaged to her friend? For starters, she’ll be the bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. It’s a sweet and magical film that’ll have all of us lovebirds in happy tears.
Hot Frosty
Released: 2024
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “Well, clearly, you’ve been doing your pushups.”
Lovers of Hallmark and Lifetime films will surely enjoy this romantic movie about a widow who magically brings a snowman to life. And yes, as the title suggests, he’s HOT. Hot Frosty is one of those Christmas films you can watch all year round.
Hit Man
Released: 2023
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “Chivalry may be dead, but I didn’t kill it.”
What happens when a professional killer (aka Glen Powell) breaks protocol to help a woman desperate to flee her abusive husband? Romance blooms, of course!
Challengers
Released: 2024
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I think maybe you’re disturbed by the fact that she could’ve been with someone like me.”
In Challengers, Emmy-award-winning actress Zendaya plays a former tennis prodigy turned coach whose career is cut short after an injury. To help her husband get out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a challenger event, where he comes face to face with his former best friend (and her former boyfriend). In this sporty romance, there’s more than enough drama to keep everyone on the edge of their seat—not to mention a love triangle.
Past Lives
Released: 2023
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “You make my world so much bigger and I’m wondering if I do the same for you?”
In this heartwarming tale, Nora and Hae Sung are childhood friends who reunite after a decade apart. As you watch, you’ll be enthralled by the loving connection shared at their reunion, as you hope for a potential love story to blossom. Will they finally have the love their childhood selves yearned for? You’ll have to watch this romantic movie to find out.
The Wedding Planner
Released: 2001
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “You smell like sweet red plums and grilled chesse sandwiches.”
In The Wedding Planner, Jennifer Lopez takes on the role of a wedding planner entangled in the whims of love in this romantic comedy. She has a mesmerizing encounter with a charming pediatrician, none other than the beloved Matthew McConaughey. A romantic evening unfolds and sparks fly—but Cupid has another plan in mind for their story. In fact, McConaughey happens to be her client’s groom! Get ready for a rollercoaster of emotions, because this is a romantic movie that’ll tug on all your heartstrings.
Just Wright
Released: 2010
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “I’m not waking up another morning without being able to look at you next to me. Leslie, you’re just right for me.”
Queen Latifah shines as Leslie, a physical therapist who unexpectedly falls in love with Scott, a charismatic professional basketball star (aka Common). Their love story doesn’t have a straight path, as Leslie’s sister pines after the same man (but is it genuine?).
Sylvie’s Love
Released: 2020
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “It’s not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”
This romantic film transports you to 1950s and ’60s New York. Sparks fly when Sylvie, married to a wealthy man away at war, find herself drawn to Robert, a soulful saxophone player. In this tale, they navigate their career pursuits, while holding deep affection for each other.
Cyrano
Released: 2021
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “I am a poet. My words, upon your lips. I will make you romantic. Will you make me handsome?”
This musical film is a tragic yet beautiful romantic story where the dwarf Cyrano de Bergerac falls for his childhood friend, Roxanne—who falls for a newly recruited soldier, Christian. Christian is infatuated with Roxanne, but he’s inarticulate. This leads Cyrano to write love letters to Roxanne in his place.
Maid in Manhattan
Released: 2002
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “To serve people takes dignity and intelligence. But remember, they are only people with money. And although we serve them, we are not their servants. …What defines us is how well we rise after falling.”
A tale of mistaken identity unfolds at a swanky Manhattan hotel when a maid is confused for a socialite by a Senatorial candidate. Unexpected romance unfolds. When the truth comes out, the couple will have to learn how and if they can come together despite being two worlds apart.
Love Again
Released: 2023
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “Love doesn’t always follow the rules.”
Priyanka Chopra Jonas stars as Mira Ray, a young woman struggling to cope with the loss of her fiancé. She finds solace in sending romantic texts to his old cellphone number, while viewers know that it was already reassigned to journalist Rob Burns (played by Outlander‘s Sam Heughan). Through her texts, Burns falls for Ray and enlists the help of Celine Dion to find her and win her heart. Bonus: Nick Jonas is in this romantic movie too!
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Released: 2003
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “I’m gonna make you wish you were dead. Poor guy.”
What happens when Andie (Kate Hudson) makes a bet that she can get a guy to dump her in 10 days and Ben (Matthew McConaughey) bets he can make a woman fall for him in the same amount of time? Love happens, of course!
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Released: 1994
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I think we’re both missing an opportunity here.”
