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"
Gone to Earth (1950)
7.2/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
A.k.a. 'The Wild Heart.' Jennifer Jones plays a beautiful young English Gypsy girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desir... Read more
Good Luck Chuck (2007)
5.6/10
Starring: Dane Cook, Troy Gentile, Sasha Pieterse
In order to keep the woman of his dreams from falling for another guy, Charlie Logan has to break the curse that has made him wildly popular with sing... Read more
Goodbye, First Love (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Mia Hansen-Love
Starring: Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Havard Brekke
Following the critically acclaimed "Father of my Children", Mia Hansen-Love returns with this equally impressive, and loosely autobiographical, coming... Read more
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
6.8/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave
A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl. Read more
Grace of Monaco (2014)
5.7/10
Director: Olivier Dahan
Starring: Frank Langella, Nicole Kidman, Parker Posey, Tim Roth, Paz Vega, Milo Ventimigli...
Grace Of Monaco is set in 1962 and showcases 12 months in the life of iconic princess Grace Kelly, 6 years after she married Prince Rainier of Monaco... Read more
Great Expectations (1997)
6.8/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro
This modern, stylish remake of the Dickens classic is set in the New York City art world. Ethan Hawke is the misunderstood artist wooing rich girl Gwy... Read more
Green Card (1990)
6.2/10
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth
A beautifully filmed, enjoyable tale of a French artist (Gerard Depardieu) who marries an American (Andie MacDowell) simply to obtain his Green Card w... Read more
Green Ice (1981)
5.6/10
Director: Ernest Day
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif
A skilled team of professionals plot to steal an enormous cache of emeralds, but their daring get-rich-quick scheme lands them in the middle of the co... Read more
Gregory's Girl (1981)
7.1/10
Director: Bill Forsyth
Starring: Gordon John Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Chic Murray
A very funny film from the director of 'Local Hero' and 'Comfort and Joy', centred on the lives of Glasgow teenagers, specifically Gregory and his gir... Read more
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
6.2/10
Director: Biyi Bandele
Starring: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle, John Boyega
In the late 1960s, twin sisters Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) arrive back home in Nigeria, having finished their studies in En... Read more