| VALENTINE’S Day is the day of love. It’s the day we spare no expense to spend quality and romantic time with our significant other. While all restaurants are sure to be booked to the brim on the day, there is an alternative way to enjoy St Valentine’s Day from a very different perspective... The BigChilli presents the 30 best of all time anti-Valentine’s Day movies to binge-watch. Whether you are in a wholesome relationship with your loved one or single and perfectly fine with it, we suggest an alternative and interesting way to spend the Valentine’s evening. Grab a plate of cheese, a bottle of wine and let’s binge-watch the best anti-Valentine’s Day movies of all time. |  Revolutionary Road A married couple plans to move from Connecticut to Paris in hope of changing their lives. However, their plans and marriage fall to pieces. Frank is promoted while April is pregnant again but this time, both are doomed to a loveless marriage which leads to anger, misunderstandings and, in the end, death. |
 Melancholia Following the lives of two sisters, Claire is about to marry the love of her life when a rogue planet called Melancholia is about to collide with Earth and will kill everyone on the planet. Not only is her wedding interrupted by the threat of the collision with a planet, there is also adultery, depression and conflicts within the family. So much for a happy ending. |  Gone Girl Wife of a businessman mysteriously disappears and the husband is the suspect. While things seem normal on the outside, this couple have deep, dark secrets they hide from the world and each other. It goes to show that even a seemingly perfect couple can’t be trusted since no one can tell whether they will turn out to be a liar, a cheater or a murderer. |
 | Closer The movie follows the lives of two complicated couples living in London. The movie shows that faded love leads to infidelity which causes pain and sorrow. It goes to show that people lie, cheat and hurt loved ones physically, verbally and mentally all the time. |
| Lost in Translation A lonely and ageing movie star travels to Tokyo to film a Japanese commercial. He accidentally runs into a young, beautiful and conflicted newlywed woman accompanying her famous photographer husband. The two strangers meeting in a foreign land find in each other, escape, understanding and a strange yet unlikely bond. |  |
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| The Break-Up Gary, a tour-bus driver and Brooke, an art dealer are one of the sweetest couples in the whole of Chicago. However, their happily-ever-after romance turns sour, and things only get more complicated when neither of them will move out of the pair’s recently purchased condo. The only way out is to make each other’s lives as miserable as possible. The loser needs to get out. Encouraged by their friends, the intense competition leads to the hilarious and rather heartwarming end. | Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind When a free-spirit Clementine runs into a shy, soft-spoken Joel on the train, a strange journey is renewed. Not knowing that a few years ago, they were lovers who decided to remove the memories of each other rather than dealing with the painful heartache of a breakup. Their chance encounter sparks a new beginning. |
 | The Shining Marriage means moving your whole family into an isolated hotel as winter caretakers. The problem occurs when the husband slowly goes murderously insane while attempting to pen his next bestseller novel. There’s just more to the hotel than the beautiful hedge maze and glamorous ballrooms. |
| Ex Machina A CEO of a modern tech company is picked to be the tester of a new AI product with a humanoid face named Ava. Instead, he falls head-over-heels in love with her or it. In the end, the nightmare scenario that one day AI will outsmart the human race and come out on top is all too clear. |  |
 All Good Things Marriages don’t last; relationships fall apart especially when there’s pressure from the family. Realising that he might never live up to his father’s shadow, the heir to a real-estate dynasty decides to take a chance at true love when he meets a lovely lady who sees him for what he is and not whose son he is. However, all plans fall sideways as the once-loving relationship deteriorates after David gives in to his father’s demand to work in the family business. |  Atonement Based on the book by Ian McEwan, the movie follows the lives of a young star-crossed couple. But the road isn’t covered by rose petals when the girl’s pesky little sister is jealous and seems to have made it her mission to make sure that the lovers stay star-crossed forever. A lie has been constructed, and all three must deal with the consequences. |
 American Beauty A middle-aged happily married man is tired of his middle-class existence. In his mid-life crisis, he decides to reinvent himself. He quits his job and becomes a pot-smoking teenager who’s obsessed with his daughter’s friend. The result is tragic. |  Annie Hall Annie is an inspiring actress. She meets Alvy, a TV writer who tries to figure out the reason why he fails so miserably in love. While we follow the course of the up-and-down relationship between the couple, the movie shows us the best and worst aspects of the relationship while reminding us of the ones that got away in the end. |
