Suggested films for Valentine's Day

Submitted by kenji on Fri, 02/11/2005 - 04:42
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  • -An Affair to Remember
  • -The Age of Innocence
  • -The Apartment
  • -Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset
  • -Brief Encounter
  • -Casablanca. We'll always have Paris.
  • -Chunhyang (colourful + beautiful South Korean tale)
  • -City Lights
  • -Doctor Zhivago
  • -The Eel
  • -Elvira Madigan
  • -The English Patient
  • -Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • -Funny Face
  • -Ghost
  • -Gone with the Wind
  • -The Green Ray (a personal favourite about a sensitive young Fench woman forlornly searching for her ideal man)
  • -Groundhog Day
  • -Il Postino (sunny Italian film about a postman helped to charm a beautiful woman by the great poet Neruda)
  • -It Happened One Night (Capra's delightful Oscar-winning road movie from 1934)
  • -In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese porn/art; love as obsessive sado-masochistic sexual role reversal).
  • -Letter from an Unknown Woman (exquisitely poignant Viennese period confection)
  • -Liebelei (another poignant Austrian one from the master Ophuls)
  • -Love Affair
  • -Lovers of the Arctic Circle (piercing Spanish film)
  • -Manhattan
  • -My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (warm, light, summery French charmer)
  • -Now Voyager
  • -Pakeezah (sumptuous Indian musical)
  • -Pretty Woman
  • -Punch Drunk Love
  • -Roman Holiday
  • -Sleepless in Seattle
  • -Shakespeare in Love
  • -Show me Love (Swedish lesbian teenage love)
  • -Singin in the Rain
  • -Some Like it Hot (the fun is set off on Valentine's day)
  • -Sunrise (the most wonderful of all silent films)
  • -Swing Time
  • -Titanic
  • -Top Hat
  • -William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
  • -Wuthering Heights (Wyler)
  • -Yang Kwei Fei (based on famous tragic love of the Chinese emperor for his concubine)