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"
Paris-Manhattan (2012)
6.1/10
Director: Sophie Lellouche
Starring: Michel Aumont, Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Marine D...
A French romantic comedy which is centered on a woman with an obsessive love of Woody Allen films. Parisian pharmacist Alice (Alice Taglioni) has been... Read more
Passion's Way (1999)
5.9/10
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Sela Ward, Alicia Witt
AKA 'The Reef'. French aristocrat Sela Ward rekindles a romance with charming former suitor Timothy Dalton after the death of her husband. The couple'... Read more
Pavilion of Women (2000)
5.9/10
Director: Yim Ho
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Luo Yan, Shek Sau, John Cho, Yi Ding, Anita Loo
This romantic, historical epic, set in rural Southern China in 1938 is the love story of Madame Wu (Luo Yan), the Chinese wife of an aristocrat, and A... Read more
Perfect (1985)
4.5/10
Director: James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis
Fed up with writing obituaries for a local New Jersey newspaper, the inquisitive and ambitious journalist, Adam Lawrence, finally gets his big break,... Read more
Perfect Sense (2011)
7.1/10
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Eva Green
A scientist and a chef (Eva Green, Ewan McGregor), both unlucky in love, find themselves drawn towards one another--first by circumstance, then by att... Read more
Persuasion (1995)
7.7/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Corin Redgrave
A young woman (Amanda Root) still loves the suitor she foolishly rejected years before (Ciaran Hinds); now she watches in agony as he courts her broth... Read more
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
6.3/10
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson
Tillie Shlai's not looking forward to meeting yet another blind date. This one's name being Pete Seltzer. Pete and Tillie are not a match made in heav... Read more
Phenomenon (1996)
6.4/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Jeffrey DeMunn, Ri...
Winning mixture of drama, romance and fantasy stars John Travolta as an easygoing small-town mechanic who, after a late-night encounter with a mysteri... Read more
Phoenix (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
Phoenix (Blu-ray) (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more