14 Unconventional Movies about Love to Watch this February

 

These 14 amazing Hollywood movies changed the way the world understands love. This Valentine’s Day, why not warm up with these 14 classic romantic movies before Valentine’s Day? We recommend you and your partner start on the 1^st of February and watch one every day. 

So, gear up for an amazing fortnight of love, romance, heartaches, excitement and more...Talk about setting the mood for Valentine’s Day!

1st Feb: 500 Days of Summer

In this romantic comedy, Tom - a greeting card writer - falls in love with Summer. Unable to decide on Tom, Summer leaves him after 500 days. However, the love season changes as Tom finally meets Autumn.

Quotable Quote: “It's official. I'm in love with Summer! I love her smile. I love her hair. I love her knees. I love how she licks her lips before she talks. I love her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. I love it when she sleeps.”

Awards: 2 Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture & Best Actor (Comedy and Musical Category) - 2009

 

 

 

2nd Feb: WALL-E

A little garbage collecting robot WALL-E waits 700 years in solitude before the love of his life EVA appears. And then begins an intergalactic journey into space as both of them discover new adventures, emotions and finally love.

Quotable Quote: “Evaaaaa….”

Awards: Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film - 2009 

 

 

 

 

3rd Feb: Lars and the Real Girl

A young and delusional introvert man develops an unconventional love for a doll he buys over the Internet. To the audience's surprise, his town folks accept his new plastic love with open arms.

Quotable Quote: “Don't you say we do not care for her. We push her wheelchair. We drive her to work. We drive her home. We wash her. We dress her. We get her up, and put her to bed. We carry her. And she is not petite, Lars. Bianca is a big, big girl!”

Awards: Satellite Awards for Best Actor - 2007 

 

 

 

 

4th Feb: Up

78-year-old aviation enthusiast Carl sets out to fulfill his and his wife’s lifelong dream and flies his house to Paradise Falls in South America. Russell, an 8 year old wilderness explorer, accidentally becomes a stowaway on this adventurous journey.

Quotable Quote: “My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may speak. Squirrel!”

Awards: 2 Oscars: Best Original Score and Best Animated Feature Film - 2009 

 

 

 

 

5th Feb: Brokeback Mountain

This is a movie about two young men who discover forbidden love on the Brokeback Mountain and how their secretive relationship proceeds over the years with much trouble.

Quotable Quote: “I wish I knew how to quit you!”

Awards: 3 Oscars: Best Director, Best Writing / Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score - 2005 

 

 

 

 

6th Feb: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

To erase each other from their memories, a couple undergoes a procedure when their relationship turns bad. However, they find out that they couldn’t completely forget each other and discover their relationship all over again.

Quotable Quote: “What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.”

Awards: Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay - 2004 

 

 

 

 

7th Feb: Silver Linings Playbook

Just out of a mental institution, Pat moves in with his parents to try and rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife. But he meets Tiffany on the way, a mysterious girl, with her own set of weird problems.

Quotable Quote: “You know, for a while, I thought you were the best thing that ever happened to me. But now I'm starting to think you're the worst.”

Awards: Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role - 2013 

 

 

 

 

8th Feb: Amelie 

Amelie, a simple girl finds beauty in the small things of life, helps others in whatever way she can, especially her father to get over her deceased mother. Somewhere in-between, she discovers love.

Quotable Quote: “Any normal girl would call the number, meet him, return the album and see if her dream is viable. It's called a reality check. The last thing Amélie wants.”

Awards: BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay - 2001 

 

 

 

 

9th Feb: I Love You, Philip Morris

A cop meets with a near death accident and decides to stop pretending to be straight. He lives it up as a gay man, finds his true love, finds being gay is expensive and turns into a con man, and then runs from prison multiple times to just be with Philip Morris, the love of his life. One whacky love story!

Quotable Quote: “I'm gay. I'm a huge F*^. A F#%%^T! That's what they're gonna call me! Ambulance Attendant: If you say so, sir."

Awards: GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film - Limited Release - 2011

 

 

 

 

10th Feb: Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands never ventured out of his castle into the real world. Kim, the petite girl from the town below gives him the first look inside it. All doesn't go well in this paradise full of people. Edward returns home only to steal the sunshine of this beautiful now-snowfall-ridden town.

Quotable Quote: “You see, before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren't up there now, I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it.”

Awards: Oscar for Best Makeup - 1991 

 

 

 

 

11th Feb: My Sassy Girl (Korean Version)

Gyeon-woo does so much for the girl he meets by accident, unaware of the fact that he might be in love. Finally, love comes calling but they part only to cross each other's path again in the future!

Quotable Quote: “The 10 Rules: 1. Don't ask her to be feminine 2. Don't let her drink over three glasses 3. Drink coffee instead of Coke/Juice 4. If she hits you, act like it hurts. If it hurts, act like it doesn't 5. On your 100^th day together, give her a rose during her class 6. Make sure you learn fencing and squash 7. Be prepared to go to prison sometimes 8. If she says she'll kill you, don't take it lightly 9. If her feet hurt, exchange shoes with her 10. She likes to write. Encourage her!”

Awards: Best Foreign Film - Award of The Japanese Academy - 2001 

 

 

 

 

12th Feb: Mary and Max

Not a romantic movie. Mary and Max is about the love between chance pen-friends Mary Daisy Dinkle - 7 years old - and Max – an obese 44 year old with an overeating problem. Together they bring meaning to their lives as Mary grows up into a young woman. Finally she leaves everything and sets out to meet Max. But fate has a something else in store for her.

Quotable Quote: “Cigarette butts are bad because they wash out to sea, and fish smoke them and become nicotine-dependent.”

Awards: 2 International Awards for Best Animated Feature Film - 2009 

 

 

 

 

13​th Feb: The Bridges Of Madison County

A 40-something Francesca Johnson watches her life change as Robert, a Nat Geo photographer drives into her life. Never to meet again, the two discover a love less ordinary for 4 days and part with memories that’ll last a lifetime.

Quotable Quote: "Old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but glad I had them."

Awards: Oscar for Best Actress - 1995

 

 

 

  

 

14th Feb: Amour

Growing old together is an amazing feeling as octogenarian couple Georges and Anne find out in Amour. Anne suffers a stroke one day severely testing out the couples bond of love.

Quotable Quote: "You don't have to hold my hand all the time. I can take care of myself, you know."

Awards: Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of The Year - 2013

 

 

 

 

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