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"
Delicacy (2011)
6.6/10
Director: David Foenkinos, Stephane Foenkinos
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Bruno Todeschini, Francois Damiens, Pio Marmai, Melanie Bernier,...
After the abrupt and tragic death of her ideal husband (Pio Marmai), a young widow (Audrey Tautou) steeps herself in her workaday office world, certai... Read more
I.Q. (1995)
6.2/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau
Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins and Walter Matthau are joined in this unlikely romatic comedy in which Albert Einstein plays cupid. Matthau is great as the geni... Read more
A Walk In The Clouds (1995)
6.7/10
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn
Keanu Reeves, Anthony Quinn and Giancarlo Giannini star in this romantic drama from the director of 'Like Water for Chocolate' and spins the tale of a... Read more
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Janice Ru...
About-to-be-married publisher James Stewart finds himself smitten with Kim Novak, but is shocked to find out she's a witch! Jack Lemmon, Hermione Ging... Read more
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
6.4/10
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Kate Dollenmayer, Christian Rudder, Myles Paige, Jennifer L Schaper, Lissa Patto...
Marnie (Kate Dollemayer) has just finished college and is now wandering aimlessly in search of a job, a drink and, of course, love. Shot in Boston by... Read more
The Great Gatsby (2013)
7.3/10
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Carey Mulligan, Ja...
Adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves... Read more
Moonrise Kingdom ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7.8/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jason...
Director/co-writer Wes Anderson's charming comedy/drama is set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965 and tells the story of... Read more
Houseboat (1958)
6.7/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Widower Cary Grant signs aboard Sophia Loren to care for his two children, but the two find themselves in a shipboard romance in this bouncy, romantic... Read more
Pumpkin (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Starring: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan,...
Silly, sweet, farcical and subversive, "Pumpkin" pushes the boundaries of teen melodrama to an absurd pitch, resulting in a film that is bracing, hila... Read more
Pretty in Pink (1986)
6.8/10
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy
Molly Ringwald is the school girl from the wrong side of town, Andrew McCarthy the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. A bittersweet, critic... Read more