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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"

The Other Women (2014)

Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Don Johnson

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been betraying. And when yet another love affair is discovered, all three w... Read more

The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)

6.7/10
Director: Joseph Ruben
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Josh Hartnett, Michiel Huisman, Haluk Bilginer, Michiel Huisman, H...

A strong-willed woman, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medi... Read more

The Outsider (2002)

7/10
Director: Randa Haines
Starring: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Naomi Watts, Tim Daly

After her husband is killed by land-seizing ranchers, Amish homestead owner Naomi Watts encounters wounded gunfighter Tim Daly. While nursing the myst... Read more

The Pallbearer (1996)

4.9/10
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Barbara Hershey

David Schwimmer plays a young unemployed New Yorker who gets the call to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of a high school friend he can't remember. So... Read more

The Perfect Catch (2005)

6.7/10
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Jack Kehler, Scott H Severance, Ione Skye

The American version of Nick Hornby's acclaimed novel, Fever Pitch, stars Jimmy Fallon as Ben a man obsessed, not with soccer, but with baseball. Dre... Read more

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

8/10
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Melanie Lynskey, Paul Rudd, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Kate Wal...

Adapted by Stephen Chbosky from his own best-selling novel. 'The Perks of Being a Wildflower' is a touching coming-of-age story about a freshman named... Read more

The Phantom Of The West (1931)

6.2/10
Director: D Ross Lederman
Starring: Tom Tyler

A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real kille... Read more

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

8/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Cary Grant

One of the most hilarious and captivating romantic comedies ever to grace the screen, with a splendid cast including Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and... Read more

The Photograph (2020)

6/10
Starring: Lakeith Stanfield

A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present. Read more

The Pick-up Artist (1987)

5.2/10
Director: James Toback
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey Jr, Dennis Hopper

Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr. meet and fall in love and prove themselves by battling against a stacked destiny. This includes her drunken dad (... Read more