Drama Romance
The Romantic Drama generally has as its central plot the beginning, obstruction and eventual, though often tragic, fruition of a romance. A common derogatory term for such films is "weepy" since they can reduce the audience to (willing) tears by playing on themes of noble self-sacrifice or cruel fate.
The motherlode of Alice's Romantic Dramas can be scrolled below, however the "Romance" feature along with "Comedy Romance" and "Classic Romance" may prove helpful.
Right; Alan Rickman, Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves star in Stephen Poliakoff's powerful "Close My Eyes".
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
3.5/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke
Director Adrian Lyne's erotically charged, controversial drama stars Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke as a young New York couple whose relationship, bas... Read more
9 Songs (2004)
4.8/10
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley
Primarily improvised, this labour of love was shot on digital using a skeleton crew of three and largely self-financed by director Michael Winterbotto... Read more
A Chance Encounter ( aka Quantum Love ) (2013)
Director: Lisa Azuelos
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Sophie Marceau, Niels Schneider, Lisa Azuelos
Pierre has been married for 15 years and has two kids. He still loves his wife and is fulfilled in his role as father. Overall, he's a contented man.... Read more
A Change of Seasons (1980)
5.2/10
Director: Richard Lang
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek, Mary Beth Hurt, Shirley MacLaine
Karen Evans (Shirley Maclaine) is the long-suffering wife of her college professor husband Adam (Anthony Hopkins). However, when Adam admits he has be... Read more
A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Darren Thornton
Starring: Seana Kerslake, Tara Lee, Charleigh Bailey
"Mad" Mary McArdle (Seána Kerslake) returns to her hometown after a brief stint in prison and is immediately labeled as undatable, but she is determin... Read more
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
7.5/10
Director: John Hough
Starring: Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Sarah Miles, Fiona Fullerton, Christopher Plummer,...
Adapted from the romance novel of kitch queen, Barbara Cartland. Christopher Plummer is the strutting Grand Duke, Oliver Reed is the lascivious rajah... Read more
A Good Year (2006)
7/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Freddie Highmore, Albert Finney, Archie Panjabi, Rafe Spall, Mari...
Max Skinner (Russel Crowe) is a high-powered city trader and self-proclaimed 'greedy bastard' who hears that his once-beloved uncle (Albert Finney) ha... Read more
A Little Chaos (2014)
6.5/10
Director: Alan Rickman
Starring: Alan Rickman, Matthias Schoenaerts, Stanley Tucci, Kate Winslet, Helen McCrory,...
Madame Sabine De Barra is a strong-willed landscape designer who challenges sexual and class barriers when she is chosen to build one of the main gard... 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
A Promise (2013)
5.7/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Alan Rickman, Rebecca Hall, Richard Madden
Period romantic drama set in 1912 Germany, in which a striver, Friedrich Zeitz (Richard Madden), becomes engaged as a clerk in a steel factory. An orp... Read more