Drama Romance
The Romantic Drama generally has as its central plot the beginning, obstruction and eventual, though often tragic, fruition of a romance. A common derogatory term for such films is "weepy" since they can reduce the audience to (willing) tears by playing on themes of noble self-sacrifice or cruel fate.
The motherlode of Alice's Romantic Dramas can be scrolled below, however the "Romance" feature along with "Comedy Romance" and "Classic Romance" may prove helpful.
Right; Alan Rickman, Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves star in Stephen Poliakoff's powerful "Close My Eyes".
Perfect Sense (2011)
7.1/10
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Eva Green
A scientist and a chef (Eva Green, Ewan McGregor), both unlucky in love, find themselves drawn towards one another--first by circumstance, then by att... Read more
Personal Effects (2008)
6.3/10
Director: David Hollander
Starring: Kathy Bates, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher
Walter (Ashton Kutcher), a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world, returns home to to console his mother (Kathy Bates) after the brutal murder of his... Read more
Persuasion (1995)
7.7/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Corin Redgrave
A young woman (Amanda Root) still loves the suitor she foolishly rejected years before (Ciaran Hinds); now she watches in agony as he courts her broth... Read more
Phenomenon (1996)
6.4/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Jeffrey DeMunn, Ri...
Winning mixture of drama, romance and fantasy stars John Travolta as an easygoing small-town mechanic who, after a late-night encounter with a mysteri... Read more
Phoenix (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
Phoenix (Blu-ray) (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)
6.2/10
Starring: Natalie Dormer, Harrison Gilbertson, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis, Samara Weaving
When three schoolgirls and a teacher from Appleyard College disappear on Valentine's Day in 1900, the event has a far-reaching impact on the rest of t... Read more
Playing By Heart (1998)
7.1/10
Director: Willard Carroll
Starring: Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Dennis Quaid
Over the next 8 days and nights seemingly unconnected people all in search of love, will find their lives twist, turn and intertwine in a most unexpec... Read more
Pompeii (2014)
5.5/10
Director: Paul W S Anderson
Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinn...
Set in 79 A.D., "Pompeii" tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time t... Read more
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
7.7/10
Director: Stephen Whittaker
Starring: Janet McTeer, David Haig, Cathryn Harrison, Diana Fairfax, Peter Birch
British aristocrat and writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson married in 1913, and their love endured and deepened over the course of... Read more