Lets face it: Valentines Day isnt for everyone. Its a hard pill to swallow no matter your status, and if youre alone on V-Day, its even harder. But thats where the magic of movies comes in.Forget true love, here are five films to keep you warm and touch your heart.Chunking Express (1994) – Split into two vignettes, Chunking Express has melancholy and heartache to spare.It follows two heartbroken men, both police officers, as they long for love in the dead of night. Their stories connect at a food stand in the Chungking towers of Hong-Kong in truly beautiful ways. A hazy 90s dream of a film.Beginners (2011) – Based on a true story, Mike Mills Beginners is a heartfelt examination of fathers and sons, and the women they choose to love.Ewan Mcgregor plays Oliver, a bachelor piecing together memories of his recently deceased father, who came out at age 75.He remembers his father as he embarks on a new relationship. Its a quiet, subtle film filled with warmth that almost nobody saw back in 2011.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – (2004)Simply one of the greatest films of the last 20 years, Eternal Sunshine envisions a world where painful memories of love gone by can be surgically erased overnight.It asks its audience a crucial question: is it better to have loved and lost, or to have never loved at all? Its a film that shows us who weve always been, and who well always be.Its message rings true: real love is a collection of memories and moments. We will strive to look forward, but there is nothing wrong with looking back.Punch Drunk Love (2002) – Paul Thomas Andersons small scale masterpiece Punch Drunk Love features a revelatory Adam Sandler in a bright, colorful, nerve-wracking love story.The film follows a lonely plunger salesman crippled with social anxiety, on the run from evil phone sex operators and on the trail of his new found love. Short, sweet and blissfully complex, Punch Drunk Love is a small triumph.Boogie Nights (1997) – Everybody has one special thing. Theres no denying it: sex is a beautiful thing, and so is pornography. Paul Thomas Andersons epic, sweeping 90s saga follows the golden age of pornography in its heyday, from the late 70s to the early 80s.Loud, fast, smart and sexy, Boogie Nights is cinematic entertainment in its purest form. But what truly elevates it is how deeply it cares for its characters. Boogie Nights finds beauty and humanity in a subject commonly seen as taboo.
