It’s Valentine’s Day, which means that love and romance are on our minds. But it’s important to note that love isn’t just the domain of proms, candlelit dinners and weekends away from the kids. In fact, the guy for whom Valentine’s Day was named is said to have written the first Valentine’s note not to a romantic interest, but to a girl whom he cured of blindness. It’s said he was executed soon after.
The Greeks actually said there were four different kinds of loves—types that C.S. Lewis reintroduced to Christians with his aptly named book, The Four Loves. With that in mind, we thought it might be fun to showcase a handful of wholly subjective, occasionally overlapping films that illustrate these four loves, and movies that are accessible for a variety of audiences. But—of...