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"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"

Morocco (1930)

7.3/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich

As jaded cabaret Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, Marlene Dietrich falls for Tom Brown (Gary Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. In... Read more

Mothering Sunday (2021)

6/10
Director: Eva Husson
Starring: Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Olivia Colman, Glenda Jackson, Simon S...

A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman. Read more

Moulin Rouge (1952)

7.2/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon

A rich, colourful film based on the life of Toulouse Lautrec, the 19th century Parisian artist whose growth was stunted by a childhood accident. An ex... Read more

Mozart and the Whale (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Petter Naess
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley, Erica Leerhsen

Donald (Josh Hartnett) is a taxi driver who also happens to suffer from Asperger's Syndrome, a type of autism. He likes routine, birds and has a supe... Read more

Mr Imperium (1951)

5/10
Director: Don Hartman
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main

Lush romantic tale starring Ezio Pinza as a charismatic prince who falls for aspiring nightclub singer Lana Turner. When Pinza becomes king of his cou... Read more

Mr Jones (1993)

5.8/10
Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin

Lena Olin plays a successful psychiatrist who gives in to an unprofessional impulse and starts an affair with the charismatic Mr Jones, played by Rich... Read more

Mr. Right (2015)

6.4/10
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Tim Roth

After going through a painful break-up, a woman meets a man who appears to be perfect for her. However, as their relationship develops, she learns tha... Read more

Mrs Winterbourne (1996)

6.2/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser

Rescued from a train crash, pregnant and destitute Ricki Lake is mistaken for the wealthy Winterbourne clan's new bride and soon assimilates herself i... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Clark Gregg, Nathan Fillion, Sean Maher, Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz,...

Fans of Whedon and Shakespeare will rejoice... Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about sparring lovers Beatrice... Read more

Muriel's Wedding (1994)

7.2/10
Director: P J Hogan
Starring: Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths

An ugly duckling from a dysfunctional family yearns for a happier life, and starts on that road by leaving her home town of Porpoise Spit for Sydney,... Read more