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The Romance Lover’s Guide to Movie Must-Sees

If you adore Sleepless in Seattle and Pride and Prejudice and The Avengers, then you want a movie guide aimed at women like you. Women who enjoy romances and more! You like both a good kiss and a good knockout and refuse to be categorized—but you wish someone like you would recommend movies.

Which brings Mills & Boon author and professional movie critic Heidi Rice to the rescue. Whether it’s nonstop action with a little heart ’n’ soul, sweetly adorable cartoons, a classic black-and-white screwball comedy or that under-the-radar flick that you never knew you were missing, Heidi Rice will lead you through her must-sees and why you will also enjoy them. From Ryan Gosling’s six-pack to that iconic orgasm sandwich delivered by Meg Ryan, right up to the double whammy of hotties in Prisoners (Gyllenhaal and Jackman)—there’s a little something for everyone.

And a little something for that teenager inside you who’s ready to watch “nekkid” man-candy and spend two hours falling in love all over again….

To my Mum and Dad—who love the movies almost as much as me, and loved each other even more. Xx

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Modern Tempted author and film journalist Heidi Rice indulges her inner chick-flick bitch with her take on some of the greatest romantic movies of all time, some movies which boast wonderful touchy-feely moments and a few others that you may never have heard of but will soon wish you had.

Whether you’re looking to have a fabulous Girls’ Night In, planning to drag your other half to a darkened cinema on a secret mission to ogle Ryan Gosling’s nekkid pecs, stuck indoors with bored children on a rainy day, or simply trying to cajole your teenage sons into watching something with a little heart and soul alongside the blood, sweat and firepower… Have no fear; Heidi is here to celebrate what women want in a great movie experience. So if it be Hugh’s sculpted abs gilded by campfire light, Rhett and Scarlett bickering their way through the American Civil War, Meryl cooking boeuf bourguignon (and Alec Baldwin) to within an inch of their lives or Bradley and Jennifer learning to tap-dance, badly, this is so the movie guide for you.

1) Oldies That Are Awesome 1) Oldies That Are Awesome Who says you need CGI, SFX, 3D or even colour film to do some amazing storytelling?

It Happened One Night: A Hitch-hikers Guide to Screwball Romance

The Wizard of Oz: Because of the Wonderful Things It Does

It’s a Wonderful Life: How a Banker Steals My Heart Every Christmas

On the Waterfront: Brando in His Prime Does Bad Boys Proud

The Long, Hot Summer: When Paul Met Joanne…

The Apartment: Mad Men with Laughs

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968): How to Beat a Guy at Chess, Every Time

2) Cartoon Capers, but Not Just for Kids

Beauty and the Beast: A Tale That’s Old but Timeless

Pocahontas: Love on the Wild Frontier (and Mel Gibson Sings!)

The Princess and the Frog: It’s Not Easy Being Green on the Bayou

Up: And Away in My Beautiful Balloon House

Tangled: Rapunzel Has a Good Hair Day

Toy Story 3: For When You Wanna See Grown Men Cry

3) Rom-Coms R Us

When Harry Met Sally…: And Meg Ordered an Orgasm Sandwich

Pretty Woman: Confessions of a Streetwalking Shopaholic

Bridget Jones’s Diary: Pride and Prejudice with Really Enormous Knickers

It’s Complicated: Especially After You Sleep with Your Ex, Meryl. Sheesh!

He’s Just Not That Into You: Oh, Yes He Is!

The Proposal: Ryan Reynolds Looks Good Nekkid. It’s Official

Love & Other Drugs: When Love Means Never Having to Fake an Orgasm

Silver Linings Playbook: Nobody Puts Bradley in a Corner

4) Joys for the Boys (and the Girls, Too)

Public Enemies: Johnny Depp as a Bad Man with a Tommygun

Source Code: He Follows the Plot, While You Follow Jake Gyllenhaal

Limitless: Bradley Takes a Drug That Makes His Eyes Even Bluer…Seriously?

Cowboys & Aliens: aka Buff & Buffer

Drive: Ryan Gosling Riding on the Edge

John Carter: A Massive Flop but Not So’s You’d Notice

Skyfall: Bond Is Back and Bardem’s Got Him

Prisoners: Two Hotties, Lots of Heartache

Rush: Chris Hemsworth to Drive You Wild? Anyone?

5) Offbeat but Right Up My Street

Dear Frankie: Starring Gerard Butler, When He Still Did Subtle

Julie & Julia: The Great American Cook-Off

The King’s Speech: Or How an Aussie Saved the British Monarchy

Attack the Block: The Kids Are Definitely Not All Right

Young Adult: A Mean Girl Grows Up…Eventually

The Artist: Black, White, Silent, French…et Magnifique!

Cedar Rapids: Insurance Salesmen of the World Unite

Rust and Bone: A Gallic Love Story with Nothing Lost in Translation

6) Big Is Beautiful, Bold Is Even Better

Gone with the Wind: The Civil War Never Had It So Good

The Last of the Mohicans: Featuring the Best Kiss-Off Line in Movie History

Brokeback Mountain: A Fine Bromance

Australia: Nicole Explores the Wonders of Oz (and Hugh Jackman, Nekkid)

Valentine’s Day: Twenty Star-Studded Hallmark Cards Come to Life

Man of Steel: Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It’s the Hottest Guy on the Planet

Buff, Buffer, Buffest: Men who make you drool. Henry Cavill being a case in point.

Chick-Flick: A film where the action is mostly in the snarky, snappy, sexy dialogue—and there are a lot more fluffy-cuddly bits than a dick-flick.

Dick-Flick: A film that overdoses on gun action, or car action, or spy action, or sci-fi action or all of the above. And it tends to stint on the fluffy-cuddly bits. (I.e., the opposite of a chick-flick, really.)

Modern Tempted Hero/Heroine: This Mills & Boon hero is still alpha, but he’s also a whole lot of flirty fun—as are the women who can tame him. He’s gonna be smart, sexy and successful, but she’s going to be able to match him every step of the way. He could be Clark Gable’s hitch-hiking reporter in It Happened One Night, cartoon bad boy Flynn Ryder in Tangled or Jake Gyllenhaal’s flirty, dirty Viagra salesman in Love & Other Drugs, while she could be Meg Ryan’s orgasm-faking Sally in When Harry Met Sally…or Joanne Woodward’s Newman-taming smart cookie in The Long, Hot Summer. She’s gonna have to put her heart on the line with this guy—while making sure he never gets the upper hand!

Modern Romance Hero: This is the ultimate alpha male in the Mills & Boon universe. We’re talking the hot guy who’s at the top of his game. Powerful, protective, overpowering—a guy you don’t want to mess with (but secretly can’t resist). For the purposes of this movie-review book, we’re talking Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans, Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind or Daniel Craig in Skyfall—and larger than life in every respect.