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Search returned all film titles and reviews that contain the keyword "love" out of 1678 total films.



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MASTERPIECES

1. Amélie (2001) 10  
   Shy French waitress Amélie decides to be a regular do-gooder and accidentally falls in love.
   
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) 10  
   Her father's ill, ice caps are melting and aurochs are invading six-year-old Hushpuppy's bayou. Love.
   
3. Her (2014) 10  
   Spike Jonze's ingenious, surreal meditation on being human, knowing one's self and falling in love.
   
4. In the Mood for Love (2001) 10  
   Kar-Wai Wong's masterpiece of romantic longing and restraint that dissolves like cigarette smoke against silk.
   
5. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 10  
   Wes Anderson's charming story of two 12-year-old lovers who flee their 1960s New England town.
   
6. Perks of Being a Wallflower, The (2012) 10  
   A coming-of-age story about a shy freshman who meets his first love. Surprisingly deep, moving.
   
7. Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 10  
   Businessman Adam Sandler begins a romantic journey with a curious woman amidst personal chaos.
   
8. Tree of Life, The (2011) 10  
   Terrence Malick's insightful, gorgeous and bold vision. Sincerely explores the meaning of life and love.
   

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EXCELLENT

9. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) 9  
   Winstead awakens in a bunker. Is the outside world under widespread attack? Tense chamber piece.
   
10. 2046 (2004) 9  
    Kar-Wai Wong presents a futuristic recapturing of a womanizing writer's memory of six past lovers.
    
11. (500) Days of Summer (2009) 9  
    Offbeat, witty romantic comedy (not a love story) starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Great.
    
12. All the Real Girls (2003) 9  
    This believable natural drama about love and anger stars Zooey Deschanel.
    
13. Broken Embraces (2009) 9  
    Pedro Almodóvar's cinematic poem about a blind writer-director and his lost love Penélope Cruz.
    
14. Drive (2011) 9  
    Getaway driver Ryan Gosling falls in love with his married neighbor. Badass, stylish character study.
    
15. Happy Together (1999) 9  
    Gay lovers from Hong Kong visit Argentina and their relationship shatters. Stylish Kar-Wai Wong poem.
    
16. Ruby Sparks (2012) 9  
    Ingenious dissection of a man falling in love with his own idea of a woman.
    
17. Shape of Water, The (2017) 9  
    Love story between a mute janitor and an amphibious creature at a 1962 top-secret laboratory.
    
18. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 9  
    A love story intertwines the slums and gangs of Mumbai with a TV game show.
    

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VERY GOOD

19. Adjustment Bureau, The (2011) 8  
    Politician Matt Damon and a ballerina are affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
    
20. Avatar (2009) 8  
    Cameron delivers a forbidden love story set in an extraordinary, photorealistic alien world. 3D wonderment.
    
21. Blue Valentine (2010) 8  
    Deftly alternates between a dysfunctional couple's earlier in-love happiness and their later anguish. Remarkable.
    
22. Cemetery of Splendor (2016) 8  
    Gentle magical realism featuring Thai soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness, ancient kings, and love.
    
23. Chicken with Plums (2012) 8  
    Melancholic, humorous fable about a violinist's last days, and passionate love lost in 1950s Iran.
    
24. Cloverfield (2008) 8  
    It's Godzilla epicness, Blair Witch Project shakiness, and Alien viciousness concealing a Manhattan love story.
    
25. English Patient, The (1996) 8  
    A three-hour, WWII-era love story. A young nurse tends to a badly burned Hungarian mapmaker.
    
26. Fountain, The (2006) 8  
    Three stories of love/mortality that weave in the legendary quest for the Fountain of Youth.
    
27. From Up on Poppy Hill (2013) 8  
    Lovely but mundane parable about preserving history from the Miyazakis/Studio Ghibli. Set in post-WWII Japan.
    
28. In the Bedroom (2001) 8  
    Tragic story about a couple's only son who falls in love with a single mother.
    
29. Lobster, The (2016) 8  
    Absurd allegory for how society regards romantic relationships and loneliness. A provocative, original love story.
    
30. Lovers of the Arctic Circle, The (1998) 8  
    A story of circular lives, with circular names, in a circular place. Life is happenstance.
    
31. Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001) 8  
    Barber Billy Bob Thornton blackmails his wife's boss and lover. Directed by the Coen Brothers.
    
32. Moominvalley - Season 1 (2019) 8  
    A 2019 adaptation of Tove Jansson's beloved, charming Moomin family stories, animated in 3D CGI.
    
33. One I Love, The (2014) 8  
    Weekend getaway of a married couple on the brink of separation becomes clever plot twist.
    
34. Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) 8  
    Jim Jarmusch's stylish vampires are an ancient source of creativity for human culture. Clever, cool.
    
35. Shakespeare in Love (1998) 8  
    A young Shakespeare meets Gwyneth Paltrow and is inspired to write Romeo and Juliet.
    
36. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) 8  
    A bumbling farmer and animals get into big-city shenanigans. Lovely stop-motion Plasticine from Aardman Animations.
    
37. Shopgirl (2005) 8  
    A love triangle of Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman and Steve Martin. Elegant examination of love.
    
38. Super 8 (2011) 8  
    In 1979, a mysterious train crash provides a monster-movie backdrop to a sweet love story.
    

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GOOD

39. Across the Universe (2007) 7  
    A psychedelic love story musical set in the 1960s, using the songs of The Beatles.
    
