With all the movie genres that flood the industry, romance is the kind that will always draw in a huge audience. They have the ability to arouse sympathetic sensations and empathetic emotions that hit us in the heart. The good ones will consume us by their tales of passion, lust, and tragedy and make us feel every butterfly, tear, chill, and heartbreak along with the characters as they fall in and out of love.
Romantic films connect with crowds because they make us feel for what we have, what we had, or what we dream of having. It may be fictitious in script, but once the characters jump off the page and come to life on the big screen, no heart can cease to wrench or beat faster. They provoke those lovestruck feelings within all of us through such a broad scope of stories.
So here’s a list of 15 movies that will inevitably bring out the hopeless romantic in us all.
- Tragic Classic – Remember Me
- Forbidden Love – Love Story
- Comic Relief – Crazy Stupid Love
- High School Sweetheart Cliché – If I Stay
- Passionate Pining – Water for Elephants
- Eye Opening Drama – The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Romantic Rollercoaster – Like Crazy
- Bad Romance – Blue Valentine
- Serious Seduction – Dirty Dancing
- Lifechanging Love – About Time
- Friend Zone – One Day
- Tender Tearjerker – A Walk to Remember
- Lifelong Love – Stuck in Love
- Soulmate Serenade – The Notebook
- Epic Romance – Titanic