This post is kind of a fun and different one. Perhaps you love flowers, and maybe movies just as much — did you know that there are quite a few movies that reference flowers or have something flower related in their titles? I have come up with list of some of these movies for you, as well as a short description and main actors for each one.

Broken Flowers (2005)-
Sometimes life brings some strange surprises…
Starring Bill Murray

Cactus Flower (1969)-
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Starring Walter Matthau

Flower Drum Song (1961)-
Broadway’s most romantic musical comedy comes to the screen!!! A chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Frisciso so she can marry her finance.

Flowers for Algernon (2000-TV)-
Charlie Gordon is retarded and all he wants in life is to be a genius. Based on the novel by Daniel Keyes.

Flowers in the Attic (1987)-
Home Sweet Home is Murder. Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Garden Sate (2004)-
A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother’s funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
Starring Zach Braff

Harrison’s Flowers (2000)-
Sometimes love is the only proof you need. When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.

Hearts and Flowers (1919)-
When a hotel orchestra leader starts to flirt with a girl in the audience, her fiance is very dipleased.
Starring Andie MacDowell

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)-
A visiting city reporter’s assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey

Send Me No Flowers (1964)-
A hypochondriac thinks he’s dying this time, and makes plans for his wife which she discovers and misunderstands.
Starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day

The Black Dahlia (2006)-
Inspired by the most notorious unsolved murder in California history.
Plot Outline: An adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel about two 1940s LA cops who head up the hunt for the killer of starlet Elizabeth Short.
Starring Josh Harnett and Scarlet Johansson

The Cement Garden (1993)-
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue, and Tom, begins to suffer from a mysterious illness.

The Horrible Flowers (2005)-
The story of Bettina, a veteran garbage band leader who journeys to the underworld of her past to confront the life and love she left behind.

The Secret Garden (1993)-
The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope, and love grow. A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live in her Uncle’s castle.

Wildflower (1999)-
An inheritance becomes the subject of a family brawl when a young hitch-hiker tries to steal the fortune.