Whether you're single or in a couple, you might want to skip the Valentine's Day dinner crush this year and watch a movie.
Here's a list of more than two dozen romantic movies — comedies, dramas and everything in between — where NYC plays a starring role so you can celebrate your love of the city:
The Heiress (1949)
This 1949 adaptation of Henry James's novel "Washington Square" follows the shy daughter of a New York doctor. When she falls in love, her father tries to stop the marriage because he thinks the young man could be a fortune hunter.
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Although much of this movie takes place on a cruise ship, the Empire State Building plays a major role when a couple falls in love and agrees to meet on the observation deck six months later. "Sleepless in Seattle" (also on this list) paid homage to this classic decades later.
West Side Story (1961)
This classic musical is a take on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". Two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, brawl, sing and dance their way through the Lincoln Square area while Tony and Maria fall in love and try to escape the bitter rivalry.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
The movie that launched a thousand last-minute Halloween costumes, this movie stars Audrey Hepburn in her iconic role as Holly Golightly, a New York socialite — or call girl depending on who you ask — who falls in love with her new neighbor, played by George Peppard. It's a loose adaptation of a Truman Capote novel of the same name.
That Touch of Mink (1962)
This frothy romantic comedy stars Cary Grant as a wealthy NYC businessman trying to woo a career woman, played by Doris Day. Watch out for cameos by Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris during a date in the dugout at Yankee Stadium.
Annie Hall (1977)
The classic neurotic New Yorker romantic comedy stars writer/director Woody Allen as a TV writer and his actress/singer girlfriend. Diane Keaton's menswear-inspired wardrobe made her a style icon.
Splash (1984)
A mermaid saves a young boy while he's vacationing in Cape Cod. Years later when he's grown up into Tom Hanks and is working in New York City, he's reunited with her thanks to a boating accident in this fantasy romantic comedy.
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) follows the messages to and from a New York City bohemian named Susan (Madonna) in a tabloid's personals ads, all leading up to a rendezvous in Battery Park. There's mistaken identity, amnesia and a pair of stolen earrings in this dramadey.
Moonstruck (1987)
In this Brooklyn Heights-set romantic comedy the widowed Loretta (Cher) is supposed to marry her boyfriend, Johnny, but he leaves for Sicily to visit his dying mother. He asks Loretta to invite his estranged brother Ronny (Nicholas Cage) to their wedding. Naturally, Loretta and Ronny fall in love, but not without a lot of arguing and a trip to the opera at Lincoln Center.
Coming to America (1988)
The first of two Eddie Murphy movies on this list, the star plays a pampered African prince who passes himself off as a broke student in Queens to find an intelligent, independent woman to be his wife. Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones and Shari Headley also star.
Working Girl (1988)
Tess, a Staten Island secretary (Melanie Griffith), seizes her chance to put forward her own idea for a merger at the Wall Street investment bank she works at when her boss (Sigourney Weaver) breaks her leg skiing. Things get even more complicated when Tess falls for her boss's boyfriend, played by Harrison Ford.
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The quintessential New York City romantic comedy that asks the question "Can men and women ever just be friends?"
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Johnny, a recently released convict, gets a job as a short-order cook at a local diner where he meets Frankie, a waitress trying to put a bad marriage behind her. Al Pachino and Michelle Pfeiffer star.
Boomerang (1992)
A womanizing advertising executive (Eddie Murphy) gets a taste of his own medicine when his new boss (Robin Givens) turns out to be a female version of him. The movie has a jam-packed cast featuring Halle Berry, David Alan Frier, Martin Lawrence, Grace Jones, Chris Rock and Eartha Kitt.
The Age of Innocence (1993)
This period drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer and directed by Martin Scorsese tells the story of a young lawyer who falls in love with a beautiful woman who's separated from her husband. The only problem is, he's engaged to the woman's cousin.
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Seattle might be in the title, but New York City stars in this homage to "An Affair to Remember." Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's characters spend most of the movie apart after "meeting" on a call-in radio show until a romantic scene on top of the Empire State Building.
Crossing Delancey (1988)
A single Manhattan bookstore employee falls in love with a Lower East Side pickle store owner introduced to her by her matchmaking grandmother. The pickle store is said to be modeled on Guss' Pickles.
You've Got Mail (1998)
Hanks and Ryan followed up the success of "Sleepless in Seattle" with another Mahanattan-based hit, "You've Got Mail." Kathleen runs a struggling children's bookstore and hates Joe, the owner of a large chain bookstore that's moved into the neighborhood. But when the pair meet anonymously online, they start an intense relationship and fall in love.
Autumn in New York (2000)
This May-December romantic drama stars Richard Gere as an 48-year-old playboy who falls in love with a 22-year-old with a terminal heart condition, played by Winona Ryder. The Rockfeller Center ice rink and the Central Park lake are both featured.
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Jennifer Westfeld plays a copyeditor living in New York City and looking for the perfect man, until she meets the perfect woman.
Serendipity (2001)
Serendipity on the Upper East Side gets a starring role in this romantic drama starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale as a couple who meet buying gloves at Bloomingdales and find their paths keep crossing.
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
In this romantic comedy, Jennifer Lopez plays the maid at a Manhattan hotel with a senatorial candidate (Ralph Fiennes) who mistakes her for a socialite when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's clothes.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Kate Hudson's a magazine writer tasked with trying to land — and lose — a man in 10 days. Matthew McConaughey is a New York ad executive and playboy who bets his friends he can make a woman fall in love with him at the same time. Naturally, the pair meet in a bar and square off in a battle of the sexes.
Hitch (2005)
Will Smith plays the eponymous "date doctor" who tries to help a hapless man (Kevin Smith) find love with the woman of his dreams. But when Hitch tries to use his game on a gossip columnist (Eva Mendes) he finds himself out of his depth.
Enchanted (2007)
This romantic comedy is a loving send-up of Disney movies lets a princess (Amy Adams) loose in modern day Manhattan as she tries to reunite with her prince charming. One of the more memorable — and possibly disturbing — scenes involves some helpful pigeons and rats trying to clean up an apartment.
27 Dresses (2008)
Katherine Heigl is the ultimate bridesmaid — 27 times over — who reluctantly lets a wedding vows columnist (James Marsden) write about her ahead of her sister's wedding to the man she's secretly in love with.
When in Rome (2010)
This romantic comedy might start in Rome with a ill-advised wish, but most of the action takes place in Manhattan. New York-centric references include dinners in the dark at Camaje and location shoots at the Guggenheim and Central Park's Bathesda Fountain.
Blue Valentine (2010)
This romantic drama stars Ryan Gosling as a high school dropout working for a Brooklyn moving company and Michelle Williams as a pre-med student caring for her ailing grandmother in Pennsylvania.