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"
Breaking Up In Rome (2021)
6.5/10
Starring: Claudia Gerini
A romantic comedy about how hard it is to separate after many years of living together. Read more
Breathless (1983)
5.8/10
Director: Jim McBride
Starring: Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky, Art Metrano
This remake of the landmark 1959 Godard film follows the basic outline of the original - an amoral punk on the lam from police. Richard Gere and Valer... Read more
Breezy (1973)
7/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C Carmel, Marj Dusay, Joan Hotchkis
Directed by Clint Eastwood this sensitive drama stars William Holden and Kay Lenz as a mismatched pair who eventually find common ground. Successful b... Read more
Breezy (Blu-Ray) (1973)
7/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C Carmel, Marj Dusay, Joan Hotchkis
Divorced and creeping past middle age, real estate agent Frank Harmon (William Holden) isn't interested in falling in love anymore. But when he reluct... Read more
Brenda Starr (1989)
4.7/10
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Starring: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey Tambor, Charles Durning
A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves... Read more
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
6.5/10
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Daniel Gillies, Anupam Kher, Nadira Babbar, Nav...
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" gets the Bollywood treatment in this spectacular fusion of East meets West. Director Gurinder Chadha ("Bend It Lik... Read more
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
6.7/10
Director: Sharon Maguire
Starring: Colin Firth, Gemma Jones, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Renee Zellweger
Armed with a British accent and 20 well-placed extra pounds, Renee Zellweger plays the title role in this witty romantic comedy based on Helen Fieldin... Read more
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
6.6/10
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her son's science teacher. Read more
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
6/10
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones
Renee Zellweger reprises her role as the romantically challenged heroine in this adaptation of Helen Fielding's frothy follow-up. Four weeks after the... Read more
Brief Crossing (2001)
6.8/10
Director: Catherine Breillat
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futur... Read more