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"
Frankie And Johnny (Elvis) (1965)
6.7/10
Director: Frederick De Cordova
Starring: Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan
Elvis (Presley) was her man, but he did her wrong as the fabled gambling lover of the song and story. Wonderful riverboat setting and pretty starlets... Read more
Tyrannical Love (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Scott Boswell
Starring: Stephen Jorgensen, Domini Calder, Caroline Mitchell, Seth Flynn, Lex Calder, Cra...
Scott Boswell's debut film was shot in and around Howick over 15 weekends in 2004, with most people working for free. The film screened at the 37th A... Read more
Hard Country (1981)
6.2/10
Director: David Greene
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jan-Michael Vincent, Tanya Tucker, Daryl Hannah, Michael Parks
Kim Basinger's film debut sees her stuck in a one-horse Texas town with beau Jan-Michael Vincent who seems happy to stay right where he is so long as... Read more
Elvis Has Left The Building (2004)
5.3/10
Director: Joel Zwick
Starring: Kim Basinger, John Corbett, Annie Potts, Sean Astin, Angie Dickinson
The spirit of "The King" is bought back to life in this outrageous romantic comedy following an Elvis-obsessed cosmetics saleswoman (Kim Basinger) wit... Read more
Tattoo, A Love Story (2002)
6.8/10
Director: Richard W Bean
Starring: Megan Edwards, Virgil Mignanelli
First-time filmmaker Richard W. Bean directed and produced this independent romantic comedy that he also co-wrote with Gregg Saccon. Megan Edwards sta... Read more
27 Dresses ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
6.1/10
Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Malin Akerman, Edward Burns, Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Judy Greer
Katherine Heigl is Jane, gearing up for her 28th turn as a bridesmaid and harbouring a hapless crush on her boss (Edward Burns). Unfortunately her sis... Read more
Pretty Woman ( Blu-ray ) (1990)
7/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Julia Roberts, Laura San Giacomo, Ralph Bellam...
The modern-day "Pygmalion" comedy that became a smash hit stars Julia Roberts as a hooker hired by corporate raider Richard Gere to pose as his girlfr... Read more
The Art of Getting By ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Gavin Wiesen
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Rita Wilson, Michael Angarano, Blair Underwood, Freddie High...
Fatalistic teenager George Zingavoy is a master at just barely getting by. In fact, he's practically turned it into an art form - making it through th... Read more
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (2013)
7.3/10
Director: Fredrik Bond
Starring: Melissa Leo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, Evan Rachel Wood, M...
When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie (Shia LaBeouf) immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. A ch... Read more
Adrift (2018)
6.7/10
Director: 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