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"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"

Mr. Right (2015)

6.4/10
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Tim Roth

After going through a painful break-up, a woman meets a man who appears to be perfect for her. However, as their relationship develops, she learns tha... Read more

Where Hands Touch (2018)

6.4/10
Director: Amma Asante
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Christopher Eccleston, Tom Goodm...

Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black father, lives in fear due to the color of her skin.... Read more

The Bodyguard ( Blu-ray ) (1992)

6.2/10
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Bill Cobbs, Gary Kemp, Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Ralph Waite

Smash hit starring Whitney Houston as a world-famous singer-actress who hires former Secret Service agent Kevin Costner as her personal protector afte... Read more

Shadowlands (1993)

7.4/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Joseph Mazzello

An intelligent, observant, handsome adaptation of William Nicholson's award-winning play, inspired by the late-blooming romance between the fifty some... Read more

The Trouble With Girls (1969)

5.5/10
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Starring: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Sheree North, Vincent Price

...(and How to Get Into It). An offbeat Elvis drama, with the King playing the manager of a touring Chautauqua company in the 20s and the trouble that... Read more

Green Ice (1981)

5.6/10
Director: Ernest Day
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif

A skilled team of professionals plot to steal an enormous cache of emeralds, but their daring get-rich-quick scheme lands them in the middle of the co... Read more

The Invisible Woman (2013)

6.1/10
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander, Felicity Jones

Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back... Read more

Arthur (1981)

6.9/10
Director: Steve Gordon
Starring: Dudley Moore, John Gielgud, Liza Minnelli

Spoiled millionaire Dudley Moore must choose between continued wealth (in a planned marriage) and true love (with working-class waitress Liza Minnelli... Read more

Happiest Season (102)

6.6/10
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Steenburgen

A holiday romantic comedy that captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family's acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin... Read more

Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973)

5.7/10
Director: Waris Hussein
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Barry Foster, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rudolph Walke...

Originally made for television, this acclaimed drama stars Elizabteth Taylor and Richard Burton as a married couple, who after almost twenty years fin... Read more