There are many love movies that we can watch on streaming platforms and that you surely know by heart. But many of them fall into the usual, in the repeated and predictable stories that we already know and an ending that we have been waiting for since the film begins. If this February you are fed up with clichés and romantic love and with all love movies being the same, we leave you some that are a good idea to escape from this.
No happy endings, no boy meets girl. Without clichés or conventions, without love stories that conquer everything and without myths of romantic love. There are many movies where love is the protagonist without falling into the usual and we leave you some ideas for this February Valentine’s Day.
Before dawn
The “Before Sunrise” trilogy is, without a doubt, one of the best if you are looking for quality love movies without falling into clichés, myths of romantic love and boy meets girl, they fall in love and are very happy. Released in the nineties with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as protagonists, they give life to Céline and Jesse. She is a French student and he is a young American who is traveling through Europe after a bad streak. They will meet on a train to Paris but he must make a stop. And she will let herself go to spend a night together walking around Vienna together and dealing with all kinds of issues and questions about life.
After the first film, we can see the entire Jesse and Céline trilogy.
Forget about me
Another essential in different love films that move away from classic stories with happy endings is “Forget about me.” Or, in English, “Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind.” Joel and Clementine, played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, are a seemingly happy couple but she has ordered that all memories of their relationship be erased from her memory. He, desperate, will look for the one who did it to ask for the same. But forgetting each other, in this science fiction and love and heartbreak film, will not be as simple and linear a process as they expected. A fun, intelligent and peculiar feature film.
500 days together
Surely you have ever seen scenes or heard about 500 Days Together, one of the best non-love movies that we can see. The film, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschannel, follows two completely different people. Tom and Summer. He is passionate, naive and believes in love and falling in love, in happy stories. She believes in fun, in living in the moment, in enjoying without thinking too much. When both coincide in the same company, they fit. They have many things in common and together they are a whirlwind of happiness and entertaining moments. But his way of facing a relationship is totally different in a comedy of love and heartbreak, dating, sex, laughter and a brilliant soundtrack if we are looking for something different and charming with which to spend the afternoon.
Something in common
Released in 2004, “Garden State” is a film by director Zach Braff and starring himself alongside Natalie Portman. Braff plays Andrew, who will return home, after ten years away and years using antidepressants, to attend a funeral. There he will meet Samantha, a girl who will make him see life in a totally different way and whose psychological problems also haunt her. Samantha will help him return home and will also try to heal her traumas with her past and her family relationships.
If you don’t know it, Something in Common is one of the best romantic movies that you can see if you are looking for something original, fun, very intelligent and with an excellent soundtrack that will take you back to your twenties to remember those years and the problems in which that you will feel identified.
Love me if you dare
Julien and Sophie, capable or unable. It all begins with a child’s game in this film by Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard. A simple game: challenges and a capable or unable. But what begins as a child’s game to escape the routine that suffocates two children will become a way of life. In a crazy way of life in which almost anything goes and nothing stops them. A relationship of comings and goings, of loves and hates and toxic ideas that you better not copy at home. But “Love me if you dare” (Jeux d’enfants) is a story of love and heartbreak, of “amor fou” and of a challenge for decades. Or, as director Yann Samuell lets us know: A game, a friend and a box.
About Time
Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson star in “A Matter of Time” as Tim Lake and Mary. A fantasy, science fiction and love film in which nothing will be as you expected and that goes far beyond relationships. Tim Lake is 21 years old and discovers that he can travel in time like something that all the men in his family have had, his father explains to him. They can come back to a certain time to make it work. So Tim will use this power to conquer the girl of his dreams but also to protect those he loves without causing too many changes in his current life.
Red, White & Royal Blue
If you are looking for something more modern and current and want to get away from any of the previous classics, this movie on Amazon Prime Video is a good option to do so. Much more predictable than the previous ones and falling into some classic romantic comedy clichés, but “Red, White & Royal Blue” is an entertaining and current love story that you can watch on a Sunday afternoon without expecting to see one of the best movies. It’s the story of Alex and Henry. The first is the son of the first female president of the United States and in the midst of a re-election campaign. The second, the British prince. During a meeting, they will experience an altercation that will force them both to pretend to be friends with the idea of avoiding a diplomatic crisis. But as they both spend time together, they will discover that neither of them is as they seem to be in a film that will not only tell us about love but will do so from a perspective of equality, customs, tradition and politics.
