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"
The American President (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Annette Bening, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, David Paymer, Samantha Mathis, Mi...
An entertaining film about a widowed president (Michael Douglas) who's attracted to an environmental lobbyist (Annette Benning) and decides to pursue... Read more
The Art of Getting By (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Gavin Wiesen
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Rita Wilson, Michael Angarano, Blair Underwood, Freddie High...
Fatalistic teenager George Zingavoy is a master at just barely getting by. In fact, he's practically turned it into an art form - making it through th... Read more
The Art of Getting By ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Gavin Wiesen
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Rita Wilson, Michael Angarano, Blair Underwood, Freddie High...
Fatalistic teenager George Zingavoy is a master at just barely getting by. In fact, he's practically turned it into an art form - making it through th... Read more
The Art Of Love (L'art d'aimer ) (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Starring: Emmanuel Mouret, Ariane Ascaride
The Art of Love (L'art d'aimer) is composed of several chapters following several Parisian couples. Isabelle (Julie Depardieu) has not had sex in a ye... Read more
The Awful Truth (1937)
7.9/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Mary Forbes, Ralph Bellamy
This screwball classic stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a newly-divorced couple who realise (independently of one another) that they're still in lo... Read more
The Bachelor (1999)
5/10
Director: Gary Sinyor
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Peter Ustinov, Edward Asner, Chris O'Donnell, Brooke Shields
This remake of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances" is a romantic comedy in which commitment-phobe Chris O'Donnell is told he will inherit $100 m... Read more
The Bachelors (2017)
6.7/10
Director: Kurt Voelker
Starring: Julie Delpy, Kevin Dunn, Harold Perrineau, J K Simmons, Jae Head, Tom Amandes, O...
After the death of his wife, Bill and his 17-year-old son, Wes, move from a small town to a big city for a fresh start. As they begin to adjust to lif... Read more
The Barber of Siberia (1999)
7.9/10
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring: Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov
In 1905, Jane Callaghan, a once beautiful American, writes to her son at a famous military academy. Her memories take us back twenty years to when she... Read more
The Beautician And The Beast (1997)
5.3/10
Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeice
Stuck in the salon with her TV aspirations going nowhere, a Queens beautician readily accepts when she's hired to tutor the emotionally deprived child... Read more
The Best Offer (2013)
7.8/10
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Dermot Crowley, Donald Sutherland, Geoffrey Rush, Philip Jackson, Jim Sturgess,...
Acclaimed director Giuseppe Tornatore ("Cinema Paradiso") reunites with renowned composer Ennio Morricone for this dramatic mystery set in the high-st... Read more