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"
What Women Want (2000)
6.4/10
Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda
After an electric shock in his bathroom, chauvinistic advertising executive Mel Gibson finds he can read women's minds. While his new abilities at fir... Read more
What Women Want (2011)
6.4/10
Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Andy Lau, Gong Li
After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking. Based on the Hollywood blockbuster. Read more
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)
6.3/10
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Lily James, Emma Thompson
In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In... Read more
When A Man Loves A Woman (1994)
6.6/10
Director: Luis Mandoki
Starring: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Ellen Burstyn, Tina Majorino
Standout performances as Meg Ryan plays Andy Garcia's alcoholic wife. She gets help, but it takes its toll on their marriage. They try to pick up the... Read more
When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
6.7/10
Director: Kieron J Walsh
Starring: Flora Montgomery, Peter McDonald
A stuck-up Dublin schoolteacher suddenly falls for a free spirited thief in Roddy Doyle's (writer of "The Commitments", "The Snapper") madcap romantic... Read more
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
7.6/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Billy Crystal
Brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit, this splendid, irresistible film from director Rob Reiner is one of the best-loved romantic c... Read more
When Night Is Falling (1995)
6.7/10
Director: Patricia Rozema
Starring: Pascale Bussieres, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny, Don McKellar
From the director of 'I've Heard the Mermaids Singing' comes this refreshingly liberating tale of lesbian love. Camille (Pascale Bussieres) is a Chris... Read more
Where Hands Touch (2018)
6.4/10
Director: Amma Asante
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Christopher Eccleston, Tom Goodm...
Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black father, lives in fear due to the color of her skin.... Read more
Where The Boys Are (1961)
6.7/10
Director: Henry Levin
Starring: Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Yvette Mimieux, Paula Prentiss, George Hamilton
Yvette Mimeux, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis, and Dolores Hart star in this frothy teen romantic drama as attractive co-eds who take off from their M... Read more
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
6.7/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher
A young Chicago transit worker saves her dream man from muggers, and when he falls into a coma she passes herself off as his fiancee. Things get stick... Read more