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"
Summer School (1987)
6.6/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas
Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun,... Read more
Who's That Girl (1987)
4.8/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Madonna , Griffin Dunne
The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove h... Read more
Mannequin (1987)
5.9/10
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, James Spader
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a... Read more
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Jack Clayton
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Ian McNeice, Maggie Smith, Marie Kean, Wendy Hiller
Timid and self-deprecating, Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith in a BAFTA Award winning performance) is a middle-aged piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. A... Read more
Beauty and the Beast: Season 1 (1987)
7.1/10
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Edward Albert, Roy Dotrice
'Beauty and the Beast' features the adventures and romance between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a... Read more
Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Mary Stuart Masterson
An engaging teen comedy/drama as only John Hughes ('Pretty in Pink') can serve it up, concerning a love triangle between a sensitive young outsider (E... Read more
Dirty Dancing ( Blu-ray ) (1987)
6.9/10
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Cynthia Rhodes, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Jennifer Grey
At a Catskill Mountain resort in 1963 a young woman discovers her hidden talents for moving to the music. Her inspiration is her instructor, the poor... Read more
Dirty Dancing (1987)
6.9/10
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes
At a Catskill Mountain resort in 1963 a young woman discovers her hidden talents for moving to the music. Her inspiration is her instructor, the poor... Read more
The Lady and the Highwayman (1987)
6.4/10
Director: John Hough
Starring: John Mills, Bernard Miles, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Christopher Cazenove, Emma...
Barbara Cartland's 17th Century romance is adapted for television. Young Lady Panthea Vyne (Lysette Anthony) falls for a handsome highwayman, Silverb... Read more
Blind Date (1987)
5.9/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, John Larroquette
Bruce Willis makes his starring feature film debut as a serious, corporate-minded young man who makes the mistake of accepting a blind date with Kim B... Read more