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"
Mamma Mia! (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, J...
Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth may not be the first names that spring to mind for an Abba musical, but whoever thought of throwing them... Read more
Hysteria (2011)
6.7/10
Director: Tanya Wexler
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Felicity Jones
Romantic comedy starring Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, based loosely on the life of Joseph Mortimer Granville, the inventor of a novel device for... Read more
Villa Des Roses (2001)
6.1/10
Director: Frank Van Passel
Starring: Julie Delpy, Shaun Dingwall, Shirley Henderson, Harriet Walter, Timothy West
Paris 1913. In the 'Villa des Roses', a small boarding house, the arrival of the new maid, Louise, brings about a welcome change. The male guests try... Read more
Dogfight (1991)
7.5/10
Director: Nancy Savoca
Starring: Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, River Phoenix
River Phoenix stars as a young marine who sets out with his buddies on a cruel wager: the dogfight - a search for the ugliest girl in town to escort t... Read more
Heartburn (1986)
6/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels
From Nora Ephron's acerbic best-selling novel, based on her stormy marriage to reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson star as the il... Read more
Possession (2002)
6.4/10
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle
American literary scholar Aaron Eckhart and British professor Gwyneth Paltrow have forsaken personal lives to pursue their respective research into th... Read more
Zelary (2003)
7.7/10
Director: Ondrej Trojan
Starring: Ana Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Miroslav Donutil
Based on Kveta Legatova's novella about Eliska (Ana Geislerova) a nurse involved in the Czech resistance movement in Prague. When forced to flee into... Read more
Emma (Paltrow) (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Douglas McGrath
Starring: Alan Cumming, Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Jul...
The course of true love runs hilariously askew once would-be Cupid Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) gets her hands on it in this grand adaptation of t... Read more
There's Something About Mary (1998)
7.1/10
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Chris Elliott, Lee Evans, Matt Dillon
Still suffering from a high school crush on Mary (Cameron Diaz), the nerdy, angst-driven Ted (Ben Stiller) tracks her down thirteen years later with t... Read more
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
3.5/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke
Director Adrian Lyne's erotically charged, controversial drama stars Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke as a young New York couple whose relationship, bas... Read more