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"
All This And Heaven Too (1940)
7.6/10
Director: Anatole Litvak
Starring: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil
Charles Boyer and Bette Davis in this story based upon Rachel Field's classic novel of a scandalous love affair between an aristocrat and servant, and... Read more
Indiscretion Of An American Wife (1953)
6.3/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi
A married American woman (Jennifer Jones) is torn between leaving her Italian lover (Montgomery Clift) and returning back home. He endeavours to persu... Read more
Hotel de Love (1996)
6.4/10
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Starring: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Ray Barrett, Pippa Grandison, Peter...
Saffron Burrows is the object of everyone's affection in this Australian rom-com. Stephen (Simon Bossell) and Rick (Aden Young) are fraternal twins w... Read more
The Howards of Virginia (1940)
6.1/10
Director: Frank Lloyd
Starring: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson
Cary Grant stars as Matt Howard, a down-to-earth surveyor busy at work building the United States of America, who marries (for love) Jane, an aristocr... Read more
Seven Sinners (1940)
6.9/10
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford, Anna Lee, Misch...
This classic romantic comedy stars Marlene Dietrich as a sexy cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten her kicked out of one port... Read more
Anamika (2008)
3.2/10
Director: Ananth Narayan Mahadevan
Starring: Dino Morea, Minissha Lamba, Koena Mitra
A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's first American film 'Rebecca' (1940), this Bollywood version stars Dino Morea, Minissha Lamba and Koena Mitra in the le... Read more
David and Lisa (1962)
7.4/10
Director: Frank Perry
Starring: Janet Margolin, Keir Dullea, Howard Da Silva
An Academy Award nominated story (Best Director, Screenplay) about two emotionally troubled teenagers drawn to each other and who ultimately develop a... Read more
Heart of a Lion (2013)
7/10
Director: Dome Karukoski
Starring: Peter Franzen, Laura Birn, Jasper Paakkonen, Yusufa Sidibeh
Teppo meets and falls in love with the beautiful blonde Sari. But this is to be no ordinary love affair. Teppo is a central figure in a neo-Nazi group... Read more
Together (2018)
7.2/10
Director: Paul Duddridge
Starring: Sylvia Syms, Peter Bowles, Cathy Tyson
After 60 years of marriage, Rosemary and Philip Twain are happily sharing their golden years taking care of one another. When Rosemary is taken to hos... Read more
Mannequin (1987)
5.9/10
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, James Spader
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a... Read more