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"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"

The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

6.2/10
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie

Happily engaged after a year of dating, Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) are continually faced with unexpected circumstances that keep forci... Read more

The Flame Of New Orleans (1941)

6.6/10
Director: Rene Clair
Starring: Bruce Cabot, Marlene Dietrich, Roland Young

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain. Director René Clair stated he and scree... Read more

The Free World (2016)

6.1/10
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer, Boyd Holbrook, Sung Kang

A recently released former convict becomes involved with a married woman with an abusive husband. Read more

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

7/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Hilton McRae

Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay adapted from John Fowles' novel. A hauntingly beautiful film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, about a woman... Read more

The Gangster Films (1930)

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

'Walk Cheerfully' 1930. Kenji is a small thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds ou... Read more

The Garden of Words (2013)

7.6/10
Director: Makoto Shinkai

When Takao, a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer, decides to skip school one day in favour of sketching in a rainy garde... 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

The Good Mother (1988)

5.9/10
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards

A.k.a. "The Price of Passion". A moving, sensitive tale of a young divorced mother whose sexual liberation at the hands of an Irish sculptor leads to... Read more

The Great Gatsby (2013)

7.3/10
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Carey Mulligan, Ja...

Adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves... Read more

The Great Gatsby (1974)

6.4/10
Director: Jack Clayton
Starring: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Mia Farrow, Robert Redford, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston...

Robert Redford and Mia Farrow with a script by Francis Coppola, adapted from the book by F Scott Fitzgerald about a golden boy who crashes Long Island... Read more