15 Movies to Watch This Month

In light of Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, here’s a list of 15 iconic romance movies...

Black love movies

The Photograph

Rating: 10/10

This incredible love story follows the life of Mae Morton, the daughter of an infamous photographer, as she navigates falling in love with journalist Michael Block, who is writing an article about her late mother’s early life.

Love Jones

Rating: 9/10

"Darius, an aspiring writer, and Nina, an aspiring photographer, share an instant connection after a chance meeting at a Chicago club. The two bond over music, photography and poetry, and eventually begin a torrid romance. However, when Nina decides to move to New York and mend her relationship with her ex-fiancé, Marvin, it leaves Darius heartbroken, and the couple's future in jeopardy." (From IMDB)

love and Basketball

Rating: 8/10

"Monica and Quincy are two childhood friends who both aspire to be professional basketball players. Quincy, whose father, Zeke, plays for the Los Angeles Clippers, is a natural talent and a born leader. Monica is ferociously competitive but sometimes becomes overly emotional on the court. Over the years, the two begin to fall for each other, but their separate paths to basketball stardom threaten to pull them apart." (From Rotten Tomatoes)

beyond the lights

Rating: 8.5/10

"Singer Noni is having trouble dealing with her success. Feeling unable to cope any longer, Noni tries to kill herself, but luckily Kaz , the police officer assigned to be her bodyguard, thwarts her suicide attempt. Noni and Kaz feel an instant attraction, but those in their orbit oppose the romance for fear the pair will stray from the course planned out for both of them." (From IMDB)

Brown sugar

Rating: 7.5/10

Sidney and Dre owe their entire friendship and their careers to one single childhood moment, witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York corner. Now 15 years later, she is a revered music critic and he is a successful, music executive. Both realize that their life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they saw that day on the corner, together.

90s love movies

Never Been Kissed

Rating: 8/10

"Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson." (From IMDB)

clueless

Rating: 10/10

"Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-step brother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him." (From IMDB)

she's all that

Rating: 7/10

"High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees to a seemingly impossible challenge. He has six weeks to gain the trust of nerdy outcast Laney Boggs -- and help her to become the school's next prom queen." (From IMDB)

10 things i hate about you

Rating: 9/10

"Kat Stratford is beautiful, smart and quite abrasive to most of her fellow teens, meaning that she doesn't attract many boys. Unfortunately for her younger sister, Bianca, house rules say that she can't date until Kat has a boyfriend, so strings are pulled to set the dour damsel up for a romance. Soon Kat crosses paths with handsome new arrival Patrick Verona. Will Kat let her guard down enough to fall for the effortlessly charming Patrick?" (From IMDB)

the wedding planner

Rating: 9/10

"Mary is rescued from a near-fatal collision with a runaway dumpster by handsome pediatrician Steve Edison. After spending the most enchanting evening of their lives together, Mary thinks she's finally found a reason to believe in love. What she doesn't know is that cupid and her career are about to collide head-on." (From IMDB)

Nicholas Sparks movies

the Longest ride

Rating: 9/10

College Student, Sophia Danko, is about to graduate and start her career in the arts in New York when she falls in love with professional bull rider, Luke Collins. Their personal life goals cause conflict in their love life, but they find inspiration when they meet an elderly man who shares his great love story with them.

Dear John

Rating: 7/10

Soldier, John Tyree, falls in love with college student, Savannah Curtis, while he’s on leave from the military. Over the course of 7 long years, the two keep their love alive through letters as John is deported to fight in dangerous conditions.

The Notebook

Rating: 10/10

Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun fall in love as young-adults in 1940’s South Carolina. Things were going great until Allie’s parents decided that Noah wasn’t wealthy enough to be Allie’s husband. After years of being apart, the pair reconnect just before Allie is wed to another man.

a walk to remember

Rating: 10/10

Set in North Carolina, "A Walk To Remember" follows the rite of passage of a jaded, aimless high school senior (Shane West) who falls in love with a guileless young woman (Mandy Moore) he and his friends once scorned. The two develop a powerful and inspirational relationship in which they discover truths that take most people a lifetime to learn. (From Rotten Tomatoes)

the last song

Rating: 9/10

Estranged from her father (Greg Kinnear) for a number of years, teenage Ronnie (Miley Cyrus) isn't pleased when her mother ships her and her younger brother down to a Southern beach town to spend the summer with him. While her father uses a shared love of music to try to reconnect with her, Ronnie finds romance with a handsome local (Liam Hemsworth). (From Rotten Tomatoes)