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".
Raincoat (2004)
7.6/10
Director: Rituparno Ghosh
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Ajay Devgan
On a rainy afternoon, two estranged lovers meet after six years. Neither wants to tell the truth about their empty lives, so both make up elaborate s... Read more
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
7.1/10
Director: Peter Sollett
Starring: Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz, Altagracia Guzman
Victor doesn't have much, but that's not stopping him from trying to go out with Judy, the prettiest girl on the block. All he's got is hope and a one... Read more
Rambling Rose (1991)
6.7/10
Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: Diane Ladd, Laura Dern, Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall
A charmingly humanistic tale set in 1930s Georgia with Laura Dern as an oversexed, lost-soul of a girl who comes to work for a genteel family headed b... Read more
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
7/10
Director: Bruno Barreto
Starring: Miranda Otto, Treat Williams, Tracy Middendorf, Gloria Pires, Marcello Airoldi,...
Luxuriating in its 50s Rio setting, Bruno Barreto's film tells the turbulent true story of American poet Elizabeth Bishop and her love affair with the... Read more
Regular Lovers (2005)
7.1/10
Director: Philippe Garrel
Starring: Eric Rulliat, Clotilde Hesme, Nicolas Bridet, Louis Garrel, Julien Lucas
In the aftermath of the era-defining Paris student riots of May 1968, a group of youngsters involved in the revolt abandon themselves to a bohemian ex... Read more
Remember Me (2010)
7.1/10
Director: Allen Coulter
Starring: Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin, Robert Pattinson
Set in early 2001, this moving and romantic drama stars "Twilight" heartthrob Robert Pattinson as a sullen NYU student who, on a dare, asks out classm... Read more
Remembrance (2011)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Justice
Starring: David Rasche, Dagmar Manzel, Shantel VanSanten, Alice Dwyer, Mateusz Damiecki
"Remembrance" depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed against the unlikely background of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impos... Read more
Restless (2011)
6.8/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska
Meet Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper), a death-fixated lad whose one (imaginary) friend is the ghost of a Kamikaze pilot and whose sole entertainment is atte... Read more
Return to Montauk (2017)
5.8/10
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Starring: Niels Arestrup, Stellan Skarsgard, Nina Hoss
It is winter in Montauk, at the far end of Long Island. There are two deck chairs on the windswept beach. The chairs are waiting for two people who ha... Read more
Revanche (2008)
7.6/10
Director: Gotz Spielmann
Starring: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss
At once a gripping thriller and a tragic drama, this stunning, Oscar-nominated, break-out hit from Austrian filmmaker Gotz Spielmann is set in a ragge... Read more