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"
Prime (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Ben Younger
Starring: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Zak Orth
After a messy divorce Rafi (Uma Thurman) is seeing a therpaist (Meryl Streep) when she meets and falls for a much younger man, David Bloomberg. Stree... Read more
Private School (1983)
5.3/10
Director: Noel Black
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine
Chris from a girls' boarding school loves Jim from a nearby boys' boarding school. Jordan also wants Jim and plays dirty. Jim and 2 friends visit the... Read more
Pumpkin (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Starring: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan,...
Silly, sweet, farcical and subversive, "Pumpkin" pushes the boundaries of teen melodrama to an absurd pitch, resulting in a film that is bracing, hila... Read more
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
7.3/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Luis Guzman
This change of pace for Adam Sandler stars the comic actor as a bathroom supplies salesman who has a problem with his anger and is obsessed with winni... Read more
Quartet (1981)
6.4/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Anthony Higgins, Alan Bates, Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith
Marya Zelli finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H... Read more
Radioactive (2019)
6.2/10
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world. Read more
Raincoat (2004)
7.6/10
Director: Rituparno Ghosh
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Ajay Devgan
On a rainy afternoon, two estranged lovers meet after six years. Neither wants to tell the truth about their empty lives, so both make up elaborate s... Read more
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Sollett
Starring: Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz, Altagracia Guzman
Victor doesn't have much, but that's not stopping him from trying to go out with Judy, the prettiest girl on the block. All he's got is hope and a one... Read more
Rambling Rose (1991)
6.7/10
Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: Diane Ladd, Laura Dern, Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall
A charmingly humanistic tale set in 1930s Georgia with Laura Dern as an oversexed, lost-soul of a girl who comes to work for a genteel family headed b... Read more
Reality Bites (1994)
6.6/10
Director: Ben Stiller
Starring: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller
One for the Generation X'ers who now have their own cinematic statement ala 'Easy Rider' and 'The Big Chill'. This love triangle has Winona Ryder tryi... Read more