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"
Third Person (2013)
6.4/10
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Adrien Brody, Kim Basinger, Liam Neeson, Maria Bello, James Franco, Mila Kunis,...
Third Person involves three sets of couples. In New York, Julia (Mila Kunis) is fighting for her rights as a parent after being accused of trying to... Read more
Allied (Blu-Ray) (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard
Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) and Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard) are World War II operatives who never reveal their true identities. After falling in... 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
Honeymoon In Vegas (1992)
5.8/10
Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, Seymour Cassel
The tale of a New York private dick (Nicolas Cage) who decides to finally take the plunge and marry his longstanding fiance (Jessica Parker), but she... Read more
Days of Heaven (1978)
7.9/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz
A beautifully shot film telling the story of Richard Gere, a fugitive from the Chicago slums, and Sam Shepard, a shy, rich Texan in love with the same... Read more
Animals (2014)
6.3/10
Director: Collin Schiffli
Starring: John Heard, David Dastmalchian, Kim Shaw, John Hoogenakker
Animals tells the story of Jude and Bobbie: a young couple that exist somewhere between homelessness and the fantasy of their imaginations. Though the... Read more
There's Something About Mary ( Blu-ray ) (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
Anna Karenina (Blu-ray) (2012)
6.6/10
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Emily Watson, Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams, Keira Knightley, Matth...
Directed by Joe Wright ("Pride & Prejudice", "Atonement") from a screenplay by Tom Stoppard ("Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"), this bold adaptat... Read more
West (2007)
6/10
Director: Daniel Krige
Starring: Khan Chittenden, Nathan Phillips, Michael Dorman, Gillian Alexy, David Field, An...
Dramatic, tense and explosive, 'West' is a searing meditation on alienated youth that achieves a state of grace through the power of its performances.... Read more
Comet (2014)
6.8/10
Director: Sam Esmail
Starring: Justin Long, Emmy Rossum
Justin Long and Emmy Rossum are star-crossed lovers whose relationship blooms and unravels over the course of six years in this mysterious, original r... Read more