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"
We Live In Time (2024)
7/10
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, Adam James
Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their l... Read more
It Ends With Us (2024)
6.5/10
Director: Justin Baldoni
Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Brandon Sklenar, Kevin...
Based on the global phenomenon by Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us tells the empowering story of Lily Bloom (Blake Lively). Grappling with a painful pa... Read more
The Fall Guy (2024)
7.3/10
Director: David Leitch
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stephanie Hsu, Ha...
A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his... Read more
Challengers (2024)
7.3/10
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Zendaya , Josh O'Connor
Tashi, a tennis player turned coach, has transformed her husband from a mediocre player into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of hi... Read more
Challengers (Blu-ray) (2024)
7.3/10
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Zendaya , Josh O'Connor
Tashi, a tennis player turned coach, has transformed her husband from a mediocre player into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of hi... Read more
Touch (Blu-ray) (2023)
7.3/10
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Ruth Sheen
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappe... Read more
La Chimera (2023)
7.3/10
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher
Tuscany, early 1980s. Arthur has just been released from a short stint in prison. During his earlier studies in the region, he fell in love with Benia... Read more
Cat Person (2023)
6/10
Director: Susanna Fogel
Starring: Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Isabella Rossellini, Hope D...
A college student who works at a movie theatre goes on an awkward date with an older man who may be a murderer. Read more
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)
6.3/10
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Lily James, Emma Thompson
In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In... Read more
Bones And All (2022)
6.9/10
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Andre Holland, Kellie Parker
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter,... Read more