"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"
3.5/10
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
4.8/10
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
6.2/10
Through a surprising twist of fate, single strangers Sarah and David get to relive important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how the... Read more
8.4/10
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an uncl... Read more
6/10
A successful New York psychoanalyst nearing a nervous breakdown and his French neighbour make an overnight decision to swap apartments. Neither one kn... Read more
7.1/10
"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
6.3/10
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However,... Read more
7.5/10
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
6.5/10
Chance encounters between old friends, acquaintances, ex-spouses and potential lovers form an engrossing series of six intertwined tales of love, lost... Read more
6.6/10
The unexpected will unfold when a young couple decide to embark on the most exhilarating and harrowing experience of their life - having a baby! Fille... Read more