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"
Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Director: Sergei Paradjanov
Starring: Ivan Nikolaichuk, Larissa Kadochnikova
The Ukrainian film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors won almost every, award in sight on the 1964 film festival circuit. But its become even more impo... Read more
Shadows of Time (2004)
7.7/10
Director: Florian Gallenberger
Starring: Prashant Narayanan, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Irfan Khan, Tilotama Shome
German filmmaker Florian Gallenberger makes her feature debut with this epic Indian love story spanning 60 years. In the early 1940s Riva and Masha a... Read more
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
7.1/10
Director: John Madden
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Ben Affleck
This witty and spellbinding account of the Bard's early days stars Joseph Fiennes as the young playwright, struggling with a work he's planning to cal... Read more
Shall We Dance? (2004)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Bobby Cannavale, My...
John Clark (Richard Gere) is a meek workaholic who feels trapped in a dull, mind-numbing existence. But one night, his whole life changes when the sig... Read more
Shampoo (1975)
6.3/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn
A critically acclaimed social comedy about the romantic exploits of a bed-hopping Beverly Hills hairdresser (Warren Beatty). First-rate cast includes... Read more
Shanghai Kiss (2007)
6.8/10
Director: David Ren, Kern Konwiser
Starring: Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Hu, Timothy Bottoms
In the midst of pursuing his fledgling acting career, Liam Liu (Ken Leung) learns that he has inherited his grandmother's house in Shanghai. Eager to... Read more
She's All That (1999)
5.8/10
Director: Robert Iscove
Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Freddie Prinze Jr, Paul Walker, Matthew Lillard, Jodi Lyn O'...
Freddie Prinze Jr stars as a high school favourite who makes a bet with a fellow classmate that he can turn mousy, bespectacled Rachael Leigh Cook int... Read more
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
6.6/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Spike Lee
The celebrated first feature from independent black filmmaker Spike Lee, a brazenly comic foray into sexual politics. Tracy Camilla Johns stars as Nol... Read more
She's The One (1996)
6/10
Director: Edward Burns
Starring: Edward Burns, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz
Ed Burns became an overnight celebrity with his micro-budget 'The Brothers McMullen'. His follow-up is another sprightly comedy starring himself, this... Read more
Shelter (2007)
7.8/10
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Starring: Brad Rowe, Albert Reed, Tina Holmes, Katie Walder, Trevor Wright
In order to help support his needy sister and her son, Zach is forced to drop out of art school and take a dead-end job. In his free time, he surfs, d... Read more