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"
Once Bitten (1985)
5.5/10
Director: Howard Storm
Starring: Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton, Cleavon Little
A vampire Countess needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark... Read more
Perfect (1985)
4.5/10
Director: James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis
Fed up with writing obituaries for a local New Jersey newspaper, the inquisitive and ambitious journalist, Adam Lawrence, finally gets his big break,... Read more
A Room with a View ( Blu-ray ) (1985)
7.4/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench, Julian Sand...
"A Room with a View" is the film that defined Merchant-Ivory as the masters of the romantic period piece and this exceptional adaptation of E.M. Forst... Read more
The Bride (1985)
5.3/10
Director: Franc Roddam
Starring: Sting , Jennifer Beals, Geraldine Page, Clancy Brown, Anthony Higgins, Timothy S...
An attempt to bring Merchant-Ivory sensibilities to the horror genre, though not entirely successful, is notable for its eclectic '80s cast - Sting, J... Read more
A Room with a View (1985)
7.4/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench, Julian Sand...
"A Room with a View" is the film that defined Merchant-Ivory as the masters of the romantic period piece and this exceptional adaptation of E.M. Forst... Read more
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
6.1/10
Director: Lewis Teague
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
In the blockbuster Romancing The Stone, novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) and wanderer Jack Colton (Michael D Douglas) went sailing off into the... Read more
The Sure Thing (1985)
7/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards
Rob Reiner's comedy about Walter 'Gib' Gibson, a highly-spirited young guy and self-proclaimed junk food addict, who accidentally ends up sharing a ri... Read more
Maria's Lovers (1984)
6.7/10
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Starring: Bud Cort, John Savage, Karen Young, Keith Carradine, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Mi...
Nastassja Kinski stars as Maria: lovely, innocent and on the brink of sensual discovery, but unable to be loved by her war-scarred husband (John Savag... Read more
Falling in Love (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Starring: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, George Martin, Dianne Wiest, Jane K...
Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep star in this tender drama of two married people whose accidental encounter leads to friendship and finally, a forbidde... Read more
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1984)
7.7/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest
Mia Farrow stars as a waifish Depression-era waitress who is swept off her feet by Jeff Daniels, the star of her favorite movie. The catch, of course,... Read more