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How the collection is arranged

ChillFlix is drawn on near-black, with white type and one red accent. The header carries a red square mark, the name with its second half in red, a short grey menu, a rounded search field and a My List pill. The home page opens with a very tall film still, a small red label reading Featured, the title of the film in large letters, a few lines about it and two buttons. Beneath it sits a row of rounded pills, Movies, Weddings, Far away, Kitchens and Small towns, and then the rows of posters, each under a plain heading: Trending Movies, Weddings, Far away, Kitchens and vineyards, Small towns and Top Rated. Every poster has rounded corners and its title and year beneath.

The lists are the main way through the catalogue. Romance, Comedy and Drama sort the films by kind. Weddings, Royals, Kitchens and vineyards, Far away, Small towns, Music and The seasons sort them by subject, Film series gathers the stories that continue, five lists divide everything by year, and Top rated has the forty-two with the strongest scores.

Open any film on ChillFlix and the page reads the same way. The poster, the title and a few labels, the year, the length and the score, come first. A paragraph tells you who meets whom and where; the director and the two leads are named below it. The last thing on the page is the Watch now button with its country menu. ChillFlix holds on to the country you pick, and the button brings up the JustWatch page for the film, with each service that has it there.

Weddings, proposals and matchmakers

Forty-four films are about the business of getting married, and the people who work in it. The Last Bridesmaid is the classic situation: Becca has stood beside every one of her friends and cousins at the altar and made every one of their dresses, and at the next wedding she meets Kyle, the man behind the camera, who has watched as many ceremonies as she has. Always a Bridesmaid has a heroine in the same position who begins to wonder whether marriage is for her at all. Made for You with Love follows the owner of a shop that restores second-hand gowns, who believes each dress carries the luck of its first bride.

Planners and organisers lead several. In The Vows We Keep an event planner has less than a month to stage her sister's wedding at a historic inn that is about to be sold. The Wedding Cottage sends the author of a wedding guide to persuade a reluctant artist to open his family's cottage for one more ceremony. A Costa Rican Wedding gives a clumsy maid of honour an unexpected ally when the arrangements go astray, and in Wedding at Graceland a couple have three weeks to plan a celebration that will please two very different sets of parents. Eat, Drink and Be Married finds a bride and groom close to calling everything off three days before the date, and Wedding of a Lifetime enters a long-engaged couple in a televised contest.

Proposals have a comedy of their own. Be Mine, Valentine is about a planner who stages elaborate proposals for other people and has had little time for her own heart. Hashtag Proposal begins with a pretend proposal between strangers that is filmed and seen by millions. A Wedding to Remember brings together two people on opposite sides of a building project who discover that they share a past, and Come Dance at My Wedding is a gentler story in which a dance teacher, weeks before her own ceremony, meets the father she thought she had lost.

Then there are the matchmakers. One Perfect Match gives a professional matchmaker a client she would rather keep for herself. A Bet with the Matchmaker sets a relationship columnist against a man who claims he can pair anyone, and Over the Moon in Love has a matchmaker with a failing business try to bring a magazine writer together with her own childhood friend. The Dating List is about an assistant asked to find a husband for her employer, and Dating the Delaneys follows a grandmother, a mother and a daughter who all return to dating in the same season.

Royals in disguise

A small but well-loved group of films concerns princes and princesses who would like, for a week or two, to be ordinary. In A Royal Seaside Romance an estate agent helps a pleasant stranger look for a house in her coastal town and learns only later who he is. Fit for a Prince follows a seamstress who is designing gowns for a charity ball when she meets the guest of honour. A Royal Recipe for Love sends a New York baker to prepare a banquet for a king and queen, and Love on the Danube: Royal Getaway puts a gallery manager on a river cruise beside a duke travelling under another name.

The Reluctant Royal reverses the idea: a mechanic from Philadelphia discovers that the father he had lost touch with is a duke, and has to decide what to do with a title. Royal-ish is about a young woman who plays a princess at an amusement park and makes friends with a real one, aged eight. Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal is a dramatised account of a famous engagement and the months before the wedding.

Kitchens, bakeries and vineyards

Thirty-four films are set where food and drink are made, and they are among the most comforting in the catalogue. Always Amore is the favourite. Elizabeth has kept her late husband's Italian restaurant going with the help of his mother, Nonna, and when a consultant arrives to modernise the menu she must work out which traditions are worth keeping and which recipes are truly her own. Welcome to Mama's hands a Brooklyn trattoria to a manager who has inherited it and to a chef with a reputation to mend, and The Wedding Rule leaves a restaurant to two childhood friends on the condition that they run it together.

