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Whether you want to make it a romantic affair (who says you can't celebrate Valentine's Day all year round?) or just sit in silence on the sofa, finding a good film is the perfect scene setter. But we get it: Finding a movie to watch with your date or partner can be a struggle. You'll be lucky if your movie tastes align perfectly, and in the early days, you don't want to force them to watch The Notebook and send them to sleep (or creep them out).
So, we scoured Netflix for some of the best, most gripping flicks you'll be talking about long after the credits roll. To help you find a movie you will both enjoy, we've put together the 33 best date night movies here. From the Hollywood hit The Wolf of Wall Street to classic rom-coms like Murder Mystery and Two Weeks Notice to the tear-jerking true stories, Lion and The Swimmers, these are the perfect date night movies for Netflix and chill.
Okay, this movie is a cheeky test to see if your partner was a Gossip Girl fan in the past because it stars the brilliant Leighton Meester. However, long gone is her ruthless alter-ego, Blair Waldorf, as, in The Weekend Away, the actress plays a concerned friend who races against time to figure out what happened to her friend after she mysteriously vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia. You'll both be at the edge of your seats...
Jennifer Aniston? Check. Adam Sandler. Check. Suppose you can't decide what to watch during date night. In that case, you can't possibly go wrong with this comedy mystery which sees a New York cop and his wife framed for the murder of an elderly billionaire when they head on a European getaway to reignite the spark in their marriage.
It may not have won an Oscar or anything, but we still consider Maid in Manhattan a classic. I mean, it's got JLo, it's got Ralph Fiennes and also Stanley Tucci. So, this story about a Senatorial candidate falling for a hotel maid after thinking she was a socialite when he saw her trying on a wealthy woman's dress is a must-watch for date night.
When Lucy's (Geraldine Viswanathan) boyfriend breaks up with her, she is absolutely devastated. But upon meeting hotelier Nick (Dacre Montgomery), she creates a gallery where people can leave memorabilia from their failed relationships. Of course, we assume you would not need to do anything of the sort in real life, as if you're watching this on date night, you're very smitten.
Sometimes you're both looking to bond over something more moving and emotional, and nothing will pull at both of your heartstrings than The Swimmers. Based on an incredibly inspiring true story, two Syrian sisters swim for hours in the choppy Mediterranean seas to flee their war-torn home in Damascus. After reaching Greece as asylum seekers, the younger sister stays true to her swimming dreams as she trains to compete at the Rio Olympic Games.
Always Be My Maybe, starring Ali Wong and Randall Park, centres on two childhood sweethearts who don't speak for fifteen years following a falling out before running into each other in San Francisco, where they discover that old sparks are still there. Will they give their romance another shot? This movie is a lovely one to watch during date night as it hammers home the message that no matter what happens in the past, second chances can always lead to something great.
A gem of a romance movie, Look Both Ways addresses essential topics such as unexpected pregnancy and motherhood, which makes it a vital watch with your other half. Played by Riverdale star Lili Reinhart, Natalie finds herself in two parallel realities on the eve of her college graduation. One in which she moves back home to navigate motherhood in her small Texas hometown, and the mother where she moves to Los Angeles to pursue her career.
So, if you're looking for something a bit more, okay, A LOT, steamier for date night, look no further than Lady Chatterley's Lover starring Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell. The period drama sees married aristocrat Lady Chatterley pursuing an affair with the gamekeepers on their estate after falling out of love with her husband following a war injury. Another warning: temperatures are set to soar when you watch this.
