11 Best Romantic Movies To Watch With Bae This Valentine’s Day

6. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜), 1996

Country boy Xiaojun (Leon Lai) moves to Hong Kong, hoping to get rich so that he can send for his hometown sweetheart and marry her. Unfortunately, he barely scrapes by in the baffling metropolis, and is lonely until he meets city-slicker Qiao (Maggie Cheung). The mismatched pair becomes best friends while she schools him in urban living. They eventually have a romantic tryst which they try to forget, but deep down they still secretly yearn for each other.