"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"
A beautifully shot film telling the story of Richard Gere, a fugitive from the Chicago slums, and Sam Shepard, a shy, rich Texan in love with the same... Read more
During WWII, beautiful Noelle meets dashing American pilot Larry in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead he abandons he... Read more
The film's namesake, a famed New York City ballroom, serves as the setting for a dramatic trio of stories from the Merchant/Ivory team: a lonely widow... Read more
From award-winning director Sydney Pollack comes this off-kilter drama, starring Al Pacino as jaded racecar driver "Bobby Deerfield". While Deerfield'... Read more
One of Woody Allen's most well-loved and funniest films, with Diane Keaton as the ditsy sometime object of Woody's neurotic affections. Originally co... Read more
After spending 3 unforgettable hours with an outlaw, a beautiful young widow turns her story into a worldwide famous book. Read more
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, h... Read more
Made during a 'Golden Age' of Australian cinema (the period saw films such as 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', 'The Devil's Playground' and 'The Getting of W... Read more
A critically acclaimed social comedy about the romantic exploits of a bed-hopping Beverly Hills hairdresser (Warren Beatty). First-rate cast includes... Read more
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, t... Read more