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"
Samson and Delilah (2009)
6.8/10
Director: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Marissa Gibson, Scott Thornton, Rowan McNamara, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson
An inside look at a world rarely, if ever, depicted on the big screen - Screen International. Samson (Rowan McNamara) is 15 years old and lives in a... Read more
Save the Last Dance (2001)
6.2/10
Director: Thomas Carter
Starring: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington, Terry Kinney
In this romantic drama set in the gritty world of urban Chicago, a white, suburban girl (Julia Stiles) sparks a clash of cultures, both ethnic and art... Read more
Saving Face (2004)
7.5/10
Director: Alice Wu
Starring: Lynn Chen, Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec
Wilhelmina Pang (Michelle Krusiec) is a surgeon living in Manhattan whose mother (Joan Chen) is eager for her to settle down with a nice man and get m... Read more
Say Anything... (1989)
7.4/10
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Ione Skye, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor
Superb performances from stars John Cusack and Ione Skye fuel this romantic comedy from screenwriter/first-time director Cameron Crowe. Army brat Lloy... Read more
Sayonara (1957)
7.2/10
Director: Joshua Logan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Miiko Taka
A moving James Michener tale about the romance between a Korean War pilot (Marlon Brando) falling in love with a Japanese entertainer. Excellent Oscar... Read more
Second Act (2018)
6/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Annaleigh Ashford, Dan Bucatinsky, Milo Ventimi...
A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do. Read more
Seeing Other People (2004)
5.9/10
Director: Wally Wolodarsky
Starring: Jay Mohr, Julianne Nicholson, Andy Richter, Lauren Graham, Bryan Cranston
Ed (Jay Mohr) and Alice (Julianne Nicholson) are a young couple in love when, just two months shy of their nuptials, Alice decides she needs a few mor... Read more
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
6.7/10
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, William Petersen, Keira Knightley, Derek Luke, Steve Carell, Ad...
Dodge Petersen's (Steve Carell) wife has just left him - after learning that an asteroid will destroy all life on Earth in just three weeks. Hitting t... Read more
Seems Like Old Times (1980)
6.7/10
Director: Jay Sandrich
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin
Adapted from Neil Simon's play Chevy Chase is a novelist abducted by criminals and made to be the fall guy for a bank robbery. After his arrest he es... Read more
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
7/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde
One of the finest Doris Day/Rock Hudson pairings casts Rock as a hypochondriac so sure of impending death that he's trying to fix wife Doris up with a... Read more