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"
Hanover Street (1979)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Michael Sacks, Richard Mas...
Harrison Ford is an American bomber pilot stationed in London during World War II. During an air raid, Harrison meets Lesley Anne-Down, a married Brit... Read more
A Perfect Couple (1979)
6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Dennis Franz, Henry Gibson
When young rocker Sheila Shea (Marta Heflin), meets an older man, Alex Theodopoulos (Paul Dooley), through a computer dating service, their unusual co... Read more
The Electric Horseman (1979)
6.3/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson
In this rousing romantic adventure, Robert Redford plays an ex-world champion rodeo cowboy who's fallen on hard times and is reduced to selling breakf... Read more
Manhattan (Blu-ray) (1979)
7.9/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Anne Byrne, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemi...
Vincent Canby called it 'the only truly great American film of the 1970s'. Featuring the talents of Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Mich... Read more
10 (1979)
6/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Dee Wallace, Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber
Dudley Moore is suffering a mid-life crisis that he feels can be solved by a romantic interlude with Bo Derek. Julie Andrews, as the mature relationsh... Read more
Manhattan (1979)
8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Anne Byrne, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemi...
Vincent Canby called it 'the only truly great American film of the 1970s'. Featuring the talents of Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Mich... Read more
Centennial (1978)
8.5/10
Director: Paul Krasny, Bernard McEveety
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Lynn Redgrave, Mark Harmon, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Ro...
Journey to the Wild West in this sprawling epic saga of the town of Centennial, Colorado. Relive the grand hopes, dreams, loves, and adventures of gen... Read more
House Calls (1978)
6.8/10
Director: Howard Zieff
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Richard Benjamin, Walter Matthau, Art Carney
Recently widowed surgeon Charley Nichols (Walter Matthau) is on a quest to experience life with as many women as possible after 31 years of fidelity.... Read more
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
7.2/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Alan Alda, Ellen Burstyn
Based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play, this film is about George (Alan Alda), a married New Jersey accountant, and Doris (Ellen Burstyn), a housewife... Read more
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
6.9/10
Director: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck He...
In this remake of 'Here Comes Mr Jordan', Warren Beatty stars as a quarterback who is taken to Heaven before his time, but because his body on Earth i... Read more