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"
Jane Eyre (1995)
7.4/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin
Franco Zeffirelli delivers with this adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel. Jane, tortured while at boarding school, finds happiness as a Governess -... Read more
Jane Eyre (2010)
7.4/10
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Starring: Judi Dench, Jamie Bell, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender and Academy Award winner Judi Dench star in acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga's daring new adaptation of Charlotte B... Read more
Jane Eyre (Blu-ray) (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Starring: Judi Dench, Jamie Bell, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender and Academy Award winner Judi Dench star in acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga's daring new adaptation of Charlotte B... Read more
Jason's Lyric (1994)
6.6/10
Director: Doug McHenry
Starring: Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Eddie Griffin, Suzzanne Dougla...
Two brothers, survivors of family tragedy, take different life paths: one falls for a high-spirited waitress and dreams of success, the other follows... Read more
Jerry Maguire (1996)
7.3/10
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Renee Zellweger
This seriocomic look at the high pressure, multi-million dollar business side of pro sports stars, has Tom Cruise as an agent who speaks out against t... Read more
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
5.7/10
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack
Tom Hanks plays Joe, a grim factory worker who learns he is terminally ill after being diagnosed with a 'brain cloud'. When a tycoon learns of his con... Read more
John And Mary (1969)
6.6/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other. Read more
Josee, The Tiger And The Fish (DVD & Blu-ray) (2020)
7.7/10
Tsuneo is a university student and Josee is a young girl who has rarely gone out of the house by herself due to her being unable to walk. The two meet... Read more
Jude (1996)
7/10
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths
Sumptuously filmed version of Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure' details the life of Jude Fawley, a stonemason with doomed intellectual aspirations in... Read more
Juliet, Naked (2018)
6.8/10
Director: Jesse Peretz
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Dodds
Annie (Rose Byrne) is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan (Chris ODowd) an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). Wh... Read more