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages.[6]
Launched on January 16, 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media services, with over 277.7 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of July 2024.[5][7] By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of October 2023, Netflix is the 23rd most-visited website in the world, with 23.66% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 5.84% and Brazil at 5.64%.[8][9]
Initially, Netflix offered a per-rental model for each DVD but introduced a monthly subscription concept in September 1999.[20] The per-rental model was dropped by early 2000, allowing the company to focus on the business model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees, or per-title rental fees.[21] In September 2000, during the dot-com bubble, while Netflix was suffering losses, Hastings and Randolph offered to sell the company to Blockbuster for $50 million. John Antioco, CEO of Blockbuster, thought the offer was a joke and declined, saying, "The dot-com hysteria is completely overblown."[22][23] While Netflix experienced fast growth in early 2001, the continued effects of the dot-com bubble collapse and the September 11 attacks caused the company to hold off plans for its initial public offering (IPO) and to lay off one-third of its 120 employees.[24]
DVD players were a popular gift for holiday sales in late 2001, and demand for DVD subscription services were "growing like crazy", according to chief talent officer Patty McCord.[25] The company went public on May 23, 2002, selling 5.5 million shares of common stock at US$15.00 per share.[26] In 2003, Netflix was issued a patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to cover its subscription rental service and several extensions.[27] Netflix posted its first profit in 2003, earning $6.5 million on revenues of $272 million; by 2004, profit had increased to $49 million on over $500 million in revenues.[28] In 2005, 35,000 different films were available, and Netflix shipped 1 million DVDs out every day.[29]
In 2004, Blockbuster introduced a DVD rental service, which not only allowed users to check out titles through online sites but allowed for them to return them at brick and-mortar stores.[30] By 2006, Blockbuster's service reached two million users, and while trailing Netflix's subscriber count, was drawing business away from Netflix. Netflix lowered fees in 2007.[28] While it was an urban legend that Netflix ultimately "killed" Blockbuster in the DVD rental market, Blockbuster's debt load and internal disagreements hurt the company.[30]
On April 4, 2006, Netflix filed a patent infringement lawsuit in which it demanded a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Blockbuster's online DVD rental subscription program violated two patents held by Netflix. The first cause of action alleged Blockbuster's infringement of copying the "dynamic queue" of DVDs available for each customer, Netflix's method of using the ranked preferences in the queue to send DVDs to subscribers, and Netflix's method permitting the queue to be updated and reordered.[31] The second cause of action alleged infringement of the subscription rental service as well as Netflix's methods of communication and delivery.[32] The companies settled their dispute on June 25, 2007; terms were not disclosed.[33][34][35][36]
On October 1, 2006, Netflix announced the Netflix Prize, $1,000,000 to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10%. On September 21, 2009, it awarded the $1,000,000 prize to team "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos".[37] Cinematch, launched in 2000, was a system that recommended movies to its users, many of which might have been entirely new to the user.[38][39]
Through its division Red Envelope Entertainment, Netflix licensed and distributed independent films such as Born into Brothels and Sherrybaby. In late 2006, Red Envelope Entertainment also expanded into producing original content with filmmakers such as John Waters.[40] Netflix closed Red Envelope Entertainment in 2008.[41][42]
In January 2007, the company launched a streaming media service, introducing video on demand via the Internet. However, at that time it only had 1,000 films available for streaming, compared to 70,000 available on DVD.[43] The company had for some time considered offering movies online, but it was only in the mid-2000s that data speeds and bandwidth costs had improved sufficiently to allow customers to download movies from the net. The original idea was a "Netflix box" that could download movies overnight, and be ready to watch the next day. By 2005, Netflix had acquired movie rights and designed the box and service. But after witnessing how popular streaming services such as YouTube were despite the lack of high-definition content, the concept of using a hardware device was scrapped and replaced with a streaming concept.[44]
In February 2007, Netflix delivered its billionth DVD, a copy of Babel to a customer in Texas.[45][46] In April 2007, Netflix recruited ReplayTV founder Anthony Wood, to build a "Netflix Player" that would allow streaming content to be played directly on a television rather than a desktop or laptop.[47] Hastings eventually shut down the project to help encourage other hardware manufacturers to include built-in Netflix support, which would be spun off as the digital media player product Roku.[48][49][50]
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