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"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"

I Used to Go Here (2020)

5.7/10
Starring: Gillian Jacobs, Jemaine Clement, Josh Wiggins, Forrest Goodluck, Kate Micucci

Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate is invited to speak at her alma matter by her former professor. After accepting the inv... Read more

I'm With Lucy (2002)

6/10
Director: Jon Sherman
Starring: Monica Potter, Gael Garcia Bernal, David Boreanaz, John Hannah, Anthony LaPaglia...

Dumped by the man she thought was perfect for her, newly-single Lucy (Monica Potter) continues her search for Mr. Right. Set up on a series of blind d... Read more

I'm Your Man (2021)

7.1/10
Director: Maria Schrader
Starring: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens

In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is... Read more

I.Q. (1995)

6.2/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau

Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins and Walter Matthau are joined in this unlikely romatic comedy in which Albert Einstein plays cupid. Matthau is great as the geni... Read more

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

7.2/10
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, Brian Ty...

In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonz... Read more

If Only (1998)

7.2/10
Director: Maria Ripoll
Starring: Lena Headey, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Cruz

AKA 'Twice Upon a Yesterday'. Unfaithful, out-of-work actor Victor (Douglas Hanshall) is desperate to win back the affections of his ex-girlfriend whe... Read more

Impromptu (1991)

7/10
Director: James Lapine
Starring: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin

A spirited 'they do make them as well as they used to' comedy/drama about the 19th century romance between George Sand (Judy Davis) and Frederic Chopi... Read more

In a Relationship (2018)

5.4/10
Director: Sam Boyd
Starring: Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Dree Hemingway, Patrick Gibson

During a summer in Los Angeles, long-term couple Owen and Hallie may be breaking up. And just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and... Read more

In My Country (2004)

6.1/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane, Sam Ngakane

In newly post-apartheid South Africa the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up, bringing perpetrators and victims of racial violence together... Read more

In The Eye Of The Hurricane (Blu-ray) (1971)

6.2/10
Director: José María Forqué
Starring: Jean Sorel, Rosanna Yanni

Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having... Read more