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"
Beautiful Lies (2010)
6.5/10
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou, Sami Bouajila
Director Pierre Salvadori (Priceless) reunites with Audrey Tautou (Coco Avant Chanel) in this fresh romantic comedy about a chatty hairdresser who con... Read more
Beauty and the Beast: Season 1 (1987)
7.1/10
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Edward Albert, Roy Dotrice
'Beauty and the Beast' features the adventures and romance between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a... Read more
Because I Said So (2007)
5.6/10
Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Pipe...
Diane Keaton plays the well-intentioned, though meddling mother of Mandy Moore in this family-oriented romantic comedy. As she tries to save her youn... Read more
Bed of Roses (1996)
6.1/10
Director: Michael Goldenberg
Starring: Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson
This sweet little love story plays well in the hands of Christian Slater and Mary Stuart Masterson, cast as two emotionally damaged characters stumbli... Read more
Before Midnight (2013)
7.9/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) first met in their twenties in "Before Sunrise"; reunited in their thirties in "Before Sunset"; and, now,... Read more
Before Sunrise (1995)
8.1/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert
American tourist Ethan Hawke and French student Julie Delpy meet on a Euro-rail train and, on the spur of the moment, hop off in Vienna to spend the d... Read more
Before Sunset (2004)
8.1/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Richard Linklater's warm and funny follow-up to "Before Sunrise" reunites former lovers Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke nine years after their whirlwind r... Read more
Begin Again (2013)
7.4/10
Director: John Carney
Starring: Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley, James Corden, CeeLo Green, Hail...
The latest film from writer-director John Carney (Once), Begin Again is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beauti... Read more
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
7/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Debbie Reynolds, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Rob Lowe, Scott Bakul...
Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace: virtuoso pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and... Read more
Bel Ami (2012)
5.4/10
Director: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
Starring: Christina Ricci, Colm Meaney, Kristin Scott Thomas, Uma Thurman, Robert Pattinso...
Robert Pattinson stars in this sumptuous Paris-set period drama based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant which sees a young man seducing his way up the... Read more