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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"

Three Comrades (1938)

7.2/10
Director: Frank Borzage
Starring: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Guy Kibbee, Lione...

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis. Read more

Le Quai Des Brumes ( Port of Shadows ) (1938)

7.7/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan

Deserter Jean arrives in Le Havre and looks for a shelter before leaving the French territory. Housed in a shed on the docks, he meets the mysterious... Read more

Holiday (1938)

7.8/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan

Based on Philip Barry's Broadway play, 'Holiday' is stylishly directed by Oscar-winner George Cukor. This classic film stars Katharine Hepburn and Car... Read more

SOS Coast Guard (1937)

6/10
Starring: Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi, Richard Alexander

A 12-episode serial. The government of Marovania hires the wicked Boroff to manufacture a powerful gas that causes mass disintegration. Boroff is en r... Read more

The Hurricane (1937)

7.3/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond M...

In the colonial era, island native Terangi (Jon Hall) spends a blissful honeymoon with his bride, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). Soon after, however, their... Read more

The Awful Truth (1937)

7.9/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Mary Forbes, Ralph Bellamy

This screwball classic stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a newly-divorced couple who realise (independently of one another) that they're still in lo... Read more

My Man Godfrey (1936)

8.1/10
Director: Gregory La Cava
Starring: Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, William Powell, Eugene Pallette

Classic screwball comedy with Carole Lombard giving a priceless performance as a daffy heiress who meets a hobo on a scavenger hunt, and hires him as... Read more

Anna Karenina (1935)

7.1/10
Director: Clarence Brown
Starring: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew

Widely regarded as the best filmization of Tolstoy's illicit romance in the imperial court of Russia. Garbo is the tilte character, sheltered wife o... Read more

It Happened One Night (1934)

8.1/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly

Winner of five Academy Awards, this famous screwball comedy stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert as two mismatched lovers. Colbert escapes from her... Read more

The Phantom Of The West (1931)

6.2/10
Director: D Ross Lederman
Starring: Tom Tyler

A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real kille... Read more