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"
Hitch (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta, Michael Rapaport, Adam Arki...
Meet Hitch (Will Smith), New York City's greatest matchmaker. Love is his job and he'll get you the girl of your dreams in just three easy dates, guar... Read more
Holiday (1938)
7.8/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Based on Philip Barry's Broadway play, 'Holiday' is stylishly directed by Oscar-winner George Cukor. This classic film stars Katharine Hepburn and Car... Read more
Home Fries (1998)
5/10
Director: Dean Parisot
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson, Shelley Duvall
Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson star in this strange romantic comedy that veers from charming, screwball hi-jinks to much darker shades of humor. Barry... Read more
Honeymoon In Vegas (1992)
5.8/10
Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, Seymour Cassel
The tale of a New York private dick (Nicolas Cage) who decides to finally take the plunge and marry his longstanding fiance (Jessica Parker), but she... Read more
Hope Floats (1998)
5.9/10
Director: Forest Whitaker
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr, Gena Rowlands
A romantic weeper about a young woman (Sandra Bullock) who, humiliated and heartbroken after finding out her best friend was having an affair with her... Read more
Hope Springs (2012)
6.3/10
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell
Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect w... Read more
Hope Springs (2003)
5.4/10
Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Heather Graham, Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Oliver Platt, Mary Steenburgen
Colin's a sad-eyed British artist holed up in a rundown hotel in small-town Vermont after being dumped by his fiancee. The hotel owner plays matchmake... Read more
Hotel de Love (1996)
6.4/10
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Starring: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Ray Barrett, Pippa Grandison, Peter...
Saffron Burrows is the object of everyone's affection in this Australian rom-com. Stephen (Simon Bossell) and Rick (Aden Young) are fraternal twins w... Read more
House Calls (1978)
6.8/10
Director: Howard Zieff
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Richard Benjamin, Walter Matthau, Art Carney
Recently widowed surgeon Charley Nichols (Walter Matthau) is on a quest to experience life with as many women as possible after 31 years of fidelity.... Read more
Houseboat (1958)
6.7/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Widower Cary Grant signs aboard Sophia Loren to care for his two children, but the two find themselves in a shipboard romance in this bouncy, romantic... Read more