"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"
6.5/10
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which al... Read more
5.7/10
In a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan finds her life shaken up and forever cha... Read more
6.1/10
Unlucky in love, British bank clerk Ben Chaplin decides to order a bride from Russia through an online service. What he gets is Nicole Kidman, a gorge... Read more
6.6/10
After spending his entire 35 years in the elaborate underground bomb shelter his parents retreated into during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Brendan... Read more
5.9/10
Bruce Willis makes his starring feature film debut as a serious, corporate-minded young man who makes the mistake of accepting a blind date with Kim B... Read more
7/10
The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border. Roong longs for the day when she can be with Min, her Burmese lover... Read more
7.4/10
This stark and realistic examination of the dissolution of a marriage features heartbreaking performances from Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a... Read more
5.7/10
Tom Green cleans up his act (hey, this is for Disney) as a bumbling fool who can't hold down a job. He's worked his way through 'A' in the phonebook... Read more
5.9/10
From award-winning director Sydney Pollack comes this off-kilter drama, starring Al Pacino as jaded racecar driver "Bobby Deerfield". While Deerfield'... Read more
6.9/10
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter,... Read more