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"
Ammonite (2020)
6.5/10
Director: Francis Lee
Starring: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, alt... Read more
Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
5.6/10
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Christopher Walken
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute. John Patrick Shanley, who created the classic MOONSTRUCK, br... Read more
Wild Mountain Thyme (Blu-ray) (2020)
5.6/10
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Christopher Walken
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute. John Patrick Shanley, who created the classic MOONSTRUCK, br... Read more
Summerland (2020)
7/10
Director: Jessica Swale
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton, Tom Courtenay
During World War II, an Englishwoman opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him in this moving journey of womanhood, lov... Read more
Made In Italy (2020)
5.8/10
Starring: Liam Neeson, Lindsay Duncan
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house he inherited from his late wife. Read more
The Photograph (2020)
6/10
Starring: Lakeith Stanfield
A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present. Read more
After We Collided (2020)
5/10
Director: Roger Kumble
Starring: Louise Lombard
Based on the 2014 romance novel of the same name, this follows the love life of two young adults. Read more
Love Sarah (2020)
6/10
Director: Eliza Schroeder
Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones, Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old frien... Read more
Belgravia: Season One (2020)
7.5/10
Starring: Philip Glenister, Tamsin Greig, Harriet Walter, Saskia Reeves, Paul Ritter, Alic...
Follows events when the emerging nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's established upper classes and when secrets... Read more
Martin Eden (2019)
6.9/10
Director: Pietro Marcello
Starring: Luca Marinelli, Marco Leonardi, Pietro Ragusa
Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to ac... Read more