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"
Last Christmas (2019)
6.6/10
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Madison Ingoldsby, Emma Thompson, Henry Golding, Emilia Clarke
Nothing seems to go right for young Kate, a frustrated Londoner who works as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. But things soon take a turn for th... Read more
Laurence Anyways (2012)
7.7/10
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Nathalie Baye, Suzanne Clement
In 1990s Montreal, Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) tells his girlfriend Fred (Suzanne Clement) that he wants to become a woman. In spite of the odds, in spi... Read more
Lawless Heart (2003)
6.8/10
Director: Neil Hunter, Tom Hunsinger
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy, Clementine Celarie
A sharp modern love story that begins with a man's death and its effect on three of his friends. Each of their stories is told to its conclusion befo... Read more
Laws of Attraction (2004)
5.9/10
Director: Peter Howitt
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Michael Sheen, Nora Dunn, Frances...
Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are the best divorce lawyers in New York - neither has ever lost a case. She is ser... Read more
Le Chignon d'Olga (2002)
6.8/10
Director: Jerome Bonnell
Starring: Nathalie Boutefeu
A bereaved young man falls in love with a shop assistant he glimpses in a window and secretly tries to get to know her better. Read more
Le Divorce (2003)
8.6/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Thierry...
Sassy romantic comedy from the Merchant-Ivory team stars Naomi Watts as a pregnant woman down in the dumps in Paris because her cheating French husban... Read more
Le Quai Des Brumes ( Port of Shadows ) (1938)
7.7/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan
Deserter Jean arrives in Le Havre and looks for a shelter before leaving the French territory. Housed in a shed on the docks, he meets the mysterious... Read more
Le Week-End (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, Olivier Audibert, Igor Gotesman, Lindsay Duncan, S...
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. The new film from the director of... Read more
Legends of the Fall (1994)
7.5/10
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Julia Ormond, Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas
Set in Montana in the early 1900s, this sprawling drama stars Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas as three disparate brothers raised by their fath... Read more
Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
7.7/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuele Riva
In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter... Read more