"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"
Dumped by boyfriend Greg Kinnear, New York TV talk show assistant Ashley Judd writes a magazine article comparing his behaviour to a study on the mati... Read more
Successful lawyer, Kenya (Sanaa Lathan), has everything she could wish for, except the IBM (Ideal Black Man!). While on the cocktail circuit, she mee... Read more
Buoyant romantic comedy from Nancy Meyers ("What Women Want") finds playboy music exec Jack Nicholson dating much younger auctioneer Amanda Peet. Duri... Read more
Christopher Reeve stars in this lush romantic fantasy about a lonely artist, obsessed with a beautiful Victorian woman's portrait, who inexplicably fi... Read more
'The Return of Martin Guerre' is transferred from sixteenth century France to the post-Civil War South for this involving tale of redemption and dispu... Read more
Showered with praise on its release, this adaptation of DH Lawrence's famous novel is perhaps a little dated now. Censorship laws of the time prevete... Read more
A 12-episode serial. The government of Marovania hires the wicked Boroff to manufacture a powerful gas that causes mass disintegration. Boroff is en r... Read more
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship. Read more
Michael Keaton and Geena Davis fall in love, unaware they work as speechwriters for opposing political candidates. A cheerful contemporary comedy with... Read more
Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah star in this charming comedy about a businessman who falls in love with a mermaid. John Candy has some amusing scenes as Ha... Read more