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"
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
7/10
Director: Gene Saks
Starring: Charles Boyer, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Mildred Natwick
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford star in this breezy film adaptation of the Neil Simon comedy about newly weds living in a five-story walk-up apartment.... Read more
Django Shoots First (1966)
6.1/10
Django's father is framed by his business partner Clusker and shot by a bounty Killer. Django inherits his fathers part of the business and a score to... Read more
Georgy Girl (1966)
6.9/10
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Starring: Alan Bates, James Mason, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling
Lynn Redgrave earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of an overweight, virginal London girl in this quirky romantic comedy. Overlook... Read more
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
6.5/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Rod Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Paul Lynde, Er...
A lively mix of comedy and romance, this wacky Bond spoof has Doris Day as a public relations specialist for NASA who inadvertantly meets her boss (Ro... Read more
A Man and a Woman (1966)
7.6/10
Director: Claude Lelouch
Starring: Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant
One of cinema's great romances, this lyrical Claude Lelouch love story between widowed script girl Anouk Aimee and auto racer/widower Jean-Louis Trint... Read more
inside daisy clover (1965)
6.2/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall
Daisy Clover is a 15 year old Tomboy who dreams of being a Hollywood star. After auditioning for producer Raymond Swan of Swan studios she becomes the... Read more
Loves of a Blonde ( A Blonde In Love ) (1965)
7.7/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Hanna Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik
Milos Forman's great comedy is an acute satire of Czech daily life. The film focuses on the relationship of a factory girl and a touring piano player.... Read more
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
5.8/10
Director: Jack Donohue
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Deborah Kerr
Love, romance and marital status get complicated in this romp starring Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr as a long-married couple who go to Mexico to enl... Read more
Frankie And Johnny (Elvis) (1965)
6.7/10
Director: Frederick De Cordova
Starring: Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan
Elvis (Presley) was her man, but he did her wrong as the fabled gambling lover of the song and story. Wonderful riverboat setting and pretty starlets... Read more
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
7/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde
One of the finest Doris Day/Rock Hudson pairings casts Rock as a hypochondriac so sure of impending death that he's trying to fix wife Doris up with a... Read more