A cross-media Valentine's guide — picked by taste.
Valentine's Day is an excuse to lean into every shade of love — the giddy early spark, the weight of history between two people, and the ache of almost. These films, series, and books span rom-com lightness and genuine heartbreak, animation and live-action, office corridors and glacial landscapes. What they share is a preoccupation with desire: the moment when attraction outpaces sense, when a secret threatens everything, or when time itself becomes the obstacle. Romance, it turns out, is one of the few feelings that translates perfectly across every medium.
Film
Office Romance
A strict no-fraternization CEO meets her match when a charming new lawyer tests every rule she set.
Film
After We Fell
Tessa's world unravels just as Hardin's buried secret threatens to destroy the only certainty she has left.
Film
The Drama
A couple's love is stress-tested when their wedding week veers spectacularly off course.
Film
The Adolescent
A young girl's summer awakening turns bittersweet when the man she loves chooses her mother instead.
Film
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Joe's journey charts how desire can spiral into something darker and harder to name or escape.
Film
9 Songs
A love affair recalled across ice and silence, measured out in shared concerts and intimate mornings.
Film
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Catapulted across the Multiverse, a reunion with Gwen Stacy gives the stakes their emotional centre.
Film
Your Name.
Two strangers who keep waking in each other's bodies must race against fate to find one another.
Series
Off Campus
A tutoring arrangement slowly becomes something real as two people learn to face their pasts.
Series
El cor de la ciutat
A decade-spanning soap that made romance and everyday drama the centrepiece of Catalan prime time.
Series
Every Year After
Six summers of building a first love, one devastating break, and one final week to recover it.
Series
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Two teen heroes who are secretly classmates hide their true feelings behind their superhero masks.
Series
Overflow
Childhood friends reunite under one roof, and old affections resurface in unexpectedly complicated ways.
Series
A Dream Within a Dream
A woman trapped in a scripted fate tries to rewrite a story that keeps pulling her back to heartbreak.
Series
Deweni Inima
Rivalry and class divides entwine with turbulent romance in a story built around family secrets.
Series
Outlander
A woman flung two centuries into the past must weigh duty and desire when forced into a new marriage.
Book
The Love Hypothesis
A fake relationship between scientists collides with real, inconvenient attraction.
Book
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Secret love letters escape their hiding place and force a teenager to confront feelings she never meant to share.
Book
Unravel me
A girl with a lethal touch navigates rebellion and desire when two men make the impossible feel possible.
Book
Guess How Much I Love You
A picture book that turns the simple question of how much we love someone into something unexpectedly moving.
Book
Ignite Me
With war closing in, a girl must choose between her past and the person she is becoming.
Book
Call Me by Your Name
One Italian summer, a 17-year-old's fascination with an older houseguest becomes an irreversible awakening.
Book
Lights Out
A narrator who keeps discovering new desires about herself finds another one she didn't expect.
Book
The Fine Print
A business renovation brings a boss and a creative together, and one impulsive kiss complicates everything.
Office Romance and The Drama are both breezy comedies built around will-they-won't-they tension. Either makes a low-commitment entry point before you move to something with more emotional weight.
Outlander follows a woman swept back in time who is forced into a new marriage, blending historical drama with slow-burn romance. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir hides a secret-identity love story inside superhero action — both suit viewers who want more than a straight romance.
Call Me by Your Name traces a summer infatuation between a 17-year-old and an older houseguest staying with his family. To All the Boys I've Loved Before turns the accidental exposure of private love letters into a story about vulnerability. Both reward readers who want feeling over formula.