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"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"

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

6/10
Director: Guy Ferland
Starring: Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Jonathan Jackson, January Jo...

On the eve of Cuba's revolution, Katey Miller (Romola Garai), a young American woman, discovers a passion for dance and for her sultry Cuban partner,... Read more

Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973)

5.7/10
Director: Waris Hussein
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Barry Foster, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rudolph Walke...

Originally made for television, this acclaimed drama stars Elizabteth Taylor and Richard Burton as a married couple, who after almost twenty years fin... Read more

Django Shoots First (1966)

6.1/10

Django's father is framed by his business partner Clusker and shot by a bounty Killer. Django inherits his fathers part of the business and a score to... Read more

Dogfight (1991)

7.5/10
Director: Nancy Savoca
Starring: Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, River Phoenix

River Phoenix stars as a young marine who sets out with his buddies on a cruel wager: the dogfight - a search for the ugliest girl in town to escort t... Read more

Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019)

7.1/10
Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa
Starring: Krista Kosonen, Pekka Strang

Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes... Read more

Don Jon (2013)

6.6/10
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Starring: Glenne Headly, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julianne Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Rob Bro...

Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a differe... Read more

Don Jon (Blu-ray) (2013)

6.5/10
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Starring: Glenne Headly, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julianne Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Rob Bro...

Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a differe... Read more

Don Juan De Marco (1995)

Director: Jeremy Leven
Starring: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Bob Dishy

Johnny Depp plays God's gift to women in this thoughtful, gentle examination of the importance of love. Marlon Brando is the shrink who tries to unrav... Read more

Dot the I (2003)

6.8/10
Director: Matthew Parkhill
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy, Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox

Carmen (Natalia Verbeke), a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to get married to Barnaby (James... Read more

Double Lover (L'Amant double) (2017)

6.2/10
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset

Chloé, a woman with a fragile mental state, falls for her psychoanalyst, Paul. But after moving in with him a few months later, she discovers a part o... Read more