The 32 best date night movies

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Choosing a movie for date night is trickier than it seems. Sometimes you want something relaxing and easy. Other times, the mood demands something more challenging. Scientifically speaking, horror movies help raise the heart rate which increases our attraction to someone. But not everyone can tolerate jump scares. So, whatareactually the greatest date night movies?

Turns out, there’s a lot of movies that fit the bill. For couples spending the night on the couch and want viewing options that span it all, there’s plenty of movies that fit the mood. (And maybeget intothe mood.) From the scary to the surreal, from the hilarious to the heartfelt, these are the 32 best movies for date night.

32. Let the Right One In (2008)

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Let the Right One In

31. Drag Me to Hell (2009)

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Drag Me to Hell

30. Language Lessons (2021)

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Language Lessons

The COVID-19 pandemic spawned a lot of low-budget, lo-fi movies that took advantage of our newfound familiarity with Zoom. While most of these movies were duds (due in large part to their rushed and haphazard creation), Natalie Morales’ Language Lessons defies expectations, being so carefully crafted and intimate that you can almost feel its embrace. After a man (Mark Duplass, also co-writer with Morales) loses his husband, his Spanish lessons with his online teacher (Morales) becomes an unexpected source of joy, friendship, and healing. While Language Lessons isn’t a romance, it is still a moving picture that shows how much personal connections are a gift.

29. Blue Velvet (1986)

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Blue Velvet

28. Crimson Peak (2015)

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Crimson Peak

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27. Interstellar (2014)

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Interstellar

We could go on and on about Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar being a thoughtful, almost mathematical exploration of love – both the romantic and the familial. It is expansive, a summation of Nolan’s craftsmanship firing on cosmic cylinders before he reached even more daring heights through pictures like Tenet and Oppenheimer. We could spend all day talking about that. Instead, let’s just hear from Anne Hathaway’s Dr. Brand, who delivers this moving bit of wisdom in the film: “Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it.”

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26. When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

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When Harry Met Sally

25. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith

There’s a reason why newly engaged couples replicate the poster for their Save the Date mailers, even if it technically misses the point. Doug Liman’s action-comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith is, even now, a clever satire on modern marriage, being so full of clever subversions of domesticity through its many outlandish spy movie twists. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie famously co-star in Mr. and Mrs. Smith as a married couple who secretly work for competing assassination firms, and find themselves tasked with killing each other. Mr. and Mrs. Smith wasn’t the first film to ever tie up action and romantic comedies in a bow – or, more appropriately, a hand restraint – but it undeniably popularized it. And you know what? It still hits the mark.

24. Vanilla Sky (2001)

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Vanilla Sky

In Cameron Crowe’s ethereal remake of Alejandro Amenábar’s 1997 film Open Your Eyes, Tom Cruise plays a hotshot magazine publisher in New York City who starts to question reality after a debilitating car accident. (Penélope Cruz stars in both versions of the movie too, playing the same role.) Vanilla Sky is entirely centered around one man’s vanity, and the grave costs it takes on his personal life. While the movie is not strictly a love story, it is about wanting to feel something deep and real, even if that means having to live forever in a dream.

23. Warm Bodies (2013)

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Warm Bodies

Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies isn’t the only romantic comedy set in a zombie apocalypse. Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead bit off that piece of the flesh pie years before, in 2004. But Levine’s Warm Bodies tells its story from a zombie’s perspective – a hapless, self-aware husk named “R” (Nicholas Hoult) – and in doing so, offers a fresh perspective to a decaying subgenre. “R” is a zombie who finds himself drawn to a human survivor named Julie (Teresa Palmer). After eating Julie’s boyfriend and inheriting his memories and feelings, “R” also develops a romantic connection to Julie. No matter one’s fatigue towards zombie comedies, Warm Bodies is an entertaining look into how a romantic spark can make us come alive again.

22. Notting Hill (1999)

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Notting Hill

There was a time when Julia Roberts reigned supreme over Hollywood’s romantic comedies. At the apex of her powers, the celebrity movie star played, well, a celebrity movie star, in Roger Michell’s lovely and lively rom-com Notting Hill. Hugh Grant stars as a bookshop owner (travel books only) who one day has a most unexpected customer: famed actress Anna Scott (Roberts). Somehow, Scott takes a liking to Grant’s William, and the two begin dating despite their wildly different worlds. Besides being knee-slapping hilarious, Notting Hill enables anyone to daydream about a whirlwind improbable romance. But let’s just assume the person you’re watching with is also the person you’re dreaming of too, yeah?

21. Romeo Must Die (2000)

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Romeo Must Die

20. The Night House (2020)

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The Night House

19. Before Sunrise (1995)

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Before Sunrise

18.  Her (2013)

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Her

Spike Jonze’s widely acclaimed science fiction romance Her stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man living in a near, technologically-advanced future who falls in love with “Samantha,” an artificial intelligence assistant. (Think Siri or Alexa, just with the voice of Scarlett Johansson.) There’s a lot to unpack with the movie’s themes regarding the genuine nature of love and our increasing reliance on technology, not to mention the rapid evolution of generative artificial intelligence creeping into all industries and livelihoods. So let’s just say that Spike Jonze made something so impressively resonant and real, a hopeless romance that impossibly inspires optimism despite a lonelier future ahead.

