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"
Lust For Gold (1949)
6.8/10
Director: S Sylvan Simon
Starring: Glenn Ford, Ida Lupino, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan, Will Geer, Pa...
Fortune seeker Barry Storm stumbles onto some clues that may lead him to the fabulous Lost Dutchman Mine, but others have tried and been murdered. Read more
Michael (1924)
7.1/10
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Walter Slezak, Nora Gregor
Mikaël is an artist who rises as his teacher, the aging Zoret, falls. Zoret gives Mikaël his start, and their relationship is sexual as well. Then Mik... Read more
My Blind Brother (2016)
6/10
Starring: Adam Scott, Nick Kroll
The rivalry between two brothers reaches a fever pitch during a charity swim competition. Read more
Jane Eyre (1997)
7/10
Director: Robert Young
Starring: Deborah Findlay, Joanna Scanlan, Emily Joyce, Samantha Morton, Gemma Jones, Ciar...
After placing an ad for employment as a governess, Jane Eyre (Samantha Morton) journeys to Thornfield Hall to inquire about a possible position. She i... Read more
The Nostradamus Kid (1993)
5.9/10
Director: Bob Ellis
Starring: Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto, Arthur Dignam, Lucy Bell, Alice Garner
Ken Elkin is a randy young man who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal he wants to accomplish: beddi... Read more
Breaking Up (1997)
4.9/10
Director: Robert Greenwald
Starring: Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek
Monica teaches, Steve's a photographer. They've dated more than two years. They're arguing, and she leaves for her apartment, only to return in a few... Read more
Water for Elephants (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.9/10
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Robert Pattinson
Based on the novel by Sara Gruen, this polished drama set in the 1930s follows veterinary student Jacob (Robert Pattinson) as he abandons his studies... Read more
Off Beat (1986)
5/10
Director: Michael Dinner
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Harvey Keitel
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer and friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance per... Read more
Lullaby (Blu-ray) (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Benoit Philippon
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Clemence Poesy, Rupert Friend, Sarah Wayne Callies
Sam is a reclusive and complicated man whose only friend is George, the compassionate and well-intentioned manager of a downtrodden New York City hote... Read more
American Ninja (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