Hugh Grant perfects his floppy-haired, adorable-British-guy charm in this classic rom-com. Andie MacDowell plays the American who steals his heart while they’re attending a whirlwind of friends’ weddings. This is one of those romantic movies that make your heart swell with all the emotions sparked by love and will have you reciting romantic love quotes to boot.
The Apartment
Released: 1960
Rated: Not Rated
Memorable quote: “I just have this talent for falling in love with the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The Apartment is one of those black-and-white, classic romantic movies with charm that endures. Directed by auteur Billy Wilder, it won the Best Picture Oscar in 1961 for its cynical presentation of relationships that still features one of the most romantic endings of all time. Jack Lemmon plays a junior exec who rents out his apartment (as a love nest) to his oily boss (Fred MacMurray) to score a promotion. Cue some sticky situations.
Love, Simon
Released: 2018
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “I’m done being scared. I’m done living in a world where I don’t get to be who I am. I deserve a great love story.”
Adapted from the acclaimed novel Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, this movie follows Simon (Nick Robinson), a teenager who hasn’t come out to his parents or friends, which creates coming-of-age drama galore. The romantic meet-cute, set on a Ferris wheel, will give you allll the feels, making it one of the most romantic LGBTQ+ movies ever.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Released: 2001
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I like you very much—just as you are.”
Colin Firth and Hugh Grant play the dashing British boyfriends of Bridget Jones, and their rivalry eventually leads to a riotous (and hilarious) fistfight. Renée Zellweger brings the hit novel’s heroine to life in this rom-com about a woman who’s hapless at love. Get ready for a dash-through-the snow showdown to win the love of the right man.
Love and Basketball
Released: 2000
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “Double or nothing.”
Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) are two neighborhood kids who long for basketball stardom and share a deep love of the game. They both grow into exceptional players and their relationship blossoms, but when Quincy’s career takes off, Monica’s takes a backseat. They’re star-crossed rivals who go their separate ways (because sometimes you need a good breakup movie), but their bond ultimately pulls them back together in this classic romance about courtship of every kind.
Ghost
Released: 1990
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “The love inside, you take it with you.”
Ghost is one of those romantic ghost stories that brings out the underlying passion in pottery wheels—especially if you’re Demi Moore and your art studio is in a spectacular Manhattan apartment. Patrick Swayze stole hearts as a murdered man who just can’t say goodbye. Get ready to weep!
Call Me by Your Name
Released: 2017
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “Call me by your name, and I’ll call you by mine.”
Oliver (Armie Hammer) is an American graduate student who gets entangled in a relationship with Elio (Timothée Chalamet), the teenage son of the professor Oliver has come to study with. The gorgeous cinematography captures an enchanting, natural landscape that makes the perfect backdrop for this all-consuming story about the intense burn of first love. Their romantic idea of how to say “I love you”? Calling each other by their names, of course.
Before Sunrise
Released: 1995
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “If there’s any kind of magic in this world … it must be in the attempt of understanding someone.”
Ethan Hawke, as the original American hipster traveling abroad, meets a luminous, intriguing Parisian played by Julie Delpy. The two walk and talk all night, perusing the streets of Vienna until they’re faced with a morning goodbye at the train station. Talk about a tragically beautiful European love.
Moonlight
Released: 2016
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “In moonlight Black boys look blue.”
There’s no doubt that Moonlight is one of the best romantic movies of all time—just ask its Best Picture Academy Award. The movie follows a young boy, Chiron, played by different actors at different ages, as he grows up in sun-soaked Miami and discovers his identity and his sexuality along the way.
Casablanca
Released: 1942
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “We’ll always have Paris.”
Casablanca features the most romantic airport goodbye of all time (so it’s no wonder we’ve added it as one of the best romance movies of all time too!). The fog is just as perfect as the tilt of Humphrey Bogart’s fedora as he gives his love, played by Ingrid Bergman, those famous movie lines that drip with romance as the two face the inevitable. Rick and Ilsa will always have Paris, but since they’re also in the midst of World War II, their problems don’t amount to a hill of beans by comparison.
Crazy Rich Asians
Released: 2018
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “Remember, every treasure comes with a price.”
This wedding-centered rom-com, based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan, drips with romance, glitz, fashion and flirtation. Constance Wu plays Rachel, a professor who’s way out of her league when she travels to Singapore with her boyfriend (Henry Golding), who failed to mention a little detail about his family—they’re crazy rich! Cue the princess-y plot twists.
