With Valentine's Day fast approaching and the garage at the corner closed for maintenance (no flowers! Arghhh!) why not treat your better half to one of their favourite films on Blu-ray? Or, if you're a single fella, this is the perfect time to order the Limited Edition Gift Set of The Notebook without getting a funny look from the postman. Well...almost.

We'll start our run-down with some highly desirable Keira Knightley faces- er, films. Pride and Prejudice and Atonement may be British through and through (both were produced by Working Title and directed by Joe Wright) but so far they're only available on Blu-ray over the pond. Luckily the discs are region free but take note: The extras are the same as the DVD and the ending to Pride actually occurs slightly earlier in the US cut compared to ours. Both films get DTS-HD 5.1 MA's and 1080p transfers. Should you prefer the BBC mini-series of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, you'll be happy to hear it's recently been beautifully restored for Blu-ray. Another Jane Austen favourite, Sense and Sensibility, the film that earned Emma Thompson an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, is currently listed as 'coming soon'.

Once married, they can build better worlds. All of them better worlds.

Moving further through time, Ms Knightley also pops up along with every other British actor for Love, Actually. Richard Curtis's other notable works - Four Weddings and Notting Hill - aren't yet available anywhere on Blu-ray so you'll have to make do with this cheesy but breezy Christmas-set rom-com (DTS-HD 5.1, no new extras). Another tale of unrequited love now and despite winning 9 Oscars the only Blu-rays we could find for The English Patient were from Canada and Germany and they came with no extras and a scratchy 1080i transfer. Best wait for a better version further down the line we say.

If period romances are your bag (baby) then how's about Gone With The Wind, The African Queen, Casablanca, Braveheart, Brief Encounter or The Notebook? Bogie/Hepburn classic The African Queen comes out in America on March 23rd having been restored and rescanned by Paramount at 4K resolution. We can't say yet if it'll be region free or not but we do know there will be a standard and limited edition. The latter will include a feature-length making of and collectable postcards plus a copy of Katherine Hepburn's memoirs. Meanwhile Gone With The Wind is out now in standard and LE sets boasting both a new TrueHD 5.1 and a Mono track for purists. The US Ultimate Collector's set of Gone includes an image transfer that's on a par with The Wizard of Oz and more extras than you can shake a stick but it's very expensive and you'll need a multi-region DVD player to play the 3rd disc. (The standard R2 edition is just as packed with extras and yet it's half the price).

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Looking through the various Casablanca Blu-rays can be confusing, mostly because Warner Bros are constantly re-releasing it, but really they all have VC-1/DD Mono transfers and you can easily find a reasonably priced Region B one on Amazon Marketplace. Meanwhile the region free US Ultimate Collector's Edition has even more extras than the packed HD-DVD did but again it depends how much you're willing to fork out. As for Braveheart - Mel Gibson's Best Picture-winning romantic epic set in the Scottish highlands - the UK/US versions differ slightly (one opts for a DTS-HD track, the other Dolby TrueHD) but the Region A disc is locked so you're stuck with what you're given. Oh well, the UK transfer is a winner and there's even a commentary from Gibbo himself.

David Lean classic Brief Encounter is a rare locked Region B release by ITV Home Entertainment. Having been restored with help from the BFI, the Blu-ray looks better than ever with a surprisingly clean 1080p image and, though the only audio option is DD 2.0, this has been restored too and is vastly superior to the old SDVD. Extras include a featurette on the restoration process, a stills gallery, the original trailer and a profile on David Lean. Next, directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the popular novel by Nicolas Sparks, The Notebook has a little something for everyone: Ryan Gosling for the lasses and Rachel 'Mean Girls' McAdams for the chaps (woof!). The transfer is fairly good, there are some decent extras (commentaries/screen tests) and the best part is it can be yours for under a tenner. Once again there's the option of importing an expensive Limited Edition Gift Set complete with photo album, bookmarks and stationery but you'd have to be a true fan. And a girl.