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"
Swept From The Sea (1997)
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen
Based on Joseph Conrad's timeless story about a woman in a small coastal town's experience with the sole survivor of a shipwreck. This intoxicating mi... Read more
Szindbad (1971)
Director: Zoltan Huszarik
An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town... Read more
Tabu (2012)
7.3/10
Director: Miguel Gomes
Starring: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta, Isabel Cardoso, Henri...
Acclaimed director Miguel Gomes delivers a sumptuous, eccentric two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly wo... Read more
Take This Waltz (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen
Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogan), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Danie... Read more
Take This Waltz (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.5/10
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen
Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogan), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Danie... Read more
Tangiwai (2011)
7.1/10
Director: Charlie Haskell
Starring: Rose McIver, Ryan O'Kane, Miranda Harcourt, Mick Rose, Taungaroa Emile, Dean O'G...
A dramatic story about a cricketer and his fiancée. Read more
Tasting Menu (2013)
5.7/10
Director: Roger Gual
Starring: Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea, Togo Igawa, Jan Cornet, Vicenta Noongo, Andrew T...
Set in the idyllic cove of Costa Brava in the Mediterranean, this Spanish culinary romantic comedy tells the story of a broken-up couple who decide to... Read more
Tattoo, A Love Story (2002)
6.8/10
Director: Richard W Bean
Starring: Megan Edwards, Virgil Mignanelli
First-time filmmaker Richard W. Bean directed and produced this independent romantic comedy that he also co-wrote with Gregg Saccon. Megan Edwards sta... Read more
Tell It To The Bees (2018)
5.9/10
Director: Annabel Jankel
Starring: Anna Paquin, Billy Boyd
A single mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger) who is abandoned by her husband, meets the small village's Doctor Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) who has recentl... Read more
Testament of Youth (2015)
7.3/10
Director: James Kent
Starring: Kit Harington, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Joanna Scanlan, Mira...
Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain. Vera - irrepressible, intel... Read more