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"
Kiki, Love to Love (2016)
6.5/10
Director: Paco Leon
Starring: Natalia de Molina, Alex Garcia, Jacobo Sanchez
Five stories of sex and love unfold during a strange, hot summer in Madrid. Read more
Killers (2010)
5.4/10
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck, Ashton Kutcher, Catherine O'Hara
Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars an... Read more
La Ardilla Roja ( aka The Red Squirrel ) (1993)
Director: Julio Medem
Starring: Emma Suarez, Maria Barranco, Nancho Novo, Karra Elejalde, Carmelo Gomez
An anti-macho parable and passionate love story about a woman who loses her memory in a motorcycle accident. Suicidal Jota saw the whole thing and put... Read more
La Chimera (2023)
7.3/10
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher
Tuscany, early 1980s. Arthur has just been released from a short stint in prison. During his earlier studies in the region, he fell in love with Benia... Read more
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) (Blu-ray) (1969)
7/10
Director: Jacques Deray
Starring: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the... Read more
Labor Day (2013)
6.9/10
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Tobey Maguire, Gattlin Griffith
"Labor Day" centers on 13-year-old Henry Wheeler (Gattlin Griffith), who struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele... Read more
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
7/10
Director: Charles Dance
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Bruhl, Miriam Margolyes, Natascha McElhone, Dav...
Judi Dench and Maggie Smith are elderly spinsters living on the Cornwall coast in 1936 when they find a handsome young Polish man washed up injured on... Read more
Laggies (2014)
6.4/10
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Keira Knightley, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Kaitlyn Dever, Jeff Garlin, E...
Aka "Say When". Overeducated and underemployed, 28-year-old Megan (Keira Knightley) is in the throes of a quarter-life crisis. Squarely into adulthood... Read more
Larry Crowne (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Tom Hanks
Starring: Julia Roberts, Pam Grier, Tom Hanks, Cedric The Entertainer, Taraji P Henson, Br...
Academy Award winner Tom Hanks directed, co-wrote (with Nia Vardalos), and stars in this romantic and optimistic comedy about how it's never too late... Read more
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
7.3/10
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson
A delightful, sweet-natured, Capra-esque story about the affection painfully shy Lars (Ryan Gosling) bestows on his new girlfriend. This still comes... Read more