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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"

Paradise Kiss: Vol 1 (2005)

6.7/10
Director: Osamu Kobayashi
Starring: Johnny Yong Bosch, Sam Carr, Mari Devon

Top high-school student seeks some purpose in life. A group of fashion design students ask her to be the front model for their clothing label "Paradis... Read more

Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) (2010)

7.3/10
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Starring: Judi Dench, Jamie Bell, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender and Academy Award winner Judi Dench star in acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga's daring new adaptation of Charlotte B... Read more

Ruby Sparks (Blu-ray) (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Elliott Gould, Steve Coogan, Paul Dano, Chris...

Suffering from writer's block ever since his success as a teenage author, Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) believes he's on the verge of a breakthrough... Read more

The Words (2012)

7/10
Director: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana

Layered romantic drama The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next gr... Read more

The Host (Blu-ray) (2013)

5.9/10
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Frances Fisher, William Hurt, Diane Kruger, Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Chandler C...

An alien race has begun colonising Earth by taking over human bodies and erasing their minds and memories. Only a small band of survivors remain who a... Read more

Private School (1983)

5.3/10
Director: Noel Black
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine

Chris from a girls' boarding school loves Jim from a nearby boys' boarding school. Jordan also wants Jim and plays dirty. Jim and 2 friends visit the... Read more

Summer School (1987)

6.6/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas

Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun,... Read more

American Ninja 2/American Ninja 2 (1985)

5.5/10
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James

American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines. Read more

Beyond The Clouds (1995)

6.5/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
Starring: Fanny Ardant, John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, Peter Weller, Jean Reno, Irene Jac...

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which al... Read more

This Means War (2012)

6.3/10
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy

C.I.A. operatives wage an epic battle on each other when they discover they are dating the same woman. Read more