Fall in love with these movies for Valentine's Day

Chocolates molder. Roses wilt. Neckties have an unfortunate similarity to nooses.

But a love DVD isn't perishable. And it has two distinct advantages over most prezzies. Lover and beloved can enjoy it together. And it is a gift that keeps on giving.

But which title? Suggestions for some quality Valen-time:

PUPPY LOVE

Clueless (1995): While making over and fixing up her friends, Alicia Silverstone is surprised by her feelings for an unlikely guy.

Ever After (1998) A revisionist Cinderella with Drew Barrymore as the household drudge who rescues the prince instead of the other way around.

Juno (2007) After they get pregnant, can high schoolers Ellen Page and Michael Cera untangle the knotty complications and have a relationship?

The Lady and the Tramp (1955) A pedigreed pooch learns about life and love from a streetwise mutt.

Little Manhattan (2005) 11-year-old Josh Hutcherson has a crush on the cutie in his karate class, but what can he do about it?

Love and Basketball (2000) Can childhood friends and hoops stars Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps score with each other off the court?

Shrek (2001) An ogre rescues a sleeping princess who in turn reawakens his dormant heart – while a talking donkey provides the play-by-play.

Pretty in Pink (1986) Molly Ringwald as the boho girl and Andrew McCarthy the preppy boy who defy the social arbiters of their high school.

Ten Things I Hate About You (1999) Taming of the Shrew set in a Seattle high school, starring droll Heath Ledger and feisty Julia Stiles as the sparring partners.

DATING LOVE

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Golddigger Marilyn Monroe and good-time girl Jane Russell get lucky in love.

High Fidelity (2000) When his girlfriend Iben Hjelje leaves him, John Cusack recounts his prior romantic failures and reckons a calculus of love.

Jerry Maguire (1996) High-flying sports agent Tom Cruise gets a conscience, crashes, and with the help of clients Cuba Gooding Jr. and Regina King and assistant Renee Zellweger, finds new balance.

Kissing Jessica Stein (2002) Jennifer Westfedlt thinks she likes men, but when Helen Juergensen comes knocking she opens the door – and her heart.

Mississippi Masala (1991) Sarita Choudhury, a Ugandan of South Asian heritage now living in America, has a fenderbender – and a lot more – with Denzel Washington.

Music and Lyrics (2006) Hugh Grant as a flagging pop star whose career and plants are revived by Drew Barrymore, the free spirited "watering girl."

Something New (2006) Fast-track executive Sanaa Lathan is drawn to laidback gardener Simon Baker but will her family accept a white guy?

The Shop around the Corner (1940)/You've Got Mail (1998) Jimmy Stewart/Tom Hanks enjoys his correspondence with unknown penpal Margaret Sullavan/Meg Ryan, not realizing that already knows her as an irritating colleague.

Tortilla Soup (2001) Hector Elizondo, a chef with three marriageable daughters, experiments with recipes for love.

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

The Age of Innocence (1993) Daniel Day-Lewis as a proper 19th-century New York lawyer engaged to sweetheart Winona Ryder but dazzled by her cousin Michelle Pfeiffer, who he represents in her divorce.

Annie Hall (1976) Woody Allen's dissection of a relationship with the flighty, fetching Diane Kaeton provides a bittersweet anatomy of love.

Casablanca (1943) Ingrid Bergman walks into Humphrey Bogart's gin joint with the key to his heart and conscience.

Roman Holiday (1953) Runaway princess Audrey Hepburn enchants jaded journalist Gregory Peck who must choose between protecting her and profiting from her.

The Way We Were (1973) Easygoing golden boy Robert Redford strikes sparks with politico Barbra Streisand, flames consume them in this tale of how opposites attract – and detract.

Before Sunrise (1995) Strangers on a train Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy disembark in Vienna and stroll the city one enchanted evening before he has to return to the States.

ADVENTUROUS LOVE

I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) Pragmatic Wendy Hiller is engaged to a millionaire when she is waylaid by stormy weather – and romantic Roger Livesey.

North by Northwest (1959) Adman Cary Grant is mistaken for a CIA spy but there's no mistaking his attraction to counterspy Eva Marie Saint.

