"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 story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border. Roong longs for the day when she can be with Min, her Burmese lover... Read more
A fatal accident changes the destiny of two families when Elizabeth Lancaster's wish comes true and she receives the heart transplant she desperately... Read more
An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb... Read more
Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from ho... Read more
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
This exquisite adaptation from the Henry James novel has wealthy Helena Bonham Carter, forbidden to marry poor journalist Linus Roache, looking to dyi... Read more
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old. Read more
Cartographer Will Shepard hits the road for his latest job: to create a new, more accurate satellite survey of Armenia. During his assignment, he form... Read more
A Bollywood installment for the hopelessly romantic. Asha Parekh stars as Madhavi, a woman who makes a fateful decision on her wedding day and is then... Read more
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain. Director René Clair stated he and scree... Read more