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"
Lucky Them (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Megan Griffiths
Starring: Johnny Depp, Oliver Platt, Thomas Haden Church, Toni Collette, Ahna O'Reilly, Ry...
Ellie Klug is a music critic in her 40s at a dying underground magazine, Stax. Her editor, Giles (Oliver Platt), assigns Ellie to write a piece on Mat... Read more
Lullaby (2010)
7.4/10
Director: Benoit Philippon
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Clemence Poesy, Rupert Friend, Sarah Wayne Callies
Sam is a reclusive and complicated man whose only friend is George, the compassionate and well-intentioned manager of a downtrodden New York City hote... Read more
Lullaby (Blu-ray) (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Benoit Philippon
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Clemence Poesy, Rupert Friend, Sarah Wayne Callies
Sam is a reclusive and complicated man whose only friend is George, the compassionate and well-intentioned manager of a downtrodden New York City hote... Read more
Lust For Gold (1949)
6.8/10
Director: S Sylvan Simon
Starring: Glenn Ford, Ida Lupino, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan, Will Geer, Pa...
Fortune seeker Barry Storm stumbles onto some clues that may lead him to the fabulous Lost Dutchman Mine, but others have tried and been murdered. Read more
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (2000)
3.3/10
Director: Michael Kalesniko
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Lynn Redgrave, Jared Harris, Peter Riegert
This over-looked gem is a smartly written slice-of-life centred on jaded L.A. playwright, Peter (Kenneth Branagh). His wife (Robin Wright Penn) is fu... Read more
Mad Love (1995)
5.3/10
Director: Antonia Bird
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Joan Allen
A teen-lovers-on-the-lam movie with a difference: she's mentally unstable... From the director of 'Priest' and starring Chris O'Donnell and Drew Barry... Read more
Madame Bovary (1949)
7.1/10
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockha...
Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert (James Mason) narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After... Read more
Made in America (1993)
4.9/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Jennifer Tilly
When Whoopi Goldberg's daughter, Zora (Nia Long), discovered that she is the result of artificial insemination, she investigates only to discover that... Read more
Made In Italy (2020)
5.8/10
Starring: Liam Neeson, Lindsay Duncan
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house he inherited from his late wife. Read more
Made of Honour (2008)
Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Polla...
Patrick Dempsey is a womanizer who has everything - a different girl every night and a trusted platonic best friend (Michelle Monaghan). He realizes h... Read more