Over the years, romance movies like The Handmaiden and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind have proven to be both engaging and thought-provoking.

Casablanca, Moulin Rouge!, and West Side Story are among the best Oscar-winning romance movies ever made.

Is there any other genre as alchemically enmeshed with the very nature of cinema as romance films? With all due respect to all the great movies that set out to make us laugh, scare us witless, rile us ...