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 Emperor's Wife (2003)
5.7/10
Director: Julien Vrebos
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Max Beesley, Leticia Dolera, Rosana Pastor
In an undisclosed location and time, an Empress has seven years to provide her Emperor with an heir. At the celebration of their sixth wedding anniver... Read more
The End of the Affair (1999)
7.1/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea
In London shortly after World War II, author Ralph Fiennes is asked by civil servant friend Stephen Rea for help in determining whether wife Julianne... Read more
The English Patient (1996)
7.4/10
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Colin Firth, Juliette Binoche, Jurgen Prochnow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen And...
Nine Academy Awards, six Baftas and two Golden Globes confirm the acclaim that met this tale of the mysterious Count Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) and his ad... Read more
The Escort (1999)
6.3/10
Director: Michael Blanc
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Noah Taylor, Frances Barber, Claire Skinner
Daniel Auteuil is Pierre, a French academic who leaves his family in Paris feeling that his life has been without risk or challenge. He moves to Lond... Read more
The Exception (2016)
6.8/10
Director: David Leveaux
Starring: Ben Daniels, Christopher Plummer, Janet McTeer, Anton Lesser, Jai Courtney, Lily...
German soldier Stefan Brandt goes on a mission to investigate exiled German Monarch Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Kaiser lives in a secluded mansion in the N... Read more
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
6.8/10
Director: Steve Kloves
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges
An enjoyable film with brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges playing a duo piano act that employs a new singer (Michelle Pfeiffer) and how their lives are ir... Read more
The Face of Love (2013)
6.2/10
Director: Arie Posin
Starring: Amy Brenneman, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Jess Weixler
Years after losing the love of her life, a moment suddenly changes Nikki (Annette Bening) forever...at first sight she falls in love again. The object... Read more
The Family Man (2000)
6.7/10
Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek
Hot-shot investment banker Nicolas Cage is transported to an alternate reality by guardian angel Don Cheadle, who shows him a world where he married c... Read more
The Family Stone (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Claire Danes, Craig T Nelson, Dermot Mulroney, Diane Keaton, Luke Wilson, Sarah...
Diane Keaton is matriarch of the Stone Family, a bohemian melee about to be introduced to their newest member - uptight, controlling New Yorker, Mered... Read more
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
7.8/10
Director: Josh Boone
Starring: Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Sam Trammell, Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolf...
Hazel (Shailene Woodley) wants to live a normal life, but the universe has dealt her a cruel blow. Crippled by a form of cancer that has attacked her... Read more