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"
Deep End (1970)
7.2/10
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring: Jane Asher, Karl Michael Vogler, Diana Dors
15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan. Read more
Deep End (Blu-ray) (1970)
7.2/10
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring: Jane Asher, Karl Michael Vogler, Diana Dors
15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan. Read more
Definitely, Maybe (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Adam Brooks
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, Dere...
A soon-to-be-divorced ad exec (Ryan Reynolds) reluctantly regales his 10-year-old daughter (Abigail Breslin) with the story of how he met and fell in... Read more
Delicacy (2011)
6.6/10
Director: David Foenkinos, Stephane Foenkinos
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Bruno Todeschini, Francois Damiens, Pio Marmai, Melanie Bernier,...
After the abrupt and tragic death of her ideal husband (Pio Marmai), a young widow (Audrey Tautou) steeps herself in her workaday office world, certai... Read more
Destination Wedding (2018)
6/10
Director: Victor Levin
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder
When Frank and Lindsay meet on their way to a destination wedding, they soon discover they have a lot in common: they both hate the bride, the groom,... Read more
Diana (2013)
5.5/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews
"Diana" takes audiences into the private realm of one of the world's most iconic and inescapably public women - the Princess of Wales, Diana (Naomi Wa... Read more
Dinner in America (2020)
7.9/10
Director: Adam Rehmeier
Starring: Kyle Gallner, Griffin Gluck, Pat Healy, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Emily Skeggs
From director John Carney (ONCE, BEGIN AGAIN), SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy named Conor (Ferdi... Read more
Dirt Music (2019)
5.3/10
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund, David Wenham
In Gregor Jordan's adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Tim Winton, the stunning landscape of Western Australia is the backdrop for an impassioned tal... Read more
Dirty Dancing (1987)
6.9/10
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes
At a Catskill Mountain resort in 1963 a young woman discovers her hidden talents for moving to the music. Her inspiration is her instructor, the poor... Read more
Dirty Dancing ( Blu-ray ) (1987)
6.9/10
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Cynthia Rhodes, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Jennifer Grey
At a Catskill Mountain resort in 1963 a young woman discovers her hidden talents for moving to the music. Her inspiration is her instructor, the poor... Read more