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 Worst Person In The World (2021)
7.9/10
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career p... Read more
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
7.4/10
Director: John Duigan
Starring: Noah Taylor, Ben Mendelsohn
In rural 1960s Australia, a boy watches helplessly as his best friend falls in love with a small-time criminal, setting off a violent chain of events. Read more
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Bill Kerr, Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Michael Murphy, Sigourney Weaver
Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver begin an impassioned love affair intensified by the uncertainties of life in Indonesia on the eve of revolution. Linda... Read more
Then She Found Me (2007)
6/10
Director: Helen Hunt
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Colin Firth, Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Ben Shenkman
Helen Hunt directed, co-wrote and stars in this engaging seriocomedy about a middle-aged schoolteacher whose life is thrown into turmoil when her husb... Read more
There's Something About Mary (1998)
7.1/10
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Chris Elliott, Lee Evans, Matt Dillon
Still suffering from a high school crush on Mary (Cameron Diaz), the nerdy, angst-driven Ted (Ben Stiller) tracks her down thirteen years later with t... Read more
There's Something About Mary ( Blu-ray ) (1998)
7.1/10
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Chris Elliott, Lee Evans, Matt Dillon
Still suffering from a high school crush on Mary (Cameron Diaz), the nerdy, angst-driven Ted (Ben Stiller) tracks her down thirteen years later with t... Read more
Third Person (2013)
6.4/10
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Adrien Brody, Kim Basinger, Liam Neeson, Maria Bello, James Franco, Mila Kunis,...
Third Person involves three sets of couples. In New York, Julia (Mila Kunis) is fighting for her rights as a parent after being accused of trying to... Read more
This Means War (2012)
6.3/10
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy
C.I.A. operatives wage an epic battle on each other when they discover they are dating the same woman. Read more
This Year's Love (1999)
6.3/10
Director: David Kane
Starring: Kathy Burke, Jennifer Ehle, Ian Hart, Douglas Henshall, Catherine McCormack, Dou...
'This Year's Love' is a bittersweet romantic comedy about love, sex and heartbreak. It follows six twenty-somethings looking for romance and that spec... Read more
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
6.3/10
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan
In this charming comedy, three women make wishes for romance at Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain, spurring several amorous adventures. Won Oscars for... Read more