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Romantic Movies – Top 20 For Your Pleasure

It’s hot outside here in Texas, soaring up over the one hundred degree mark during the evenings as well as the day. It can make choosing an indoor activity far more attractive than ever before. Winter in most states means finding indoor activities, it’s summer time here where you want to be indoors whether you are looking for a romantic activity or just a quiet evening together.

In that vein, I’ve made up my list of the Top Twenty Romantic movies that you and your spouse might consider renting or putting in for an evening of togetherness and romance. Be sure to enjoy a good meal, whether you grill it outside or prepare a nice cold crisp salad on the inside, settle in after the kids have gone to bed, toast with your ice cold iced tea and enjoy!

  • Ladyhawke – This is a beautiful film from the early eighties and guaranteed to bring out the romantic in all of us
  • Pretty Woman – It wouldn’t be a romantic movie list without this modern Cinderella tale of a hooker with a heart of gold who reforms an errant Knight and they save each other
  • Far and Away – Many people didn’t like this Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman vehicle, but it’s about the tempestuousness of love and the fact that you don’t always choose who you love, but you can choose how you love
  • City of Angels – A tragic love to be sure, but it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all
  • Somewhere in Time – This movie ranks up in the top of most films of all time – as a love story that does not diminish even through time
  • Ghost – Another now classic, this movie really launched Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Swayze into the modern pop culture consciousness as Sam desperately tries to reconnect with the love of his life after he dies. This movie needs a lot of tissue!
  • A Walk in the Clouds – Keanu Reeves as a romantic lead came into his own in this little remarked on film and it’s a story that can appeal to many
  • You’ve Got Mail – This AOL funny film features Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as lovers that swap emails and keep their personal lives to themselves, but they fall in love with the idea of the other – then connect for real
  • The American President – Long before West Wing, Aaron Sorkin introduced us to the widowed President who falls in love with the beautiful and intelligent lobbyist and the humor that provides
  • The Princess Bride – Fairytales have never come in quite this fashion again although Shrek comes in a close second!
  • What Dreams May Come – This is a ten tissue box journey into the true meaning of a love and how tragedy can affect us all
  • Ever After – Another Cinderella tale, this time featuring Drew Barrymore as the French step-daughter who is kept in the cinders and the ashes – only she catches her prince with a well-timed and aimed apple at the side of his head when he tries to take her father’s horse
  • Kate & Leopold – This delightful film featured Hugh Jackman as a noble who falls forward in time and falls in love with the driven and career oriented Kate
  • Serendipity – A movie that takes fate and drives viewers crazy as they root for this couple to encounter each other once more
  • Sleepless in Seattle – Can you fall in love with the voice on the radio? In this movie, you can fall in love with a whole family and discover love in the most unlikely of places
  • Titanic – The Titanic is a tragic story of love discovered and love lost, but it’s also how love can inspire someone to reach beyond themselves and live their life to the fullest
  • Casablanca – This is an all time favorite of mine and it’s about loving someone enough to let them go, not to mention it’s got Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
  • Sabrina – Whether you choose the original or the Harrison Ford version, Sabrina is about discovering that love is not a fantasy and that the reality is you can find love with someone unexpected
  • Always – This is another Ghost like film, but instead it’s about finding heroes and love in the hereafter
  • While You Were Sleeping – When a case of mistaken identity introduces a lonely woman to a warm, yet quirky family – she doesn’t want to let them go and they don’t want to lose her either

What romantic movies are your favorites?

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.