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"
Broadcast News (1987)
7.2/10
Director: James L Brooks
Starring: William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks
William Hurt, Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks play a tv news reporter, producer and writer in this involving and very funny inside look at the high pre... Read more
Crazy Moon (1987)
6.6/10
Director: Allan Eastman
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Vanessa Vaughan, Peter Spence
Kiefer Sutherland, the son of Donald, stars in this off-beat comedy-drama-love story about a kid from the 80s who is obsessed by the 30s. He meets a s... Read more
Making Mr Right (1987)
5.3/10
Director: Susan Seidelman
Starring: John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly
Susan Seidelman's ('Desperately Seeking Susan') romantic fantasy about the relationship between a publicist and the android she's been hired to promot... Read more
Moonstruck (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Cher , Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello
The winner of three Oscars; Set in Brooklyn, this charming, romantic, ethnic comedy involves a somewhat dowdy Cher involved with two brothers. She's e... Read more
The Pick-up Artist (1987)
5.2/10
Director: James Toback
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey Jr, Dennis Hopper
Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr. meet and fall in love and prove themselves by battling against a stacked destiny. This includes her drunken dad (... Read more
Roxanne (1987)
6.6/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Michael J Pollard, Fred Ward, Shelle...
Steve Martin successfully updates the story of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' as he plays a soulful small-town fire chief with a big heart and an even larger no... Read more
The Woo Woo Kid (1987)
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam, Beverly D'Angelo
Aka 'In The Mood'. Said to be based on fact - about a 14 year old who elopes with an older man's wife. He is caught, the marriage annulled, and he is... Read more
Touch And Go (1986)
5.8/10
Director: Robert Mandel
Starring: Michael Keaton, Maria Conchita Alonso
An ice hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride ho... Read more
Off Beat (1986)
5/10
Director: Michael Dinner
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Harvey Keitel
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer and friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance per... Read more
Soul Man (1986)
5.2/10
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: C Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship. Read more