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 Wedding Singer (Blu-Ray) (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
The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011)
7.1/10
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Sabine Azema, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kad Merad, Nicolas Duvauch...
The beautifully-filmed, sun-soaked directorial debut of French actor Daniel Auteuil, who also assumes one of the film's main roles. The film is set at... Read more
The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
6.2/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis, John Fraser
A tearful British star crossed romance effort set against the backdrop of World War II. RAF officer Dirk Bogarde is assigned to learn Japanese in orde... Read more
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
7.1/10
Director: Iain Softley
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott
This exquisite adaptation from the Henry James novel has wealthy Helena Bonham Carter, forbidden to marry poor journalist Linus Roache, looking to dyi... Read more
The Woo Woo Kid (1987)
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam, Beverly D'Angelo
Aka 'In The Mood'. Said to be based on fact - about a 14 year old who elopes with an older man's wife. He is caught, the marriage annulled, and he is... Read more
The Woodlanders (1997)
6.4/10
Director: Phil Agland
Starring: Rufus Sewell, Polly Walker, Emily Woof, Jodhi May
This cinematic dip into the works of Thomas Hardy deals with the aspirations of a woodsman (Rufus Sewell) in landing his boss' daughter (Emily Woof) f... Read more
The Words (2012)
7/10
Director: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana
Layered romantic drama The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next gr... Read more
The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
7.1/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Sylvia Syms
Exotic Hong Kong is the setting for this classic melodrama of the love affair between American painter William Holden and bar girl Nancy Kwan. Read more
The Worst Person In The World (2021)
7.9/10
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career p... Read more
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
7.4/10
Director: John Duigan
Starring: Noah Taylor, Ben Mendelsohn
In rural 1960s Australia, a boy watches helplessly as his best friend falls in love with a small-time criminal, setting off a violent chain of events. Read more