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"
Every Day (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Maria Bello, Angourie Rice, Owen Teague
Sixteen-year-old Rhiannon falls in love with A, a mysterious spirit who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon... Read more
Chocolat (2000)
7.3/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp, Carrie-Anne...
The radiant Juliette Binoche opens a chocolate shop in a small, old-fashioned French town where her confections soon stir the passions and scorn of th... Read more
Ema (2019)
6.8/10
Director: Pablo Larrain
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera
A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart. Read more
Born Yesterday (1993)
5.1/10
Director: Luis Mandoki
Starring: Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Don Johnson
An updating of the Judy Holliday/William Holden movie with a bespectacled Don Johnson brought in to school heavyweight politico John Goodman's girlfri... Read more
Music From Another Room (1998)
6.5/10
Director: Charlie Peters
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly, Jude Law, Martha Plimpton
"Love at first sight" takes on a new meaning in this offbeat romantic comedy/drama about a young man's search for the girl whom he helped deliver when... Read more
Somebody To Love (1996)
5.2/10
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Starring: Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn, Quentin Tarantino
Harvey Keitel and Rosie Perez team up in this latest feature from the Director of 'In the Soup'. Taxi-dance clubs are the focal point for this screwba... Read more
Three Of Hearts (1993)
5.5/10
Director: Yurek Bogayevicz
Starring: William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn
This unconventional romantic triangle concerns a beautiful nurse (Kelly Lynch) who hires a handsome male escort (William Baldwin) to seduce the sexual... Read more
Touched with Fire (2015)
6.1/10
Director: Paul Dalio
Starring: Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby
Aka 'Mania Days'. Some love breaks outside the boundaries of sanity When two poets with bipolar disorder (Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby) mee... Read more
Marry Me (2022)
6.1/10
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Sarah Silverman
Music superstars Kat Valdez and Bastian are getting married before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Basti... Read more
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)
6.3/10
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Lily James, Emma Thompson
In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In... Read more