Bakers are everywhere. Love Is a Piece of Cake is about a third-generation cake shop; Baked with a Kiss about a pie said to bring true love and the afternoon it goes to the wrong customer; Sweet on You about a small-town pie shop and a visitor from the city with plans for the building. Truly, Madly, Sweetly makes partners of a cupcake seller with a food truck and a man who has inherited half of a historic San Francisco bakery, and Double Scoop sets two former colleagues against each other in the ice-cream trade.

Chefs with a decision to make lead A Taste of Summer, in which a woman opens a restaurant in a seaside town in Massachusetts in time for the annual food festival; Season for Love, in which a chef returns to her Texas home town and its barbecue contest; A Taste of Love, Seasoned With Love, Love's Sweet Recipe and Diagnosis Delicious. With Love, Your Sweetly Salted is about a restaurant critic who has guarded her identity for years, and Food for the Heart about a chef whose delivery service brings healthy meals to people who need them.

Vineyards and orchards supply the scenery for others. Raise a Glass to Love follows a trainee sommelier home to her family's vines in California, where a new winemaker is trying natural methods. Valentine in the Vineyard and Romance at the Vineyard are set among the grapes, The Perfect Pairing gives a wine critic a bump on the head at a winery she once reviewed harshly, Love Under the Olive Tree turns on an olive oil competition between two family groves, and Sweet as Maple Syrup takes place in a maple orchard just before the harvest festival. Something's Brewing moves from the city to a small-town coffee house, and Because of Cupid to a contest for the best alcohol-free cocktail.

Far away

Thirty-one films pack a suitcase. Hawaii is the favourite destination. In Groundswell Emma, a chef from Atlanta whose career and engagement have both come apart, flies to the islands to help an aunt, meets a reserved surfing instructor and learns to stand on a board; Lacey Chabert plays her, and the sea is as much a character as anyone. Aloha Heart sends a conservationist to a friend's wedding at a hotel that turns out to need her advice. You Had Me at Aloha pairs two presenters of a travel programme who agree about very little, and Lost in Paradise strands the head of a fashion company on a tropical island with a chef.

Italy comes next. The Wedding Veil Unveiled and The Wedding Veil Inspiration follow an art historian to a lace-making town and the Italian family she marries into. Villa Amore is about a woman who buys, on an impulse, the villa where her parents met, and finds that it needs a good deal more than paint. A Very Venice Romance takes a New York executive to the canals to win over a celebrated chef. A Paris Proposal has two colleagues pretend to be a couple to win the account of a famous jeweller, and Love's Greek to Me is set on Santorini at a family wedding, where a guest is mistaken for a bride-to-be.

The journeys reach further still. Meet You in Scotland sends an aspiring writer to the Highlands to collect a prize for her favourite author, who would prefer to stay hidden. A Match Made in Melbourne and Romance on the Menu go to Australia, the second to a café in a seaside town inherited by a New York restaurateur. Love on the Amazon travels by riverboat through Brazil, Caribbean Summer swaps a news producer's flat for a house by a turquoise sea, A Costa Rican Wedding heads for the rainforest, and The Finnish Line follows a young woman to Lapland for a sled-dog race her father once ran.

North America has its own far-away places. A group of films set in the national parks pairs a romance with magnificent scenery: Marry Me in Yosemite, about a photographer and a mountain guide; Love in Glacier National: A National Park Romance, about an avalanche forecaster; and Love in Zion National: A National Park Romance, about a museum curator and a ranger. Love Alaska reunites two childhood friends in the far north, Chasing Waterfalls sends a photographer in search of a legendary cascade, and Nature of Love takes a city journalist to a luxury campsite and a guide who thinks comfort is cheating.

Small towns and home towns

Sixty-three films, the largest group in the catalogue, are about coming home. The pattern is familiar and always welcome: someone who left for the city returns for a week, to help a parent or settle an inheritance, and finds the main street, the old friends and one person in particular much as they were. In Autumn at Apple Hill a newly divorced woman is restoring the inn her grandparents left her when a hotel executive arrives to assess it. In Pumpkin Everything a novelist goes home to look after her grandfather and his pumpkin-themed shop. Follow Me to Daisy Hills is about a family general store that needs rescuing, and the consultant sent to do it, who happens to be a former sweetheart.

