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"
An Ideal Husband (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Oliver Parker
Starring: Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore
Devoted womaniser and partygoer Arthur Goring (Rupert Everett) is famed for his elegance, repartee and refusal to take anything seriously. When called... Read more
Prime (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Ben Younger
Starring: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Zak Orth
After a messy divorce Rafi (Uma Thurman) is seeing a therpaist (Meryl Streep) when she meets and falls for a much younger man, David Bloomberg. Stree... Read more
Sione's Wedding (2006)
Director: Chris Graham
Starring: Oscar Kightley, Shimpal Lelisi, Robbie Magasiva, David Fane, Pua Magasiva, Teuil...
The boys from Bro' Town are all grown up...kind of. They're pushing thirty and Sione is getting married. To ensure his debauched friends don't embar... Read more
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
7.4/10
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring: John Carroll, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Gosling, Steve Car...
Smart and insightful ensemble comedy focuses on Cal (Steve Carell), a successful businessman and father whose life comes crashing down after his wife... Read more
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
6.5/10
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Daniel Gillies, Anupam Kher, Nadira Babbar, Nav...
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" gets the Bollywood treatment in this spectacular fusion of East meets West. Director Gurinder Chadha ("Bend It Lik... Read more
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
7/10
Director: Charles Dance
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Bruhl, Miriam Margolyes, Natascha McElhone, Dav...
Judi Dench and Maggie Smith are elderly spinsters living on the Cornwall coast in 1936 when they find a handsome young Polish man washed up injured on... Read more
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
5.6/10
Director: Donald Rice
Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Mackenzie Crook, Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway
Felicity Jones stars in this 1930s-set comedy drama as a vacillating bride-to-be, unable to make her mind up between her dull but worthy future husban... Read more
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
7/10
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Penelope Wilton, Tom Courtenay, Bronagh Gallagher, Matthew Goode, Katherine Park...
In 1946 a London-based writer begins exchanging letters with residents on the island of Guernsey, which was German-occupied during WWII. Feeling compe... Read more
Far And Away (1992)
6.5/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson
A sweeping tale of Irish immigrants who came to America in search of land in the late 1800's. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play the bickering couple f... Read more
Phenomenon (1996)
6.4/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Jeffrey DeMunn, Ri...
Winning mixture of drama, romance and fantasy stars John Travolta as an easygoing small-town mechanic who, after a late-night encounter with a mysteri... Read more