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"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"

Belgravia: Season One (2020)

7.5/10
Starring: Philip Glenister, Tamsin Greig, Harriet Walter, Saskia Reeves, Paul Ritter, Alic...

Follows events when the emerging nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's established upper classes and when secrets... Read more

Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

6.9/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Janice Ru...

About-to-be-married publisher James Stewart finds himself smitten with Kim Novak, but is shocked to find out she's a witch! Jack Lemmon, Hermione Ging... Read more

Bellflower (2011)

6.4/10
Director: Evan Glodell
Starring: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes, Vincent Grashaw

"Bellflower", a heartfelt story of obsession, friendship, young love gone awry, and an angst-ridden critique of and from Generation Y, is the debut fe... Read more

Beloved (2011)

6.2/10
Director: Christophe Honore
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Paul Schneider, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman,...

In 1964 Paris, Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier), a shoe salesgirl and part-time prostitute, falls in love with Jaromil, a Czech doctor she has picked up.... Read more

Benny and Joon (1993)

Director: Jeremiah S Chechik
Starring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt, D...

Johnny Depp plays a child-like drifter with a fixation on Buster Keaton, who goes to live with Benny (Aidan Quinn) and his mentally disturbed, somewha... Read more

Berlin, I Love You (2019)

4.5/10
Director: Peter Chelsom, Fernando Eimbcke, Dennis Gansel, Dani Levy, Josef Rusnak
Starring: Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Luke Wilson, Jim Sturgess, Mickey Rourke

Latest installment of the Cities of Love series (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature film is made of te... Read more

Besieged (1998)

7/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Thandie Newton, David Thewlis

This erotic and emotional love story is set in a lush Roman villa and focuses on a reclusive British musician (David Thewlis) who is irresistably draw... Read more

Betsy's Wedding (1990)

5.6/10
Director: Alan Alda
Starring: Alan Alda, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn, Joe Pesci

A warm-hearted comedy-drama about a down-on-his-luck dad who tries to raise money to give his daughter a big wedding. Fine cast includes Alan Alda, Mo... Read more

Bewitched (2005)

4.8/10
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman

In an updated version of the classic '60s series, Nicole Kidman is a real witch who ends up getting cast as the new Samantha. Will Ferrell is Jack Wya... Read more

Beyond The Clouds (1995)

6.5/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
Starring: Fanny Ardant, John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Peter Weller, Jean Reno, Irene Jac...

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which al... Read more