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Looking for your next Bad Movie Night pick but want it to be Valentine’s Day related?? May I suggest literally ANY of these terrible Valentine’s Day movies! I’ve found the top 10 worst Valentine’s Day Hallmark movies of all time – films that are painfully bad but also hilarious to watch. We’ve got secret weddings, enemies-to-lovers, Cupid’s magic and endless Hallmark tropes!

Surprisingly these are all quite different from each other, but any one of them would be a great pick for your next Bad Movie Night. Enjoy!!

If you’re going to watch any of these terrible movies, I have free downloads of Hallmark Valentine’s Day Bingo cards (and every other Hallmark genre as well). Make sure to play along while you watch!

Top 10 Worst Hallmark Valentine’s Day movies

10. Valentine in the Vineyard (2019)

Synopsis: “Back for the third instalment, Frankie and Nate manage life on the vineyard and plan a wedding in secret.”

Review: “This Vineyard series must end. The plot was so boring and did not make any sense in most areas. I tried twice but cannot watch it more than 30 minutes. I am a big fan of Brendan Penny but all I can say is that he is wasting his talent. What a pity!”

9. Love at First Glance (2017)

Synopsis: “After being dumped by her boyfriend Carl for being unadventurous, Mary sets out to prove him wrong by tracking down the handsome stranger whose cellphone she found on the subway.”

Review: “Terrible Terrible Terrible. If I could give this a movie a zero, I’d give a -10. Terrible acting and terrible story line. All of the things about this movie was absolutely terrible. I’ve never cringed so hard in my entire lifetime. It was physically impossible for me not to cringe. The actress of Mary was the worst out of them all. She shouldn’t even be part of the acting career because of her poor poor poor…POOR acting.”

8. Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride (2018)

This is an actual synopsis from IMDB: “It’s a full Valentine’s Day weekend at the Inn when Olivia and Mick host Mick’s sister Bonnie and her fiancé Sean, Mick’s daughter Julie and her boyfriend Wyatt, and Olivia’s mother Nora and her boyfriend Johnny.”

Review: “Divorced from reality. This is drenched in fraudulent emotional incontinence but it isn’t the worst!”

7. Valentine’s Again (2017)

If you’re looking for Valentine’s Day movie that also has magic, maybe give this one a try: “Katherine endures the worst Valentine’s Day date of her life. On her way home a gypsy casts a magical spell on her. The next morning she soon realizes she’s reliving the day until she finds Mr Right.”

Review: “I hope Nicky Whelan made enough from this movie to take acting lessons. Hallmark movies are mediocre most of the time, but this one couldn’t even live up to that. From the get go, the acting is so bad that you have no buy-in to care what happens to the main character. I guess they cast for looks alone, she is a pretty girl, but this girl cannot act. Rather see someone who is a bit more realistic that can pull off these poorly written movies.”

6. Smooch (2011)

Synopsis: “A handsome “English Royal” comes to America for an arranged marriage, and ends up being mugged in San Francisco’s and left with amnesia. Through a serendipitous misunderstanding, a precocious 11-year-girl thinks she turned the frog into a man after kissing the frog’s boo-boo away with a smooch. She brings him home and soon realizes the only way she can “keep him” is to have the man impersonate a “Royal Nanny” and convince her beautiful widowed mother to hire him. With the clock ticking and his royal family searching for him, the man – whose memory eventually returns to him – falls hard for the girl’s mom, and it seems like a Valentines Day dream come true until he’s found by his family and is forced to finally stop being a bit of a “toady”… and become a real man.”

Review: “Atrocious. The acting was appalling, the premise a joke and the whole thing was a waste of time. I usually like Kellie Martin but this was just embarrassing for all concerned.”

5. Be My Valentine (2013)

Synopsis: “When Kates flower shop has a small fire she meets widower Dan, the towns fire chief. Over time Kate and Dan starts to date and romance is in the air. But then Kates former boy friend turns up having regretted that he left Kate. Who will she choose?”

What’s interesting about this one is that is has a horrible rating but no terrible reviews online. I’ve actually watched this with the community and I’ve totally wiped it from my mind. It’s silly and then ultimately repressed from my memory, so that must be a good sign.

4. Welcome to Valentine (2023)

Synopsis: “Meet Olivia, who lost her boyfriend and job at once and wants to return to her hometown in Nebraska, but on the way she meets George and gets stuck on the road with him, spending time together and realizing love is what truly matters.”

Review: “Terrible acting, terrible writing and zero chemistry between the main leads. He is a jerk, she is clueless and no amount of Hallmark magic is going to save this. I have been a huge Hallmark fan for years, but this past year or two has been a major disappointment.”

3. Beverly Hills Wedding (2021)

You want a bad Valentine’s Day and a wedding? Try this one.

Synopsis: “An overenthusiastic photographer wins her younger sister an all-expenses-paid wedding, which includes a trip to Beverly Hills and is surprised to learn that her ex-boyfriend is the best man and will be joining them.”

Review: “Waste of time. This movie is boring. The cast is boring. The story line is boring.The two main characters are boring. I watched it for 10 minutes and was bored. So unless you are bored watching paint dry, don’t waste your time.”

2. A Valentine’s Date (2011)

This was originally called A Valetine’s Date but they eventually changed it to “Your Love Never Fails”. It clearly didn’t help.

Synopsis: “A working mother is forced to return to a life she left behind in Texas when her daughter’s father files for joint custody.”

Review: “Ridiculous. Opening shots of the City of Austin, then a cut to a huge mountainous backdrop of their central “Texas” ranch (which is obviously set in California–unless I’ve missed seeing that mountain for the past 40 years that I’ve lived in Austin). Two blue-eyed parents with a brown-eyed kid–genetically impossible. Yes, casting agents, people notice these kinds of things and it makes films even less believable. The leading lady wearing cowboy boots to ride a horse in Texas-with an English riding saddle. A meal of enchiladas (Tex-Mex) paired with dirty rice (Cajun). Hint–no one here does that. A supposedly sophisticated now-New Yorker who shows up to court without a lawyer–(oh, but wait-later her NY attorney flies to Texas to represent her, apparently with a magical license to practice in Texas). The lead, supposedly raised in Texas, soooo worried about her ~10 year old daughter being around animals like piglets and horses because “she could get hurt,” since she’s “a city kid.” Giant eye-roll from me. Did anyone on this film do their homework first?????”

And finally, the worst Hallmark Valentine’s Day movie of all time is…

1. Cupid, Inc. (2012)

Synopsis: “Eve Lovett doesn’t believe in love, but it’s close to St. Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. She feels alone but meets Cupid who offers her a deal: if she can match a new couple before Valentine’s Day, she will find true love.”

This “movie” has a particular trope that I love – when Hallmark tries to cover up the bad acting and plot with music throughout the entire thing.

Review: “The only reason I rated this movie a one is because of the continual music in the background, which was really in the foreground, and louder than the speaking parts. The score is the typical Hallmark “bing-bong” music you hear over and over in so many of their movies. It is like listening to a concert and a lecture at the same time, making it difficult to hear every word clearly.”