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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 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

5.5/10
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Peter Facinelli, Dakota Fanning, Billy Burke, Michael Sheen, Kristen Stewart, Ni...

The final chapter of author Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" saga phenomenon concludes in epic fashion as the now-vampiric Bella (Kristen Stewart) is trai... Read more

Unplugging (2022)

4.1/10
Starring: Keith David, Lea Thompson, Eva Longoria, Matt Walsh

To revive their marriage and reconnect, a couple takes a self-prescribed digital detox weekend to a remote mountain town. What starts as a perfect wee... Read more

Crazy Moon (1987)

6.6/10
Director: Allan Eastman
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Vanessa Vaughan, Peter Spence

Kiefer Sutherland, the son of Donald, stars in this off-beat comedy-drama-love story about a kid from the 80s who is obsessed by the 30s. He meets a s... Read more

Dakota Skye (2008)

6.6/10
Director: John Humber
Starring: Jb Ghuman Jr., Ian Nelson, Eileen Boylan

This delightful coming-of-age drama/comedy from director John Humber tells the story of Dakota, a seemingly ordinary teen who possesses a superpower t... Read more

The Way We Were (Blu-Ray) (1973)

7.1/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Allyn McLerie, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Murray Hamilton,...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand), a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford)... Read more

Summer in February (2013)

5.6/10
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Dan Stevens, Emily Browning, Hattie Morahan, Shaun Dingwall, Nic...

Two friends at a 1913 British artists colony compete for the affections of a comely debutante, but the object of their pursuit soon learns to regret h... Read more

My Man Godfrey (1936)

8.1/10
Director: Gregory La Cava
Starring: Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, William Powell, Eugene Pallette

Classic screwball comedy with Carole Lombard giving a priceless performance as a daffy heiress who meets a hobo on a scavenger hunt, and hires him as... Read more

Atomised (2006)

6.6/10
Director: Oskar Roehler
Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, this movie focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexua... Read more

Manhattan (Blu-ray) (1979)

7.9/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Anne Byrne, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemi...

Vincent Canby called it 'the only truly great American film of the 1970s'. Featuring the talents of Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Mich... Read more

Deep End (Blu-ray) (1970)

7.2/10
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring: Jane Asher, Karl Michael Vogler, Diana Dors

15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan. Read more