If sappy romances don't cut the mustard for you, and Valentine's Day and all of the happy couples running around make you feel bad about being single, watch one of these movies and remember love is unexpected, love can be complicated, and love can be hard, really hard.
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An Affair to Remember
If you have ever seen the scene in Sleepless in Seattle where Rita Wilson has an emotional meltdown while talking about this movie you'll know it is a real tearjerker, full of missed opportunities and false assumptions that conspire to keep a couple apart.
Ammonite
When a depressed wife is left with a fossil hunter to convalesce beside the sea they unexpectedly fall in love. Loosely based on early paleontologist Mary Anning's life.
Atonement
A couple becomes star-crossed after her sister falsely identifies her lover as having committed an awful crime, dooming their relationship and sealing all of their fates together.
The Bridges of Madison County
While her husband and children were away, a housewife meets and falls in love with a traveling photographer and has to make a tough decision, stay in a passionless marriage or run away with a man who makes her happy and leave her teenage children.
Brokeback Mountain
Two cowboys fall in love in 1960s Montana. Despite both of them marrying and having families, they carry on their secret on again, off again love affair for 20 years.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Joel is having Clementine erased from his memory since finding out she did the same after they broke up. Will they both be doomed to suffer the same fate if they meet again?
Ghost
The ghost of Patrick Swayze tries to protect his lover from the people that murdered him.
Her
A man falls in love with a voice on his computer.
Leaving Las Vegas
A man who lost his career and marriage moves to Las Vegas to drink himself to death and falls in love with a prostitute.
Me Before You
A woman takes a job as a carer for an angry, cynical recently paralyzed man, never expecting that she will fall in love with him.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
An artist befriends her subject, a bride-to-be, in order to secretly paint a portrait for her upcoming nuptials. In doing so, they fall in love and a difficult choice must be made.
A Star Is Born
Could you love someone enough to make the ultimate sacrifice for their talent? That is the common thread that binds all four versions together.