February is definitely a special month, from being the only month with fewer days to the celebration of love. And Valentine’s week starting with the rose day, we bring you the best movies about flowers that you can watch with your loved one or even by yourself since they are a great watch either way.
10 Best Movies About Flowers
Beauty and the Beast
Whether we talk about the animated movie or the live-action, the red rose plays a pretty big role in everything. The movie follows the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.
Now the red rose is the reason behind it all. The flower is given to the prince by a beggar asking for shelter. He denies the beggar and she punishes him for his lack of love by turning him into a beast. If the beast can learn to love and be loved in return before the rose dies, the spell will be broken and he will be turned back into a prince.
Watch it on Disney+ Hotstar.
Tulip Fever
This historical romantic drama is adapted from Deborah Moggach’s 1999 novel of the same name, where an artist falls for a young married woman while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Throughout the film, we see the use of yellow tulips which represent happiness, cheerfulness, and hope. Victorians even believed yellow tulips literally meant – there’s sunshine in your smile.
Watch it on Netflix.
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This Beautiful Fantastic
Directed and written by Simon Aboud and starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Anna Chancellor, and Eileen Davies, this movie is set against the backdrop of a beautiful London garden. It could be tagged as a contemporary fairy tale which centres on the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman who dreams of writing children’s books and a cranky widower.
Facing eviction over her neglected garden, Bella meets her grumpy, loveless, next-door neighbour, who happens to be an amazing horticulturalists. Watch this beautiful movie on Amazon Prime Video.
Blue Jasmine
Written and directed by Woody Allen, the movie shows that after everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Although there isn’t a direct connection between the mentioned flower, apart from the character’s name, the movie is actually about the dire consequences that can result when people avert their eyes from reality and the truth they don’t want to see. It also won Cate Blanchett an Oscar for her acting. Watch it on Amazon Prime video.
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Tom’s Midnight Garden is about a young boy who discovers a secret garden that is hidden in the walls of his uncle and aunt’s house. The garden is a place where time has stopped, and the boy can explore it at will. He meets a girl who lives in the garden, and they become friends. Together, they explore all of the secrets of the garden.
Starring Nigel Le Vaillant, Marlene Sidaway and Serena Gordon, the film is based on the novel Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce. Watch it on Amazon Prime Video.
Green Fingers
This heartwarming story about redemption follows prisoner Colin Briggs (Clive Owen) who is introduced to gardening. Appalled at first but as he continues his journey, the thriving prison garden attracts the attention of a flamboyant gardening expert, Georgina Woodhouse (Helen Mirren), she offers to sponsor the inmates in an upcoming flower show.
The person who thought that their life will be all about being a prisoner finds new meaning to life as at the Hampton Court Flower Show, Colin meets Georgina’s daughter and a romance blooms. Watch this movie on Amazon Prime Video.
Broken Flowers
Starring Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Julie Delpy, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, and Frances Conroy, when a lifelong bachelor Don Johnston (Murray) receives an anonymous letter informing him that he has a son. This prompts Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames and his son.
He has some hilarious encounters throughout and prior to meeting with his 5th ex-girlfriend, he visits a flower shop. If you look closely the florist creates a beautiful bouquet of lilies and pink carnations. The same colour scheme appears throughout the film, from centrepieces to the clothing of the women he visits. Watch it on Netflix.
Big Fish
Directed by Tim Burton, and based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace, the movie follows Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) who has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William (Billy Crudup). Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
One of them is the scene where Edward Bloom plants a field of 10,000 daffodils outside his crush’s window to demonstrate his love for her. And truth be told they all are real flowers, planted by the crew just to be trampled on in this scene. You can watch it on Amazon Prime Video.
Colombiana
In the movies mentioned above, most of them have a romantic relationship with the flowers, however, in Colombiana it is associated with revenge and implies that – Revenge can be beautiful. In the movie, Zoe Saldana plays Cataleya, a young woman who has grown up to be an assassin after witnessing the murder of her parents as a child.
Turning herself into a professional killer and working for her uncle, she remains focused on her ultimate goal: to hunt down and get revenge on the mobster responsible for her parent’s deaths. She leaves an orchid for them, which is also the meaning of her name – Cataleya.
Watch it on Netflix.
Magnolia
The movie is written, directed and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars an ensemble cast, including Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, Michael Murphy, John C. Reilly, Jason Robards and Melora Walters.
The deals with the themes of reconciliation and forgiveness, revealing what the parents’ past actions can do to their children. The story follows 10 people whose damaged lives intersect, often by sheer coincidence during a single day in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. The name Magnolia is kept since it represents many things but especially endurance and perseverance, which reflect the characters.
Watch it on Amazon Prime Video.
Which of the above-mentioned movies will you be adding to your watchlist? Let us know in the comment section below.
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