Ten Romantic Films for Valentine's Day (The Remix)

Are you and your special someone planning on staying in and making dinner at home for Valentine’s Day?

If so, Patch has a list of 10 movies that will likely inspire you to cuddle up and be romantic.

It Happened One Night (1934)

Frank Capra’s comedy about a spoiled heiress (Claudette Colbert) who runs away from her family and into the arms of a reporter (Clark Gable) looking for a story swept the Academy Awards. It’s still considered one of filmdom’s greatest romantic comedies.

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Often considered the greatest of all screwball comedies, Howard Hawkes’ classic tells the tale of a paleontologist (Cary Grant) who is pursued by a kooky heiress (Katharine Hepburn) and her titular pet leopard.

Casablanca (1943)

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine,” Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) grumbles after old flame Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) shows up at the lounge he operates in Africa during the early days of World War II. Michael Curtiz’s Best Picture winner likely has more famous lines than any other picture in American film history and includes the ballad “As Time Goes By.”

Claudine (1974)

Claudine (Diahann Carroll), a single mother from Harlem on welfare, tries to provide for her six children. She has a romance with Roop (James Earl Jones), a cheerful garbageman she meets while working on the side as a maid, but the relationship gets complicated when the couple contemplate marriage. "A heart and soul comedy. Can you dig it?" Claudine is noted for being one of the few mainstream films featuring a predominantly African-American cast that was not a blaxploitation film.

Mahogany (1975)

Tracy (Diana Ross) from the South Side of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome where she takes off as a premier model and designer. Her new fame spurs the choice between the man she loves (played by Billie Dee Williams) or her newfound success. Produced by Motown and directed by Berry Gordy.

Annie Hall (1977)

Woody Allen’s most beloved film is a bittersweet paean to mismatched relationships and – as are many of the director’s pictures - New York City itself. This film is your best Valentine’s Day bet for a movie that is both screamingly funny and poignant.

Say Anything (1989)

Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut is simultaneously one of the most romantic pictures of the past 25 years as well as one of the best films ever made about youth. The movie is loaded with memorable lines – most notably, “I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.”

Love Jones (1997)

This movie was so popular during its time, the title has forever entered the urban lexicon to meaning, "to fall crazy in love." The story is about a poet, Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate), who meets Nina Mosley (Nia Long), a gifted photographer who recently lost her job. The two meet a a poetry reading and fall immediately in love. The chain of events to follow spark conversations between the two and their group of tightly knit friends about the push and pull of love and when do you take love seriously.

Love and Basketball (2000)

The film spans roughly thirteen years of friendship between childhood sweethearts Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy McCall (Omar Epps). It is the story of two next-door neighbors who meet at 11 years old and have mutual love of basketball. Both want to play in the NBA. Their love-hate relationship takes many turns as they mature. But the heartfelt ending is enough to melt anyone's heart.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Based on Annie Proulx’s short story, Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed drama about two cowboys who carry on a secret relationship in 1960s Wyoming is among the most deeply moving films on the subject of longing in recent memory. It was with this film that the late Heath Ledger proved that he had the makings of a great actor.