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"
The Big Sick (2017)
7.6/10
Director: Michael Showalter
Starring: Holly Hunter, Zoe Kazan, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano
Kumail is a Pakistani comic who meets an American graduate student named Emily at one of his stand-up shows. As their relationship blossoms, he soon b... Read more
The Big Sick (Blu-ray) (2017)
7.6/10
Director: Michael Showalter
Starring: Holly Hunter, Zoe Kazan, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano
Kumail is a Pakistani comic who meets an American graduate student named Emily at one of his stand-up shows. As their relationship blossoms, he soon b... Read more
Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
4.6/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Finally dumping Christian (Irishman Jamie Dornan, who fights like crazy to maintain his American accent), Ana (Dakota Johnson) accepts a position as a... Read more
The Free World (2016)
6.1/10
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer, Boyd Holbrook, Sung Kang
A recently released former convict becomes involved with a married woman with an abusive husband. 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
The Love Witch (2016)
6.2/10
Director: Anna Biller
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences. Read more
The Handmaiden (2016)
8.1/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Jung-woo Ha
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her. Read more
Allied (Blu-Ray) (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard
Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) and Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard) are World War II operatives who never reveal their true identities. After falling in... Read more
The Exception (2016)
6.8/10
Director: David Leveaux
Starring: Ben Daniels, Christopher Plummer, Janet McTeer, Anton Lesser, Jai Courtney, Lily...
German soldier Stefan Brandt goes on a mission to investigate exiled German Monarch Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Kaiser lives in a secluded mansion in the N... Read more
Kiki, Love to Love (2016)
6.5/10
Director: Paco Leon
Starring: Natalia de Molina, Alex Garcia, Jacobo Sanchez
Five stories of sex and love unfold during a strange, hot summer in Madrid. Read more