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"
Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
7.2/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker
Based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hardy and set against the harsh, foreboding landscape of rural Victorian England, "Far From the Madding Crowd"... Read more
Far From the Madding Crowd (Blu-ray) (1967)
7.1/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker
Based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hardy and set against the harsh, foreboding landscape of rural Victorian England, "Far From the Madding Crowd"... Read more
Fast Food, Fast Women (2001)
6.5/10
Director: Amos Kollek
Starring: Jamie Harris, Louise Lasser, Anna Thomson, Austin Pendleton
This quirky romantic comedy serves up the story of a group of disparate New York diner patrons whose lives become intertwined by their shared loneline... Read more
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
5.4/10
Director: Steven Baigelman
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D'Onofrio
Sibling rivalry goes wild when black sheep Keanu Reeves shows up at his brother's wedding and runs off with bride Cameron Diaz. With Vincent D'Onofrio... Read more
Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
4.6/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Finally dumping Christian (Irishman Jamie Dornan, who fights like crazy to maintain his American accent), Ana (Dakota Johnson) accepts a position as a... Read more
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
4.1/10
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson directs this erotic drama based on the best-selling book of the same name by British author E. L. James. Dakota Johnson stars as de... Read more
Fifty Shades of Grey (Blu-ray) (2015)
4.1/10
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson directs this erotic drama based on the best-selling book of the same name by British author E. L. James. Dakota Johnson stars as de... Read more
Fires Within (1991)
4.9/10
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Starring: Jimmy Smits, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio
From director Gillian Armstrong ('Charlotte Gray', 'Oscar and Lucinda'), this steamy romance centres on a Cuban woman (Greta Scacchi) who escapes with... Read more
First Night (2010)
5.3/10
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Richard E Grant, Sarah Brightman, Oliver Dimsdale, Susannah Fielding, Nigel Lind...
Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the cap... Read more
Five Feet Apart (2019)
7.1/10
Director: Justin Baldoni
Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Parminder Nagra, Claire Forlani
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-cont... Read more