Television itself often provides the excuse. In Love in Design the presenter of a home-makeover programme is sent back to her New England town to restore its oldest manor, under the eye of the architect she once knew well. Blueprint to the Heart has a designer apply her method to a firefighter's house. A Feeling of Home is about an entrepreneur who has hidden her Texas roots from her investors, and Late Bloomer about a botanist who returns to the school where she was the shy one. Where Your Heart Belongs brings a marketing executive home to plan a friend's wedding on the family maple farm.

Ranches and the open country give the films their widest skies. Taking the Reins sends a writer back to the family ranch and to the horse she stopped riding. Love at the Ranch makes a city reporter a ranch hand for a story, and Love in Paradise gives a film cowboy a weekend at a real cattle ranch, where it becomes clear that horses are entirely new to him. Big Sky River: The Bridal Path continues a Montana love story, Love Stories in Sunflower Valley sends a newspaper assistant to a farming town, and Love Under the Rainbow, Love at Sunset Terrace and Hearts of Winter each bring a newcomer into the life of a widowed father and his young daughter.

Some small-town stories are about craft and trade. Craft Me a Romance is set in an arts and crafts shop facing a large competitor. Love, Bubbles & Crystal Cove is about a maker of handmade soap, Love on your Doorstep about a florist, Fly Away With Me about a new tenant, a rule against pets and a parrot, and The Trouble with Mistletoe about the owner of a pet shop in San Francisco. Hometown Hero gives a brisk divorce mediator a client's dog to look after, and Blind Date Book Club is about a bookshop owner on an island who runs a club where readers choose their books wrapped in plain paper.

Old flames and second chances

If one subject runs through the whole catalogue, it is the second chance. A great many of these films begin where an earlier love story broke off. In Always and Forever Grace and Michael were inseparable at school; she left for university, he stayed, and twenty years later a reunion brings them into the same room. To Have and to Hold is about a woman who married the boy she adored at school and, some years on, has to ask whether the marriage is what she hoped. Mechanics of Love brings a young woman home for her sister's wedding and back to the garage where a childhood friend still works, and Romance in the Air returns another to Lake Tahoe, where she spent her summers, and to a friend who now flies hot-air balloons.

Inheritances are a favourite way of starting again. The Secrets of Bella Vista gives a woman who thought she had few relations half of an apple orchard in California and a sister she has yet to meet. In Love's Second Chance a New York stylist inherits her grandmother's house in a small town, and in Love in Harmony Valley a young woman keeps a promise to a friend. Love at Look Lodge hands an aspiring events organiser her first big occasion at a mountain hotel, and Once Upon a Date sends an estate agent to buy a community theatre and gives her a part in its play instead.

Some second chances are with oneself. Love's Complicated is about a woman so anxious to avoid conflict that her boyfriend signs her up for a class in how to disagree. Me and Mr. Right follows the presenter of a podcast about relationships who finds, on the eve of her book launch, that she needs a companion for the photographs. The Best Version of Love concerns a consultant who improves other people's images, My Birthday Romance a woman who invents a boyfriend to quieten her family, and My Best Friend's Bouquet a devoted reader of signs and omens who catches the bouquet and misreads everything that follows.

A handful of the dramas go a little deeper. Unexpected Grace begins when a woman who has known a great loss finds a note from a lonely schoolgirl asking for a friend, and answers it. Notes from the Heart Healer is about an advice columnist and a young mother in difficulty who writes to her. Caught by Love sends a guest at a resort on a journey of her own, and Love You Like That is an Australian comedy in which a mysterious young woman arrives in a seaside town and sets about mending every heart in it. Romance to the Rescue is the lightest of all: a woman borrows a dog to impress a man who loves agility trials and finds that the dog has ideas of its own.

Who these films are for

The short answer is anyone who wants an easy evening, but the catalogue does sort itself by taste. Viewers who enjoy travel programmes should start with the Far away list, where the scenery is half the point. Keen cooks will find that the kitchen films take food seriously, with recipes that can be followed and menus that make sense. Readers will like the films about bookshops, editors and letters, and the two that call on Jane Austen. Those who prefer a familiar set of characters should go straight to the series.

The films suit company. They can be talked through, paused for tea and picked up again; a viewer who leaves the room for ten minutes can be brought up to date in a sentence. They also suit a solitary evening, when what is wanted is a pleasant place, kind people and the certainty of a good ending. Either way the lists by subject are the best place to choose, and the pills beneath the picture on the home page are there for exactly that purpose.

