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"
A Song For Martin (2001)
7/10
Director: Bille August
Starring: Sven Wolter, Viveka Seldahl
In director Bille August's meditation on autumnal love, famous composer Martin meets and falls for Barbara a gifted violinist. Abandoning their former... Read more
A Star is Born (2018)
8.4/10
Director: Bradley Cooper
Starring: Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lady G...
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers -- and falls in love with -- struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big... Read more
A Star is Born (Blu-Ray) (2018)
8.4/10
Director: Bradley Cooper
Starring: Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lady G...
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers -- and falls in love with -- struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big... Read more
A Stasi Comedy (2022)
Starring: David Kross
After falling in love with the Nathalie and sleeping with his first target, Corinna, Ludger ends up living two lives - one as an underground poet and... Read more
A Tale of Love And Desire (2021)
6.8/10
Follows Ahmed, a 18-year old, French of Algerian origin, who meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl. He discovers a collection of sensual and erotic Arab... Read more
A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011)
5/10
Starring: Jodie Whittaker, Dougray Scott, Emilia Fox, David Warner, Allan Corduner
Returning home from work, Mia witnesses an aged woman leap from a window. Scattered around the old woman's broken, lifeless body Mia discovers shredde... Read more
A Walk In The Clouds (1995)
6.7/10
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn
Keanu Reeves, Anthony Quinn and Giancarlo Giannini star in this romantic drama from the director of 'Like Water for Chocolate' and spins the tale of a... Read more
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Anna Paquin
Set in the summer of 1969, a time of major change in America. Man is set to walk on the moon, Vietnam is raging and Woodstock is about to revolutionis... Read more
A Walk To Remember (2002)
7.4/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah
Pop singer Mandy Moore stars as a goody two-shoes high school student in a small North Carolina town who sings in the choir and has an affection for a... Read more
A Werewolf Boy (2012)
7.4/10
Director: Sung-Hee Jo
Starring: Joong-ki Song, Bo-yeong Park
Summoned by an unexpected phone call, an elderly woman visits a cottage she used to live in as a child. She begins to recall her memories of a boy she... Read more