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"
Non Fiction (2018)
6.5/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne
Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing... Read more
Normal People (2020)
8.4/10
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sarah Greene
In a school in a small-town west of Ireland, Connell (Paul Mescal) is a well-liked, good looking and athletic football player. Marianne (Daisy Edgar-J... Read more
Not Here to Be Loved (Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé) (2005)
7.1/10
Director: Stephane Brize
Starring: Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, Georges Wilson, Lionel Abelanski, Genevieve Mni...
The (love) life of a man fed up with his work and life routine changes when he enlists into a tango dancing course. Read more
Notting Hill (1999)
7.1/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, James Dre...
Hugh Grant is the divorced owner of a travel bookstore who lives in London's Notting Hill suburb who chances to meet a world-famous movie star (Julia... Read more
Now, Voyager (1942)
8/10
Director: Irving Rapper
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid
A classic romance about tragic love. Bette Davis plays a woman so dominated by her mother that she is afraid to love until her psychiatrist sets her o... Read more
Now, Voyager (Blu-ray) (1942)
7.9/10
Director: Irving Rapper
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid
A classic romance about tragic love. Bette Davis plays a woman so dominated by her mother that she is afraid to love until her psychiatrist sets her o... Read more
Obvious Child (2014)
6.8/10
Director: Gillian Robespierre
Starring: Gaby Hoffmann, Polly Draper, Richard Kind, David Cross, Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy,...
Jenny Slate and Jake Lacy star in this romantic comedy from writer and director Gillian Robespierre. When stand-up comedienne Donna (Slate) gets dumpe... Read more
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
6.5/10
Director: Max Baer
Starring: Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Robbie Benson
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, h... Read more
Off Beat (1986)
5/10
Director: Michael Dinner
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Harvey Keitel
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer and friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance per... Read more
Off Beat ( aka Kammerflimmern ) (2004)
7.2/10
Director: Hendrik Holzemann
Starring: Matthias Schweighofer, Jessica Schwarz, Florian Lukas, Jan Gregor Kremp, Bibiana...
Crash is a paramedic orphaned at the age of seven after his parents were killed in a car accident; he's a loner with a fear of close relationships bu... Read more