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 Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996)
Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin
A quick-witted romantic comedy about a young man (Ben Chaplin), who falls in love with a radio talk-show host (Janeane Garofalo) before he even meets... Read more
The Truth About Love (2004)
5.4/10
Director: John Hay
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dougray Scott, Jimi Mistry
While her husband's best friend Archie secretly pines for her, Alice decides to test her spouse's loyalty by sending him an anonymous Valentine's Day... Read more
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
5.5/10
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Peter Facinelli, Dakota Fanning, Billy Burke, Michael Sheen, Kristen Stewart, Ni...
The final chapter of author Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" saga phenomenon concludes in epic fashion as the now-vampiric Bella (Kristen Stewart) is trai... Read more
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (Blu-ray) (1979)
6.9/10
Starring: Lindsay Wagner, Marc Singer, Linda Gray, Henry Wilcoxon
Jennie Logan discovers an antique dress in her attic that allows her to travel back in time. Soon she's torn between life with her philandering husban... Read more
The Upside of Anger (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Mike Binder
Starring: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell, Al...
Joan Allen is a tour de force as a bitter boozehound whose cheating husband has deserted, leaving her with four daughters. Kevin Costner matches her... Read more
The Very Thought of You (1997)
6.4/10
Director: Nick Hamm
Starring: Monica Potter, Joseph Fiennes, Rufus Sewell, Tom Hollander, Ray Winstone
A lively, original comedy about an American girl (Monica Potter) who moves to London and meets three young Englishmen who are instantly smitten. Who (... Read more
The Vow (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Jessica Lange, Sam Neill, Scott Speedman, Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams are the perfect Chicago couple - until a terrible car accident robs her of her memory and she awakens from a coma be... Read more
The Way We Were (1973)
7.1/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman
One of the finest screen romances ever teams Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand as two philosophically different types whose love affair stretches f... Read more
The Way We Were (Blu-Ray) (1973)
7.1/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Allyn McLerie, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Murray Hamilton,...
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand), a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford)... Read more
The Wedding Date (2004)
6.1/10
Director: Clare Kilner
Starring: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jeremy Sheffield
Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a thirty-something New Yorker with her fair share of romantic problems. When she hears her younger sister is getting mar... Read more