Snuggle up with your favorite Valentine’s film

Mike Alexander, Staff Writer

With the holiday season at an end, it’s time to take down the mistletoe and lawn ornaments and bring out the flowers and heart shaped candies. That’s right ladies and gentlemen; Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. What better way to spend it than by partaking in a movie night with that special someone? Stock up on your favorite junk food, snuggle up on the couch, and start streaming, because nothing spells romance quite like Netflix. But with a wide library of movies to choose from, which one best sets the mood? Romantic comedy? Drama? A little of both? Here are some movie ideas to help kick start your Valentine’s Day date night.

13 Going On 30 (2004)

After a humiliating thirteenth birthday party, young Jenna Rink (Christa B. Allen) is dissatisfied with her teenage life and wishes to be “Thirty, flirty and thriving.” Little does she know that that is exactly what she will get. The next morning, Jenna wakes up to the life she has always dreamed of. With a beautiful apartment, a high-profile career and the cool friends she’s always wanted, the only thing missing is her childhood best friend, Matt (Mark Ruffalo). Instead of bringing them closer together, time seems to have only pulled them further apart. Older Jenna (Jennifer Garner) tries to find out what happened between her and Matt over the last seventeen years in the hopes that he will be a part of her life again.

Chocolat (2000)

An expert chocolatier, Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves to a small French village with her daughter and opens a chocolate shop across the street from a church just before lent. Believing Vianne to be a threat to the town’s traditional way of life, the town mayor (Alfred Molina) publicly denounces Vianne as a growing number of the townsfolk begin to trust her. Meanwhile, a group of gypsies sets up camp at the edge of town, making the villagers uneasy. The gypsy group’s leader (Johnny Depp) quickly becomes smitten with the rebel chocolatier. Vianne must make a choice: leave town and start again, or stay and suffer the wrath of the mayor.

Letters to Juliet (2010)

Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) and her fiancé travel to Verona, Italy for a pre-honeymoon vacation. While Sophie visits the fictitious “lovers courtyard” where the heartbroken leave letters asking for advice, she discovers a letter from the 1950’s. In the letter a woman named Clare (Vanessa Redgrave) feels ashamed for leaving her lover the night they were to run away together. Sophie finds Clare and together they set out to search Verona for Clare’s old flame, Lorenzo Bartolini (Franco Nero).