On 14 February Star Movies celebrates the spirit of being in love with five movies from noon to midnight. The show starts at 12:30pm with City of Angels. The film stars Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan and has been directed by Wim Wenders. It is a remake of his previous film Wings of Desire. Cage stars as an angel who falls for a heart surgeon. During the course of the film we learn that angels are not humans and never were.

At 2:45 in the afternoon Anna Karenina will be shown. It stars French actress Sophie Marceau (Braveheart). Based on Leo Tolstoy's classic the title character is a Russian noblewoman trapped in a marriage with James Fox. Out of sheer frustration she begins a disastrous love affair with an army officer. A parallel story involves another Russian couple.

Then at 4:45pm visit Notting Hill. Hugh Grant plays William Thacker who owns a small bookstore in London. One day a famous movie star played by Julia Roberts drops by and the two strike a freindship. Grants life is then turned upside down as he finds his house besieged by the paparazzi. The cultural clash between an actress making an astronomical 15 million dollars per film and the quintessential Brit is fascinating.

At 7:15 PM Life Is Beautiful takes centrestage. The channel had previously shown this on Christmas day and so if you missed it now is your time to check it out. The tale revolves around a father who tries to protect his son from the horror of the holocaust by making up a game. The film won an Oscar for best foreign language film.

Finally at 9:30 PM action star Harrison Ford tries his hand at romance. In Sabrina. Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets) and Ford play brothers. The title character played by Julia Ormond has been nurturing a crush on Kinnear which he is completely unaware of. She is the daughter of the family's chauffeur. She goes to Paris to change her life and appearance. When she comes back complications ensue. Though Kinnear is taken up with her he is engaged to a wealthy pediatrician. A major merger rests on the relationship being a success. Ford to stop his brother from getting distracted pretends to take an interest in Sabrina and finds himself falling in love.