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"
Eternally Yours (1939)
5.8/10
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: David Nixon, Loretta Young, Broderick Crawford, Zasu Pitts
Lovely Loretta Young discovers that being a magician's wife can be tricky. She's jealous of hubby David Niven's professional status, and believes that... Read more
Every Day (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Maria Bello, Angourie Rice, Owen Teague
Sixteen-year-old Rhiannon falls in love with A, a mysterious spirit who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon... Read more
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
6.8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Woody Allen
This grand old fashioned comedy/musical about what we all go through when we fall in love is filtered through the romances amongst a familiar cast of... Read more
Excess Baggage (1997)
5.3/10
Director: Marco Brambilla
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Benicio Del Toro, Christopher Walken, Jack Thompson, Nichola...
Alicia Silverstone plays a poor little rich girl who'll do anything to get her father's attention, so she stages her own kidnapping, only to find hers... Read more
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
5.8/10
Director: Dominik Graf
Starring: Tom Schilling, Saskia Rosendahl
Berlin, 1931. A milieu between sublets and the underworld, where brothels are artists' studios, Nazis are yelling abuse in the streets and Babelsberg... Read more
Facing Windows (2003)
7.4/10
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Raoul Bova, Massimo Girotti, Filippo Nigro
A young working-class wife and mother, Giovanna, has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers... Read more
Fading Gigolo (2013)
6.2/10
Director: John Turturro
Starring: John Turturro, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis, Woody Allen, Liev Schreiber, Sofia...
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "man... Read more
Failure to Launch (2006)
5.6/10
Director: Tom Dey
Starring: Justin Bartha, Zooey Deschanel, Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy...
Matthew McConaughey is an overgrown mama's boy who just won't move out, despite his desperate parents' (Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw) gentle nudging... Read more
Falling in Love (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Starring: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, George Martin, Dianne Wiest, Jane K...
Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep star in this tender drama of two married people whose accidental encounter leads to friendship and finally, a forbidde... Read more
Far And Away (1992)
6.5/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson
A sweeping tale of Irish immigrants who came to America in search of land in the late 1800's. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play the bickering couple f... Read more