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"
Working Girl (1988)
6.8/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver
Melanie Griffith shines as a Staten Island secretary looking to better her position in a Manhattan brokerage firm. When her snooty boss Sigourney Weav... Read more
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
6.8/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis
William Hurt is a travel writer who hates to travel. He also isn't willing to open himself up to what life has to offer until he splits with his wife... Read more
Bull Durham (1988)
7.1/10
Director: Ron Shelton
Starring: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
A quirky, intelligent comedy with plenty of surprises about a minor-league baseball team and its attentive groupie (Susan Sarandon) who feels it is he... Read more
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
7.6/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Mil...
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
Mystic Pizza (1988)
6.2/10
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor
The comedy that takes a bite out of the seaside resort of Mystic, Connecticut, home to three young waitresses who decide their futures look as appetis... Read more
The Good Mother (1988)
5.9/10
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards
A.k.a. "The Price of Passion". A moving, sensitive tale of a young divorced mother whose sexual liberation at the hands of an Irish sculptor leads to... Read more
The Big Town (1987)
5.9/10
Director: Ben Bolt, Harold Becker
Starring: Matt Dillon, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant, Tom Skerritt, S...
A dice roller falls in love with a talented dancer who happens to be the wife to a gangster. Read more
Date with an Angel (1987)
5.7/10
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Phoebe Cates
An aspiring composer discovers a broken-winged, beautiful angel in his swimming pool. When everyone finds out, he must deal with his jealous fiancé, h... Read more
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
7.4/10
Director: John Duigan
Starring: Noah Taylor, Ben Mendelsohn
In rural 1960s Australia, a boy watches helplessly as his best friend falls in love with a small-time criminal, setting off a violent chain of events. Read more
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
6.7/10
Director: Steve Rash
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson
Nowhere-man Ronny Miller is secretly in love with Cindy Mancini, the prettiest, most popular girl on campus. When Cindy finds herself in a desperate p... Read more