Valentine’s week finally is coming to an end. The icing on the cake of this week is undoubtedly the showstopper day: Valentine’s Day. Originally celebrated in honour of Saint Valentine, who got lovers married secretly, the day has evolved to become a surface-level treatment of the most beautiful feeling everyone feels, in varying degrees: love.

Love… what is it, in popular culture? We usually see a plethora of films every year, wherein the girl is usually bubbly and the boy is a ‘depressed dude’, or vice versa. It’s rare to see a couple, heterosexual or homosexual, to be equal to each other in temperament in mainstream cinema. Almost everyone roots for a popular on-screen couple to get together in the end, even if it logically would be the most illogical thing to do in the story.

So, on this note, here are some conventional and unconventional love stories that you can watch this Valentine’s Day. These films give a nuanced portrayal of relationships and love.