Sometimes, the perfect romantic date, is just a bottle of wine, some nibble to snack on and curling up of the sofa for a romantic movie.
Here at Entertainment Swindon, we have searched across the streaming platforms, Sky TV and normal TV! (guess what? theres nothing romantic on terrestrial TV on valentines day). So here we we go…
Disney+
Notting Hill
Valentines Day is the perfect day to sit back and watch one of the best romcoms ever!… The movie is full of cheesiness, and thats part of its magic, Notting Hill delivers heart fluttering pleasure throughout. It a movie where the nice guy wins the love of his life, when in reality, too often the bad boy wins.
But for all us nice guys out there, the bad boy in this movie loses. Alec Baldwin’s cameo role as Julia’s horrible movie-star boyfriend, just makes the happy ending between William and Anna even more special. And who could ever forget the most memorable romantic line in any romantic movie!… “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her”.
The concept of this love story between Anna and William, seems so out of reach, an A-Lister Movie Star and an average Joe Bloggs failing bookstore owner, yet still feels bizarrely like something that might actually happen, it gives you hope that, the love that feels out of reach could actually really become reality…
The Proposal
OK… Just like you can’t not have Julia Roberts in you Valentine’s list of RomComs, you equally can’t not have Sandra Bullock! The Proposal, released in 2009 is a romantic comedy about a Hard Ass Canadian Executive for a publishing house in the US who’s visa runs out and the only way to stay, is to drag her poor personal assistant into it all and blackmail him into marrying her for a Green Card.
Margaret Tate (played by Sandra Bullock) is a Canadian editor-in-chief at a New York City book publishing company, universally disliked by her subordinates for her pushy personality.
A visa violation means she is threatened with deportation back to Canada. Not wanting to lose her position and life in New York, Margaret coerces her long-suffering personal assistant, Andrew Paxton (played by Ryan Reynolds) into marrying her so she can get her Green Card, telling him that her deportation would set back his dream to become an editor.
Suspicious U.S. immigration agent Gilbertson tells the couple that if they are committing fraud, Margaret will be deported permanently and Andrew will be fined $250,000 and may spend five years in prison.
Margaret accepts Andrew’s conditions that she make him an editor and publish a particular book that he has recommended. Everything is going great until Margaret meets Andrew’s family and the hard bitch exterior melts… I’ll let you guys find out the rest for yourselves, it’s one of those movies that most people didn’t have on their radar and a movie all RomCom fans should watch!
Jerry MaGuire
OK, we’ve all seen this one, no plot line explanation is necessary! Just ‘Show me the money!”
Hope Floats
Yes!… Another Sandra Bullock movie, I can’t help myself!… This romantic drama follows small town girl, Birdee Pruitt (played by Sandra Bullock) living the dream in the big city, husband, daughter, she thinks she has it all until she’s brought onto a TV show and finds out her best friend is having an affair with her husband.
With no other choices, Birdee moves back to her small home town and attempts to start a new life, needing a job, and feeling empty until an old high school friend, Justin Matisse (played by Harry Connick Jr) shows her she can love again.
Paramount+
Grease
“Tell me about it stud!”… Uhh Huh!… One of those movies we’ve all seen a million times, even if you wont admit it!…
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
A musical about teens in love in the 1950s. It’s California 1958 and greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) are in love. They spend time at the beach, and when they go back to school, what neither of them knows is that they both now attend Rydell High.
Danny’s the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black leather jacket-wearing greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of pink-wearing girls led by Rizzo (Stockard Channing). When they clash at Rydell’s first pep rally, Danny isn’t the same Danny from the beach. They try to be like each other so they can be together.
She’s Out of My League
Featuring breakout performances by both Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve along with entire ensemble cast, She’s Out of My League is a great date night movie for couples seeking a lighter and slightly edgy romcom, then this is your movie.
Yes, OK, we’ve seen this same old storyline a dozen times in RomComs that came before it. Yes, its your basic run of the mill young adult sex/love story with predictable storyline, BUT it works! It’s a funny movie throughout, and in parts very funny, its a funny, slightly edgy romcom thats held its own over time, and a movie for those of us that have seen it that we keep coming back to, even though we can practically quote the lines before the actors do!
Kirk who is your typical loser who’s finished High School, but his parents spent his College fund and ends up working security at Pittsburgh airport, the guy is average at best, and then there is Molly! She’s hot, intelligent, has wealthy parents and a social butterfly.
