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"
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
6.5/10
Director: Barbra Streisand
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Jeff Bridges, Barbra Streisand, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mim...
Based on a 1958 French film, Director/star Barbra Streisand's warm and revealing romantic comedy follows Bab's frumpy college Professor on an odyssey... Read more
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (2013)
7.3/10
Director: Fredrik Bond
Starring: Melissa Leo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, Evan Rachel Wood, M...
When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie (Shia LaBeouf) immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. A ch... Read more
The New World (2005)
6.7/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Christian Bale, Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ben Mendelsohn, Christopher Pl...
Terrence Malick's epic dramatization of the mythical story of Pocahantas and John Smith (Colin Farrell) is just his fourth feature, coming more than 3... Read more
The Next Best Thing (2000)
4.7/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Rupert Everett, Madonna , Lynn Redgrave
Best friends Abbie and Robert (Madonna and Rupert Everett, respectively) are devoted to one another despite their different Hollywood lifestyles. One... Read more
The Night We Never Met (1993)
6/10
Director: Warren Light
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra
A trio of New Yorkers time-share an apartment with funny, romance-inducing results when one, housewife Annabella Sciorra, falls in love with another (... Read more
The Nostradamus Kid (1993)
5.9/10
Director: Bob Ellis
Starring: Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto, Arthur Dignam, Lucy Bell, Alice Garner
Ken Elkin is a randy young man who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal he wants to accomplish: beddi... Read more
The Notebook (2004)
7.9/10
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Kevin...
A man (James Garner) reads from a faded notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) he regularly visits at her nursing home. Though her memory has faded, she... Read more
The Object of My Affection (1997)
6/10
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, John Pankow, Alan Alda
This unconventional romantic comedy tells of a young woman who invites a gay schoolteacher, who's just been dumped by his boyfriend, to move into her... Read more
The One and Only (2002)
6.3/10
Director: Simon Cellan Jones
Starring: Richard Roxburgh, Justine Waddell, Jonathan Cake, Patsy Kensit, Michael Hodgson
When Stevie (Justine Waddell) meets Neil (Richard Roxburgh) on the day he comes to deliver her brand new kitchen, it's already too late for love at fi... Read more
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
6.7/10
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morr...
Outstanding performances highlight this lavish romantic drama chronicling the rivalry between Boleyn sisters Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Anne (Natal... Read more