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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"

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

Are We Officially Dating ( aka That Awkward Moment ) ( Blu-Ray ) (2014)

Director: Tom Gormican
Starring: Josh Pais, Zac Efron, Jessica Lucas, Imogen Poots, Michael B Jordan, Addison Tim...

Jason has just been dumped, but he didn't even realize they were going out. Meanwhile, Mikey's wife has just asked him for a divorce, and perpetually... Read more

Lonesome (1928)

7.8/10
Director: Paul Fejos

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day tog... Read more

High Road To China (Blu-ray) (1983)

6.1/10
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Starring: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong

During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia, that... Read more

Martin Eden (2019)

6.9/10
Director: Pietro Marcello
Starring: Luca Marinelli, Marco Leonardi, Pietro Ragusa

Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to ac... Read more

Ticket To Paradise (Blu-ray) (2022)

6.2/10
Director: Ol Parker
Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Billie Lourd, Kaitlyn Dever

A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago. Read more

Josee, The Tiger And The Fish (DVD & Blu-ray) (2020)

7.7/10

Tsuneo is a university student and Josee is a young girl who has rarely gone out of the house by herself due to her being unable to walk. The two meet... Read more

Island In The Sun (1957)

6.2/10
Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Harry Belafonte, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins

Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule, it focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with p... Read more

Hangman's Knot (1952)

6.8/10
Director: Roy Huggins
Starring: Claude Jarman Jr, Donna Reed, Glenn Langan, Jeanette Nolan, Lee Marvin, Randolph...

Major Matt Stewart (Randolph Scott) leads a troop of Confederate soldiers on a raid, targeting a wagon that is transporting Union gold. All of the Uni... Read more

The Hurricane (1937)

7.3/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond M...

In the colonial era, island native Terangi (Jon Hall) spends a blissful honeymoon with his bride, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). Soon after, however, their... Read more