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"
Enough Said (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Toni Collette, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Falc...
A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter's impending departure fo... Read more
Hope Springs (2003)
5.4/10
Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Heather Graham, Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Oliver Platt, Mary Steenburgen
Colin's a sad-eyed British artist holed up in a rundown hotel in small-town Vermont after being dumped by his fiancee. The hotel owner plays matchmake... Read more
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
6.5/10
Director: Max Baer
Starring: Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Robbie Benson
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, h... Read more
Adrift (Blu-Ray) (2018)
6.7/10
Director: Baltasar Kormakur, Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Elizabeth Hawthorne, Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Grace Palmer
Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history... Read more
Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Tom Ward, Matthew Rhys, Trevor Eve, Matthew Goode, Joanna Scanlan, Nichola Burle...
There is perhaps no greater love story than that between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. But what happened after they w... Read more
The Big Sick (Blu-ray) (2017)
7.6/10
Director: Michael Showalter
Starring: Holly Hunter, Zoe Kazan, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano
Kumail is a Pakistani comic who meets an American graduate student named Emily at one of his stand-up shows. As their relationship blossoms, he soon b... Read more
Standing Up for Sunny (2019)
Director: Steven Vidler
Starring: RJ Mitte, Sam Reid, Matt Nable
An isolated guy with cerebral palsy is railroaded into helping an unassertive comedienne, and finds love and acceptance through stand up comedy. Read more
Five Feet Apart (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7.1/10
Director: Justin Baldoni
Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Parminder Nagra, Claire Forlani
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-cont... Read more
Yesterday (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Himesh Patel
Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and suppo... Read more
Tristan and Isolde (Copy) (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: David O'Hara, Mark Strong, Rufus Sewell, James Franco, Sophia Myles
Before Romeo and Juliet, before Arthur and Guinevere, there was Tristan and Isolde, the star-crossed lovers of medieval folklore. The rule of Rome is... Read more