If you are like me, you are a sucker romance flicks. No, I’m not talking about the chick flicks. The love stories I enjoy are those that are riveting and gut-wrenching. For a film to move me, I need to be lost in good acting, scenery, and plot. I want to know if their love prevails or ends in tragedy. Speaking of tragedy, I think Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is average and call me a hater Pride and Prejudice.

I don't relate to Elizabeth, and Mr. Darcy is a boring and lazy. I'm sorry but not very sorry. I need the characters in the film to move me, I need the characters that fall in love to have off-the-charts chemistry. I want to feel what they feel and I want to decide if their love is worth it.

Because in the real world, love is not forever, some couples make it some don't. In my generation, relationships aren't the best and l-o-v-e is a four letter word that people use without knowing the heart. Here are my top 10 favorite love flicks, that I have seen. Because these movies show the kind of love your mother warned you about.

1. The House with Flying Daggers

This movie is one of the best pictures in Cinema History. Although it did not win an academy award, this movie is visually stunning, full of tremendous visual effects and amazing colors. The love story is pure and simply tragic.

2. Jason's Lyric

"what you found was quiet in a world full of thunder."

Man, this movie it’s a tear jerker. If you haven't seen this movie, I urge you to see it. Jada Pinkett- Smith stars in the film, before Will Smith was famous. This story is set in a small town Texas, in the hood. The music is in this film, is what I call the blues. Lyric (Jada) and Jason (Allen Payne) fall in love in the mist of drugs and violence. Jason suffers from PSTD and his will to help is fallen brother Joshua escape from hood mentality. In the end, Jason has to pick between the life he knows or Lyric.

3. Pretty woman

This movie stars Hollywood greats Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Everybody knows I love me some Richard. This movie is an instant classic. Who knew a rich man could fall in love with a call girl? I love this movie because it’s a reminder that you can find love anywhere in any circumstance, and Julia Robert’s was probably the most gorgeous woman to act in the 90s.

4. Gone with the Wind

Gone With the Wind, ranks number four on the greatest movie of all-time list. It's a wonderful story set in America's past time in Antebellum South. In our current political climate, this movie is causing controversy. People have said it glorifies American slavery, but “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

5. Boomerang

Eddie Murphy is a genius, I don’t care what anyone says. This movie roots for the down-to-earth-chick and guest what she wins! The movie soundtrack is the bomb especially if you like 90s RnB. One day, the players of the world will be tired of the “bad” chick and will wife up the girl who doesn't rock a 22 inch weave with over the top butt pads.

6. An Officer and a Gentleman

I know I have Richard Gere twice, but this movie is the most cheese filled romance movie I have ever seen, a guilty pleasure. Deborah Winger and Richard Gere have memorizing chemistry. Behind the love story, Zack Mayo (Richard) becomes the man he is supposed to be. A man with class, dignity, and respect with the help of Paula Pokriki, who is dream is to fall in love with a Navy Seal. Both Zack and Paula love is not a fairy tale it takes work.

7. Once upon a time in Rio

The classic clash between the poor and rich never gets old. This film is set in the notorious city of Rio De Janerio, where the culture and the music comes alive. This couple tries to make it while their worlds tear each other apart. Convince they belong together, they fight till their death for their happy ever after.This movie is an adaption of Romeo and Juliet and its a thousand times better. I think its because Brazilians are just beautiful people.

8. The Man in the Moon

I could not stop crying watching this coming of age story. Set in the rural South, Dani (Reese Witherspoon) and her sister Maureen (Emily Warfield) both fall for a local boy name Court (Jason London). In this film, their sisterhood is strained, due to the relationship dynamic of Dani and Court and Court and Maureen. One of the most interesting love triangle I ever witness and the saddest. I felt at age 12, Dani loved Court more than Jack love Rose in the Titanic.

9. The Notebook

Who doesn’t love the Notebook. Okay, I’m done.

10. A Bronx Tale

This film is amazing, you have the mafia, Italians, gangsters, black people, interracial love, Italians, and did I mention Italians. This soundtrack is incredible featuring Oldies but Goodies music. The best love song I ever heard in my life is in this movie (I only have eyes for you). I love this movie because it touches on racism, usually a touchy subject, affects communities negatively. But although hate is all around us, you can find love. Remember guys, if she fails the door test- “dumpah, dumpah her fast kid.”- Sonny.

Honorable mentions: Ghost, Love and Basketball, Sleepless in Seattle, Walk to Remember, She's All That, Blue Valentine and Claudine.