Some people believe that February is the month of love, the month of Valentine’s Day. And others who don’t celebrate the Valentine’s Day but who never say no to movie classics, to the movies we always come back to. Although there are many romantic releases each month and each year, there are films that never fail and that move away from the clichés and the usual, which have become essential and here we compile some of those love films that we always see again.
Unfortunately, not all of them are available to watch in streaming and we will have to resort to renting or buying through application stores and services… But they are those that never fail, the scenes that you know by heart with Julia Roberts in the bathtub or with Demi Moore modeling clay.
Ghost
Ghost is not only one of the best love movies on Netflix but it is one of the best romantic movies ever. A love without limit, without borders, a love between two worlds. The film, released in 1990, tells the story of Sam and Molly, a couple who live happily in New York. Everything gets complicated when the couple walks at night and a thief attacks them, causing Sam to die in the middle of the fight.
Sam will die but he will not disappear from Molly’s life, but will do everything possible to save her from all those who are plotting against her. Thus, a love between two worlds will be born, without barriers. A drama that will make you cry from start to finish and one of the best classic movies you can watch on Netflix whether you’ve already seen it and want to relive the story or if you want to see an essential work for fans of the genre for the first time. Ghost was also a success that won two Oscars: the award for best supporting actress for Whoopi Goldberg and the award for best original screenplay. In addition, it was nominated for statuettes such as best film, best editing and best music.
My best friend’s Wedding
Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz star in a classic romantic comedy that you can watch on Netflix: My Best Friend’s Wedding. Julianne Potter is a young woman in her twenties in love with her best friend, Michael. Michael will call his friend to announce that he is going to marry another woman and she will have to find the perfect excuse not to attend that wedding , to avoid at all costs a wedding in which she would like to be the protagonist. Almost two hours of humor, entertaining moments, and a script that the public fell in love with at the end of the nineties and that is still a good idea available on Netflix today.
Breakfast with diamonds
Audrey Hepburn is the protagonist of one of the great classics of the genre. Although it is not a typical romantic comedy, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is one of the best love movies if you are looking for something different, original, quality, brilliant. Based on the Truman Capote novel of the same name, Hepburn stars as Holly Golightly, a quirky aspiring actress with a life of extravagance and freedom. Paul Varkaj (George Peppard) will arrive on their block and together they will have to learn to live together in a different and crazy love story that you have surely seen before but that you can continually relive on Netflix.
If you haven’t seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s, surely you are well aware of the scene of Holly Golightly having breakfast in front of the famous jewelry store and now is a good time to let yourself be won over by a film that does not age despite having been released in the sixties. Definitely one of the best movies ever.
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Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox live on the Upper West Side, happily, with totally different and alien lives. He is the owner of a chain of bookstores. She is the owner of a small neighborhood bookstore inherited from her mother. Their lives have crossed in the “real” world and, although they don’t know it, both maintain a close relationship by email. A romantic comedy that premiered more than twenty years ago and is still a must today.
Nottinghill
Among the classic love movies that you have surely seen at some time is Notting Hill. Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant star in this classic romantic comedy in which she is a famous movie star and he is the owner of a small bookstore in a London neighborhood. In one of the trips of Anna Scott, the superstar, they will meet . They will fall in love in a complicated love story full of inconveniences and with those classic “movie” overtones.
Beautiful woman
In a list of romantic movies, Pretty Woman could not be missing. Although with a drawback: you can’t watch it for free but you can rent it on Amazon Prime Video . Richard Gere and Julia Roberts star in this Cinderella-style love story with one of the most mythical couples in cinema. He, a businessman. She, a “happy life” girl. Together they will live a beautiful love story that has been continuously covered in the cinema, whose scenes we know by heart or have ever seen.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is a great classic of romantic and musical cinema and also one of the best romantic movies on Netflix. It is difficult that you have not seen or at least heard the theme Time of my Life, whose dance represents the climax of the film. In addition, it is one of the most remembered and imitated scenes in the history of cinema. Its protagonists, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, get into the skin of Johnny and Baby. They are a dance teacher and a young woman who falls in love with him and will try to seduce him. They will both meet at a vacation resort where she also goes with her family. A family that does not approve of this friendship, much less the attraction that arises and that is palpable in the dance that both perform before a dedicated audience.
A film that deals with issues that, for the time, were delicate and very revolutionary. All kinds of topics: abortion, women’s sexual freedom or their initiative in relationships. The film had problems to be released because it was believed that the issues it dealt with would frighten the audience, but it finally became a great success and today it is one of the most viewed and adapted films in history. Also, Dirty Dancing never goes out of style and is still one of the best options if you are looking for something romantic and quality.
Love story
Chosen as one of the most romantic films of all time, Love Story is a great classic of the genre, an essential. One of the best romantic films in history that since its premiere in 1970 has become a benchmark for lovers of these films and one of the greatest dramas ever shot. The plot centers on two relationships, that of the wealthy student Oliver Barrett IV and a girl from humble origins, Jenny Cavilleri. But also Oliver’s story with his father. Two intertwined plots: Oliver’s father does not approve of their relationship and stops supporting him financially, which causes the young couple to have financial problems and their evolution is more difficult than they dreamed.
The evolution of this couple, the drama they will have to face and the resolution of these two relationships in an unforgettable ending worthy of the greatest tragedy, made Love Story a success, a sweetened but bitter version of the classic love novels and family tragedy that were so popular at the beginning of the last century and that resurfaced thanks to the success of films like Love Story.
