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"
The Photograph (2020)
6/10
Starring: Lakeith Stanfield
A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present. Read more
Long Story Short (2021)
6.8/10
Starring: Rafe Spall, Josh Lawson, Noni Hazlehurst
Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he's jumping forward to the next year of his life. Read more
Dinner in America (2020)
7.9/10
Director: Adam Rehmeier
Starring: Kyle Gallner, Griffin Gluck, Pat Healy, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Emily Skeggs
From director John Carney (ONCE, BEGIN AGAIN), SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy named Conor (Ferdi... Read more
A Stasi Comedy (2022)
Starring: David Kross
After falling in love with the Nathalie and sleeping with his first target, Corinna, Ludger ends up living two lives - one as an underground poet and... Read more
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
5.8/10
Director: Jack Donohue
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Deborah Kerr
Love, romance and marital status get complicated in this romp starring Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr as a long-married couple who go to Mexico to enl... Read more
Two Moon Junction (1988)
5/10
Director: Zalman King
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol
Her mother warned her about this kind of boy...but she couldn't warn her about the feelings he'd inspire. Heartfelt erotic drama about two teen lovers... Read more
America's Sweethearts (2001)
5.7/10
Director: Joe Roth
Starring: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, St...
This combination of showbiz satire and romantic comedy tells of a seperated celebrity couple who, despite hating each other having new love interests,... Read more
Shanghai Kiss (2007)
6.8/10
Director: David Ren, Kern Konwiser
Starring: Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Hu, Timothy Bottoms
In the midst of pursuing his fledgling acting career, Liam Liu (Ken Leung) learns that he has inherited his grandmother's house in Shanghai. Eager to... Read more
Sex and the City ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
5.6/10
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Hudso...
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. In this much-anti... Read more
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
4.4/10
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: John Corbett, Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Noth, Kristin Davis, Cyn...
The fun, the fashion, the friendship: this bombastic film brings it all back as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kri... Read more