Romance
"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"
First Night (2010)
5.3/10
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Richard E Grant, Sarah Brightman, Oliver Dimsdale, Susannah Fielding, Nigel Lind...
Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the cap... Read more
In The Eye Of The Hurricane (Blu-ray) (1971)
6.2/10
Director: José María Forqué
Starring: Jean Sorel, Rosanna Yanni
Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having... Read more
The Black Pimpernel (2007)
6.3/10
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Lumi Cavazos, Kate del Castillo, Patrick Bergin
Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pi... Read more
The Other Side of Midnight (Blu-ray) (1977)
6.1/10
Director: Charles Jarrott
Starring: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager, Christ...
During WWII, beautiful Noelle meets dashing American pilot Larry in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead he abandons he... Read more
Hi, Mom (2021)
7/10
A woman travels back in time to befriend her own mother in an attempt to make her life better. Read more
The David Hannay Collection: Alison's Birthday / Solo (1981)
Director: Ian Coughlan, Tony Williams
Starring: Joanne Samuel, Vincent Gil, Lisa Peers
A double feature from Australian producer David Hannay. 'Alison's Birthday' (1981) - When Alison is invited back to her childhood home to celebrate h... Read more
The Wedding Singer (Blu-Ray) (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
Fifty Shades of Grey (Blu-ray) (2015)
4.1/10
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson directs this erotic drama based on the best-selling book of the same name by British author E. L. James. Dakota Johnson stars as de... Read more
Le Chignon d'Olga (2002)
6.8/10
Director: Jerome Bonnell
Starring: Nathalie Boutefeu
A bereaved young man falls in love with a shop assistant he glimpses in a window and secretly tries to get to know her better. Read more
Who's That Girl (1987)
4.8/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Madonna , Griffin Dunne
The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove h... Read more