Romance
"Alice's Festival Of Romance"
Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. Romantic films serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if the two people finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience life "happily ever after" - implied by a reunion and final kiss.
Here "Alice's Festival of Romance" has been assembled below as an aphabetical list. Should more precise scrolling be required, one should go to the specific genre, ie "Classic Romance", "Comedy Romance" , "Drama Romance" or even "Queer Cinema"
Right: Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid star in Todd Haynes'
"Far From Heaven"
Woman on Top (2000)
5.3/10
Director: Fina Torres
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Murilo Benicio, Harold Perrineau, Mark Feuerstein
Love, sex and food combine in this sensuous romantic comedy. Sizzling Penelope Cruz plays a chef who leaves her restauranteur husband in Brazil after... Read more
Wonder Wheel (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: James Belushi, Kate Winslet, David Krumholtz, Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, Ma...
Four peoples' lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actre... Read more
Wonderwall (1968)
5.6/10
Director: Joe Massot
Starring: Jack MacGowran, Jane Birkin, Richard Wattis, Iain Quarrier
Eccentric Professor Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran), a specialist in the behaviour and collection of butterflies, discovers he can peep on his beautifu... Read more
Words and Pictures (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Amy Brenneman, Bruce Davison, Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Navid Nagahban
Jack Marcus is a seemingly washed up writer turned English professor teaching honors students. Not having published anything in years, not only is hi... Read more
Working Girl (1988)
6.8/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver
Melanie Griffith shines as a Staten Island secretary looking to better her position in a Manhattan brokerage firm. When her snooty boss Sigourney Weav... Read more
Wuthering Heights (1939)
7.7/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
An internationally acclaimed version of Emily Bronte's classic story of passion, hatred and revenge. Laurence Olivier claimed that William Wyler taugh... Read more
Wuthering Heights (1992)
6.9/10
Director: Peter Kosminsky
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer
Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes star in this magnificent adaptation of Emily Bronte's immortal classic about love and vengeance. Set on the Yorkshi... Read more
Wuthering Heights (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Oliver Milburn, Nichola Burley, Steve Evets, Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solo...
An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film follows Heathcliff (Solomon Glave, then James Howson), a boy taken i... Read more
Wuthering Heights (Blu-ray) (2011)
6/10
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Oliver Milburn, Nichola Burley, Steve Evets, Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solo...
An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film follows Heathcliff (Solomon Glave, then James Howson), a boy taken i... Read more
Year Of The Comet (Blu-ray) (1992)
5.8/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Tim Daly, Louis Jourdan, Art Malik, Ian Richardson, Ian McN...
An auctioneer's daughter and a rich buyer's emissary fall for each other while trying to keep a rare wine out of the hands of evil doers. Read more