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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"

Quartet (1981)

6.4/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Anthony Higgins, Alan Bates, Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith

Marya Zelli finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H... Read more

After We Collided (2020)

5/10
Director: Roger Kumble
Starring: Louise Lombard

Based on the 2014 romance novel of the same name, this follows the love life of two young adults. Read more

Water Drops On Burning Rocks (2000)

6.8/10
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man. Read more

Damnation (1988)

7.8/10
Director: Bela Tarr
Starring: Gyula Pauer

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer. Read more

A Tale of Love And Desire (2021)

6.8/10

Follows Ahmed, a 18-year old, French of Algerian origin, who meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl. He discovers a collection of sensual and erotic Arab... Read more

High Fidelity (2000)

7.5/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Tim Robbins, Jack Black, Lisa Bo...

Sharp, witty comedy from Nick Hornby's acclaimed novel stars John Cusack as the music and list obsessed proprietor of a funky Chicago music store who... Read more

Fires Within (1991)

4.9/10
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Starring: Jimmy Smits, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio

From director Gillian Armstrong ('Charlotte Gray', 'Oscar and Lucinda'), this steamy romance centres on a Cuban woman (Greta Scacchi) who escapes with... Read more

Kaisay Kahein (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Mohit Hussein
Starring: Rajveer Dutt, Neha Julka, Kunal Kumar, Shital Shah

Directed by Mohit Hussein this entertaining modern-day love story stars Rajveer Dutt as Aditya, a young banker with a very bright future - until he me... Read more

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

6.7/10
Director: Sharon Maguire
Starring: Colin Firth, Gemma Jones, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Renee Zellweger

Armed with a British accent and 20 well-placed extra pounds, Renee Zellweger plays the title role in this witty romantic comedy based on Helen Fieldin... Read more

Eros (2004)

6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Alan Arkin, Gong Li

Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex. Read more