40. Addicted to Love (1997) 7  
    Black comedy about jilted lovers starring Meg Ryan as a tough revenge-seeking motorcyclist.
    
41. Aimée & Jaguar (1999) 7  
    Set in 1943 Berlin, a Nazi wife has a love affair with a Jewish lesbian.
    
42. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) 7  
    Do you really love lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
    
43. Color Out of Space (2020) 7  
    Nicolas Cage in a grotesque H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. A glowing purple meteorite crashes into Massachusetts.
    
44. Frankenweenie (2012) 7  
    Tim Burton's stop-motion love story between a boy and his (undead) dog. Classic horror homage.
    
45. Girlfight (2000) 7  
    Quick-tempered Michelle Rodriguez secretly trains as a boxer. She achieves remarkable success and finds love.
    
46. Happy Times (2001) 7  
    A bittersweet comedy about a poor, aging bachelor who hasn't had luck in love.
    
47. Happythankyoumoreplease (2011) 7  
    Six 20-something, self-absorbed New Yorkers deal with love and the undeniable prospect of actual adulthood.
    
48. I Cannot Go on as I Am (2015) 7  
    Silent musical by Edgardo Flores. A woman loses her job and lover. Meaning in stillness.
    
49. Jellyfish (2008) 7  
    Intersecting stories of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv. Loved Batiya's story.
    
50. Love Songs (2008) 7  
    Chain-smoking and breaking into song on the streets of Paris. Musical beds. Clotilde Hesme shines.
    
51. Love & Teleportation (2013) 7  
    A disgraced quantum mechanics professor invents a teleportation machine in his garage. Clever, charming ending.
    
52. Spider-Man (2002) 7  
    Tobey Maguire is bitten by a genetically engineered spider and subsequently wins Kirsten Dunst's love.
    
53. Surviving Picasso (1996) 7  
    Natascha McElhone is Francoise Gilot, Pablo Picasso's only lover strong enough to withstand his cruelty.
    
54. Transformers (2007) 7  
    Spectacularly rendered Autobot and Decepticon destruction. ADHD kids love these plotless nonsensical blasts.
    
55. Z for Zachariah (2015) 7  
    A radioactive global catastrophe. Three survivors? Mesmerizing first half. Weak love triangle. Clever water wheel.
    

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FAIR

56. Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) 6  
    Mini-me, we do not gnaw on the kitty. Just pet him, stroke him, love him.
    
57. Bandits (2001) 6  
    Two bank robbers fall in love with Cate Blanchett, the bored housewife they've taken hostage.
    
58. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) 6  
    Neurotic British woman Renée Zellweger is determined to improve herself while looking for love.
    
59. Inventing the Abbotts (1997) 6  
    A tale of class division and forbidden love set in the 1950s, starring Liv Tyler.
    
60. Keeping the Faith (2000) 6  
    Priest Edward Norton and rabbi Ben Stiller both fall in love with Jenna Elfman.
    
61. Love (2012) 6  
    Lonely astronaut stranded aboard the ISS develops cabin fever, becomes one with the universe. Posthumanism.
    
62. Lovelace (2013) 6  
    Superficially explores the story of one-time porn star Linda Lovelace and her sleazy, abusive husband.
    
63. Shallow Hal (2001) 6  
    Shallow Jack Black falls in love with 300-pound Gwyneth Paltrow because of her inner beauty.
    
64. Upside Down (2013) 6  
    If you can somehow accept the ludicrous science/impossible physics, it's charming. An ambitious love story.
    

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ADEQUATE

65. Alice in Wonderland (2010) 5  
    Tim Burton took a story I love, stripped out the allegories and added CGI. Sigh.
    
66. City of Angels (1998) 5  
    Celestial duty or earthly love? Will angel Nicolas Cage become human for Meg Ryan? Sappy!
    
67. Cloverfield Paradox, The (2018) 5  
    Absurd, unstable jumble of sci-fi space horror that connects to the previous two Cloverfield movies.
    
68. Home (2015) 5  
    Adorable cuttlefish-like aliens attack Earth, then learn to love Rihanna's music. I guess? Zany, underdeveloped.
    
69. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) 5  
    Kate Hudson is completely insane. Our love fern! You let it die!
    

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FROM BAD TO WORSE

70. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) CRAP  
    Stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. It's craptastic slasher fun!
    
71. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) CRAP  
    Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts and Freddie Prinze Jr. are back in this gory slasher sequel.
    
72. Loser (2000) CRAP  
    Irritating college student Jason Biggs falls in love with Mena Suvari.
    
73. P.S. I Love You (2007) CRAP  
    Hilary Swank was miscast among sitcom-quality sentimental actors where everyone is trying to be cute.
    
74. Say It Isn't So (2001) CRAP  
    I would love to say this Heather Graham movie wasn't so. And get a refund.
    
75. Sweetest Thing, The (2002) CRAP  
    A disposable saccharine comedy about searching for love, starring Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate.
    
76. Tuxedo, The (2002) CRAP  
    Chauffer Jackie Chan wears a special gadget-laden tuxedo. Jennifer Love Hewitt is also present.
    

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Statistical ratings distribution of these 76 films (4.5% of total rated films):
With enough films included, it usually approximates a bell curve with a mean near 6.5...
(especially when considering that CRAP is 0-4 combined).
Average rating for these 76 films: 7.2.



10:

10.5%




9:

13.2%




8:

26.3%




7:

22.4%




6:

11.8%




5:

6.6%




CRAP:

9.2%