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"
My Summer of Love (2004)
6.8/10
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine
16-year-old Mona lives in a sleepy Yorkshire mining village where nothing much happens - especially now her wild older brother (Paddy Considine) has b... Read more
My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
6.2/10
Director: Roseanne Liang
Starring: Cheng Pei-Pei, Michelle Ang, Kenneth Tsang, Matt Whelan
Romeo and Juliet story with a Kiwi - Asian twist, based on the real-life cross cultural romance of first-time feature film writer/director Roseanne Li... Read more
Mystic Pizza (1988)
6.2/10
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor
The comedy that takes a bite out of the seaside resort of Mystic, Connecticut, home to three young waitresses who decide their futures look as appetis... Read more
Never Been Kissed (1999)
6/10
Director: Raja Gosnell
Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan
Drew Barrymore plays a twenty-five-year-old journalist who gets her first chance as a reporter by attending a high school undercover and pretending to... Read more
Never Let Me Go (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield
In an alternate reality, three students at a mysterious English boarding school form a special bond. This friendship, however, will be tested as the t... Read more
Never Look Away (2018)
7.7/10
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regim... Read more
New Year's Eve (2011)
5.7/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Halle Berry, Hector Elizondo, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Katherine Heigl, Miche...
Director Garry Marshall's follow-up to "Valentine's Day" focuses on another group of loosely connected folks, this time facing life's problems as the... Read more
Nice Guy Johnny (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Edward Burns
Starring: Edward Burns, Max Baker, Matt Bush
Johnny Rizzo, is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiancée. Enter Uncle Terry, a r... Read more
Night Of The Living Deb (2015)
5.5/10
Director: Kyle Rankin
Starring: Michael Cassidy
After a girls' night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. Pretty boy Ryan only knows... Read more
Nine Months (1995)
5.5/10
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Robin Willia...
Samuel Faulkner's (Hugh Grant) ideal romance with Rebecca (Julianne Moore) is turned upside down when he unexpectedly learns he's going to be a dad. R... Read more