Prepare for "Materialists" with our top 5 romantic movies to watch first. Set the mood for love and relationships before the main event.

Materialists is a sort-of sideways gesture towards the rom-com, so here are five other movies that might scratch that same itch.

T he decline of the romantic comedy began around the era when people began referring to these movies as “rom coms,” a term drawn from the hokey industry slang used in olden ti