Ten Brilliant Romantic Movies For The First Date
We would like to introduce you a list of the most romantic movies, you can watch with your lover. Those movies will reduce us to tears or at least put us in a romantic mood. Movies have also become a popular choice for a first date, because they are comfortable for both and usually a good theme for conversation afterwards. Our data is based on polls of market giant HMV.
1. Ghost is a romantic fantasy movie filmed in 1990, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker. Starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg.
Review: After being killed during a botched mugging, a man’s love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn’t even realise that her powers were real.
2. Dirty Dancing is a romance movie filmed in 1987. The story was written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino. Starring Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach. Review: Spending the summer in a holiday camp in 1960s with her family, Frances “Baby” Houseman a sweet daddy’s girl falls in love with the camp’s dancing teacher. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. When her father knew that, he bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. They do one final show-stopping dance together. Baby’s father learns that Johnny was not responsible for his partner’s pregnancy and learns to accept that although his beloved daughter is transitioning to womanhood, she will always love him.
3. The Notebook is a romance movie filmed in 2004, based on the novel of Nicholas Sparks and directed by Nick Cassavetes. Starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Review: The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival in 1940. But they are separated by Allie’s parents who dissaprove of Noah’s unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah’s 200-year-old home that he restored for her, “to see if he’s okay”. It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.
4. Titanic is a romantic movie filmed in 1997, directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. Starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio . Review: Fictional romantic tale about two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard on the ill-fated voyage of the ‘unsinkable’ ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship’s crew) are based on real historical figures. Beginning with genuine footage of the departure of the Titanic on its fateful voyage, this epic movie tells the events of that tragic night from the perspective of fictional survivor Rose. As an old lady of 100 she recounts her story of duty, love and disaster to a salvage crew searching for a lost gem.
5. Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy movie filmed in 1990. The story written by J.F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall. Starring Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Hector Elizondo. Review: Edward is a rich, ruthless businessman who specializes in taking over companies and then selling them off piece by piece. He travels to Los Angeles for a business trip and decides to hire a prostitute. They take a liking to each other and he offers her money if she’ll stay with him for an entire week while he makes the “rich and famous” scene (since it doesn’t do for a man of his stature to be alone at society parties and polo matches).
6. Love Actually is a romantic comedy movie filmed in 2003, written and directed by Richard Curtis. Starring Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley. Review: Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie.
7. Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragedy filmed in 1968. The undying story was written by William Shakespeare and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Starring Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O’Shea, Pat Heywood, Bruce Robinson, Michael York, John McEnery. Review: Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet’s daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.
8. An Officer and a Gentleman is a movie filmed in 1982, the story written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford. Starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr., David Keith, Robert Loggia. Review: Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.
9. Moulin Rouge! is a romantic movie filmed by Baz Luhrmann, writtend by Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce. Starring Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, John Leguizamo. Review: In 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine. But her affections are also coveted by the club’s patron: the Duke. A dangerous love triangle ensues as Satine and Christian attempt to fight all odds to stay together but a force that not even love can conquer is taking its toll on Satine…
10. Amélie is a romantic movie filmed in 2001 ,directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The story written by Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Arthus de Pengerne, Maurice Bénichou. Review: Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father’s mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her.