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"
Casablanca (1942)
8.5/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart
As time goes by, no film equals the popularity of this indisputable classic. In quintessential roles, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are former lo... Read more
Casablanca ( Blu-ray ) (1942)
8.5/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter...
As time goes by, no film equals the popularity of this indisputable classic. In quintessential roles, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are former lo... Read more
Casanova (2005)
6.5/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin
Heath Ledger plays the notorious Venetian playboy who goes too far when he's caught leaving the boudoir of a novice nun. The Inquisition puts him on... Read more
Cashback (2006)
7.2/10
Director: Sean Ellis
Starring: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan, Stuart Goodwin
Originally made as an Oscar-nominated short film, writer/director Sean Ellis fills out his sweet and perceptive story to a successful feature. Ben tak... Read more
Cat and Mouse (2003)
5.3/10
Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Zhan Zhao is a deputy to the wise Judge Bao. When Zhan heads back home for a vacation, he uncovers a plot to assassinate Bao so that a rebel group can... Read more
Cat Person (2023)
6/10
Director: Susanna Fogel
Starring: Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Isabella Rossellini, Hope D...
A college student who works at a movie theatre goes on an awkward date with an older man who may be a murderer. Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Glass Virgin (1995)
7.7/10
Director: David Wheatly
Starring: Jan Graveson, Brendan Coyle, Emily Mortimer, Jean Heywood, Nigel Havers, Sylvia...
Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns th... Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Curse (1979)
Starring: Juliet Stevenson
'The Mallens' was originally transmitted as two films and has since been reissued on DVD as four separate instalments - The Mallen Streak, The Mallen... Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Girls (1979)
7.7/10
Starring: Juliet Stevenson
'The Mallens' was originally transmitted as two films and has since been reissued on DVD as four separate instalments - The Mallen Streak, The Mallen... Read more
Catherine Cookson: The Mallen Secret (1979)
7.7/10
Starring: Juliet Stevenson
'The Mallens' was originally transmitted as two films and has since been reissued on DVD as four separate instalments - The Mallen Streak, The Mallen... Read more