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"
Populaire (2012)
6.9/10
Director: Regis Roinsard
Starring: Eddy Mitchell, Miou-Miou, Romain Duris, Frederic Pierrot, Deborah Francois, Ber...
Set in 1950s France, Rose (Deborah Francois), a village shopkeeper's daughter, travels to Normandy to try out for a job as a secretary for local lawye... Read more
Possession (2002)
6.4/10
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle
American literary scholar Aaron Eckhart and British professor Gwyneth Paltrow have forsaken personal lives to pursue their respective research into th... Read more
Posthumous (2014)
5.7/10
Director: Lulu Wang
Starring: Jack Huston, Brit Marling, Lambert Wilson, Tom Schilling, Alexander Fehling
Posthumous is a modern day fairy tale that centres on a struggling artist whose artwork skyrockets in value when he is mistakenly thought to have kill... Read more
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
5.6/10
Director: Norman Rene
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty
A charming, captivating romantic comedy adapted from the Broadway play, dealing with body exchange, retaining the then unknown Alec Baldwin as the mal... Read more
Pretty in Pink (1986)
6.8/10
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy
Molly Ringwald is the school girl from the wrong side of town, Andrew McCarthy the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. A bittersweet, critic... Read more
Pretty Woman (1990)
7/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander
The modern-day "Pygmalion" comedy that became a smash hit stars Julia Roberts as a hooker hired by corporate raider Richard Gere to pose as his girlfr... Read more
Pretty Woman ( Blu-ray ) (1990)
7/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Julia Roberts, Laura San Giacomo, Ralph Bellam...
The modern-day "Pygmalion" comedy that became a smash hit stars Julia Roberts as a hooker hired by corporate raider Richard Gere to pose as his girlfr... Read more
Priceless (2006)
7/10
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh
Irene (Audrey Tautou) is an old-fashioned gold-digger, seducing rich older men in return for dresses, trinkets and baubles. When she mistakes shy barm... Read more
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
7.9/10
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone, Judi Dench, Tom Hollander, Keira...
A polished and well-acted version of Jane Austen's perennially popular tale of love in the upper classes. Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland are th... Read more
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
7.4/10
Director: Robert Z Leonard
Starring: Greer Garson, Edna May Oliver, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland...
An outstanding adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about five husband-hunting sisters in 19th Century England. Laurence Olivier stars as Mr Darcy (afte... Read more