"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"
7.3/10
Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive" tells the tale of two fragile and sensitive vampires, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), who have... Read more
6.3/10
This touching sentimental update of 'Marty' shines. A lonely 38 year old cop (John Candy) falls in love with a funeral cosmetician (Ally Sheedy) much... Read more
6.5/10
A wonderful romantic comedy about a young woman who spends her whole life searching for a perfect mate - whose name was conjured up in childhood on a... Read more
6.7/10
As a rebellious and motherless child, Ophelia is taken into Elsinore Castle by Queen Gertrude as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting. Soon enoug... Read more
7.1/10
Hilary Swank stars in this charming and poignant seriocomedy as a young woman who finds her life has stalled in the wake of her husband's (Gerard Butl... Read more
6.4/10
General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) rescues a beautiful young woman, Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun), from the scene of a battle and takes her into his household, littl... Read more
6.7/10
Top high-school student seeks some purpose in life. A group of fashion design students ask her to be the front model for their clothing label "Paradis... Read more
7.3/10
Set in the Calcutta of 1962 then known as 'the Paris of the East', this timeless love story is based on Saratchandra Chatterjee's 1924 novel. Little... Read more
6.4/10
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden sizzle, too, in this breezy romantic bon bon, as a screenwriter and his secretary act out film situations in an atte... Read more
7/10
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - they're friends, sometimes lovers and often both. Read more