If the thought of pink hearts with the words "I Love You" on them makes you cringe, or if the sight of cute, dimpled leading ladies agonizing over romance sends you running for the exits, then here's the perfect list of anti-Valentine's Day films. In these films love is obsessive and destructive, and sometimes leaves no survivors.

1. 'Double Indemnity' (1944)

Let's start with one of the best examples of film noir and a relationship in which Barbara Stanwyck doesn't realize she loves Fred MacMurray until she shoots him. If that's not tough love I don't know what is. Stanwyck set the standard for lethal femme fatales. Since these classic film noirs couldn't be sexually explicit they had to channel all that libido into smart, sexy dialogue dripping with innuendo.More »

2. 'Out of the Past' (1947)

Rivaling Stanwyck as a lethal seductress is Jane Greer. She double-crosses so many men so many times that you'll need a scorecard to keep track. Robert Mitchum falls for her and pays a steep price. As with Double Indemnity, no one gets out alive.More »

3. 'Body Heat' (1981)

Kathleen Turner serves up an 80s femme fatale with William Hurt as her puppet on a string. She seduces him, makes him an accomplice to murder, and then lets him live only because she needs a fall guy. As with the femme fatales before her she made being bad oh so good. Look for a young Mickey Rourke as an arsonist.More »

4. 'Play Misty For Me' (1971)

Jessica Walter set the standard for the female stalker in this Clint Eastwood thriller. She proves without a doubt that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The corollary to that is "Beware of obsessive fans wielding big knives." This was Eastwood's directorial debut and boasts a cameo by director Don Siegel with whom Eastwood had first worked on Coogan's Bluff.More »

5. 'Fatal Attraction' (1987)

Picking up right where Jessica Walter left off is Glenn Close.Poor Michael Douglas thought he was just engaging in a little extra-marital sex but Close refuses to accept her status as a one-night stand. She's like the energizer bunny – she just keeps going and going and going after Douglas. Close plays one of those characters you love to hate.More »

6. 'Basic Instinct' (1992)

Michael Douglas became something of a poster boy for guys victimized by psycho bitches. In addition to Fatal Attraction, he also ran into female trouble with Demi Moore in Disclosure and with Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. Unlike Close, Stone wasn't a stalker, she was just a murderous sociopath. This film boasts the infamous leg-crossing and uncrossing scene.More »

7. 'Misery' (1990)

Fan adoration is taken to the extreme in this adaptation of Stephen King's book. Kathy Bates cuts an oddly terrifying figure as a devoted fan who kidnaps an author (played by James Caan) to show her appreciation. The 'hobbling' scene is seriously cringe-inducing. In this case love doesn't kill, just cripples. Whatever happened to just asking for an autograph?More »

8. 'Audition' (1999)

A lonely man holds a fake audition as an excuse to find a suitable wife. He decides on the seemingly submissive and lovely young thing played by Eihi Shiina. Boy was he wrong! Shiina's quiet young bride in this Takashi Miike film makes all the other women on this list look like pussycats. If you think the hobbling scene was bad wait till you see what Shiina does with a little piece of piano wire. To say any more would ruin the delicious, nasty pleasures of this truly twisted tale. This one builds slow but pays off stunningly.More »

9. 'Bonnie and Clyde' (1967)

The poster proclaims: "They're young. They're in love. And they kill people." What more could you ask for? Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway play real life, Depression-era criminals Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Director Arthur Penn saw their story as a tragic love story of sorts. The final slow motion shoot-out is oddly romantic in its carnage. Two people in a romantic film never exchanged such loving, longing glances as Bonnie and Clyde share in the split second before a hail of machine gun fire takes their lives.More »

10. 'Kissed' (1996)

Necrophilia has never been sweeter than in this gentle love story. Molly Parker has a thing for corpses but not for the warm bodies of the living. Seems working at a funeral parlor is something of a dream job for her. But what's a guy to do when he falls in love with her?

Just missed the list:Black Widow, Haute Tension, Notes on a Scandal, Single White Female, Honeymoon Killers, and Pedro Almodovar's Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down.More »