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"
Mermaids (1990)
6.6/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Cher , Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci
This lovely mix of comedy and drama set in 1960 has Cher, the mother of two, a constant embarrassment to her teenage daughter, who's trying to deal wi... Read more
Metropolitan (1990)
7.4/10
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Taylor Nichols
A literate and witty tale of college-age Park Avenue preps and debs who gather during Christmas break to come to terms with their hopes and hormones.... Read more
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
6.8/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott
The screen version of Paul Bowles' celebrated 1949 novel about a New York couple who embark on an unusual journey through post World War II North Afri... Read more
Stanley and Iris (1990)
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz
A sensitive film about illiteracy and isolation. Jane Fonda begins a wary relationship with Robert De Niro as she teaches him to read. Directed with f... Read more
Sweet Revenge (1990)
5.6/10
Director: Charlotte Brandstrom
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Carrie Fisher, John Sessions
An enjoyable cast has fun with this delightful tale set in Paris about a lawyer (Carrie Fisher) trying to stop paying alimony to her ex by hiring an e... Read more
Brenda Starr (1989)
4.7/10
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Starring: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey Tambor, Charles Durning
A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves... Read more
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
6.3/10
Director: Larry Parr
Starring: Benoit Regent, Gabriel Byrne, Judge Reinhold, Maurice Garrel, Marianne Basler, P...
In wartime France a New Zealand soldier on a weekend leave meets a young French woman who is under suspicion of colluding with the occupying Germans t... Read more
Roselyne and the Lions (1989)
6.1/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Starring: Isabelle Pasco, Gerard Sandoz, Phillippe Clevenot
From the director of 'Diva' and 'Betty Blue' comes yet another stylish work. A teenager leaves school and takes a job at a zoo, where he meets a young... Read more
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
7.6/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Billy Crystal
Brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit, this splendid, irresistible film from director Rob Reiner is one of the best-loved romantic c... Read more
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
7.2/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Andie MacDowell, James Spader, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Gallagher
An original, quirky film that won newcomer Steven Soderbergh the top prize at Cannes and captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide. Graham Dalt... Read more