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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"

Always (1989)

6.4/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson, Audrey Hepburn

Steven Spielberg's remake of 'A Guy named Joe' stars Richard Dreyfuss as a fire-fighting pilot killed in a crash and returned to Earth to serve as gua... Read more

The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

6.8/10
Director: Steve Kloves
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges

An enjoyable film with brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges playing a duo piano act that employs a new singer (Michelle Pfeiffer) and how their lives are ir... Read more

Say Anything... (1989)

7.4/10
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Ione Skye, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor

Superb performances from stars John Cusack and Ione Skye fuel this romantic comedy from screenwriter/first-time director Cameron Crowe. Army brat Lloy... Read more

Shirley Valentine (1989)

7.2/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman

A gem of a film about a witty housewife, bored with the hum-drum routine of suburban life, who jumps at the chance to rediscover herself when she join... Read more

18 Again! (1988)

5.7/10
Director: Paul Flaherty
Starring: Charlie Schlatter, George Burns, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris, Miriam Flynn, Red B...

An aging ruthless businessman swaps bodies with his grandson in the wake of getting into a car accident. Read more

Stealing Home (1988)

6.6/10
Starring: Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis, John Shea, Jodie Fos...

Ex baseball player Billy comes home to receive his childhood darling's ashes (suicide). He reminisces. Read more

Damnation (1988)

7.8/10
Director: Bela Tarr
Starring: Gyula Pauer

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer. Read more

Dangerous Liaisons ( Blu-ray ) (1988)

7.6/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Keanu Reeves, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Uma...

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, the hottest love affair of 1782 is notable for its sense of style and decor, and strong performances from Glenn Cl... Read more

Cousins (1988)

6.3/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William Petersen

The American version of the 1975 French film "Cousin, Cousine" that proved to be a big hit in the U.S. Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini play nice pe... Read more

Two Moon Junction (1988)

5/10
Director: Zalman King
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol

Her mother warned her about this kind of boy...but she couldn't warn her about the feelings he'd inspire. Heartfelt erotic drama about two teen lovers... Read more