1. Love Jones,
1997

The go-to lover’s story for upwardly mobile types who can’t seem to get it right in the love department. If you haven’t seen this Larenz Tate/Nia Long classic — you don’t know what love is …

2. True Romance,
1994

Two star-crossed lovers (Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette), with really bad judgment steal a bunch of cocaine and lead Mafia assassins on a manhunt from the Midwest to Los Angeles. Yes, it’s a love story …

3. Love and Basketball,
2000

Childhood friends (Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan) realize they have feelings for each other after spending their days playing and discussing basketball. Great for guys who are too insecure to watch The Princess Bride.

4. Sleepless In Seattle,
1992

Tom Hanks calls in to a radio talk show and professes heartbreak over losing his wife to cancer, touches Meg Ryan halfway across the country. Yes, it’s sentimental, and yes, that makes it perfect for Valentine’s.

5. Jerry McGuire,
1996

A pre-TomKat Mr. Cruise is a sports agent who develops a conscience and falls for his loyal secretary (Renee Zellweger). This movie contains one of the most quoted bits of dialogue in cinema history, “Show me the money.”

6. Brown Sugar,
2002

A love for hip-hop brings two successful urbanites (he’s a music exec, she’s a music editor) together as kids. Now, as he (Taye Diggs) ponders marriage to his fiancé, she (Sanaa Lathan) begins to see him as more than a friend.

7. Ghost,
1990

A guaranteed lock for your Romance Day movie collection. Unless you’ve lived under a rock, you know the premise: guy dies, but his love lives forever. Just wait for the pottery scene, and have the Kleenex handy.

8. The Notebook,
2005

9. When Harry Met Sally,
1988

Two people who shouldn’t be together (Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan) keep bumping into each other and eventually realize that they may just be meant for each other. The movie that made Meg Ryan.

10. Boomerang,
1992

Cheaters never prosper. This Eddie Murphy vehicle proves that fidelity is much more fulfilling than sleeping with many, many beautiful women. At least that’s what they say.