Booked out restaurants or a list of lovey dovey movies that all end the same? Let's change it up for 2024 and sit down with your partner to watch some love stories with a difference.
Here are the 10 best alternative Valentine's Day films that have an abundance of love and firey, romantic, unadulterated passion - but perhaps not as you'd expect.
Here are the 10 best alternative Valentine's Day films that have an abundance of love and firey, romantic, unadulterated passion - but perhaps not as you'd expect.
5. True Romance (1993)
The clue is sort of in the title and there's few films more romantic that True Romance. Take a journey with lovers Clarence and Alabama as they go on the run from police and gangsters and watch a movie that is about the true cost of love! Photo: Contributed
Red Miller and Mandy Bloom are a couple completely in love, at peace and content. However, when Mandy is kidnapped by a troop of drug fuelled bikers and a religious cult, Red (Nic Cage) will stop at nothing to avenge her. So, so romantic. Photo: David Livingston
Joaquin Phoenix stars in the romantic film with a huge heart. Set in a futuristic universe, Phoenix plays loser in love Theodore as he develops a relationship with computer's operating system. Photo: Moviestore/Shutterstock
Made by Poor Things' director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster takes place in a futuristic world that forces singletons to find a lover within 45 days of becoming single or they are transformed into an animal of their choice. Hilarious, sad and an accurate depiction of how it can sometimes feel to be lonely or unlucky in love.