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"
Elizabethtown (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel, Alec Bal...
Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) has lost his job, his girlfriend and is about to do something pretty stupid...when his father dies and he has to go back t... Read more
Elvis Has Left The Building (2004)
5.3/10
Director: Joel Zwick
Starring: Kim Basinger, John Corbett, Annie Potts, Sean Astin, Angie Dickinson
The spirit of "The King" is bought back to life in this outrageous romantic comedy following an Elvis-obsessed cosmetics saleswoman (Kim Basinger) wit... Read more
Ema (2019)
6.8/10
Director: Pablo Larrain
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera
A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart. Read more
Emma (Paltrow) (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Douglas McGrath
Starring: Alan Cumming, Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Jul...
The course of true love runs hilariously askew once would-be Cupid Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) gets her hands on it in this grand adaptation of t... Read more
Emma (Paltrow) ( Blu-ray ) (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Douglas McGrath
Starring: Alan Cumming, Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Jul...
The course of true love runs hilariously askew once would-be Cupid Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) gets her hands on it in this grand adaptation of t... Read more
Endless Way (2002)
6.9/10
Director: Shen Wensheng
Starring: Chen Chuang, Xia Lu, Du Jing, Liao Guanzhen
While struggling to bring water to his landlocked village, a young man finds himself torn between responsibility to his ailing mother and his own desi... Read more
Enough Said (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Toni Collette, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Falc...
A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter's impending departure fo... Read more
Eros (2004)
6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Alan Arkin, Gong Li
Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex. Read more
Escadrille Lafayette (1958)
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: Tab Hunter, Etchika Choureau, Marcel Dalio, David Janssen, Clint Eastwood, Paul...
Thad Walker (Tab Hunter) is a young man from a good Boston family, but he's spoiled, rebellious, and always at odds with his strict father. When Thad... Read more
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
8.3/10
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinso...
Brilliantly realized tale from writer Charlie Kaufman ("Adaptation") and director Michel Gondry ("Human Nature") for anyone who's been in love and wan... Read more