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"
Housesitter (1992)
6.1/10
Director: Frank Oz
Starring: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris
A screwball comedy about an architect (Steve Martin) who meets a loopy nonconformist (Goldie Hawn) who moves into 'his' dream home and starts spinning... Read more
How to Deal (2003)
5.7/10
Director: Clare Kilner
Starring: Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Trent Ford, Alexandra Holden, Dylan Baker, Peter Ga...
Mandy Moore is a teenager who has written off love after witnessing the problems people have with relationships around her: Her parents are newly divo... Read more
How to Meet Girls from a Distance (2012)
6.1/10
Director: Dean Hewison
Starring: Aidee Walker, Jonathan Brugh, Richard Falkner, Scarlet Hemingway, Owen Black, Ha...
Toby (Richard Falkner) has always been unlucky with girls. Ever since getting stabbed in the throat after asking a girl out in a café, Toby has resolv... Read more
How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017)
5.7/10
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman
An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb... Read more
Howards End (2017)
7.3/10
Director: Hettie Macdonald
Starring: Tracey Ullman, Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell, Philippa Coulthard
Based on E.M. Forster's classic novel, the miniseries adaptation of "Howards End" is a portrayal of England at the turn of the 20th century told throu... Read more
Hulchul (2004)
6.9/10
Director: Priyadarshan
Starring: Kareena Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Paresh Rawal, Jackie Schroff, Arsha...
Angaarchand (Amrish Puri) and his sons have vowed to avoid women after a long-running feud was triggered between them and the family of Lakshmidevi.... Read more
Hysteria (2011)
6.7/10
Director: Tanya Wexler
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Felicity Jones
Romantic comedy starring Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, based loosely on the life of Joseph Mortimer Granville, the inventor of a novel device for... Read more
Hysteria ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
6.7/10
Director: Tanya Wexler
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Felicity Jones
Romantic comedy starring Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, based loosely on the life of Joseph Mortimer Granville, the inventor of a novel device for... Read more
I Capture the Castle (2002)
7.1/10
Director: Tim Fywell
Starring: Marc Blucas, Rose Byrne, Sinead Cusack, Tara Fitzgerald, Romola Garai, Bill Nigh...
A fun-filled romantic comedy about 17-year-old Cassandra and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle... Read more
I Give It a Year (2013)
5.7/10
Director: Dan Mazer
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Minnie Driver, Rose Byrne, Simon Baker, Anna Faris, Stephen Merch...
A British romantic comedy from the writer of "Borat" and "Bruno", "I Give It a Year" sees a pair of newlyweds begin to suspect that they've made the w... Read more