20 films · The Lovvy team
Movies to watch cuddled up: 20 picks for a quiet night
Twenty warm, gentle films for a slow night on the sofa. Nothing too loud, nothing too sad, nothing you have to follow closely.
Some nights the film is not really the point. You want something warm playing while you are close, that you can half-follow and still enjoy. These are twenty films for exactly that.
Soft and romantic
- 1
About Time (2013)
Directed by Richard Curtis
A young man learns he can travel back to moments of his own life, and slowly works out that the point is not to fix every day but to live it properly.
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- 2
The Holiday (2006)
Directed by Nancy Meyers
Two women swap homes for Christmas, one in Los Angeles and one in an English cottage. Cosy in the most literal way.
- 3
Notting Hill (1999)
Directed by Roger Michell
The owner of a small London bookshop and the most famous actress in the world. Warm, funny and full of friends you would want over for dinner.
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- 4
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Directed by Joe Wright
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, in the version with misty fields and long looks. The best way into Jane Austen if you have never read her.
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- 5
Before Sunrise (1995)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Two strangers get off a train in Vienna and talk until morning. Almost nothing happens, and it is one of the most romantic films ever made.
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- 6
La La Land (2016)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
A jazz pianist and an aspiring actress fall for each other in Los Angeles while chasing the things they want most.
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- 7
Lost in Translation (2003)
Directed by Sofia Coppola
A fading film star and a young woman, both sleepless in a Tokyo hotel, keep each other company. Lonely and lovely at the same time.
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- 8
Stardust (2007)
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
A young man crosses into a magical kingdom to bring back a fallen star, who turns out to be a woman. A fairy tale with jokes and pirates in the sky.
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Warm and gentle
- 9
Amélie (2001)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
A shy waitress in Montmartre starts secretly fixing the lives of the people around her, and avoids her own. Paris as a daydream.
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- 10
Paddington 2 (2017)
Directed by Paul King
A polite bear is wrongly sent to prison and wins everyone over anyway. Possibly the kindest film ever made, and not only for children.
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- 11
Julie & Julia (2009)
Directed by Nora Ephron
Julia Child learning to cook in Paris, and a New York blogger cooking her way through Julia’s book decades later. Butter, and a lot of it.
- 12
Chocolat (2000)
Directed by Lasse Hallström
A woman opens a chocolate shop in a strict French village just as Lent begins. Warm, sweet and slightly magical.
- 13
Chef (2014)
Directed by Jon Favreau
A chef quits his restaurant and takes a food truck across the country with his son. Do not watch it hungry.
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- 14
Little Women (2019)
Directed by Greta Gerwig
The four March sisters growing up in nineteenth-century Massachusetts, told back and forth in time. Warm, lively and very well acted.
- 15
The Princess Bride (1987)
Directed by Rob Reiner
A grandfather reads his grandson a fairy tale of pirates, giants and true love. Endlessly quotable, and fun at any age.
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Animated
- 16
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
A young hatter is cursed into an old woman and finds shelter in the walking castle of a vain, charming wizard.
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- 17
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Two sisters move to the countryside and meet the gentle spirits of the forest. Ninety minutes of calm.
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- 18
Coco (2017)
Directed by Lee Unkrich
A boy who dreams of music crosses into the Land of the Dead on the Day of the Dead. Colourful, funny and guaranteed to make at least one of you cry.
- 19
Ratatouille (2007)
Directed by Brad Bird
A rat with a gift for cooking teams up with a clumsy kitchen boy in a Paris restaurant. Anyone can cook.
- 20
Up (2009)
Directed by Pete Docter
An elderly widower ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies off to South America, with an accidental stowaway. Keep tissues nearby for the first ten minutes.
If it is raining too, these twelve are made for it.