QThis year Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday. And the week preceding it offers romantic films and TV series starting today, with the return to the cinema of Pretty Woman – cult film that will surely fill theaters again. And that on Saturday he will fight for the box office with the new one Wuthering Heights and nothing less than Ghostyes, the one with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. Films to cry even on TV with Past Lives (on Rai 3) and the TV series Love me love me and the much talked about one Heated rivalry.
Pretty Woman (1990), with the golden couple Richard Gere and Julia Roberts) returns to select theaters February 9-11, and again on February 14. The story is known. Gere is a handsome rich guy and grizzled hearted in winter, Roberts she is a beautiful, intelligent prostitute and never vulgar. The happy ending is a must. This is a successful mix between Cinderella And Pygmalion with a fantastic soundtrack and one of the best acting couples ever seen on screen.
For Julia it represents the film of her consecration as an everlasting star of the romantic comedy, a genre from which he has attempted to distance himself several times, succeeding with mixed success. It seems absurd to think about it today, but Notting Hillreleased almost 10 years later, is in all respects a comeback to rom com. Rai 1’s flagship, every time it is on the first channel, Pretty Woman attracts over 2 and a half million spectators.
The new one transposition of the novel by Emily Brontë is already a cult title of 2026. All thanks to the wild English moors and the couple Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie. The two stars bring to life the torment and ecstasy ofunhappy love of Catherine and Heathcliff making it more modern, glamorous and very sexy.
There was no shortage of controversy, especially regarding the physicality of the two actors, too distant from the paper characters. In the book, Heathcliff has a brown complexion and black hair similar to a gypsy while Catherine would be much younger and more intense than the fascinating Margot Robbie. If director Emerald Fennell’s casual disinterest in adhering to the story worries fans of the novel, what everyone agrees with is the evident on-screen chemistry of the two stars.
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in “Wuthering Heights” (Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)
The museum of innocence (Netflix series from February 13)
Netflix offers a Turkish series (9 episodes) deals from the book by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. In the Istanbul of the 70s, the young and wealthy Kemal (Selahattin Paşalı) meet the beautiful Füsun (Eylül Lize Kandemire). For her, he is ready to ruin her future and rich wedding. Fate cruelly decides differently.
To avoid going mad from the pain, Kemal begins collecting small objects that belonged to his beloved. Soon it will become a real one Museum of Innocencea place open to the public that talks about a lost love.
Eylül Lize Kandemir in “The Museum of Innocence” (Netflix)
Films to watch on TV on Valentine’s Day 2026: Past Lives (13 February on Rai 3 at 9.25pm)
Nominated for Best Film at the 2024 Oscars, it is the intense story with strong autobiographical features of its directorCeline Song. A failed love between two young people who chase each other for a lifetime without almost ever touching each other. In 2000, Na (Greta Lee) and Hae (Teo Yoo) are 12 years old, they are schoolmates and they are in love. When Na moves to Canada with her family, the two say goodbye.
In 2012, Na lives in New Yorkis a screenwriter and she changed her name to Nora. Hae manages to contact her and the two begin to feel at a distance. The bond is strong but the distance is excessive and their innocent relationship ends. Another 12 years pass: Nora is married, Hae is in a relationship. Both now live in New York and finally meet. Can they really love each other in this life?
Nora Moon (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) in “Past Lives” (Lucky Red)
Films to see on Valentine’s Day 2026: Ghost (in cinemas from February 14)
On Valentine’s Day returns to cinemas in a restored 4K version Ghost, the other romantic cult of 1990. A story all little hearts, on the edge of reality, where the very young Demi Moore loves a charming and unfortunate Patrick Swayzetragically killed but returning to her as a ghost. Compared to the film of the couple Gere and Roberts, that directed by Jerry Zucker, however, it seems to have aged badly.
Poor Swayze passed away in 2009, Demi Moore is only now back in vogue thanks to The Substance. THEco-star Oscar winner 1991 Whoopi Goldberg ended up in A place in the sun. Yet, from the song Unchained Melody to the cult sequence of the vase, this film oozes love and tears from every angle and he still has a lot to say and give.
Pillion – unbridled love (in cinemas from February 12)
Impossible not to be enchanted by Pillion – Unbridled love. A film that It’s about an unconventional love story. Director Harry Lighton chose Adam Mars Jones’ queer novel and two explosive performers Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård to tell without hypocrisy and visual excesses the homosexual relationship between a dominator and a dominated person.
Colin (Melling) is a young man docile and gentle man who dreams of love. Ray (Skarsgård) is a charming and rude biker. An anomalous spark strikes between the two: Ray makes Colin his submissivewho reacts with great joy and devotion. When feelings become deeper, this unbalanced relationship enters into crisis.
Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling in “Pillion” (Wanted Cinema)
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette (from February 13 on Disney+)
The true story of Carolyn Bessette and John Kennedy Jr.glamorous couple of the beautiful, rich and famous of the 90s, whose tragic death in a plane crash in 1999 weaves together the painful myth of the fall of the Gods. The series, created and produced by Ryan Murphy, available from February 13th with the first 3 episodesfocuses on the love between a fashion socialite and the son of the former President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
An enviable relationship but always in the spotlightwhose media pressure had a profound impact on their choices. To impersonate Carolyn Bessette as Sarah Pidgeon (I know what you did) who for the occasion transformed from a brunette into a blonde. The former model Paul Anthony Kelly as Kennedy Jr. The cast includes a magnificent Naomi Watts, who plays Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly in “Love Story” (Disney+)
Heated Rivarly (streaming from February 13th on HBO Max)
Sex, gay love and brutal sport: a promising mix for the Canadian series Heated Rivarly coming up HBO Max. The two hockey players Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) they are part of the Montreal Metros and Boston Raiders, two rival teams. Although they are antagonistic and very competitive, attraction arises between them and a strong feeling to keep secret, with explosive consequences.
The series – released in the rest of the world between November and December – has already become a cult for the sensuality of the two protagonists. In Italy, after the protests of fans for a first dubbing not up to par of the original dialogues, has been redubbed.
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie in “Heated Rivarly” (HBO Max)
Love me love me (from February 13th on Prime)
Love me love me is the first Prime Video film in the young adult romance genre of origin Italian, taken from the novels of the same name by the mysterious Stefania S.,. A bit’ Elite and a little Dawson’s Creeka bit’ Beverly Hills 902010at the center of the story a love triangle between young and beautiful.
June (Mia Jenkins) moves to Milan to a school attended by rich kids and spoiled. Here she meets the fascinating and cursed James (Pepe Barroso), who does not disdain taking part in clandestine martial arts matches. Will also hits her (Luca Melucci), James’ best friend who, on the contrary, is a good and studious boy. Between the girl and the two companions is born a very strong attraction.
From left: Luca Melucci (Will) Mia Jenkins (June), Pepe Barroso (James) in “Love me love me” (Prime Video)
