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Valentine's Day 2019: 17 Unconventional Rom Coms to Stream This Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day 2019: 17 Unconventional Rom-Coms to Stream This Valentine's Day

By Akhil Arora | Updated: 14 February 2019 10:30 IST

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Fancy spending Valentine’s Day streaming 500 Days of Summer (left) or Jab We Met?

Highlights

Our Valentine Day 2019 list has 8 movies from India, rest from Hollywood
Oldest film is from 1953, the newest two are from 2017
Audrey Hepburn, Ayushmann, Deepika Padukone star in two each

Tired of watching the same trite rom-coms on TV channels each year on Valentine's Day with your significant other? Sick of the formulas and platitudes that they peddle and offer? Well, in the interest of spicing up that very situation, we have cobbled together 17 unconventional rom-coms that are available for streaming in India this Valentine's Day, be it on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hotstar, Google Play, iTunes, JioCinema, ZEE5, and ...well you get the idea. Not all the movies below neatly fit into the definitions of a rom-com, some flirt with other genres and styles, and others don't even have a central couple to follow. And one or two might even be slightly conventional Valentine's Day fare — everyone has their guilty pleasures, after all.

Valentine's Day 2019: Hollywood and Bollywood Movies to stream on 14 February 2019

1. (500) Days of Summer (2009)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are the stars of director Marc Webb's feature-length debut — told in a non-linear fashion — in which a young man named Tom (Gordon-Levitt) recounts roughly a year he shared with a girl named Summer (Deschanel), whom he thought to be “the one”.

Watch (500) Days of Summer on Google Play or iTunes this Valentine's Day

2. Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017)

Set in the titular small town, a free-spirited young woman (Kriti Sanon) sets out to find her new object of affection — the author of a book she fell in love with — by enlisting the help of a local printing press owner (Ayushmann Khurrana). Inspired by Nicolas Barreau's novel, The Ingredients of Love.

Watch Bareilly Ki Barfi on Netflix or ZEE5 this Valentine's Day

3. Before Sunrise (1995)

In the first chapter of Richard Linklater's long-drawn-out trilogy — nearly two decades passed between the release of the three films — two idealistic twentysomethings, an American man named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and a French woman called Céline (Julie Delpy), spend the night together walking around in Vienna.

Watch Before Sunrise on Google Play this Valentine's Day

4. The Big Sick (2017)

HBO's Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon fictionalise their real-life romance, that of a Pakistani-born comedian (Nanjiani) falling for an American grad student (Zoe Kazan), and dealing with several complications after she falls into a coma due to a mysterious illness.

Watch The Big Sick on Amazon Prime Video this Valentine's Day

5. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Audrey Hepburn's most memorable role — that of Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric socialite and party animal with a dark past — is easily the most memorable part of this sixties classic, in which Holly and her new neighbour, a semi-failed writer (George Peppard), slowly grow close together.

Watch Breakfast at Tiffany's on JioCinema this Valentine's Day

6. Dil Chahta Hai (2001)

Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, and Akshaye Khanna played three close friends who drifted apart after college due to their wildly different approach to relationships in Farhan Akhtar's writing and directorial debut, now a cult favourite. Preity Zinta, Dimple Kapadia, and Sonali Kulkarni were also part of the ensemble cast.

Watch Dil Chahta Hai on Amazon Prime Video this Valentine's Day

7. Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015)

Bhumi Pednekar put on thirty kilos to play the role of an overweight wife in this National Film Award-winning picture from Sui Dhaaga director Sharat Katariya, in which an arranged-marriage couple — her nationalist husband (Ayushmann Khurrana) and she — come close after taking part in a piggyback race.

Watch Dum Laga Ke Haisha on Amazon Prime Video this Valentine's Day

8. Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)

Imran Khan and Maqbool co-writer Abbas Tyrewala made their respective acting and directorial debuts in this coming-of-age charmer, with Khan playing one of two best friends alongside Genelia D'Souza. Everyone knows they would be a perfect couple, except themselves.

Watch Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na on Netflix this Valentine's Day

9. Jab We Met (2007)

Led by Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor (unrelated), writer-director Imtiaz Ali's first critical and commercial hit follows a depressed, heartbroken wealthy industrialist (Shahid) whose life changes after he meets an energetic, carefree and talkative woman (Kareena) on aimlessly boarding a train.

Watch Jab We Met on Netflix, Viu, or ZEE5 this Valentine's Day

10. Juno (2007)

Inception star Ellen Page delivered her breakthrough role as a whip-smart, offbeat teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy in this coming-of-age film, who finds the perfect adoptive parents, but things start to fall apart as she finds herself being more a part of their lives than she imagined to be.

Watch Juno on Netflix this Valentine's Day

11. The Lunchbox (2013)

In director Ritesh Batra's film debut that won the critics' prize at Cannes, an unlikely mistake by Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox carrier system results in an unusual friendship between a young housewife (Nimrat Kaur) and an older widower (Irrfan Khan) about to retire from his job.

Watch The Lunchbox on Hotstar or Netflix this Valentine's Day

12. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Wes Anderson brings his signature camerawork and visual aesthetic to a coming-of-age tale of two young lovers — they are 12 — who run away from their homes in the summer of 1965, prompting the entire town to look for them. Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton have supporting roles.

Watch Moonrise Kingdom on Hooq, Hotstar, or JioCinema this Valentine's Day

13. Piku (2015)

Deepika Padukone stars as the titular strong-willed architect and the daughter of a grumpy and ageing, hypochondriac father (Amitabh Bachchan), who pulls her into a road trip from Delhi to Kolkata — chauffeured by a taxi owner (Irrfan Khan) — that turns into an emotional roller coaster. Shoojit Sircar directs.

Watch Piku on Netflix this Valentine's Day

14. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

In Paul Thomas Anderson's short-and-sweet film, Adam Sandler plays a quick-to-anger novelty items supplier whose loneliness is curbed and whose life takes a turn after meeting an English woman (Emily Watson), but he's being extorted by a phone-sex line run from a mattress operator (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Watch Punch-Drunk Love on Netflix this Valentine's Day

15. Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar for her performance as a royal princess who sneaks out of the embassy during a state visit to Rome to see the Italian capital on her own, and meets a newspaper reporter (Gregory Peck), who convinces her to let him tag along. Predictably, they fall in love.

Watch Roman Holiday on Google Play or iTunes this Valentine's Day

16. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence headline writer-director David O. Russell's adaptation of Matthew Quick's 2008 novel of the same name, in which a recently-widowed dancer (Lawrence) offers to help a bipolar, former teacher (Cooper) — released from a mental hospital — win his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her.

Watch Silver Linings Playbook on Google Play or iTunes this Valentine's Day

17. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013)

Wake Up Sid writer-director Ayan Mukerji's only other film to date charts the love story of two different souls — a guy (Ranbir Kapoor) who loves to travel and doesn't want to settle, and a girl (Deepika Padukone) who is all about stability — at two different times in their lives, eight years apart.

Watch Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani on Amazon Prime Video this Valentine's Day

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