Popcorn Moments : Love, love, love

For those are high in the love month - get a dose of these films that will make you in a cheesy corny mode. Listed are my all-time favorite romantic films that i viewed tirelessly.

It is a series of love stories from different people - A bachelor Prime Minister fell for his new staff; a jilted writer fell for his maid; an artist fell in love with his bestfriend's bride; a little boy fell in love with little girl and become a rock drummer; ageing rockstar craving for a huge comeback; married boss attracted to his seductive secretary; pornstars too shy to reach the 1st base and a loveless Brit nerd wanted to have a girlfriend.

One of the funniest and endearing films I have seen that would make you laugh and cry at the same time.

After receiving divorce papers, Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) learns that his 11-year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin) has just been taught sex education at school. Torn for her parents' divorce and determined to know how her parents met; Will improvised his life story in a form of puzzle - names changed so that Maya must figure out which of the three women is her mother. At Clinton's presidential campaign, Will left his college sweetheart Emily (Elizabeth Banks) to go to New York. Where he met his second love, April (Isla Fisher) at the campaign office. Then his third love Summer (Rachel Weisz) a journalist who writes for the 'New Yorker' magazine. Maya begins to understand that love is not so simple, but she is able to put all the pieces of his three love stories together and solves the puzzle.

Rich-Harvard law student-jock Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) meets poor-Radcliffe music student Jennifer Cavelleri (Ali MacGraw) , fell in love, got married and struggled life without financial aid from Oliver's aristocratic father. Their happiness is short-lived when they discovered that Jenny could not have a baby because she's terminally ill. Inevitably, Jenny dies...leaving Oliver with their happy memories.

Definitely a classic tear-jerker. I've seen this movie in a premier late night shows of a local channel in my late teens. I just couldn't forget what Oliver said to his father after discovering Jenny's death - "Love means never having to say you're sorry" (which happens to be the movie's signature tagline)... Um...tissue paper please...

After getting fired for suddenly having moral scruples, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), starts his new life with pretty agency accountant Dorothy (Renee Zellweger) and egomaniac client (Cuba Gooding Jr.). Along the way of his personal journey, he's forced to face his life choices that leads to true sense of friendship and love.

Loved their snappy dialogues, heart-touching scenes and comedic episodes. C'mon, who would have forgot those lines we copy in spoof shows or movies? - "You...you complete me" ..."Shut up ...shut up..You had me at hello"

Young and lovely, Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) was brought up by eccentric couple, that limited her to the outside world. Later, she embarks in kind-hearted jokes and schemes to all people around her to give a bit of happiness that her life lacked. Returning an old tin filled with childhood knickknacks to an old man she never knew. Playing a matchmaker to a hypochondriac and a jilted lover. Sending her father's garden gnome overseas. Fabricating an old love-letter to her heart-broken neighbor. Playing a cat-and-mouse-game to a man whom she never met and fell in love with.

The first French film I viewed with laughter and wonder. Filled with vibrant flashbacks. An inventive fairytale narrated with humor and quirks.

On the opening night of his successful play, young playwright Richard Collier (Christopher Reeves) was approached by an elderly woman saying to him "Come back to me" and gave him an old pocket watch. Years later, he discovered that the beautiful actress, Elisse McKenna (Jane Seymour) in the picture that he's so obsessed with and the old lady who gave him the pocket watch is the same person. Through self-hypnosis, he wills himself in 1912 to find her. They fell in love, though Richard is not sure if he can remain in her "time" to be with Elise.

Raved by my mates during our teens. This old-fashioned, charming, romantic drama seals our believe of having "The One". (It couldn't be any cheesier )

Second World War, in a deserted Italian monastery. A horribly scarred and amnesiac mapmaker, known first as "The English Patient" (Ralph Fiennes) is being devotedly taken care of by Hana (Juliette Binoche) an Allied nurse. Forcing himself to heal, physically and emotionally - he unwillingly subjected himself to his life's flashbacks. His life as a geographer and his intense illicit affair with his colleague's wife Katherine (Kristin Scott Thomas), which brought about his present situation. Tension rises as Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe) seeks shelter, a spy suspected his true identity and Hana torn between Indian sapper Kip (Naveen Andrews) the man she fell in love with and Almasy (Fiennes) the man she's emotionally attracted with.

Based on the best-selling novel of Michael Ondaatje, garnered 9 Oscar Awards including Best Picture. Corny as it may sounds, I became a fan instantly of Mr.Fiennes in this movie.