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 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
5.5/10
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Peter Facinelli, Dakota Fanning, Billy Burke, Michael Sheen, Kristen Stewart, Ni...
The final chapter of author Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" saga phenomenon concludes in epic fashion as the now-vampiric Bella (Kristen Stewart) is trai... Read more
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (Blu-ray) (1979)
6.9/10
Starring: Lindsay Wagner, Marc Singer, Linda Gray, Henry Wilcoxon
Jennie Logan discovers an antique dress in her attic that allows her to travel back in time. Soon she's torn between life with her philandering husban... Read more
The Upside of Anger (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Mike Binder
Starring: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell, Al...
Joan Allen is a tour de force as a bitter boozehound whose cheating husband has deserted, leaving her with four daughters. Kevin Costner matches her... Read more
The Very Thought of You (1997)
6.4/10
Director: Nick Hamm
Starring: Monica Potter, Joseph Fiennes, Rufus Sewell, Tom Hollander, Ray Winstone
A lively, original comedy about an American girl (Monica Potter) who moves to London and meets three young Englishmen who are instantly smitten. Who (... Read more
The Vow (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Jessica Lange, Sam Neill, Scott Speedman, Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams are the perfect Chicago couple - until a terrible car accident robs her of her memory and she awakens from a coma be... Read more
The Way We Were (1973)
7.1/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman
One of the finest screen romances ever teams Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand as two philosophically different types whose love affair stretches f... Read more
The Way We Were (Blu-Ray) (1973)
7.1/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Allyn McLerie, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Murray Hamilton,...
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand), a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford)... Read more
The Wedding Date (2004)
6.1/10
Director: Clare Kilner
Starring: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jeremy Sheffield
Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a thirty-something New Yorker with her fair share of romantic problems. When she hears her younger sister is getting mar... Read more
The Wedding Planner (2001)
5.3/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson, Kevin Pollak, Kathy Najim...
A romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez as a Californian wedding specialist who has no luck with her own love life. She thinks this may change when... Read more
The Wedding Singer (1998)
6.8/10
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Angela Featherstone
Adam Sandler plays a genuine nice guy who is stood up at the altar - but finds consolation in the friendship of a waitress who he discovers is about t... Read more