FILMS ABOUT LOVE
Movies can be a powerful way of conveying a message!
While there are countless love-themed movies – especially romantic ones – we have narrowed it down to a few hidden gems. Movies that might not be on everyone's list when it comes to love, but well worth the watch, as they all contain a message that is worth receiving.
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Here are 15 Movies in no Particular Order:
Lars and the Real Girl
A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet. (IMDb)
Your Name
Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart? (IMDb)
Pocahontas
An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia. (IMDb)
The Family Man
A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife. (IMDb)
Brother Bear
When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back. (IMDb)
Groundhog Day
A self-centered Pittsburgh weatherman finds himself inexplicably trapped in a small town as he lives the same day over and over again. (IMDb)
Beauty and the Beast
A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love. (IMDb)
Love Actually
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. (IMDb)
The Intouchables
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. (IMDb)
Stand by Me
After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. (IMDb)
The Fisher King
A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake. (IMDb)
Harold and Maude
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. (IMDb)
Shoplifters
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold. (IMDb)
Forrest Gump
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart. (IMDb)
Peaceful Warrior
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast. (IMDb)