But against all odds, Kirk who’s so out of his league, manages to catch the eye of Molly, together, they are cute and funny, and so very awkward. What really makes this movie work, is the onscreen chemistry of the whole cast, the believability of the relationship between Kirk and Molly, the director’s willingness to push jokes to their limits and, again, an abundance of heart that all add up to make the film one of those under-the-radar films that pleasantly surprises.
Netflix
OVERBOARD
A cruel but beautiful heiress (Goldie Hawn) mocks and cheats a hired carpenter (Kurt Russell). When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they’re husband and wife.
Joanna and Grant Stayton III are an extremely wealthy, pretentious couple who live aboard their yacht. They live off of Joanna’s family’s money. She is a bitch of a woman, who treats others poorly and thinks nothing about doing whatever she needs to get what she wants, which she always gets.
So when their yacht is moored in Elk Cove, Oregon and she hires local carpenter Dean Proffitt to do some work, she has no qualms of stiffing him the $600 for the job when it doesn’t meet what she wanted, despite her not specifying the issue to him beforehand.
When she and Grant sail out of Elk Cove, she falls overboard, the resulting injury which causes temporary amnesia. Grant sees this accident as his opportunity to ditch her. When news of a Jane Doe (Joanna) hits the local news and Dean sees that the person he knows as Grant denies knowing her, he also sees an opportunity: he will claim to be her husband and make her his housemaid – which includes her taking care of his four rambunctious sons – for about a month, which he considers the equivalent of what she owes him. “Annie” (what they end up calling her) is still a bitch of a woman.
As time goes on, Dean has second thoughts about what he is doing, not because of Annie being like Joanna, but because he is falling in love with her and it seems like she is doing vice versa. Can their love overcome the obstacles of her equally pretentious mother looking for her, or the time when she will ultimately regain her memory?
Sweet Home Alabama
Melanie Carmichael (played by Reese Witherspoon) is a small town girl who moves to the Big Apple, who becomes a famous fashion designer still in her 20s. Her New York politics royalty boyfriend proposes to Melanie, leaving her needing to head back to her small town to take care of some now urgent business, a divorce from her small town husband.
Not wanting her now Fiance, Andrew, she is desperate to get divorced and back on a plane, back to the Big Apple, but its a movie, so nothing goes to plan! Husband Jake wants to prove himself and gain back her respect and her heart, instead of signing the divorce papers.
We’ll leave the rest of the plot and movie ending for you to find out.
What Women Want
Starring Mel Gibson, this slick comedy about sexual politics, see’s
Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) who grew up as the apple of his Las Vegas showgirl mother’s eye. Now a middle-aged Chicago ad executive and consummate womaniser. His ex-wife (Lauren Holly) has remarried and while she is on her honeymoon, he is taking care of his daughter Alex (Ashley Johnson), a 15-year-old who desperately wants to lose her virginity.
Through a freak accident, Nick suddenly finds himself able to hear what women around him are thinking, and that where the fun starts!
Instead of using this gift to sharpen his intuition and develop the feminine side of his personality, Nick decides to work it to advance his love life and his career. He is able to seduce Lola (Marisa Tomei) by feigning sympathy for her worries about being hurt. He gives her just the sexual experience she desires. Then he goes home feeling good about his triumph.
At work, Nick has just lost out on a promotion to creative director because his boss (Alan Alda) feels the company needs to grab more of the women’s market; he’s hired Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt) who is known to be a wiz in figuring out women’s preferences. Nick listens to her thoughts and steals her ideas for a Nike advertising campaign.
Obviously, as the movie goes on, Nick and Darcy fall in love, sorry, did I spoil it for you? Come on, its a RomCom, of course they get together!
Amazon TV
Pretty Woman
In a list of romantic comedies for Valentines, you cant just have one Julia Roberts movie!… And for sure you cant go through Valentines without watching, possibly my favourite of all… Pretty Woman!
No need to say anything, here, I cant believe there is anyone that owns a TV that has never seen this movie!
Pure Country
OK, so this is one, probably most of you have never heard of, let alone ever seen!… Pure Country is a romantic drama, starring Country Music star George Straight, and as a huge country music fan, I came across this movie through the sound track whilst looking through the country music section of HMV back in the mid 90s. As a fan of George Straight, I bought the sound track and loved it and went hunting for the movie.