The Quiet Man (1952) American boxer John Wayne returns to his ancestral Ireland and finds himself on the ropes when it comes to courting flame-haired Maureen O'Hara.

Romancing the Stone (1984) On a South American tour, romance novelist Kathleen Turner meets soldier-of-fortune Michael Douglas and lives an action novel.

To Have and Have Not (1945) Lauren Bacall as the slinky adventuress who tries to reel in elusive adventurer Humphrey Bogart.

Year of Living Dangerously (1983) Australian journalist Mel Gibson is drawn to British embassy attache Sigourney Weaver in 1965 Indonesia during the fall of Sukarno.

LOVE ON THE EDGE

The Apartment (1960) Junior exec Jack Lemmon has a crush on elevator operator Shirley MacLaine who is otherwise engaged...to a married man.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Jim Carrey can't get over Kate Winslet and arranges for neurosurgery to have her erased from his memory – but can you erase love?

The Lady Eve (1941) Con artist Barbara Stanwyck falls for mark Henry Fonda, musing "I need him like the axe needs the turkey."

Notorious (1945) Torn between duty and love American agent Cary Grant tells Ingrid Bergman to marry Nazi Claude Rains, all the better for the U.S. to spy on him.

Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) Suicides Patrick Fugit and Shannyn Sossamon meet each other in purgatory and fall in love. Is it too late?

MARRIED LOVE

Adam's Rib (1949) Husband-and-wife lawyers Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy respectively defend and prosecute Judy Holliday, accused of attempting to murder her husband.

The Awful Truth (1937) As Irene Dunne seeks divorce from philandering spouse Cary Grant, they fight for custody of their wirehair terrier and disapprove of each other's rebound romances.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are married, in therapy and unbeknownst to each other, hitmen hired to kill each other.

The Thin Man (1934) William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a private detective and his wealthy wife who drink Martinis and solve murders.

Two for the Road (1967) Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn as an architect and his spouse seen during different stages of courtship and marriage, always while on vacation in France.

MATURE LOVE

The African Queen (1951) Katharine Hepburn as the straitlaced spinster who joins forces with a ginsoaked riverboat captain to take on a German battleship in Central Africa at the start of World War I.

The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Meryl Streep is an Italian-American homemaker who catches the eye – and heart – of loner photographer Clint Eastwood one sultry Iowa summer.

On Golden Pond (1981) Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn as a couple in their sunset years when hearing and eyesight flicker but love burns bright.

Robin and Marian (1976) As Robin Hood and Maid Marian reunited in their middle years, Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn reaffirm their passion while resisting the political forces that come between them.

Something's Gotta Give (2003) Diane Keaton as a celebrated playwright who transforms her farce of an affair with music producer Jack Nicholson into a Broadway hit that changes both their lives.

An Unmarried Woman (1978) Newly-divorced Jill Clayburgh dips her foot into the New York dating scene and falls deep into the ocean that is Alan Bates.

LOVE BEYOND DEATH

The Bridge to Terabithia (2007) Bullied by their classmates, middle-schoolers Josh Hutcherson and Sophia Robb forge a bond during extracurricular adventures in an enchanted place across the river.

Brokeback Mountain (2005) Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as cowboys who share a passion with each other that they do not have with their wives.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Chinese warriors Michelle Yeoh and Chow-Yun Fat pursue a stolen sword – and each other – while protecting nobleman's daughter Zhang Ziyi and her bandit boyfriend.

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Close-knit group of friends that include Hugh Grant, Simon Callow, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Andie McDowell couple, uncouple and reconnoiter during a season of life-cycle occasions.

Ghost (1990) Banker Patrick Swayze is killed and with the help of medium Whoopi Goldberg solves the mystery of his murder – and saves his beloved, Demi Moore, from the same fate.

Love Story (1970) Privileged Harvard student Ryan O'Neal falls for Ali McGraw, a foulmouthed Radcliffe scholarship undergrad. Their families – and other events – intervene.

Wings of Desire (1987)/City of Angels (1998) An angel (Bruno Ganz/Nicolas Cage) wishes he could become human when he becomes enamored of a lovely mortal (Solveig Dommartin/Meg Ryan).