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"
Serenades (2001)
6.6/10
Director: Mojgan Khadem
Starring: Alice Haines, Aden Young, Bille Brown, Sinisa Copic
Set in 19th-century Australia, a girl is born of an Aboriginal mother and an Afghan father - a dark skinned, green eyed, forbidden beauty. Raised by h... Read more
Serendipity (2001)
6.9/10
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, John Corbett, Molly Shannon
After a chance meeting and a spontaneous date, Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) exchange phone numbers, sort of. He scrawls on a five... Read more
Seven Sinners (1940)
6.9/10
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford, Anna Lee, Misch...
This classic romantic comedy stars Marlene Dietrich as a sexy cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten her kicked out of one port... Read more
Sex and the City (2008)
5.6/10
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Hudso...
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. In this much-anti... Read more
Sex and the City ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
5.6/10
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Hudso...
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. In this much-anti... Read more
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
4.4/10
Director: Michael Patrick King
Starring: John Corbett, Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Noth, Kristin Davis, Cyn...
The fun, the fashion, the friendship: this bombastic film brings it all back as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kri... Read more
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
7.2/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Andie MacDowell, James Spader, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Gallagher
An original, quirky film that won newcomer Steven Soderbergh the top prize at Cannes and captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide. Graham Dalt... Read more
Shadowlands (1993)
7.4/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Joseph Mazzello
An intelligent, observant, handsome adaptation of William Nicholson's award-winning play, inspired by the late-blooming romance between the fifty some... Read more
Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Director: Sergei Paradjanov
Starring: Ivan Nikolaichuk, Larissa Kadochnikova
The Ukrainian film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors won almost every, award in sight on the 1964 film festival circuit. But its become even more impo... Read more
Shadows of Time (2004)
7.7/10
Director: Florian Gallenberger
Starring: Prashant Narayanan, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Irfan Khan, Tilotama Shome
German filmmaker Florian Gallenberger makes her feature debut with this epic Indian love story spanning 60 years. In the early 1940s Riva and Masha a... Read more