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"
Five Feet Apart (Blu-Ray) (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
Fly Me to the Moon ( Un plan parfait ) (2012)
5.5/10
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Starring: Etienne Chicot, Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, Alice Pol, Robert Plagnol
A.k.a. "Un plan parfait". Breezy French rom-com starring Diane Kruger and Dany Boon. In Isabelle's (Kruger) family, every first marriage has ended in... Read more
Follow That Dream (1961)
6.6/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm, Joanna Moore, Jack Kruschen
Elvis Presley is at his delightful best as a naive but sexy country boy in this lighthearted romp about a backwoods family homesteading along the Flor... Read more
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Fool's Gold (2008)
5.7/10
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ray Winstone
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star in this romantic action comedy, playing a nearly divorced couple reunited by the search for sunken treasures... Read more
Fools Rush In (1997)
6/10
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Jill Clayburgh
In this romantic comedy Matthew Perry plays a New Yorker working in a nightclub in Las Vegas who has a one-night stand with Salma Hayek. When she beco... Read more
Footloose (2011)
5.9/10
Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Kim Dickens, Ray McKinnon, Kenny Wormald, Juliann...
Writer/Director Craig Brewer delivers a new take of the beloved 1984 classic film. Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the s... Read more
For Love of Ivy (1968)
6.3/10
Director: Daniel Mann
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters, Carroll O...
Ivy (Abbey Lincoln) has been housekeeper and loyal confidante to the Austin family for nine years. When she surprises everyone by announcing that she... Read more
Forces Of Nature (1999)
5.4/10
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Starring: Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn, Blythe Danner, Ronny Cox
When about-to-be-married Ben Affleck's flight is cancelled he reluctantly accepts help from another stranded passenger, free spirit Sandra Bullock. Th... Read more
Forever Darling / The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Director: Alexander Hall, Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason, Marjorie Main
Double Feature: "The Long, Long Trailer" is a riotous comedy in which a cumbersome travel trailer creates havoc for a newlywed couple (Lucille Ball an... Read more
Forever Young (1992)
6.3/10
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood
Thirties test pilot Mel Gibson volunteers for a cryogenics experiment and wakes up 53 years later when single mum Jamie Lee Curtis and her son Elijah... Read more