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"
Footloose (2011)
5.9/10
Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Kim Dickens, Ray McKinnon, Kenny Wormald, Juliann...
Writer/Director Craig Brewer delivers a new take of the beloved 1984 classic film. Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the s... Read more
Painted Skin (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Donnie Yen, Xun Zhou, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Qi Yuwu, Sun Li
General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) rescues a beautiful young woman, Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun), from the scene of a battle and takes her into his household, littl... Read more
Morocco (1930)
7.3/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich
As jaded cabaret Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, Marlene Dietrich falls for Tom Brown (Gary Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. In... Read more
A Promise (2013)
5.7/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Alan Rickman, Rebecca Hall, Richard Madden
Period romantic drama set in 1912 Germany, in which a striver, Friedrich Zeitz (Richard Madden), becomes engaged as a clerk in a steel factory. An orp... Read more
Tell It To The Bees (2018)
5.9/10
Director: Annabel Jankel
Starring: Anna Paquin, Billy Boyd
A single mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger) who is abandoned by her husband, meets the small village's Doctor Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) who has recentl... Read more
A Brighter Summer Day (Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian) (1991)
8.4/10
Director: Edward Yang
Starring: Elaine Jin, Jonathan Chang
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an uncl... Read more
Love Actually (2003)
7.6/10
Director: Richard Curtis
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman,...
In this affectionate romantic comedy set in London at Christmastime, a group of quirky characters discover the thrills and heartbreak of love - with t... Read more
Cyrano (2021)
6.3/10
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Ben Mendelsohn, Monica Dolan, Ruth Sheen
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, conv... Read more
Cold Mountain (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Giovanni Ribisi, Jude Law, Na...
In the fading days of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named Inman (Jude Law) struggles on a perilous journey to return to his home of Col... Read more
Bones And All (2022)
6.9/10
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Andre Holland, Kellie Parker
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter,... Read more