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"
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
3.5/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke
Director Adrian Lyne's erotically charged, controversial drama stars Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke as a young New York couple whose relationship, bas... Read more
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
6.6/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Spike Lee
The celebrated first feature from independent black filmmaker Spike Lee, a brazenly comic foray into sexual politics. Tracy Camilla Johns stars as Nol... Read more
Pretty in Pink (1986)
6.8/10
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy
Molly Ringwald is the school girl from the wrong side of town, Andrew McCarthy the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. A bittersweet, critic... Read more
About Last Night... (1986)
6.2/10
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: James Belushi, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Elizabeth Perkins
David Mamet's play 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' stars Rob Lowe and Demi Moore as Chicago singles who begin an affair, but their relationship suffers... Read more
Children Of A Lesser God (1986)
7.2/10
Director: Randa Haines
Starring: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
William Hurt and Marlee Matlin star in this filmed adaptation of the hit Broadway play about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and... Read more
Heartburn (1986)
6/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels
From Nora Ephron's acerbic best-selling novel, based on her stormy marriage to reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson star as the il... Read more
Lucas (1986)
6.8/10
Director: David Seltzer
Starring: Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder
This charming teen-comedy follows the romantic misadventures of a love-struck 14-year-old (played by Corey Haim) who falls for a new girl in town who... Read more
Smooth Talk (1985)
6.5/10
Director: Joyce Chopra
Starring: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Elizabeth Berridge
A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and... Read more
American Ninja (1985)
5.5/10
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James
American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines. Read more
American Ninja 2/American Ninja 2 (1985)
5.5/10
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James
American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines. Read more