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  • Autumn has started – the leaves are turning brown, rain is coming down from the sky and sweaters are back. On rainy days, there’s nothing I’d rather do than to watch films – preferably chick flicks. Cuddling up, sitting beneath a blanket with a glass of hot tea. Here’s a list of 10 movies to watch in autumn.

    The Devil Wears Prada

    The Devil Wears Prada

    Andy is a young journalist looking for a job. She lands a job at the high fashion magazine run by Miranda Priestly – a place where Andy totally doesn’t seem to fit. But Runway might just be the perfect place for her…

    Genre: Comedy, drama
    Runtime: 1h 49min
    Director: David Frankel
    Cast: Anna Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci
    IMDb score: 6,9
    Tomatometer: 75%
    Nominated for two Golden Globes

    Grease

    Grease

    Sandy is a good girl and fell in love with bad-boy Danny over the summer. When they discover they’re going to the same school, Sandy feels that Danny isn’t the same Danny he used to be.

    Genre: Musical, romance
    Runtime: 1h 50min
    Director: Randal Kleiser
    Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
    IMDb score: 7,2
    Tomatometer: 75%
    Nominated for 1 Oscar

    The Age of Adeline

    The Age of Adeline

    Adaline is a young woman, born around 1900. When the has an accident, she finds out that she can’t age anymore. Many, many years later she meets a man who makes her life turn around.

    Genre: Drama, fantasy, romance
    Runtime: 1h 52min
    Director: Lee Toland Krieger
    Cast: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford
    IMDb score: 7,2
    Tomatometer: 56%

    Titanic

    Titanic

    Young boy Jack falls in love with a kind young woman on board the luxurious cruise ship Titanic. Bad luck ahead…

    Genre: Drama, romance
    Runtime: 3h 14min
    Director: James Cameron
    Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates
    IMDb score: 7,8
    Tomatometer: 89%
    Won 11 Oscars

    Good Will Hunting

    Good Will Hunting

    Will Hunting is really, really smart but doesn’t do anything with it. He’s a janitor at M.I.T. and some people there find out he has a gift for mathematics. While being busy with mathematics, he needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

    Genre: Drama, romance
    Runtime: 2h 6min
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Cast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
    IMDb score: 8,3
    Tomatometer: 97%
    Won 2 Oscars

    The Holiday

    The Holiday

    Amanda is a wealthy woman living in Hollywood. Iris is a simple woman living in a small cottage in the English countryside. When the two women meet on the internet, they decide to swap homes. The women find themselves in entirely other lives.

    Genre: Comedy, romance
    Runtime: 2h 18min
    Director: Nancy Meyers
    Cast: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black
    IMDb score: 6,9
    Tomatometer: 49%

    Twilight (marathon)

    Twilight

    Twilight gives off the perfect autumn vibe with its blue filter and rain – even though it’s a bad franchise. It’s all about young woman Bella meeting old (but in a young body) vampire Edward. Bella finds herself in a battle between vampire clans and werewolves. Ps. Take a look at this blogpost in which I watched Twilight again for the first time in six years.

    Genre: Drama, fantasy, romance
    Runtime: 1h 55min – 2h 10min
    Director: Catherine Hardwicke, Bill Condon, David Slade, Chris Weitz
    Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
    IMDb score: 4,7 – 5,5
    Tomatometer: 25% – 49%

    Bridget Jones Diary (and the sequels!)

    Bridget Jones

    Bridget Jones seems like an ordinary woman. But she hasn’t found love (yet). Over the course of a year, she keeps a diary in which she writes about her tumultuous life, where she is found dangling between the love of two men.

    Genre: Comedy, drama, romance
    Runtime: 1h 37min
    Director: Sharon Maguire
    Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
    IMDb score: 6,7
    Tomatometer: 81%
    Nominated for 1 Oscar

    Notting Hill

    Notting Hill

    William Thacker is a British man who owns a bookshop in the London neighboorhood of Notting Hill. One day, he meets the most famous movie star in the whole wide world and he finds his world turned upside down.

    Genre: Comedy, romance
    Runtime: 2h 4 min
    Director: Roger Michell
    Cast: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts
    IMDb score: 7,1
    Tomatometer: 83%
    Nominated for 3 Golden Globes

    You’ve got mail

    You've got mail

    Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox have only two things in common: they both run a bookstore. Kathleen runs a small childrenbookstore while Joe runs the biggest bookstorechain in Manhattan. Secondly, they’re both in love with someone they met on the internet.

    Genre: Comedy, drama, romance
    Runtime: 1h 59min
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
    IMDb score: 6,6
    Tomatometer: 69%
    Nominated for 1 Golden Globe

    Got any other suggestions for this list of movies to watch in autumn? Leave it in the comments below!

    3 comments

    Love this list! What is it about this time of year that makes movies so much more enjoyable?
    I’ve still never seen Good Will Hunting and I really need to do something about it.

    The Devil wears Prada and you’ve got mail are definitely on my list now! Also I LOVE Notting Hill!

    littlemisschickflick says:

    Don’t tell me you’ve never seen The Devil Wears Prada and You’ve got Mail?! Those really are ‘Anna movies’!

    Let me know what you think