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 Lady and the Highwayman (1987)
6.4/10
Director: John Hough
Starring: John Mills, Bernard Miles, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Christopher Cazenove, Emma...
Barbara Cartland's 17th Century romance is adapted for television. Young Lady Panthea Vyne (Lysette Anthony) falls for a handsome highwayman, Silverb... Read more
The Lady Eve (1941)
8/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Martha O'Driscol...
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune - a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast - and attempt to bamboozle him at a... Read more
The Last Magic Show (2007)
6/10
Director: Andy Conlan
Starring: Jade Collins, Andy Conlan, Georgie Hill, Michael Hurst, Alexander Anderson, Matt...
The only thing darker than escape artist Ronny Roman's past is the 'mystical power' he believes he possesses. Never having recovered from the shock of... Read more
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Means, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi, Jodhi May, Steven W...
The American wilderness of the 1750s is the setting for director/co-scripter Michael Mann's grand adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper adventure cl... Read more
The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut ( Blu-ray ) (1992)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jodhi May, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Steven Waddington,...
The American wilderness of the 1750s is the setting for director/co-scripter Michael Mann's grand adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper adventure cl... Read more
The Last Picture Show (1971)
8.1/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Cybi...
Peter Bogdanovich's masterfully rendered, critically acclaimed drama follows the loves, dreams and fates of the denizens of a small Texas town in the... Read more
The Last Post (2017)
7.2/10
Director: Jonny Campbell
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Jessica Raine, Ben Miles, Stephen Campbell Moore
Aden 1965. This is the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East and the women and children who were th... Read more
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Jack Clayton
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Ian McNeice, Maggie Smith, Marie Kean, Wendy Hiller
Timid and self-deprecating, Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith in a BAFTA Award winning performance) is a middle-aged piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. A... Read more
The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond (2008)
5.9/10
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Will Patton, Ann-Margret , Mamie Gummer
A rebellious socialite defies social conventions for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at true love, only to see her hopes shattered after a priceless diamond... Read more
The Love Letter (1999)
5.4/10
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Starring: Tom Selleck, Tom Everett Scott, Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres, Blythe Danner
In this wonderful mix of charm, comedy and romance, Kate Capshaw plays the owner of a small town New England bookstore who has to figure out who wrote... Read more