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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"

Deep End (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

Now, Voyager (Blu-ray) (1942)

7.9/10
Director: Irving Rapper
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid

A classic romance about tragic love. Bette Davis plays a woman so dominated by her mother that she is afraid to love until her psychiatrist sets her o... Read more

Paris, 13th District (2021)

7/10
Director: Jacques Audiard

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - they're friends, sometimes lovers and often both. Read more

inside daisy clover (1965)

6.2/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall

Daisy Clover is a 15 year old Tomboy who dreams of being a Hollywood star. After auditioning for producer Raymond Swan of Swan studios she becomes the... Read more

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

7.7/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant

When the death of their father results in the sudden loss of their family fortune, two newly impoverished sisters find that their loss of status comes... Read more

Mr Imperium (1951)

5/10
Director: Don Hartman
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main

Lush romantic tale starring Ezio Pinza as a charismatic prince who falls for aspiring nightclub singer Lana Turner. When Pinza becomes king of his cou... Read more

9 Songs (2004)

4.8/10
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley

Primarily improvised, this labour of love was shot on digital using a skeleton crew of three and largely self-financed by director Michael Winterbotto... Read more

Australia (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Bryan Brown, David Gulpilil, David Wenham, Hugh Jackman, Jack Thompson, Nicole K...

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman join forces with visionary director Baz Luhrmann in "Australia", an epic and romantic action adventure set on the brink... Read more

Hemingway and Gellhorn (2012)

Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Clive Owen, Nicole Kidman

Directed by Philip Kaufman ("The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Henry and June"), "Hemingway & Gellhorn" recounts one of the great romances of the l... Read more

Life After Beth (Blu-ray) (2014)

5.6/10
Director: Jeff Baena
Starring: John C Reilly, Paul Reiser, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Matthew Gray Gubler, Da...

Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opp... Read more