The year lists are a third way in. Before 2019 holds the earlier films, when the form was finding its shape and the stories were a little slower. 2021 and 2022 is the largest group, with forty-three films from the busiest years of production, and 2024 onwards shows where the form is now, with fresher settings, more varied casts and a growing taste for travel. A viewer who works through the lists in order will see a small history of popular romance on television, and will have a very pleasant time doing it. Friends who share a taste for these films often keep a list between them and compare favourites, and the titles here should give that list a year's worth of additions.

Stories that continue

Three film series are gathered in one list, sixteen films in all, for viewers who like to stay with the same characters. The largest is Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From the Heart and its four companions. They follow the Postables, four employees of the dead letter office in Denver who treat every undelivered envelope as a promise to be kept: Oliver, a courteous gentleman of the old school who quotes Shakespeare; Shane, a clever newcomer with a gift for technology; Rita, who remembers everything she has ever read; and Norman, who knows a little about everything else. Each film traces one lost letter or parcel to its rightful owner and, along the way, moves the slow courtship of Oliver and Shane another step forward.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: One in a Million concerns a letter that could change a young man's future. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground reaches back to New Orleans and a singer who lost touch with someone in a storm. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again begins with an antique vase and three girls who tried to sell it, and Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Road Less Traveled with an old disposable camera. The series is unusual among television films for its literate scripts and its patience, and it has one of the most devoted followings of any.

The Wedding Veil films tell one story across six instalments, five of which are here. Three friends from university, Avery, Emma and Tracy, find an antique lace veil in a San Francisco shop; legend says that the woman who owns it will meet her true love. Each friend takes it in turn. The Wedding Veil Unveiled is Emma's story, set in Italy. The Wedding Veil Legacy is Tracy's, in which she meets a chef named Nick while tracing the original owner of the veil. Then come The Wedding Veil Expectations, The Wedding Veil Inspiration and The Wedding Veil Journey, which return to each couple a year or two into married life, and are refreshingly honest about what follows a happy ending.

The Wedding March series stars Jack Wagner and Josie Bissett as Mick and Olivia, college sweethearts who meet again after twenty-five years and go into business running a wedding inn in Vermont. Wedding March 2: Resorting to Love, Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride, Wedding March 4: Something Old, Something New and My Boyfriend's Back: Wedding March 5 each bring a different celebration to the inn, while the two owners take their time deciding about a wedding of their own. Two national park romances, described above, complete the list.

Careers and second acts

The heroines of these films almost always have a profession, and the profession matters. Writers and editors are favourites. Romantic Rewrite is about an editor of romance novels assigned to an author who writes thrillers. Do I Say I Do? obliges an author to work with an editor who was once her boyfriend. Love Marks the Spot sends a ghostwriter on a treasure hunt to save her publishing house, 14 Love Letters delivers a set of historic love letters anonymously to a young woman's letterbox, and Sincerely, Yours, Truly begins when a bundle of someone else's letters arrives with an engagement ring.

Journalists get out of the office. Love at First Like assigns a sceptical reporter to profile a man famous on dating apps. Romance Retreat maroons a journalist at a wellness resort with the head of a technology firm. A Picture of Her is about a woman who appears, to her surprise, on the cover of a magazine, and goes looking for the photographer. A Missed Connection and The Way to You both start with a meeting on a station platform and a notice placed afterwards in the hope of finding the stranger again.

Science and the outdoors are well represented. A Splash of Love follows a doctoral student who goes to the Pacific Northwest to study orcas and meets a whale-watching captain. Love on the Reef pairs a serious marine biologist with a carefree diving instructor. A Love to Remember is about a horticulturist, Adventures in Love & Birding about a single mother who agrees to partner a bird enthusiast in a spotting competition, and Cloudy with a Chance of Love about a meteorologist finishing her doctorate who is persuaded to present the weather on television.

Others concern sport and the stage. Fourth Down and Love reunites a single mother with a professional football player who was once her college boyfriend. Game, Set, Love gives a former tennis professional a pupil with talent and a temper. Love on the Right Course is about a golfer returning to her father's club, Romance with a Twist about a former dancer drawn back to the air by an aerial performer, and Faith, Hope & Love about a woman who enters a ballroom contest to save her dance studio. A Little Daytime Drama takes place behind the scenes of a daytime serial, where the head writer must coax a departed leading man back to the set.