| Kramer vs Kramer A single dad’s life is disrupted when ex-wife comes back into the picture to gain custody of their young son. The heated competition ensues. Parents may love their children, but they can truly hate each other. |  |
 | Fatal Attraction Life is good for Dan Gallagher, a happily married man on the rise at his New York law firm. However, casual flirting causes everything to change. The sultry book editor, jilted by Dan, becomes unstable. Her behaviour escalates from aggressive pursuit to obsession stalking. Who knows what she’s capable of? |
 Shame A seemingly ordinary man, albeit successful and handsome has a deep, dark secret. He is addicted to sex, so much so that he craves for gratification numbs him to everything else. But when his sister unexpectedly visits, crashes at his apartment and invades in privacy, he is finally forced to confront his addiction head-on. |  Teeth Not exactly the most unromantic film on the list but it certainly is one to put on if you’re in the ‘dry’ season. Shorts of severed members falling out of the heroine’s lady bits was enough to haunt any male for a few days. |
| The Lobster The Lobster introduces us to an alternative world where single people are arrested and transferred to The Hotel according to the rules of The City. These people have only 45 days in which to search and meet their soulmate before being turned into an animal of their choice. I think I’ll pick a wombat … just saying. |  |
 | Blue Valentine A free-spirited man marries an emotional woman while she’s pregnant with her ex-boyfriend’s child. It seems like a dream come true for both of them until the relationship falls apart while the daughter’s presence is the only glue that keeps them together. The young fall in love hard and often without knowing what they want in life or out of the relationship. Sometimes, love is just not enough. |
 (500) Days of Summer A woman dumps a man. He desperately tries to recall what went wrong during their (500) days together. But sometimes, love just doesn’t work out no matter how much you try. And when the relationship ends, it’s best to move on. Because you never know whether there’s something better waiting just around the corner. |  Romeo + Juliet The Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet needs no lengthy introduction. The epic love story of star-crossed lovers and forbidden romance. These violent and heartbreaking tales end in multiple deaths and irreparable loss. |
 Basic Instinct This movie portrays people who are all messed up. The perfect poster children for destructive and unfaithful relationships as their twisted and tangled affairs will make anyone think twice about getting too close to any hot strangers you meet because it might not turn into a wham-bam-thank, you ma'am. |  A Single Man This movie depicts a man who is unable to get over his lover’s death. A college professor who recently lost his lover in a car accident is grief-stricken. His first idea of escape is suicide, but as he goes about setting his affairs in order, he encounters his colleague, student and an old friend who lead him to make a final decision as to whether life is worth living without his partner. |
 Irreversible First of all, the slightly confusing story is told backwards. The alluring wife is attacked and beaten relentlessly by a pimp. Then we see the pimp’s face getting beaten. The movie portrays a very much in love couples who are frank and free with sex and nudity with the vengeance of the pimp who attacks the wife, rapes and beats her almost to death. |  Requiem For A Dream Harry and Marion are hopelessly in love. However, they just can’t compete with their mutual love of heroin. Not only does Marion sell her body to support her habit, Harry has his arm cut off and is left to fester in prison, safe in the knowledge that his one true love is turning tricks. |
| Thelma & Louise A meek housewife Thelma joins her friend Louise, an independent waitress on a short fishing trip. However, their trip turns into a flight from the law after Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. On the way, Thelma falls for a sexy young thief J.D. while the sympathetic detective tries to convince the two to surrender before time runs out. |  |
 | Valentine A cruel lie begets a murder. When a teenager’s life is ruined on the night of St Valentine’s Day Dance, he takes revenge on everyone who wronged him even if it takes over a decade to exact his brand of justice.  Kill Bill Vol. 1 In Tarantino’s famous film, The Bride, a former assassin who wakes from a coma four years later is driven by revenge against the man who shot her in the head on her wedding day. She vows to get even with all who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her wedding and four years of her life. |
 Unfaithful A couple’s marriage falls apart in the worst possible way when the husband finds out about his wife’s infidelity. The surprise is only met by the unimaginable level of his rage when he confronts his wife about her adulterous fling. |  Seven A retiring police detective tackles what he thinks will be his final case with the help of a newly transferred detective. However, they discover a series of grisly murders. They soon realise they are facing a sophisticated serial murderer targeting people he thinks represent one of the seven deadly sins. The final resolution is grim.. |
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