Love Jones
Released: 1997
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “Romance is about the possibility of the thing.”
There are plenty of good romance movies that came out in the late ’90s. Get ready for the nostalgia as you watch Nia Long and Larenz Tate fall for each other over coffeehouse poetry. This is one of the best romantic movies in the game, and it stands out for being a rom-com centered on Black characters who are creative intellectuals with sensitive souls—a departure from movie clichés at the time.
About Time
Released: 2013
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “Live life as if there were no second chances.”
If watching romantic movies is one of your Valentine’s Day ideas, then perhaps one that features a sci-fi twist (time travel, perhaps)? Yes, please! Domhnall Gleeson plays a man who inherits from his father the ability to travel back in time. He uses the power to woo, and re-woo, Rachel McAdams over and over, proving that romance exists in the tiny moments that make up a life.
Bright Star
Released: 2009
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “You know I would do anything.”
Jane Campion’s Bright Star captures the writing life of the romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw), whose love affair with the English language takes inspiration from the beguiling Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). The biopic centers on the relationship between the two kindred spirits moved by creative artistry.
Beyond the Lights
Released: 2014
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “What we had was perfect, right?”
If you love Notting Hill and The Bodyguard, give Beyond the Lights a whirl. It’s another movie about a superstar who falls for a regular Joe. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays a pop star struggling with depression who’s lonely despite her fame. Nate Parker is the cop who comes along and saves her during a moment of despair. Cue the romance.
Ghost Town
Released: 2008
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quotes: “Come back soon,” and “What a terrible thing to say in a hospital.”
Ricky Gervais seems an unlikely romantic leading man, but he grows on you as a cranky dentist who has the uncanny ability to talk to ghosts after a hospital procedure gone wrong. Greg Kinnear stars as a deceased playboy who tries to get Gervais to give messages to his widow, Téa Leoni. Gervais helps countless spirits make amends with loved ones while he finds his own heart—and against all odds, just might get the girl.
When Harry Met Sally…
Released: 1989
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I’ll have what she’s having.”
This is hands down one of the best romantic movies ever: It even made high-maintenance restaurant ordering adorable! Nora Ephron’s screenplay captures love in the late ’80s as new college graduates Harry and Sally discover that they might just be perfect for each other, despite the hate-fest when they first met. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan play the title couple, in now-iconic performances.
Pride & Prejudice
Released: 2005
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “You have bewitched me, body and soul.”
This version of Pride & Prejudice, with Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew Macfadyen as the arrogant Mr. Darcy, may be the most romantic of all the movie adaptations of one of the most romantic novels of all time. Just picture the cranky Mr. Darcy (now lovestruck to the point of breathlessness) traipsing across an English field in an open shirt, his trench coat wafting on the fog, as he marches toward a woman he can only hope will one day love him.
Carol
Released: 2015
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “Everything comes full circle.”
Cate Blanchett plays Carol, a married woman who falls in love with a younger shop girl (Rooney Mara). The 1950s setting provides a sumptuous, stylish backdrop to the women’s tangled love affair. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, the movie seethes with romantic desire, but it also aches with the oppression of loving when society seeks to repress it.
Say Anything…
Released: 1989
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.”
What do you do when you fall in love with the class valedictorian, but she’s way out of your league? According to one of the most romantic movies ever, you hold up a boom box on her front lawn and blast “In Your Eyes.” John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler, who makes it his full-time job to love the perfectionist Diane (Ione Skye). When her seemingly perfect life falls apart, he’s there to catch her.
Amélie
Released: 2001
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.”
Travel to Paris with this romantic French movie that captures the magic of infatuation. Audrey Tautou stars as a waifish barista who’s up to trickster mayhem intended to bring romance and whimsy to the lives of those around her. But what happens when Amélie herself falls in love? Prepare to fall for Paris, this young French heroine and love itself in a movie that’s so touching, it’ll melt even the most cynical hearts.
Sense and Sensibility
Released: 1995
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”
No one spins romance and courtship like Jane Austen, and this adaptation of her novel about the Dashwood sisters will thrill viewers. Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson play the marriageable siblings, and Hugh Grant and a deliciously dashing Alan Rickman delight as the eligible suitors.
In the Mood for Love
Released: 2000
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “When you’re single, you are only responsible to yourself. Once you’re married, doing well on your own is not enough.”
Prepare for desperately romantic cinematography that captures 1960s Hong Kong awash with deeply rich colors and textures. The story follows two married people living in the same building who discover that their spouses are having an affair. Their shared grief and loneliness leads to unexpected love.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Released: 2018
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “You can be mad at someone and still miss them.”
