I agree with upasana. I love bollywoods movies too and although the characters really do love each other they ain't pathetic about it. A good example is kuch kuch hota hai, is kajol pathetic? No. Instead she moves on with Salman until Shakrukh comes back for her.

I'm not much into romantic movies.But I agree with you that korean movies are a bit pathetic when it comes to love stories. And I love playful kiss, its the only one drama that I loves the story.I'm an Indian and I have watched a lot of bollywood romantic movies and they are more of like funny and strong.Even though there lots of them which are a bit pathetic but bollywood is actors which are mature and are a bit older than Korean once. Koreans are more of high school or teenage love which make it look pathetic since they are like first love is true love. In reality one person falls in puppy love many times till they find the true ones. And in bollywood, the characters are more older and are of working age and the biggest stars of bollywood are 40 to 50 years of age like salman ( my favorite and the most iest bachelor of bollywood) and the king of bollywood, Shahrukh. This makes the stories more realistic.

Oh and sorry for this long comment..

With Korean dramas, it's largely cultural. The point of the drama is the building of the romance, not what happens after. Marriage is a transaction between families that are still predominantly arranged. Marriage for love, is the minority.

To be honest what I can tell you about American movies is that they often mistake lust for love.
Americans will meet their partner for the first time and then think they are in love. Most Americans divorce their spouse because they didn't give love a chance to grow. They have a single night of passion and whoa...they need to get married.
I have watched thousands of American movies and the same thing happens, but I know it is a movie so I never let it get to me.
As for British movies, they do try to impact their once way of live into him. In the 1970s, there is nothing like waywardness or teenage love. Real men meet responsible women usually through gatherings. <p> However a British movie I really like is this series, Merlin. I like the relationship between Guinevere and Author. But the likes of original sin played by Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie is pure rubbish. <p> As for African movies, talking about Nigerian movies, our love stories is always realistic, far from a fairytale catch. <p> This is my own view on american love movies according to the question asked by Jo.
I got to admit that Titanic is a good british movie

My mother is Indian, so I often visit India. I have watched many Hindi movies and honestly, I find their love stories very boring haha :P Some movies are great, while most seem too stereotypical. I agree with you regarding Korean love stories. They can get pretty pathetic. I think Japanese movies are so far the best when it comes to love. Or at least, it caters to my ideology of love :) I haven't had the chance to watch Chinese or African love stories. You have any opinion regarding them? What about the English ones? (American/British) Do you find them interesting?