As an art form, cinema has long sought to capture, from a set of frames, the different ways in which human feelings can be captured. Very different feelings interpreted by actors who tried to express them with the greatest intensity possible.
And of course, Love has always had a very relevant role in this group of affections that characterizes us That is why the seventh art is prolific in romantic films, although not all of them are especially recommended.
Love in the seventh art: recommended romantic movies
However, That does not mean that there are many cinematographic works with which to reflect on the love. Here I propose a selection of romantic films that explore the theme of love in its different facets.
1. Moonrise Kingdom
In Moonrise Kingdom, two young people meet, fall in love and decide to leave everything behind. The problem is that they are still far from reaching adulthood. Funny and biting comedy about teenage love and the inability of adults to tame youthful impetus Furthermore, being a work by Wes Anderson, it could perfectly be on the podium of the best directed romantic films.
You can see the trailer in this video:
2. The Madison Bridges
The romantic history lived between Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood in The bridges of Madison has transformed this film into one of the classics of love films. Is about a melodrama starring mature characters who, upon meeting each other, see their way of conceiving life shake In that sense it is very different from the usual romantic films in which the passionate and spontaneous love of young people whose ideas about the world are especially mobile are narrated.
In this film It tells the love story between Hazel, a lung cancer patient, and Augustus, a former basketball player who had to have his leg amputated They both find themselves involved in a love relationship that they know cannot last, as Hazel’s health will get worse and worse.
4. The Giant Mechanical Man
A demonstration that You can also make excellent love movies on a moderate budget The story of a human statue and a woman who passes by the same place many times gives rise to the construction of one of those narratives that captivate due to the believability of the characters and the subtlety with which their emotions are expressed.
5. Love Actually
The funniest side of love is portrayed in this acclaimed British film released in 2003. In this cross-story telling, different characters experience romance from its most bizarre and fun side Highly recommended.
You can see its trailer in this video:
6. High Fidelity
The film conversion of Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name is one of the most recommended romantic films. It tells the story of a thirty-year-old man in low times who, in addition to having to face an economic situation that can lead to disaster, he intends to return to his ex-girlfriend, with whom he is still in love.
7. Annie Hall
Woody Allen in all his splendor reflecting on love (or, rather, heartbreak) from that scathing and ironic point of view that characterizes him His digressions towards other topics are also especially fun, a very typical feature of the excellent scripts with which this director usually works.
The counterpoint of a love story is that one of the two members of the couple… does not exist. There are few romantic movies in which the girl is, in reality, a doll bought on the Internet. Lars and a Real Girl confronts us with the uncomfortable issue of whether attachment or love can exist when the person we fall in love with only lives in our imagination and what is the nature of love when it does not have a real person to place it on.
Movie about love, covering much of the lights and shadows of this concept Here all the phases of falling in love appear, from meeting a person until having to manage the emotions derived from separation.
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One of the classics of Mexican cinema, this work is also one of the best-known romantic films in the Spanish-speaking world. It tells a love triangle experienced by some young people who have not long left adolescence behind, from a raw and realistic perspective.
12.Weekend (2011)
One of the most interesting films about homosexual relationships. Weekend is committed to realism and explores love by raising the identity doubts it raises, the way in which it can evolve, involving us in a spiral of experiences that we can never fully control and, when dealing with the case of a gay couple , also the problems that censorship and social pressure pose
Two young people from different continents meet and, knowing that in a few hours they will have to separate to return home, they decide to walk and talk through the streets of Vienna. The film basically consists of this walk and the dialogues that occur throughout it, about the way in which both young people understand love and imagine what a future together would have been like. Its two sequels are also highly recommended
14. Blue Valentine (2010)
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in one of the romantic films in which drama has the greatest weight. Relates the couple’s desperate attempts to revive their relationship and make your family stop being dysfunctional due, in large part, to social pressure and work.
This is the trailer in Spanish:
15. Chico & Rita (2010)
A story that mixes romance in the streets of Havana, music and the graphic style of the well-known designer Javier Mariscal. Created using a technique called rotoscoping in which frames that capture the performance of real actors are drawn on top of, this romantic film about An impossible love is a true spectacle for the senses in which the way things are communicated is more important than the plot.
Bonus track: Ghost, beyond love (1990)
If this movie does not appear in the selection of 15 best romantic movies As such, it is because despite having achieved a lot of success, I consider that it does not lend itself too much to reflection. However, I have decided to include this mention to remind those who have not seen it that it is always good to know these types of popular culture classics so that, perhaps it can be included in your particular selection of love movies
