Valentine's Day Films That Both of You Will Enjoy

In wartime Morocco, a cynical American nightclub owner comes face to face with the woman who left him in Paris, now traveling with her husband, a hero of the Resistance. Nearly every line you half remember from old movies comes from this one.

Watch it if: you want the greatest of them all.

A farm boy turned pirate sets out to rescue his true love from a prince she doesn’t want to marry, with help from a swordsman and a giant. A fairy tale that is funny, romantic and exciting in equal parts.

Watch it if: one of you claims not to like romantic films.

An American and a French student meet on a train and decide to spend one night walking around Vienna before he flies home in the morning. Almost nothing happens except two people talking, and it is completely absorbing.

Watch it if: you remember what it was like to stay up all night talking.

A quiet London bookshop owner spills orange juice on the most famous film star in the world, and she kisses him. Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant make an impossible romance feel entirely reasonable.

Watch it if: you want a classic romantic comedy with no surprises.

A new student can’t date the girl he likes until her fierce older sister has a boyfriend too, so he pays the school’s resident bad boy to try. It is Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in a 1990s high school, with Heath Ledger singing on the bleachers.

Watch it if: you want something light, fast and funny.

Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters with no fortune, takes an instant dislike to the wealthy and proud Mr. Darcy. Joe Wright’s version is gorgeous to look at, and the proposal in the rain is hard to forget.

Watch it if: you want sweeping music and long looks across a room.

A New York economics professor flies to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family and discovers that they are among the richest people in Asia, and that his mother does not approve. Glossy, funny and hugely romantic.

Watch it if: you want glamour and a great wedding scene.

After a painful breakup, Joel learns that his ex has had him erased from her memory and signs up for the same procedure, then changes his mind halfway through. Strange, sad and one of the most romantic films of its decade. The story begins on Valentine’s Day.

Watch it if: you have been together long enough to know that love is complicated.