For reasons related to another, unrelated, business model with which I am tinkering (survey here tyvm), I have had on my mind notions of, and styles of, dating. And like referencing another beau in the middle of trying to sell yourself on or to this one (for the sake of writing, I am only referencing dyads), a movie as a date is a very common but iffy proposition. It not being 1952 or 1995, time commitment, time spent in silence, the crapshoot of a not fun film, making out with a theatre arm rest in between, making out when you just kind of would rather watch the movie but not wanting to hurt someone’s feelings, just making out because you want to maintain some decency, ad infinitum. But those are just early date phenomena for people who are not on the same page about the structure of the date relative to the film, are not bored, or boring, are not married, and/or have no idea that it is a date or are at a point where they would not quite see it that way, i.e. friends, a long-in-the-tooth couple, that sort of deal. And here I am about to make another list of video content, sheesh. Anyway, I put together a series of films that correspond to various stages of relationships, and independently could be considered very specific types of ‘date movies.’ To be sure, you do not have to be in any particular ‘stage,’ to watch them – eh, in fact in some cases maybe you would rather not be – and it is hardly a very cohesive or thorough theme; three of these films are here mostly because they are in my all-time top five. But they are all lovely artifacts, not terribly widely seen, and frankly, quite worth the watch.