VALENTINE’S MOVIE LIST (SPEAKING OF “LOVE”)

Haven’t done an alphabet list in awhile, so here’s one, of movies that are mostly favorites of mine and are also romantic or at least passionate, or in some cases both:

ATONEMENT
BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (relatively realistic take on post-war romance and one of the best movies ever made in "old" Hollywood)
CASABLANCA (maybe THE best "old" Hollywood movie ever made)
DAMAGE (knocked by critics but captures a kind of insane passion I recognize)
ENGLISH PATIENT, THE (passionate in that oddly cold way the Brits can do successfully sometimes)
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
GHOST (despite the parodies)
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
JULES AND JIM
KING CREOLE (the only "K" I could think of besides KISMET and KAMA SUTRA, which isn’t exactly romantic but it is passionate)
LONE STAR (the John Sayles one)
MALE ANIMAL, THE (often overlooked Henry Fonda screwball romantic comedy)
NOTTING HILL (Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts at their most charming and loveable)
OUT OF THE PAST (with Jane Greer playing the best bad girl in movies ever)
PRINCESS BRIDE, THE
QUIET MAN, THE
ROB ROY
STAR MAN
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Bogie & Bacall fall)
UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, THE
VENUS
WAY WE WERE, THE
X-MEN (hey, there ain’t many movies with titles that begin with "X" and I know women who found it very romantic just because of Hugh Jackman)
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
ZEBRAHEAD (I had problems with this, but a lot of people I know dug it, and it was the only "Z" I could think of, and it is a decades-later version of part of my story)