Valentine&rsquꦫo;s Day is here once again, a holiday full of romantic gestures and too much chocolate. However, if you haven't got that loving feeling this February, fear not as we ha🍃ve a list just for you. Below, we've rounded up our selection of the best anti-Valentine’s Day movies. 

Now, you may be wondering what we actually mean by an "anti-Valentine's Day" film. Well, we've taken it to stand for any movie that helps you feel a bit better about🌠 being on your own. Some of our eclectic list below include odes to being single, films championing platonic love, and a couple of stories that might just put you off relationships for life.

If you’d rather indulge in something a little more sentimental, however, we’ve got you covered on that front, too – you can check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best romantic comedies of all time for a little more traditional viewing this February 14. But if your vibe is more on the "bah humbug" si🍃de of things, scroll on to check out our picks of the best anti-Valentine’s Day movies, ranked in alphabetical order.

20th Century Women

20th Century Women is a movie about choosing your own family. Set in '70s California, Dorothea (Annette Bening) is worried that she cannot connect with her son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) and enlists the help of their 17-year-old neighbor Julie (Elle Fanning) and their te♛nant Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a photographer undergoing cervical cancer treatment, to help her raise him. 

The four of them become a rag-tag family unit of sorts – things aren't always easy, with each person facing𓂃 their own struggles, but together they just about get by. It's a movie about love, but it's not romantic, and it's about building a family out of platonic partnerships – it's a perfect anti-Valentine's Day watch.

Alien 

Alien is a study of what one woman can achieve on her own (albeit with the help of Jonesy, the cat). Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is part of the creꦜw of a commercial spaceship that encounters a distress signal from a planet on its way back to Earth. While the ship lands and the crew attempts to locate the source of 🧔the signal, the titular alien, a deadly xenomorph, gets aboard the ship. 

As the rest of the crew fail to heed her advice, Ripley faces a crisis in isolationಞ. But – 41-year-old spoiler, sorry – she comes🐓 out of it alive. She's a testament to what can be achieved alone (especially if you've got a cat by your side).

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

If any movie characters encapsulate the power of friendship, it's best pals Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeves), everyone's favorite slackers. And what better way to cement the bond of friendship than with an adventure? Extra points if it's excellent. This particular excellent adventure involves time travel – if Bill and Ted don't pass their high school history class, the course of world history will change forever, so someone from the future is sent back in time to help them. 

With a loaned time machine, the pair rally together a motley crew of historical figurꦑes to aid them with their school project aღnd save life as we know it. It's 90 minutes of silly, harmless fun.

Frances Ha

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Frances Ha is a movie about learning to be okay on your own. Greta Gerwig plays the title character, a young wꦏoman living in New York City who suddenly finds herself in the need of new roommates when her best fr🍬iend Sophie (Mickey Sumner) decides to move in with her boyfriend. 

Struggling with money, friendships, and navigating being single, Frances spends a lot of the movie grappling with loneliness. It's a common feeling for a lot of 20-somethings, especially if you're living in a big city far from home – and especially now, in the middle of a pandemic. Over the ܫcourse of the movie, Frances learns to cope with this and, crucially, how to be alone without feeling lonely.

I'm Your Woman

Set in the '70s, I'm Your Woman follows Jean (Rachel Brosnahan), a housewife who suddenly has to strike out on her own without her husband. Not by choice, sure – her husband, Eddie (Bill Heck) is inv🐽olved with some, uh, less-than-legal business, and one day he goes missing. Jean's life is now in danger and, with no idea what's going on, she has to drop everything and run – with a baby in tow,ꦐ too. 

The movie shows that sometimes 🎐you're b😼etter off on your own – ultimately, it's not Jean's husband that keeps her going, it's the friends she makes along the way, the love for her son, and her own courage and determination.

Lady Bird

The titular character of Greta Gerwig's directorial debut (Saoirse Ronan) may end 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lady Bird alone, but she ends it at peace with herself – or, at least, on the way to being at peace with herself. Before that, the coming of age movie deals with Lady Bird's ill-fated high school relationships – one boyfriend, Danny (Lucas Hedges), is… not interested, shall we say, while the other, Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), is just plain obnoxious. The most important element of the mov🦩ie, though, is Lady Bird's relationship with her mother, and the process of picking 💖up the pieces of that relationship as she grows up and moves away to college. It's a movie that reminds you which relationships matter most.