A touch of magic

A few films bend the rules a little. An American in Austen carries a modern librarian, who has been heard to say that real men fall short of Mr Darcy, into the pages of Pride and Prejudice, where she meets him and has to live with the consequences. Love & Jane is a companion piece: a member of a Jane Austen society finds the author herself sitting in her flat, ready with advice. Made for Each Other is about a sculptor whose statue of the ideal man steps down from its plinth, to the alarm of her entirely human friend.

Dating the Enemy, made in Australia in 1996, is the oldest film in the catalogue and one of the funniest. A television presenter, played by Guy Pearce, and a science journalist, played by Claudia Karvan, have reached the stage of their romance at which each is sure the other has the easier life; they wake one morning in each other's bodies and have a month to learn otherwise. The Wish List gives a meticulous woman a list of qualities for the perfect man and then two candidates, one who matches every line and one who matches hardly any.

Music and performance

Twelve films have music at their centre. Country at Heart is set in Nashville, where a singer on the point of giving up meets a songwriter who has lost his spark, and the two write a song for a competition. Pure Country: Pure Heart follows two teenage sisters who discover that their late father was a country singer and set out for Nashville to learn his story. A Very Country Wedding brings a star home from his tour for a long-delayed ceremony, and Harmony From The Heart is about a music therapist and the doctor who doubts her methods.

Love in the Limelight has a pleasant origin in life. Summer has been writing to Nick, the singer of a boy band, since both were teenagers; years later his group plays a reunion concert in her town and the pen friends finally meet. The leads are played by Alexa and Carlos PenaVega, who are married, and the story is loosely drawn from his own experience with a fan. Two concert films stand a little apart from the rest and are included for the pleasure of the music: Adele: Live in New York City 2015, recorded at Radio City Music Hall, and An Evening with Dua Lipa, filmed at the Royal Albert Hall with an orchestra and a famous guest.

For the youngest members of the household there is The First Snow of Fraggle Rock, a holiday special in which the puppet friends of the caves discover snow and what to do with it. And Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) is a short reunion of a much-loved film family, made in 2020 with the whole cast on a video call, in aid of a charity that feeds people in hard times.

The seasons

These films live by the calendar, and nineteen are tied to a particular time of year. February brings the Valentine stories. In An Unexpected Valentine two strangers spend the day racing across New York to return a lost engagement ring to its owner. Valentine in the Vineyard returns to a pair of winemakers planning their own wedding, and Because of Cupid and Be Mine, Valentine have already been mentioned. Summer is for the beach: A Taste of Summer, Sun, Sand & Romance, in which a publishing executive on holiday meets an old friend from summer camp, and Caribbean Summer.

Autumn has its own look, all orchards and woollen scarves. Autumn at Apple Hill and Pumpkin Everything make the most of it, and Haul Out the Halloween is a comedy about a street whose residents take seasonal decoration very seriously indeed. Winter brings Hearts of Winter, in which a designer wins the task of redecorating a widower's house, and Baby, It's Cold Inside, which sends a travel agent who had hoped for the tropics to inspect a hotel made of ice. Eight Gifts of Hanukkah follows an optometrist who receives a gift from an unnamed admirer on each of the eight nights, and Toying with the Holidays brings a designer home to a town whose model railway is its pride.

Familiar faces

Television romance has a repertory company of its own, and regular viewers choose films by their leads. Lacey Chabert is the best known; she appears here six times, in Groundswell, The Wedding Veil Expectations, His & Hers, in which a married pair of lawyers find themselves on opposite sides of a case, An Unexpected Valentine, Haul Out the Halloween and Lost in Paradise. Alison Sweeney and Autumn Reeser are her partners in the Wedding Veil films and lead others of their own. Cindy Busby has seven films in the catalogue, more than anyone, most of them outdoors.

Rhiannon Fish appears in four, Erin Cahill in three, among them Love Stories in Sunflower Valley, and Rachel Boston in three. Among the men, Tyler Hynes, Christopher Russell, Marcus Rosner, Wes Brown, Paul Campbell and Brennan Elliott all return several times, and Kavan Smith and Pascale Hutton, a popular pairing, share You Had Me at Aloha and The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells. Eric Mabius and Kristin Booth lead all five of the postal films. Part of the comfort of the form is exactly this: a face you know, in a place you would like to visit, in a story that will end well.

