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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"

Double Lover (L'Amant double) (Blu-ray) (2017)

7.6/10
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset

Chloé, a woman with a fragile mental state, falls for her psychoanalyst, Paul. But after moving in with him a few months later, she discovers a part o... Read more

Don Jon (Blu-ray) (2013)

6.5/10
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Starring: Glenne Headly, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julianne Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Rob Bro...

Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a differe... Read more

Ain't Them Bodies Saints (Blu-ray) (2013)

6.4/10
Director: David Lowery
Starring: Keith Carradine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Rooney Mara, Nate Parker, Rami Malek

Brought to life with exquisite detail and rich cinematography, the gritty landscape of 1970s Texas Hill Country is the backdrop for this mood-drenched... Read more

Brief Crossing (2001)

6.8/10
Director: Catherine Breillat

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futur... Read more

Can't Hardly Wait (Blu-ray) (1998)

6.5/10
Director: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Starring: Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seth Green

A "Dazed and Confused" for the 90's centering around a wild house party where everyone's invited to unload four years worth of emotional baggage, leav... Read more

Catherine Cookson: The Glass Virgin (1995)

7.7/10
Director: David Wheatly
Starring: Jan Graveson, Brendan Coyle, Emily Mortimer, Jean Heywood, Nigel Havers, Sylvia...

Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns th... Read more

The Big Town (1987)

5.9/10
Director: Ben Bolt, Harold Becker
Starring: Matt Dillon, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant, Tom Skerritt, S...

A dice roller falls in love with a talented dancer who happens to be the wife to a gangster. Read more

Smooth Talk (1985)

6.5/10
Director: Joyce Chopra
Starring: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Elizabeth Berridge

A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and... Read more

Model Shop (Blu-ray) (1969)

6.7/10
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Tom Holland, Severn Darden

George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit... Read more

Love Songs for Tough Guys (2021)

Starring: Francois Damiens, Ramzy Bedia, Vanessa Paradis, Joey Starr, Bouli Lanners

In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, lov... Read more