How do you celebrate Valentine's Day?
Are you a fan of the "rom," but don't care so much for the "com"?
Here are some steamy romance movies that can heat up your screen and liven up your Valentine's Day date night. Because we know all you want to do after dinner on the most romantic day of the year is pop in a good movie about beautiful people falling in love.
1. Titanic (1997)
The painting. The fogged up car windows. Titanic was a lot of things -- a star-crossed romance, a disaster movie, a period piece -- but front and center was the undeniable chemistry between Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack and Kate Winslet's Rose.
And although their love story ended in tragedy, their steamy affair had us flying.
Streaming on: Amazon Video[1].
2. The Notebook (2004)
A love story also tinged with shades of tragedy, The Notebook tells the story of a 1940s couple who are torn apart by war and family disapproval. On the other side, an elderly man telling their story to a woman with Alzheimer's. The latter part makes the movie a classic Nicholas Sparks tearjerker, but the first part is all steam and heat thanks to the real-life relationship between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.
Streaming on: Amazon Video[2].
3. Blue is The Warmest Color (2013)
A French lesbian film famous (and infamous[3]) for its graphic love scene, Blue is the Warmest Color is more than the sum of its controversies. Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux crackle onscreen as the naive teenager Adèle and the older, blue-haired art student Emma, and the movie is elegant, raw and powerful.
4. Y Tu Mama También (2001)
A Mexican coming-of-age comedy directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, Y Tu Mama Tambien is a hilarious erotic road trip comedy. Two 17-year-old boys, Julio and Tenoch, travel across Mexico with an older woman, Luisa, in search of good times and drunken adventures, and all the steamy scenes and sexual transgressions take place alongside the politically-charged backdrop of 1990s Mexico.
5. Ghost (1990)
Pottery never looked the same again.
Oft-parodied, never replicated, Ghost turned a bizarre concept -- a man's ghost tries to communicate to his girlfriend with the help of a fake psychic -- into one of the most romantic movies of the '90s. And that's all thanks to a shirtless Patrick Swayze, a gorgeous Demi Moore and an unlikely pottery wheel.
Honorable mentions:
- In the Mood for Love (2000)
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
- Cruel Intentions (1999)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
See our Valentine's Day guide to rom-coms here[7].
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