17. It Follows (2014)

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It Follows

There’s a dozen ways to read into the frightening premise of It Follows. For someveryunfortunate souls, sexual intercourse is the only way to pass on being the target of a sinister supernatural entity. One young woman living in Detroit learns that the hard way, when a seemingly harmless one night stand makes her “it.” However you want to grasp the movie’s elaborate metaphor, be it the risks of having sex or our reluctance to be intimate, It Follows is an effective mid-sized horror movie that guarantees the blood gets pumpingsomewhere.

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16. The Big Sick (2017)

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The Big Sick

In 2017, comedians Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani co-wrote a loose retelling of their real-life romance in The Big Sick, with Nanjiani playing a fictional version of himself and Zoe Kazan as Emily. Buoyant and expressive, The Big Sick is a delightful gem of a rom-com that surpasses its familiar genre trappings and occasional inappropriateness – including the greatest 9/11 joke ever told in a movie – through the palpable authenticity of its storytelling from the storytellers involved. For couples who want to laugh and cry and cheer, fall “ill” love with The Big Sick.

15. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

If couples not only want an utterly chaotic rom-com but to experience cinematic history, there’s Pedro Almodovar’s 1989 black comedy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. Antonio Banderas stars as a former psychiatric patient who is devastated to learn that the movie star he once romanced in the past doesn’t remember him. So he does the reasonable thing: He kidnaps her and ties her up, interrogating her to remember a time they were together. Surreal, vulgar, yet strangely sweet (we promise), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is for those who want some spice in their date night flick. Fun fact: The movie is largely responsible for the creation of the NC-17 rating, being too risqué for an R-rating but not outright pornographic to be X-rated.

14. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

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Zack & Miri Make a Porno

13. In the Mood For Love (2000)

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In the Mood for Love

12. Deadpool (2016)

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Deadpool

It’s easy to underestimate Deadpool due to its crass humor that appeals almost exclusively to fanboys (emphasis on “boys”). But this R-rated, Golden Globe-nominated Marvel comedy has a surprising amount of emotional pathos beneath its red spandex. The movie tells of a mercenary (Ryan Reynolds, in a passion project role) who finds long-overdue peace in a beautiful woman (Morena Baccarin). In his desperation to cure himself of a terminal disease and live the quiet life he wants, he becomes a tormented subject of a black market experiment that activates his latent mutant superpowers. A romantic revenge thriller with DMX needle drops, Deadpool makes a great date night flick for couples for whom love is a loaded gun.

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11. Get Out (2017)

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Get Out

10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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9. Palm Springs (2020)

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Palm Springs

8. Past Lives (2023)

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Past Lives

7. Friends With Benefits (2011)

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Friends With Benefits

At the height of his movie career, pop singer Justin Timberlake co-starred with a feisty Mila Kunis in a saccharine rom-com about lovers who like to keep thingscashz(“casual”). Though the movie painfully screams early 2010s – peep Timberlake’s skinny ties, flash mobs, and PlayStation Move product placement – Friends With Benefits is surprisingly endearing as it is enduring, with its smart take on how much commitment it actually takes to maintain even the most casual of situationships.

6. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

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Crazy, Stupid, Love

When studio romantic comedies got stale, Glen Ficarra and John Requa’s Crazy, Stupid, Love gave the genre a sudden burst of fresh air. Steve Carell stars as a divorced, dripless middle-aged man who takes up lessons in modern dating with Jacob (Ryan Gosling), a handsome womanizer. In the process however, Jacob begins to unlearn his own ways when a spirited young woman (Emma Stone) challenges and excites him. Easily one of the smartest and funniest mainstream romantic comedies produced in the 21st century, Crazy, Stupid, Love enlightens us all how love is the one constant that never guarantees us anything.

5. Decision to Leave (2022)

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Decision to Leave

Renowned Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook has explored love in all its forms many times in his movies, be it brotherly (Joint Security Area), violent (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), unconventional (I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK), and forbidden (Thirst). But no movie of his teems with problematic eroticism like Decision to Leave. A neo-noir psychological mystery thriller, Park Hae-il plays a married police detective whose investigation into a murder leads him to question the widow (Tang Wei), whom he slowly develops feelings for. Boasting some of Park Chan-wook’s most titillating filmmaking in his career, Decision to Leave is a suspenseful throwback to the noir romances of yesteryear and ideal for couples who want something truly challenging.

4. The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

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The Matrix Resurrections

3. No Time to Die (2021)

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No Time to Die

2. Bones and All (2022)

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Bones and All

Ever lusted after someone so bad you could almost eat them alive? That’s the playful conceit behind Luca Guadagnino’s arthouse romantic horror Bones and All. Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet co-star as young adult cannibals who find understanding in their shared voracious appetite, and hit the road in search of meaning. While queasy couples may find it hard to stomach its gruesomeness, those who stick with it may be rewarded with a delectable treat that muses on our eternal hunger for acceptance.

1. Your Name (2016)

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Your Name

In this breathtaking and glittering romantic fantasy from Makoto Shinkai, two high school students in modern Japan swap bodies and struggle to learn the ins and outs of each other’s lives. After the initial shock and hilarity wears off, their investigation into the strange phenomenon’s origins lead them into the crater of Japan’s geographic nexus of naturally-occurring disasters. While Your Name is profoundly specific to Japanese sociology, the movie transcends cultural barriers to be a moving, sweeping saga about personal connections that transcend time and space.

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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

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Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”

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4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”

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1Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”

Shadow brandishes a gun in Sonic The Hedgehog 3

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3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”

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Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Nicola Coughlan as Joy in Doctor Who Christmas special Joy to the World

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2Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”

2Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”

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3Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”

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4Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”

4Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”

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