Let’s face it, Valentine’s Day, more than just about any other day with a title, is a mass marketing scheme playing lovers for suckers, a bonanza for Hallmark Cards and Whitman’s Samplers and one that probably creates as much heartbreak as romantic goodwill. SEE 2018 Oscar nominations: Full list of Academy Awards nominees in all 24 categories If you confine your search to movies with “Valentine” in the title, you’ll find three horror movies and the 2008 “Valentine’s Day,” a sticky string of stories about couples dealing with the significance of the day that you’d be better off not finding. And that counts love stories that do not end well for the lovers, including “Casablanca,” “West Side Story,” “Titanic” and “Out of Africa.” In nine decades, voters found less than 10 swooners to honor as the year’s best picture. If you were to confine your search to romantic movies that won the Oscar, you’d be surprised how few there are.
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