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"
Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Streak (1979)
7.7/10
Starring: Juliet Stevenson
'The Mallens' was originally transmitted as two films and has since been reissued on DVD as four separate instalments - The Mallen Streak, The Mallen... Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Girls (1979)
7.7/10
Starring: Juliet Stevenson
'The Mallens' was originally transmitted as two films and has since been reissued on DVD as four separate instalments - The Mallen Streak, The Mallen... Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Secret (1979)
7.7/10
Starring: Juliet Stevenson
'The Mallens' was originally transmitted as two films and has since been reissued on DVD as four separate instalments - The Mallen Streak, The Mallen... Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Curse (1979)
Starring: Juliet Stevenson
'The Mallens' was originally transmitted as two films and has since been reissued on DVD as four separate instalments - The Mallen Streak, The Mallen... Read more
Brenda Starr (1989)
4.7/10
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Starring: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey Tambor, Charles Durning
A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves... Read more
Starting Over (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhag...
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he... Read more
The Marrying Man (1991)
5.8/10
Director: Jerry Rees
Starring: Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Robert Loggia, Elisabeth Shue, Armand Assante, Paul...
A millionaire playboy goes into Las Vegas and comes out married to a woman he barely knows. Read more
Lonely Hearts (1982)
6.8/10
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: Norman Kaye, Wendy Hughes
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker. In HD. Read more
Almost Pregmant (1992)
Starring: Tanya Roberts, Jeff Conaway, John Calvin, Joan Severance, Dom DeLuise
A sex farce about a woman with an infertile husband who is desperate to get pregnant. She enlists the help of her neighbor and an in-law. Meanwhile he... Read more
My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
5.4/10
Director: Bob Balaban
Starring: Traci Lind, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt, Jay O Sanders, Matthew Fox, Philip...
A teenage boy comes back from the dead because he is determined to win the most beautiful girl in school. Read more