This is one of the sweetest and dreamiest romantic movies on Netflix. In this high school rom-com based on the book of the same name, a middle sister (played by Lana Condor) writes letters to all the boys she loves, with no intention of sending them. Then her little sister discovers the letters and puts them in the mail! This is extremely awkward, especially since one was addressed to their older, college-bound sister’s ex. Hijinks and romance abound.
Portrait of a Lady
Released: 1996
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “Things are always different from what they might be.”
This extraordinary French masterpiece captures the intense romantic pleasures of being seen. It follows an artist sent to paint the portrait of a woman in order to send it to her fiancé so that he may see her face. The artist and her subject fall in love, and the film creates passion out of their mutual gazes and desires.
The Best Man
Released: 1999
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “For once just live in the moment.”
This beloved rom-com follows a group of college friends who get together for a wedding weekend. The writer in the group, played by Taye Diggs, has authored a novel loosely (or maybe not so loosely) based on the lives of his friends—and its content threatens the upcoming marriage by unearthing secrets from long ago. Drama, comedy and romance are in abundance.
The Fault in Our Stars
Released: 2014
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”
This teen romance is the quintessential tearjerker, so go in ready to cry your heart out. First, you’ll be inspired by the carefree, delicate love that emerges between two teenagers (played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort) who meet at a cancer support group and take off on an adventure to visit their favorite author, a cranky old fogey who needs saving himself.
Safety Not Guaranteed
Released: 2012
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “There’s no sense in nonsense when the heat is hot.”
Aubrey Plaza plays a magazine intern working on a story about an eccentric inventor (Mark Duplass) who claims he can time-travel. A romance sprouts between the two misfits as they struggle to trust each other, due to tragedies in their pasts. The giddy romance comes from watching them take the risk to fall in love—a feat that seems way more complicated and dangerous than taking a ride on a time machine.
West Side Story
Released: 1961
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “I’ve just met a girl named Maria/And suddenly that name/Will never be the same/To me.”
West Side Story is a Romeo and Juliet update turned movie musical set in urban alleyways and concrete lots that makes forbidden love a relatable dilemma in any era. Two rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, rumble over their turfs while a love affair brews between Tony and Maria. Released in 1961, West Side Story uses modern-art style, pop colors and jazz as a backdrop for its tragic tale of love in the face of prejudice.
Obvious Child
Released: 2014
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I remember seeing a condom; I just don’t know exactly what it did.”
In this romantic movie, Jenny Slate stars as a stand-up comic who uses her disastrous love life as material for her routine to varying degrees of hilarity and catastrophe. Jake Lacy stars as a sweet guy who keeps showing up in the aftermath of her one-night stands. Abby Hoffman plays her bestie, with Polly Walker as her professor mom, in a story where romance springs from the unexpected, contemporary experience of women in a story rarely told.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Released: 1953
Rated: Not Rated
Memorable quote: “I just love finding new places to wear diamonds!”
This Howard Hawks musical is a Technicolor miracle drenched in glamorous glitz. The whole production drips with romance and sizzle as two showgirls (Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell) sing, dance and flirt their way across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. Prepare yourself for a sumptuous double wedding by the end.
Brokeback Mountain
Released: 2005
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I wish I knew how to quit you.”
The low-key passion in this tender, tragic love story will move you to the core. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger play ranch hands sent to tend sheep on an isolated mountain, where they fall for each other. They later marry women and go on with their lives, but they can’t let go of their desire and connection, though the world around them demands it.
Brief Encounter
Released: 1945
Rated: Not Rated
Memorable quote: “It’s awfully easy to lie when you know that you’re trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading.”
This 1940s classic speaks to everyone who’s ever had a chance meeting or missed connection. Train stations become the ultimate setting for romance as strangers who may be soul mates cross paths. Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson play two strangers, both married, who share a deep but forbidden love after their chance encounter.
The Big Sick
Released: 2017
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “Can you imagine a world in which we end up together?”
Kumail Nanjiani stars in one of the best romantic comedy movies, one that he co-wrote with his wife, Emily V. Gordon. It’s a story that chronicles their own experiences as an inter-ethnic couple who have to deal with differing cultural backgrounds in addition to a serious illness that hits his grad student girlfriend (played by Zoe Kazan) at the very beginning of their relationship.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Released: 1982
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “Zack, when you’re through with a girl, what do you do? Do you say something or do you just … disappear?”
