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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 Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond (2008)

5.9/10
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Will Patton, Ann-Margret , Mamie Gummer

A rebellious socialite defies social conventions for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at true love, only to see her hopes shattered after a priceless diamond... Read more

The Wedding Singer (1998)

6.8/10
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Angela Featherstone

Adam Sandler plays a genuine nice guy who is stood up at the altar - but finds consolation in the friendship of a waitress who he discovers is about t... Read more

Eternally Yours (1939)

5.8/10
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: David Nixon, Loretta Young, Broderick Crawford, Zasu Pitts

Lovely Loretta Young discovers that being a magician's wife can be tricky. She's jealous of hubby David Niven's professional status, and believes that... Read more

Roseland (1977)

6/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Walken, Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Lilia Skala

The film's namesake, a famed New York City ballroom, serves as the setting for a dramatic trio of stories from the Merchant/Ivory team: a lonely widow... Read more

Breezy (Blu-Ray) (1973)

7/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C Carmel, Marj Dusay, Joan Hotchkis

Divorced and creeping past middle age, real estate agent Frank Harmon (William Holden) isn't interested in falling in love anymore. But when he reluct... Read more

Madame Bovary (1949)

7.1/10
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockha...

Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert (James Mason) narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After... Read more

Léon Morin, Priest (1961)

7.7/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuele Riva

In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter... Read more

Far From the Madding Crowd (Blu-ray) (1967)

7.1/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker

Based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hardy and set against the harsh, foreboding landscape of rural Victorian England, "Far From the Madding Crowd"... Read more

Dirt Music (2019)

5.3/10
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund, David Wenham

In Gregor Jordan's adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Tim Winton, the stunning landscape of Western Australia is the backdrop for an impassioned tal... Read more

The Last Post (2017)

7.2/10
Director: Jonny Campbell
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Jessica Raine, Ben Miles, Stephen Campbell Moore

Aden 1965. This is the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East and the women and children who were th... Read more