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"
Shirley Valentine (1989)
7.2/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman
A gem of a film about a witty housewife, bored with the hum-drum routine of suburban life, who jumps at the chance to rediscover herself when she join... Read more
Shooting Lily (1996)
7.9/10
Director: Arthur Borman
Starring: Matt Wilson, Amy Smallman
What can a husband do when the woman he loves leaves him for no reason at all? In this case he has it all on tape - his obsessive camcorderings of the... Read more
Shopgirl (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson, Sam Bottoms, Fr...
Steve Martin stars in and adapted the screenplay from his own novella about shopgirl Mirabelle (Claire Danes); she's depressed, underpaid, in debt and... Read more
Siberia (2018)
4.3/10
Director: Matthew Ross
Starring: Keanu Reeves
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia in search of him, but instead begins a love affair. Read more
Sidewalks of New York (2001)
6.5/10
Director: Edward Burns
Starring: Edward Burns, Heather Graham, Rosario Dawson, David Krumholtz, Brittany Murphy,...
Absorbing romantic comedy from writer/actor/director Edward Burns ("The Brothers McMullen") focuses on the interrelated - and often complicated - love... Read more
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
7.7/10
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Chris Tucker, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jacki Weaver
Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job and his wife. He finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and f... Read more
Sin (1970)
4.8/10
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Starring: Raquel Welch, Richard Johnson, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson
Set on a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, this sexually exploitive drama stars Raquel Welch as an everyday housewife whose desire for an old chi... Read more
Singles (1992)
6.7/10
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Sheila Kelley, Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick, Jim True, Campbell Scott, Bridget Fon...
A witty study of twentysomethings seeking romance and personal fulfillment in the Seattle scene. The film unfolds in a series of individually titled v... Read more
Sione's Wedding (2006)
Director: Chris Graham
Starring: Oscar Kightley, Shimpal Lelisi, Robbie Magasiva, David Fane, Pua Magasiva, Teuil...
The boys from Bro' Town are all grown up...kind of. They're pushing thirty and Sione is getting married. To ensure his debauched friends don't embar... Read more
Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
5.8/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer
An entertaining romantic comedy about a N.Y.C. career woman who finds herself crash landed on a deserted island with her pilot. Harrison Ford and Anne... Read more