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"
The Spider (Edderkoppen) (2000)
4.5/10
Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Stine Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen
A reporter is drawn into the dark side of post-war Copenhagen as he attempts to uncover a crime syndicate on an unprecedented level. In 1949, durin... Read more
The Story of Us (1999)
5.9/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Julie Hagerty, Tim Matheson, Paul Reiser, Rob R...
Follow the ups and downs of 15 years in the lives of Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, a couple facing the possible end of their marriage, in direct... 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
The Talk of the Town (1942)
7.6/10
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
This brillantly cast, strange mixture of screwball comedy and lynch-mob melodramatics focuses on an accused arsonist, a Supreme Court judge and the gi... Read more
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
7.3/10
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson
Based on the celebrated novel by author William Faulkner and set during the early 1930s this classic romance stars Robert Stack as Roger Schumann, a d... Read more
The Thing Called Love (1993)
6.3/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney
River Phoenix plays his last leading role (some say operating from the twilight zone) in this enjoyable romantic fable centering on four twenty-someth... Read more
The Thrill Of It All (1963)
7/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, Elliott Reid, Reginald...
Doris Day and James Garner star in this frothy romantic comedy in which Day goes from being a housewife to a famous television personality (selling 'H... Read more
The Trouble With Girls (1969)
5.5/10
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Starring: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Sheree North, Vincent Price
...(and How to Get Into It). An offbeat Elvis drama, with the King playing the manager of a touring Chautauqua company in the 20s and the trouble that... Read more
The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996)
Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin
A quick-witted romantic comedy about a young man (Ben Chaplin), who falls in love with a radio talk-show host (Janeane Garofalo) before he even meets... Read more
The Truth About Love (2004)
5.4/10
Director: John Hay
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dougray Scott, Jimi Mistry
While her husband's best friend Archie secretly pines for her, Alice decides to test her spouse's loyalty by sending him an anonymous Valentine's Day... Read more