Two impossibly twenty-somethings wandering Vienna, flirting via philosophy and bad poetry. Romance is terrifying, but maybe just for one night, we get to walk with a stranger in a random city and be our unabashed selves.
Nobody puts this movie in the corner, I say. Patrick Swayze in a tight black tee, teaching a sheltered rich girl how to move? That's a public service! A true classic.
Heath Ledger entered, sang on the bleachers, and we witnessed the classic bad boy trope falling for a smart, angry girl. This high school Shakespearean movie is comfort food for the soul.
Shrek is a middle finger to conventional fairy tales, reminding us that true love isn't about being perfect, but about finding someone who loves your weird, swamp-dwelling self, and what could beat that?
"You had me at hello" entered the cultural lexicon for a reason. Tom Cruise's sports agent with moral crisis, finding love with Renée Zellweger is peak '90s romance. There are some red flags here or there, but lets not entirely get into that.
22 years of separation, a border in between, and love that refuses to die, this Yash Chopra epic is the finest Bollywood melodrama. Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta's chemistry transcends logic, geography, and time itself.
Set against World War II, it's the OG love story. Bogart and Bergman, wartime romance, impossible choices, and an ending that proves love isn't always about getting what you want.
It’s a tale as old as time, but Imran Khan is telling the tale, so we don’t mind watching it over again. It's breezy, genuinely funny, and captures the confusion and joy of falling in love with your best friend.
Saif and Rani bicker their way across years and continents in Bollywood's answer to When Harry Met Sally. They're wrong for each other until realised they aren't, and a journey full of cartoon interludes that shouldn't work but totally do, is the whole point.
Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his AI operating system, and what could be more relevant today than that? It's a meditation on connection, loneliness, and what it means to truly love someone in an increasingly digital world.