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"
Roman Holiday (1953)
8.1/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Audrey Hepburn
A delightful comedy about a newspaperman in Rome (Gregory Peck) who meets and falls for a lonely princess (Audrey Hepburn) travelling incognito. Featu... Read more
Romantics Anonymous (2010)
6.9/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Ameris
Starring: Benoit Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carre
Love and chocolate are the predominant themes of this charming French romantic comedy in which Benoit Poelvoorde plays the owner of a small chocolate... Read more
Romeo and Juliet (2013)
7.7/10
Director: Carlo Carlei
Starring: Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Laura Morante...
Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each another. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful even... Read more
Roseland (1977)
6/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Walken, Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Lilia Skala
The film's namesake, a famed New York City ballroom, serves as the setting for a dramatic trio of stories from the Merchant/Ivory team: a lonely widow... Read more
Roselyne and the Lions (1989)
6.1/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Starring: Isabelle Pasco, Gerard Sandoz, Phillippe Clevenot
From the director of 'Diva' and 'Betty Blue' comes yet another stylish work. A teenager leaves school and takes a job at a zoo, where he meets a young... Read more
Roxanne (1987)
6.6/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Michael J Pollard, Fred Ward, Shelle...
Steve Martin successfully updates the story of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' as he plays a soulful small-town fire chief with a big heart and an even larger no... Read more
Ruby Sparks (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Elliott Gould, Steve Coogan, Paul Dano, Chris...
Suffering from writer's block ever since his success as a teenage author, Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) believes he's on the verge of a breakthrough... Read more
Ruby Sparks (Blu-ray) (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Elliott Gould, Steve Coogan, Paul Dano, Chris...
Suffering from writer's block ever since his success as a teenage author, Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) believes he's on the verge of a breakthrough... Read more
Rumour Has It... (2005)
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Mena Suvari, Ri...
Sarah (Jennifer Aniston) is the black sheep in the family, confused about her stalling journalistic career and her impending marriage to boyfriend Mar... Read more
Runaway Bride (1999)
5.5/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere ("Pretty Woman") reteam in this romantic comedy about a reporter investigating a small-town woman notorious for leaving... Read more