The Love Issue 2026: Our Valentine’s Day Streaming Roundup

Cinema Cupid (me) is back with the Scene’s second annual Valentine’s Day streaming roundup. There’s a paralyzing amount of options on any given streaming service, so we hope this list helps you wade through the streaming swamp this weekend as you and your significant other cozy up for a romantic movie.

Sweet Streams (Are Made of This): Valentine’s Day Streaming Roundup

Seven romantic recommendations to stream with your sweetheart

We’ve rounded up seven recommendations of thematically appropriate films released in the past year that you may have missed. We stuck to films we have not reviewed in full, which means you will not be seeing the likes of recent worthwhile genre entries such as The Wedding Banquet, Oh, Hi! and Together here — all of those are currently streaming as well.

The Threesome on Netflix

The Threesome’s story can be a bit frustrating at times, especially throughout the film’s back half. But a charismatic cast (Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer-King and Ruby Cruz make up the titular … trio) and a rare, legitimately new spin on the rom-dram formula make for a worthwhile watch. Plus, Jaboukie Young-White gets in a half-dozen killer jokes.

Splitsville, available to rent or purchase

One of the most underrated films of 2025, Splitsville is a hilarious romp bursting with the sort of screwball energy we don’t get enough of these days. Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona star opposite the decidedly average-looking Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino, the film’s screenwriters. Don’t worry, this isn’t your average mid-2000s, schlub-dates-model misogynistic schlock. It’s all part of the joke.

Honey Don’t! on Peacock

Honey Don’t, the latest lesbian romantic crime comedy from married co-writing duo Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, is bizarre — but in a compelling way. Of the material we’ve gotten from the Coen brothers since their split, I’d much rather delve into Ethan’s wacky adventures than Joel’s overly staid Macbeth adaptation — sorry!

Love, Brooklyn, available to rent or purchase

Starring two of our most underrated actors — André Holland and DeWanda Wise — Love, Brooklyn is a warm romantic drama about grief. The script could’ve explored its themes more deeply, but director Rachael Abigail Holder is one to watch.

Heart Eyes on Netflix

Heart Eyes, pitched as a romantic-comedy slasher, is a fun genre mash-up addition to the holiday slasher canon. Some inventive kills and a pair of game leads (scream king Mason Gooding and former Tennessean Olivia Holt) make up for some of the script’s weak points.

Materialists on HBO Max

I saved the two highest-profile entries for last. Materialists, the second film from Past Lives writer-director Celine Song, doesn’t live up to the first film’s instant-classic status. But Materialists is a genuinely fascinating, if tonally messy, movie. I view it as something akin to It Follows, an attempt to interrogate long-held genre conventions (in this case, rom-coms rather than horror flicks). Because of that, the characters can sometimes feel like avatars for the film’s themes rather than real people. But Chris Evans is so good in it that I don’t mind it.

People We Meet on Vacation on Netflix

The most recent, and probably highest-profile, of the entries on this list, the straight-to-streaming People We Meet on Vacation is an adaptation of BookTok sensation Emily Henry’s 2021 novel. On paper, it sounds like a less-than-stellar combination, but star Emily Bader is so charming that she carries People on her back into respectability.