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"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"

Testament of Youth (2015)

7.3/10
Director: James Kent
Starring: Kit Harington, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Joanna Scanlan, Mira...

Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain. Vera - irrepressible, intel... Read more

Texasville (1990)

6/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Annie Potts, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges

Director Peter Bogdanovich returns to Anarene, Texas - the site of his classic 'The Last Picture Show' and updates us on what the characters have been... Read more

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

7.3/10
Director: Alexander Korda
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray

AKA 'Lady Hamilton'. An excellent film about Nelson's lifelong relationship with Emma Hamilton that is somewhat glamorised and stiff but generally ex... Read more

That Touch of Mink (1962)

6.7/10
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows

Doris Day and Cary Grant star in this romantic comedy that's an all-time favourite. She is an unemployed young lady; he's a rich, suave bachelor who s... Read more

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie M...

Steve Carrell is Andy Stitzer, a cheerful, middle-aged geek who, as the title suggests, has yet to take the sexual plunge. When his friends find out... Read more

The Accidental Tourist (1988)

6.8/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis

William Hurt is a travel writer who hates to travel. He also isn't willing to open himself up to what life has to offer until he splits with his wife... Read more

The Affair: Season 2 (2015)

8/10
Starring: Joshua Jackson, Maura Tierney, Dominic West, Ruth Wilson

A struggling novelist and a young waitress strike up an extramarital relationship that promises to forever change the course of their lives. With a mu... Read more

The African Queen (1951)

7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Peter Bull, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel

One of the all-time greats, "The African Queen" stars Humphrey Bogart (in his Oscar-winning role) and Katharine Hepburn as unlikely lovebirds who enco... Read more

The Aftermath (2019)

6.3/10
Director: James Kent
Starring: Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard, Jason Clarke

In 1946 Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg to be reunited with her husband, Lewis, who is a British colonel charged with rebuilding the sh... Read more

The Age of Innocence (1993)

7.2/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder

Martin Scorsese revels in ravishing romantic grandeur with a tale of love and denial in 19th Century New York. Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and... Read more