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"
Five Feet Apart (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7.1/10
Director: Justin Baldoni
Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Parminder Nagra, Claire Forlani
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-cont... Read more
Where Hands Touch (2018)
6.4/10
Director: Amma Asante
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Christopher Eccleston, Tom Goodm...
Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black father, lives in fear due to the color of her skin.... Read more
Vita & Virginia (2018)
5.8/10
Director: Chanya Button
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini
It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf. Read more
Never Look Away (2018)
7.7/10
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regim... Read more
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
7/10
Director: Zhangke Jia
A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017. Read more
Non Fiction (2018)
6.5/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne
Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing... Read more
Siberia (2018)
4.3/10
Director: Matthew Ross
Starring: Keanu Reeves
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia in search of him, but instead begins a love affair. Read more
Ashes in the Snow (2018)
6.7/10
Director: Marius A. Markevicius
Starring: Sophie Cookson, Bel Powley
In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's pass... Read more
Tell It To The Bees (2018)
5.9/10
Director: Annabel Jankel
Starring: Anna Paquin, Billy Boyd
A single mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger) who is abandoned by her husband, meets the small village's Doctor Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) who has recentl... Read more
Ophelia (2018)
6.7/10
Director: Claire McCarthy
Starring: George MacKay, Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, Tom Felton
As a rebellious and motherless child, Ophelia is taken into Elsinore Castle by Queen Gertrude as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting. Soon enoug... Read more