25. Halloween if you’re old school, Saw if you’re new school – Guaranteed to get your date in your lap. A hanky to stifle the screams.
24. From Here to Eternity – The original sex-on-a-beach. Medium hanky.
23. Bound – Gina Gershon, ex-con lesbian butch plumber, gets it on with Jennifer Tilly. Need we say more? No hanky, ‘cept for the cuts and bruises.
22. Leaving Las Vegas – Whore meets alcoholic, they fall in love. Can’t go wrong with losers in love. High hanky factor.
21. Streetcar Named Desire – “Stellllllllllaaaaa!” Medium hanky factor.
20. French Lieutenant’s Woman – A story-within-a-story about a a love affair that stuns polite society. Meryl Streep acts her ass off. Medium hanky factor.
19. Shakespere in Love – Gotta love Gwyneth doing some Bill Shakespere. Medium hanky.
18. Body Heat – Frackin’ hot Kathleen Turner and William Hurt bangin’ each other, tossing furniture through glass doors and plotting to kill. No hanky, ‘cept to clean up after the lovin’.
17. How Stella Got Her Groove Back – Woman, empowered. Nuff said. Low hanky.
16. Jerry McGuire – “You had me at hello.” Low hanky.
15. Like Water for Chocolate – A love story for foodies. Subtitles are hawt. Medium hanky.
14. Remains of the Day – Stiff British servants who can’t get their groove on. Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins in the quintessential story of unrequited love. Medium hanky.
13. Brokeback Mountain – Brokeback lovin.’ A Valentine for gay men. Medium hanky.
12. Edward Scissorhands – Freak love. Low hanky.
11. Say Anything – Classic Cusack. The loser wants the valedictorian. Low hanky.
10. There’s Something About Mary – Great laughs with hottie Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller. “We’ve got a bleeder!” No hanky factor.
9. An Officer and a Gentleman – Richard Gere defines both in this classic. Low hanky.
8. House of Flying Daggers – Cinematic masterpiece that your eyes will love, if not your date. “A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful member of a rebel army out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem,” says IMDB. High hanky.
7. Last of the Mohicans – Filmed in Western North Carolina, this lush movie with luscious stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline Stowe will touch you. High hanky.
6. English Patient – Hot and heart-rending forbidden love during wartime. Bonus: Kristin Scott Thomas stands up naked in a tub. High hanky factor.
5. Bull Durham – A down-and-out ballplayer (Kevin Costner) ends up finding true love with a loose fan (Susan Sarandon). Low hanky.
4. Boogie Nights – Porn stars have hearts, too. No hanky.
3. Sex, Lies and Videotape – Our girl Andie in the movie that made her. The movie also set James Spader down a path of big screen kink the likes of which we’ve never seen before. The title says it all. No hanky.
2. Legends of the Fall – Three brothers (including Brad Pitt) fall in love with one woman (the gorgeous Julia Ormond) in this epic love story. A little cheesy, but still touching. High hanky.
1. Dirty Dancing – The best date movie ever, filmed in Western North Carolina. It’s young, summer love. It’s topless Patrick Swayze. It’s dirty dancing. It’s Jennifer Grey in Daisy Dukes. “Nobody puts Baby in a corner!”
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on the other hand, you’re leaving out
Out of Africa
The Horse Whisperer
And the classic…
Notorious
Speaking of Chow Yun Fat (who is VERY sexy), I vote for Anna & the King with Jodie Foster & Mssr. Chow….
My girlfriend didn’t think THE DEPARTED was a very good Valentine’s movie.
I remember seeing HANNIBAL on Valentine’s Day of 2001 with a group of girls, but they picked the movie and had a sense of humor about it.
House of Flying Daggers instead of Crouching Tiger???
Are you on crack?
Crouching Tiger was by far the superior, more evocative, and deeply emotional film.
Flying Daggers is good. Don’t get me wrong.
But watch the scene in Crouching Tiger where Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun Fat are at the little inn in the bamboo forest…shly touching hands…
or the scene where Yang Zhiyi and the bandit are in the natural springs, looking up at the night sky.
Way deeper, way more subtle, and far more beautiful than flying daggers.
If you are a true fan of film, I demand an immiediate correction!!!!
🙂
Ummmm, Doctor Zhivago? Gone with the Wind? Casablanca? Okay, I must be with Huw. OLD!
Shoot, if I have a date, I definitely wanna end up in the dark, but not necessarily in a movie theater. Date movies are for teenagers and old married people.
I would have to move Remains of the Day into the top ten, and add to the hanky factor. My husband and I saw it in the theater, and I was crying so hard at the end I couldn’t talk for over an hour. He didn’t dare try to talk about the movie until the next day when we were at lunch, and as soon as he mentioned it, I started crying in the middle of the restaurant. I’m such a sap. Oh, and I’d add Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant to that list– best movie (date or otherwise) ever! Oh, and Singin’ in the Rain, just for the scene where Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse are dancing/flirting, and he finally just yanks her over to him– wow! Okay, I’m done.
fixed, mish! thanks!
huw, excellent suggestions.
Bah. Kids these days. They stopped making good date movies before any of us were born.
Casablanca.
Now, Voyager.
African Queen.
And for a good scary, one, Vertigo.
Ummm..isn’t #9 actually Top Gun? O&G was Richard Gere, 1982.