Top 5 Romantic Films: Valentine's Special

I'm not generally a rom-com fan. This is not, however, due to any sense of misplaced machoism - I'm waaaay too in touch with my feminine side. They are just so frustratingly formulaic:

Boy meets girl
Girl hates boy
Girl loves boy after accident or cosmic event
Boy lies/cheats/forgets 1 month anniversary/watches sport
Girl and boy argue
Girl moans to friends and eats ice-cream
Boy chases girl
Girl and boy kiss in the rain
End credits (optional montage of future bliss together)

Every so often, a romantic film comes along that plays with convention and turns out to actually be quite good.
Do your love life a favour - skip The Notebook, and watch one of these beauts instead. Romance 100% guarenteed (not a guarentee):

5 - 500 Days of Summer

Boy Meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t.

4- Pretty Woman

I am secretly a huuuuge fan of Julia Roberts, and her smile has never been bigger than in this, the greatest of all modern rom-coms.

3- Amelie

Much has been said already, by me, repeatedly, ad nauseum etc about how great this is. Totally insane but very, very wonderful.

2 - Empire Strikes Back

Before you argue, consider the immortal lines:

Leia: “I love you”

Solo: “I know”

Plus, not even Clarke Gable got himself frozen in carbonite for the woman he loved!

1 - Casablanca

THE most romantic film of all time - bar none! No film in the history of the universe has been more quoted (and misquoted), and no black and white film has ever made me cry like a little baby girl who has lost it's dummy.

Play it, Sam...