A few films bring actors better known from elsewhere. Guy Pearce stars in Dating the Enemy at the start of his career. Steve Martin and Diane Keaton reunite for the short Father of the Bride special. Luke Perry plays the film cowboy of Love in Paradise, Jennie Garth leads Accidentally in Love, about a single mother and an actor who plays a rabbit on a children's programme, and Chad Michael Murray appears in Toying with the Holidays.

The supporting players deserve a word as well. The same character actors turn up as innkeepers, mayors, mothers and best friends from film to film, and regular viewers greet them like neighbours. A well-cast aunt or a dry-witted colleague can lift a simple story a long way, and several of the films here are remembered chiefly for a grandmother with opinions or a small-town mayor with a festival to run.

How these films work

It is easy to smile at the television romance, and its admirers smile too; they know the pattern as well as anyone. Two people meet in the first ten minutes, usually at cross purposes. One has come to change something the other loves: to buy the inn, modernise the menu, close the bookshop or write the unflattering article. Work throws them together. Around the halfway mark there is a festival, a contest or a wedding to prepare. Fifteen minutes from the end a misunderstanding parts them, and five minutes from the end it is cleared up, generally out of doors and in good light.

What matters is how well the pattern is filled, and the best of these films fill it with real charm. The settings are chosen with care and photographed at their loveliest. The supporting characters, the wise aunt, the frank best friend, the father with a workshop, are played by good actors who are given room. The leading pair talk to each other like adults. And the films are kind: the rival is seldom a villain, the former partner is allowed some dignity, and a happy ending is reached by people learning to listen. In a week of harder viewing, that is worth a great deal.

They are also made for everyone in the room. The romance is courteous, a first kiss usually arrives in the closing minute, and the language is clean. Grandparents and teenagers can watch together, and often do. Many households keep them for particular occasions, a rainy Sunday, a day home with a cold, the first evening of a holiday, and choose by setting: something with snow, something with a beach, something with a bakery.

Length and pace

Almost every film in the catalogue runs between eighty and ninety minutes, the length of a television slot with the advertisements taken out. A few are shorter: the Father of the Bride reunion takes under half an hour, and the two concerts run to about an hour each. The pace is unhurried and the plots ask for little concentration, which makes them good company for an evening when attention is divided between the screen and something else, knitting, a jigsaw or a sleeping child.

Each film page shows the running time, and the score beside it gives a rough idea of how viewers took to the film. Scores for television romances cluster between 6 and 7.5; within that range a difference of half a point usually reflects the chemistry of the two leads more than anything else, and the Top rated list is a reliable guide to the pairs who had it.

How the films were chosen

The selection began with a survey of English-language romances, comedies and dramas that have pleased the viewers who found them and have yet to reach a wide audience online, a little over twelve hundred films in all. They were narrowed in three steps. First came the kind of film that suits an easy evening: romance above all, with comedy and gentle drama beside it. Then came a reading of every story, one at a time, in which thrillers, stories of crime and romance written for adult audiences were set aside. Finally the posters and descriptions were checked, and one description was reworded.

ChillFlix keeps its films to itself among the guides of its family; each title was chosen for this catalogue alone. That is why the most famous romantic comedies of the cinema are absent, since they already have a home elsewhere. In exchange the catalogue goes deep into the television romance of the last ten years, a form that is seldom written about and warmly loved, and a visitor who knows it well should still find a good number of films to add to the list.

Using ChillFlix

The search field in the header is the quickest way to a known film. It answers as you type and accepts the common alternative titles. The A-Z page sets all 169 films out in alphabetical order, the Movies page shows them by popularity, and the pills beneath the main picture open the four largest lists.

My List on ChillFlix is a simple queue for the evenings ahead. Add to My List, on each film page, places a film in it; the My List pill in the header opens it. The queue is kept by your browser on the device you are holding and is waiting when you return. Films leave it when you remove them, and the list page will save the queue to a file that another device can load.

The help pages cover each part of the catalogue in a few lines: How to watch, Weddings, Royals, Kitchens and vineyards, Far away, Small towns, Film series, Comedy, Drama, Music, The seasons, Familiar faces and Year by year, with Finding titles and My List for the tools.

A first month

A newcomer who would like a plan can take four weekends and four themes. On the first, a kitchen: Always Amore and Welcome to Mama's. On the second, a journey: Groundswell for the sea and A Paris Proposal for the city. On the third, a wedding: The Last Bridesmaid and Made for You with Love. On the fourth, begin a series, with Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From the Heart or The Wedding Veil Unveiled, and let the following weekends take care of themselves.

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