George Straight plays country music star Dusty Wyatt, who has fell out of love with performing with all the glitz and glamour and decides to walk away from it, ending up in his home town where he falls for Harley Tucker, a girl who’s struggling to keep her family ranch from going under.
It’s one of my favourite romantic movies and one Im sure most have not seen, so I wont say any more than that and let you just watch it. Even if you are not a country music fan, you will still love the movie!
Just Go With It
On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much-younger girlfriend.
Danny (Adam Sandler) must engage Katherine (Jennifer Aniston), his faithful assistant, to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife.
Danny must pretend that he is married, because he lied to his dream girl, Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), instead of just telling her the truth which leads from one lie to another and another, digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole. Will he win his dream girl, or does one too many lies wind him up somewhere he never thought he would be? Its a fun movie that will keep you smiling throughout.
The Wedding Planner
There is no way you can have a RomCom list without adding a movie starring Jenny From The Block! In The Wedding Planner, Jennifer Lopez plays Mary Fiore, a wedding planner.
Mary Fiore is an ambitious wedding planner, hoping her boss Geri will make her a partner at the business. Mary is hired to plan the catering for heiress Donolly’s society wedding to her long term boyfriend Eddie.
Complications arise, when Eddie saves Mary from a runaway dumpster, and she finds out her client Fran Donolly’s fiance is Eddie, which leads Mary to navigate balancing a potential career-making wedding that could see her make partner and the distractions of her heart, with sub-plots like her father trying to marry her off to Massimo (Justin Chambers) before ultimately choosing love.
Rumor Has It
Sarah Huttinger is a woman who learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film The Graduate, you know, the one with Dustin Hoffman… And that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister’s wedding to Scott. However, Jeff’s clever counting makes Sarah realise her dad Earl may not be her biological father.
As more clues from family point toward a suspect – successful author Beau Burroughs – she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one-night stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff.
Sky Cinema
The Body Guard
A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President’s.
Rachel Marron (played by Whitney Houston) is the biggest thing in music, who is receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work.
In walks Kevin Costner, playing Frank Farmer, a former Secret Service Agent who is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan’s secret service staff but wasn’t there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. He’s old school, and ruffles the singers feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary.
Eventually the Farmer and Marron start falling for each other, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home. The Bodyguard is a must for any ones Valentines movie list.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
He’s an advertising executive and ladies’ man, she’s an aspiring writer, both have a secret!… Advertising exec Ben has 10 days to make a girl fall in love with him to win a big advertising campaign, columnist Andie has 10 days to find a guy and lose him in 10 days!
Ben is competing with two female co-workers fighting for the same major ad campaign for a diamond merchant, ending up in a bet to win the heart of a girl to win the campaign. Andie is writing a column on how to lose a guy in 10 days. Both with hidden agenda’s leads to a calamity of situations the couple find themselves in to win their bets, but there’s one thing they didn’t count on… Actually falling in love with each other.
50 Shades of Grey
The movie that got us all thinking bondage!… Literature student Anastasia Steele’s life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is handsome, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realise she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success, his multi-national businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.
Mama Mia
The movie, none of us can sit quietly watching… There have literally been Mama Mia sing along parties for this movie!
Set in a colourful Greek Island, independent hotelier Donna is preparing for her daughter’s wedding with the help of two old friends. Meanwhile, spirited bride-to-be Sophie invites three men from her mother’s past in order to find out which is her biological father.
The movie serves as a background for all our favourite of ABBA songs. Sophie discovers that any one of three men could be her father, so invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna Sheridan (Meryl Streep), who was once the lead singer of Donna and the Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her back-up singers, Rosie Mulligan (Dame Julie Walters) and Tanya Wilkinson (Christine Baranski). If there is a movie that will have you smiling, laughing and singing all the way through, its Mama Mia!
Valentines Day
On Valentine’s Day, several couples face struggles related to their love lives while others try their best to find love. However, they try to overcome the challenges to make things work.
Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day.
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine’s Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving?
A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love, two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon, a TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA, a star quarterback contemplates his future, two strangers meet on a plane, grandparents, together for years, face a crisis, and, an “I Hate Valentine’s Day” dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to. Can Cupid finish his work by midnight?
What better movie could you chose for Valentine’s Day, than a movie called Valentine’s Day!
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