There’s nothing like a man in uniform, especially when he’s sweeping you off your feet and right out of your grueling factory job. Richard Gere plays the bad-boy officer candidate Zack Mayo, trying to make it through a strenuous training program during which he inadvertently falls for a local woman, played by Debra Winger.
The Age of Innocence
Released: 1993
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
If you like your love infused with bittersweet yearning, then The Age of Innocence will be just your thing. Martin Scorsese directed this adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, and he infuses the story about upper-crust New York society with mobster tension. Daniel Day-Lewis finds himself enraptured by the married Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), but their friends and family won’t allow such a scandalous union.
Beginners
Released: 2011
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “People like us, half of them think it will never work out. The other half believe in magic.”
This beautiful romantic movie is told through a nonlinear narrative that offers a sensitive character study as it examines love and grief. Ewan McGregor plays a man whose father comes out as gay after he is widowed, which helps McGregor embark on his own love story.
The Goodbye Girl
Released: 1977
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “What is it about you that makes a man with a 147 I.Q. feel like a dribbling idiot?”
Marsha Mason shines as a single mom in Manhattan whose boyfriend dumps her, then sublets the apartment they shared to a stage actor played by Richard Dreyfuss, who shows up on a rainy night demanding entrance. Forced cohabitation, with a wisecracking kid (Quinn Cummings) in the mix, provides zany comedy as heartbreak and hatred shift into much more romantic but totally risky territory.
The African Queen
Released: 1951
Rated: PG
Memorable quote: “A man takes a drop too much once in a while; it’s only human nature.”
Humphrey Bogart pairs up with Katharine Hepburn in World War I–era Africa for this classic movie rom-com. Directed by John Huston, the film has humor, action and two of the greatest personalities of the American screen. Hepburn plays a witty missionary on the run from Germans, while Bogie is the alcoholic, grizzled captain of a patched-together-with-spit old tub of a boat who has offered her safe passage.
In Her Shoes
Released: 2005
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “I carry your heart with me, I carry it in my heart, I am never without it.”
Get together with your sisters and nestle into this romantic movie about siblings who lost their mom at a young age and ended up having to raise each other. Things get complicated and painful when the younger sister (Cameron Diaz) sleeps with her older sister’s boyfriend and the two siblings basically break up with each other. This movie is about both sisterly and romantic love and is sure to get you in your feels.
The Notebook
Released: 2004
Rated: PG-13
Memorable quote: “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.”
Based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, this very watchable movie tells the story of an elderly man (James Garner) whose wife suffers from Alzheimer’s, so he reads her a chapter from his notebook as a way to jog her memory. The story he weaves is one of two young lovers in the 1940s, in which the woman’s wealthy parents don’t approve. How will it end? Well, you can kind of guess pretty early on. But who cares!
Bonnie and Clyde
Released: 1967
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “We rob banks.”
This classic work of American cinema is as much about the outlaw spirit at the heart of true love as it is about the famous bank robbers—which is why it’s most definitely one of the best romantic movies out there. With each bank robbed and lawman dispatched, Bonnie and Clyde’s love grows. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway play the Depression-era gunslingers in a film famous for its innovative and sometimes very violent style.
Punch-Drunk Love
Released: 2002
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “I have a love in my life; it makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.”
Adam Sandler proves he’s got acting chops in this wildly romantic story about love at first sight. Emily Watson plays a woman who spots Sandler’s picture and wants to meet him. What should be an easy go at love gets beset with obstacle after obstacle in ways that are funny and moving.
Silver Linings Playbook
Released: 2012
Rated: R
Memorable quote: “You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, you have a shot at a silver lining.”
If you love your romantic movies to swing you around the dance floor, then you’ll fall hard for Silver Linings Playbook. Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper play two single people trying to get over heartbreak—and win a professional dance contest while they’re at it. The movie deals with serious subjects, including mental illness, but it infuses the characters and situations with genuine quirk and heart that transcend clichés around dysfunction.
The Handmaiden
Released: 2016
Rated: Not Rated
Memorable quote: “But, for sending me Sookee out of all the girls in the world, I feel slightly grateful.”
This sumptuous, visually thrilling film takes place in Korea and Japan during the 1930s. A Japanese heiress lives on a sprawling estate with a young maid who aims to double-cross her. But in the midst of this twisty plot full of deception and intrigue, the two women fall in love.
Additional reporting by Lucie Turkel
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