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"
Touch of Pink (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Starring: Kristen Holden-Reid, Kyle MacLachlan, Jimi Mistry, Suleka Mathew, Brian George
Canadian writer/director Ian Iqbal Rashid debuts with this romantic comedy about a young gay Ismali-Canadian living in fashionable London. Alim (Jimi... Read more
Touched with Fire (2015)
6.1/10
Director: Paul Dalio
Starring: Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby
Aka 'Mania Days'. Some love breaks outside the boundaries of sanity When two poets with bipolar disorder (Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby) mee... Read more
Tristan and Isolde (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: David O'Hara, Mark Strong, Rufus Sewell, James Franco, Sophia Myles
Before Romeo and Juliet, before Arthur and Guinevere, there was Tristan and Isolde, the star-crossed lovers of medieval folklore. The rule of Rome is... Read more
Tristan and Isolde (Blu-ray) (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: David O'Hara, Mark Strong, Rufus Sewell, James Franco, Sophia Myles
Before Romeo and Juliet, before Arthur and Guinevere, there was Tristan and Isolde, the star-crossed lovers of medieval folklore. The rule of Rome is... Read more
Tristan and Isolde (Copy) (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: David O'Hara, Mark Strong, Rufus Sewell, James Franco, Sophia Myles
Before Romeo and Juliet, before Arthur and Guinevere, there was Tristan and Isolde, the star-crossed lovers of medieval folklore. The rule of Rome is... Read more
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991)
7.3/10
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Bill Paterson
A winning, heartfelt, darkly humorous account of a young woman, unable to get over the death of her cellist lover, who gets the shock of her life when... Read more
Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)
6.9/10
Starring: Maria Popistasu
Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, an... Read more
Tulip Fever (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Judi Dench, Kevin McKidd, Tom Hollander, Christoph Waltz, Jack O'Connell, Zach G...
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Read more
Tune in Tomorrow ( aka Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ) (1990)
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk
A light and engagingly ludicrous comedy from the director of 'The Singing Dectective' and 'Queen of Hearts'. A flamboyant and mysterious radio scriptw... Read more
Twice Born (2012)
7.4/10
Director: Sergio Castellitto
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Emile Hirsch
A.k.a. "Venuto al mondo". Gemma visits Sarajevo with her son, Pietro. 16 years earlier, they escaped the war-torn city while Diego, the boy's father,... Read more