Taylor's Valentine's Day Movie Picks

If you're looking for a movie to watch on Valentine's Day with your special someone...or alone by yourself, try these out.

(WARNING: FOR MATURE AUDIENCES)

The Lobster

2015- directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. 

Heathers

1989- directed by Michael Lehmann

In order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, an intelligent teen teams up with a dark sociopath in a plot to kill the cool kids.

Only Lovers Left Alive
2013- directed by Jim Jarmusch

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Her

2013- directed by Spike Jones

In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

The Piano Teacher

2001- directed by Michael Haneke

A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.

Lars And The Real Girl

2007- directed by Craig Gillespie

A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

Harold and Maude
1971- directed byHal Ashby

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Secretary

2002- directed by Steven Shainberg

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

True Romance
1993- directed by Tony Scott

In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine, the Mob, track them down in an attempt to reclaim it.

The Night Porter
1974- directed by Liliana Cavani

After a chance meeting at a hotel in 1957, Holocaust survivor Lucia and Nazi officer Max, who tortured her, resume their sadomasochistic relationship.


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