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"
In Your Hands (2018)
6.3/10
Director: Ludovic Bernard
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Karidja Toure, Andre Marcon
A troubled young man gets the chance to show his talents by attending the National Conservatory of Music, but he soon feels out of place in this upper... Read more
Indecent Proposal (1993)
5.8/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Demi Moore, Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson
Demi Moore is the wife on loan for the night to wealthy Robert Redford for the payment of one million dollars. A well-acted soap opera. With Woody Har... Read more
Indiscretion Of An American Wife (1953)
6.3/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi
A married American woman (Jennifer Jones) is torn between leaving her Italian lover (Montgomery Clift) and returning back home. He endeavours to persu... Read more
inside daisy clover (1965)
6.2/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall
Daisy Clover is a 15 year old Tomboy who dreams of being a Hollywood star. After auditioning for producer Raymond Swan of Swan studios she becomes the... Read more
Interlude in Prague (2017)
6.1/10
Director: John Stephenson
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, James Purefoy, Samantha Barks, Aneurin Barnard, Aneurin Barnar...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unconventional presence in Prague begins a series of dramatic and tragic events that become a tangled, violent web. Overwhel... Read more
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
6.3/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric The Entertainer, Edw...
Joel and Ethan Coen take on the classic battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy. George Clooney is Miles Massey, a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawy... Read more
Ira & Abbby (2006)
Director: Robert Cary
Starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Chris Messina
A hastily married couple quickly devolve into a life of affairs, meddling parents, and therapy. Read more
Island In The Sun (1957)
6.2/10
Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Harry Belafonte, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins
Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule, it focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with p... Read more
Ismael's Ghosts (Les Fantômes d'Ismaël) (2017)
5.6/10
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hippolyte Girardot, Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Lou...
Twenty-one years ago, she ran away -- and 21 years later, Carlotta is back from the void. But Ismael has been busy rebuilding a life for himself with... Read more
It Boy ( 20 ans d'écart ) (2013)
6.4/10
Director: David Moreau
Starring: Charles Berling, Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Gilles Cohen
A.k.a. "20 ans d'écart". "It Boy" takes a hilarious look at sex, ambition and age differences in the glamorous world of Parisian publishing. Beautiful... Read more