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"
Cafe Society (2016)
6.9/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Parker Posey, Ken Stott, Paul Schneider, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve...
Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen's bittersweet romance Café Society follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) as he travels to Hollywood to wor... Read more
Cairo Time (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Ruba Nadda
Starring: Amina Annabi, Patricia Clarkson, Tom McCamus, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya
Patricia Clarkson (superb) stars as Juliette, a New York fashion editor who travels to Egypt for a vacation with her husband, a UN official. When he i... Read more
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio (Chalamet), a precocious 17 year old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classi... Read more
Call Me By Your Name (Blu-ray) (2017)
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio (Chalamet), a precocious 17 year old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classi... Read more
Camille Rewinds (2012)
6.3/10
Director: Noemie Lvovsky
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Alvaro, Denis Podalydes, Michel Vuiller...
A.k.a. "Camille redouble". Camille was sixteen when she fell madly in love with Eric and gave birth to their daughter. On New Year's Eve twenty-five y... Read more
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
6.7/10
Director: Steve Rash
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson
Nowhere-man Ronny Miller is secretly in love with Cindy Mancini, the prettiest, most popular girl on campus. When Cindy finds herself in a desperate p... Read more
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
6.5/10
Director: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green
A "Dazed and Confused" for the 90's centering around a wild house party where everyone's invited to unload four years worth of emotional baggage, leav... Read more
Can't Hardly Wait (Blu-ray) (1998)
6.5/10
Director: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Starring: Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seth Green
A "Dazed and Confused" for the 90's centering around a wild house party where everyone's invited to unload four years worth of emotional baggage, leav... Read more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
5.9/10
Director: John Madden
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, John Hurt, Irene Papas, Christian Bale, David Morri...
This sweeping melodrama with a historical backdrop stars Penelope Cruz as the daughter of a doctor living on a Greek island in 1940. When war breaks o... Read more
Carolina (2004)
5/10
Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Randy Quaid
Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris ('Antonia's Line', 'Mrs Dalloway') directs this romantic comedy about a young woman (Julia Stiles) raised in an eccentr... Read more