Valentine's & Library Lovers' Day
Beamafilm
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13/02/2026
This weekend, we’re celebrating both Valentine’s Day and Library Lovers Day - two occasions that feel perfectly at home together.
Library Lovers Day is one we especially love at Beamafilm. It’s a chance to celebrate the people, places and principles that make libraries such enduring community treasures - spaces built on curiosity, care, access and a genuine love of stories. Paired with Valentine’s Day, it’s also a reminder that some of our most meaningful relationships begin with the stories we share.
To mark the occasion, we’ve curated a collection of romantic favourites, bittersweet dramas and offbeat love stories to enjoy with a partner, a friend, or simply your library card.
From early Hollywood gems like Seventh Heaven, Wings, A Star is Born, and A Town Like Alice, to literary-infused romances such as The Seagull, Vita and Virginia, Ammonite, and Renoir, there’s plenty for fans of classic and period drama.
For something contemporary and heartfelt, titles like Nobody Has to Know, 23 Walks, Larry Crowne, Night Train to Lisbon, and Like Water for Chocolate explore second chances, slow-burn connections, and love that doesn’t always follow a neat script. Viewers looking for feel-good escapism can dive into All Aboard for Love, Country Hearts, Dating the Enemy, the Harlequin Romance Collection, Harlequin Holiday Collection, and The Wedding Planners, where small towns, holiday plans, and happy endings take centre stage.
Those who prefer their romance with a twist can turn to Griff the Invisible, A Guide to Dating at the End of the World, Heaven’s Burning, Kangaroo, Singapore Sling Collection, and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, blending comedy, fantasy, and drama. Meanwhile, No Dress Code Required, Cutie and the Boxer, Ask Dr Ruth, and Botticelli’s Primavera offer more reflective looks at desire, identity, long-term partnership, and the art and conversations that shape how we love.
Younger viewers and the young at heart can follow the tangled friendships and crushes of Flunk (Seasons 1–5) while films like Sayonara, Greenhide, and The Doctor’s Wife show that romance can surface in unexpected places and times.
This Valentine's & Library Lovers Day, let your next favourite love story begin with a film borrowed through your local library.
Watch for FREE with a participating library card or on a 30-day trial. Also, you can rent a film for 72 hours.
In the court of King Louis, the designer of the gardens of Versailles finds love and inspiration in a bright young woman with ideas of her own.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir paints on the French Riviera in 1915 after his wife dies and his son is wounded in a battle. He finds a young woman named Andrée and she becomes his last model.
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A couple in their sixties get to know one another over the course of 23 dog walks. Set against the dramatic background of the changing seasons of one year.
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In the early twentieth century, an aging actress and her lover visit the estate of her elderly brother.
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Phil, a robust middle-aged man suffers a stroke, causing him to lose his memory. Millie, who takes care of him, tells him falsely that they were secretly in love before his accident.
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Sometimes all it takes is an apocalyptic catastrophe to help find your true love.
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One couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
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A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
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1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
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Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss Professor, abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
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After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.
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As Alison prepares for new ocean adventures, business executive Joel navigates his way into her heart and they become co-captains for life.
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The daughters of country music and rock & roll royalty find themselves at a crossroads, torn between following their dreams of performing or helping their father run their up-and-coming horse breeding business
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A woman is forced to cancel her wedding after her dog is killed. With help from her dog's spirit, her small town rallies to give her the wedding of her dreams.
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Griff, a superhero who spends his days fighting bullish coworkers and his nights fighting evil, has his worlds turned upside when he meets Melody, a beautiful scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
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It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.
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A stirring love story based on George Sand's Francois Le Champi. Despite the odds stacked against him, a young orphan grows from a boy into a man.
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When an IT guy meets a beautiful girl who dreams of being an actress, he pretends to be a big shot producer to win her over.
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Novelist Richard Somers and his wife abandon the emotional sterility of Europe in the early '20s for a new life in Australia.
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A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women after he falls for a beautiful performer.
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After a botched bank job, a gang takes hostage a Japanese girl on the run from an arranged marriage, and escapes. Their wheel man saves the girl from them and the two go on the run with cops, the gang and her psycho husband on their...
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Star-crossed lovers defy a bitter family feud, only to find unity through tragic sacrifice.
A fiery courtship becomes a comic battle of wills in this raucous romance of wit and wordplay.
Janey is new in town and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general and "Dance TV" in particular.
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A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, then goes to war.
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A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
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Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
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In a forgotten Mexico Tita and Pedro fall in love, but are forbidden to marry. Instead, her mother offers Pedro to her other daughter. Now they live in the same house, and their love cannot be suppressed.
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Out of boredom, a high society girl visits her father's outback cattle station. After several adventures involving a gang of ruthless cattle duffers, she falls in love with the manager of the station. Only part of this silent film survives today.
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We all know opposites attract...but is the grass always greener?
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An LGBT couple makes the angst-inducing decision to move to a country town.
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Charting the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist.
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A captivating film based on meticulous research taking a fresh look at the different mysteries and often conflicting interpretations surrounding it, its rich mythology and allegories, the sumptuous event it was created for, the impact...
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A couple in love from Baja California Mexico are in the middle of the preparations for a huge wedding, the only problem is that their marriage is not legal, since they are both male.
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The chaotic 40-year marriage of two different artists.
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Six great Harlequin romances lined up: 'Love, Alaska', 'Art of Falling in Love', 'After the Storm', 'Love by Accident', 'A Very Country Wedding' & 'Love in Harmony Valley'.
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An Englishwoman and an Australian prisoner of war meet in Malaya, then reunite after World War II.
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When Paige, James, and Hannah Clarkson inherit their mother's wedding business, they quickly become passionate about the most important day of a couple's life and planning beautiful, one-of-a-kind weddings.
Harlequin holiday romance favourites you'll fall in love with.
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John Stamford, an expat private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
High school students Stella, Ed, Ingrid and Harry navigate life, exploring issues of sexuality, drug and alcohol use, identity, and consent.
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High school students Stella, Ed, Ingrid and Harry navigate life, exploring issues of sexuality, drug and alcohol use, identity, and consent.
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High school students Stella, Ed, Ingrid and Harry navigate life, exploring issues of sexuality, drug and alcohol use, identity, and consent.
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Heidi and Saffron struggle to keep their relationship a secret from Saffron’s conservative mother, while Ingrid betrays her best friend, Brayden in this globally-aclaimed LGBTQIA+ coming of age drama series.
As Heidi, Saffron, Ruby and Astrid approach the end of high school, a huge question mark hangs over their future. It's the summer before forever. Will they find a way to stay in each other’s lives, or is this goodbye?
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