For Valentine’s Day weekend, we take a look at some of our favorite soundtrack and score albums from great movies with love stories. From incredibly romantic and sweet, to shout-it-from-the-rooftops kind of love, we’ve got something for every taste. The movies are also available now On Demand, so add them to your play queue or watch them this weekend. Preview the albums to these 10 soundtrack selections. Share with us which ones you would love to have in your collection in the comments below!
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Beastly (Songs From The Motion Picture): iTunes | Buy CD
True love. A modern retelling of Beauty & The Beast, a once charmed man is cursed and must find true love within a year, or he will forever remain cursed. Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen stars. Watch the movie on iTunes. Check out the score album featuring Composer Marcelo Zarvos.
Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLs96TyXYw
Preview the full Beastly soundtrack on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgDiX0zvRAk
Words and Pictures (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes
Love comes after foreplay. An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important. Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche stars. Rent the movie on iTunes. Soundtrack features the score by Composer Paul Grabowsky.
Watch the album preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drIJYUseOs
The One I Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love is weird. A married couple find their relationship and very existence put to the test in this wickedly inventive romantic comedy. Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and Ted Danson stars. Watch the movie on Netflix. Soundtrack features the score by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans.
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0-GY_10k20
Wicker Park (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love makes you do crazy things. Intricately moving back and forth in time revealing the story from each character’s perspective, Wicker Park is an intense psychological drama about a man in an obsessive search for a woman he fell deeply in love with – a woman who then vanishes without a trace. Two years after her disappearance, he catches a fleeting glimpse of her in a local bar and begins a twisting search to find her and discover what really happened. Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Matthew Lillard, Diane Kruger and Christopher Cousins star. Watch the music video below featuring Ben Gibbard’s (Laggies Soundtrack) The Postal Service band. Watch the movie on iTunes.
Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjlivsCBcM
The Song (Original Motion Picture Score): iTunes | pre-order CD
Love never fails. An aspiring singer-songwriter’s life and marriage suffer when the song he writes for his wife propels him to stardom. Alan Powell (frontman of “Anthem Lights”), Ali Faulkner (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) and Caitlin Nicol-Thomas (Nashville) stars. Watch the movie on iTunes. The album features the score by Composer Vincent Emmett.
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBGAzjr3lfA
Rob The Mob (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can be trouble. A modern day Bonnie and Clyde hatch an idea to rob the mob. Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Ray Romano and Andy Garcia stars. Watch the movie on iTunes. The soundtrack features the score by Composer Stephen Endelman.
Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMYx3pBIcU
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TTs6DkZKA
G.B.F. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love comes unexpectedly. When Tanner is outed as a school’s only openly gay student, three popular girls engage in an epic fight to acquire him as their “Gay Best Friend.” Michael J. Willett, Paul Iacono, Sasha Pieterse and Xosha Roquemore stars. Watch the movie on Netflix.
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHz1iL0Gx4
Cavemen (Original Motion Picture Soundrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love isn’t easy to find. L.A. playboy Dean is fed up with one-night stands and empty relationships – he wants more out of life than just a party. With a little help from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles. Camilla Belle, Skylar Austin, Chad Michael Murray, Alexis Knapp, Chasty Ballesteros, Kenny Wormald and Dayo Okeniyi stars. Rent the movie on iTunes.
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9ZUE5ByhA
Blue Valentine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love evolves. The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods. Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams star. Rent the movie on iTunes. Soundtrack feature the score by Grizzly Bear.
Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUm2Gp3_AA
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmuwCkeeMo
Girl On A Bicycle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can get complicated. Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, when the young French beauty, Cécile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle – and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancée, a French “wife”, two Australian children who call him “Papa”, and his life upside-down. Vincenzo Amato, Paddy Considine, Stephane Debac, Louise Monot and Nora Tschirner stars. Watch the movie on Netflix. The soundtrack features the score by Composer Craig Richey.
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbwzELXCBaw
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