"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"
When the death of their father results in the sudden loss of their family fortune, two newly impoverished sisters find that their loss of status comes... Read more
Mrs. Dashwood and her two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, are faced with the prospect of Mrs. Dashwood's stepson and his wife moving into their home a... Read more
Set in 19th-century Australia, a girl is born of an Aboriginal mother and an Afghan father - a dark skinned, green eyed, forbidden beauty. Raised by h... Read more
After a chance meeting and a spontaneous date, Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) exchange phone numbers, sort of. He scrawls on a five... Read more
This classic romantic comedy stars Marlene Dietrich as a sexy cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten her kicked out of one port... Read more
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. In this much-anti... Read more
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. In this much-anti... Read more
The fun, the fashion, the friendship: this bombastic film brings it all back as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kri... Read more
An original, quirky film that won newcomer Steven Soderbergh the top prize at Cannes and captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide. Graham Dalt... Read more
An intelligent, observant, handsome adaptation of William Nicholson's award-winning play, inspired by the late-blooming romance between the fifty some... Read more