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"
Rebecca (1940)
8.1/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Hitchcock's first American film, based on a Du Maurier gothic romance. With Laurence Olivier and a fine performance by Joan Fontaine as a shy young wo... Read more
Remember Me (2010)
7.1/10
Director: Allen Coulter
Starring: Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin, Robert Pattinson
Set in early 2001, this moving and romantic drama stars "Twilight" heartthrob Robert Pattinson as a sullen NYU student who, on a dare, asks out classm... Read more
Remembrance (2011)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Justice
Starring: David Rasche, Dagmar Manzel, Shantel VanSanten, Alice Dwyer, Mateusz Damiecki
"Remembrance" depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed against the unlikely background of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impos... Read more
Reminiscence (2021)
5.9/10
Director: Lisa Joy
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis, Daniel Wu, Natalie Martinez
Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case... Read more
Reminiscence (Blu-ray) (2021)
5.9/10
Director: Lisa Joy
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis, Daniel Wu, Natalie Martinez
Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case... Read more
Results (2015)
5.4/10
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Michael Hal...
Writer/director Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess, 2013) returns with a fun, intimate fable that's utterly grounded in real life. Recently divorced, new... Read more
Return To Me (2000)
6.9/10
Director: Bonnie Hunt
Starring: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Loggia, James Belushi, B...
It's love at first sight when Chicago architect David Duchovny, whose wife died in an auto accident, meets waitress Minnie Driver in her family's Iris... Read more
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Dearbhla Walsh
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench, James Corden
An utterly, completely, inescapably beguiling adaptation of Roald Dahl's book by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer. A slow, wrinkly Mr Hoppy (Dus... Read more
Rock of Ages (2012)
5.9/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Malin Akerman, Ru...
From choreographer-turned-director Adam Shankman (A Walk to Remember, Hairspray) comes the story of small town girl Sherrie and city boy Drew, who mee... Read more
Rodin (2017)
4.7/10
Director: Jacques Doillon
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Izia Higelin, Severine Caneele
In 1880 Paris, 40 year-old sculptor Auguste Rodin finally receives his first state commission, "The Gates of Hell," which includes "The Kiss" and "The... Read more