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Romantic Fantasy

A film based on the notion of a romance either constructed or reconstructed under impossible circumstances, often with a fantastic and/or supernatural edge to it. Lovers will travel across time or from the netherworld to be reunited and fulfill their passion, often leaving the audience in tears before reassuring them that love conquers all boundaries. In films like A Guy Named Joe, Truly, Madly, Deeply, A Matter Of Life And Death, and Ghost, not even death can keep the star-crossed lovers apart; while in Somewhere In Time the lovers defy the fabric of temporality itself. In other films such as Two Of A Kind and A Life Less Ordinary, emissaries from heaven come down to help unsuspecting couples fall in love. The romantic fantasy plays on the idea that there is a perfect match for everyone out there and on the hope that a love can last forever. It has always been a popular genre for the romantic-minded who know that despite enormous odds, love is all one needs to win before the credits begin to roll.

Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1946 A Matter of Life and Death   Michael Powell
  9 Stars 1987 Wings of Desire   Wim Wenders
  9 Stars 1953 Ugetsu Monogatari   Kenji Mizoguchi
  9 Stars 1950 Orphée   Jean Cocteau
  9 Stars 1946 Beauty and the Beast   Jean Cocteau
  8 Stars 1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo   Woody Allen
  8 Stars 1937 Lost Horizon   Frank Capra
  8 Stars 1993 Groundhog Day   Harold Ramis
  7 Stars 1993 The Bride with White Hair   Philip Kwok
  7 Stars 1986 Dream Lovers   Tony Au
  7 Stars 1921 Der Müde Tod   Fritz Lang
  7 Stars 1991 Truly, Madly, Deeply   Anthony Minghella
  7 Stars 1984 Starman   John Carpenter
  7 Stars 1984 Splash   Ron Howard
  7 Stars 1988 Rouge   Stanley Kwan
  7 Stars 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married   Francis Ford Coppola
    7 Stars 1942 Les Visiteurs Du Soir   Marcel Carné
  7 Stars 1978 Heaven Can Wait   Warren Beatty
    7 Stars 1944 A Guy Named Joe   Victor Fleming
  7 Stars 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir   Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  7 Stars 1990 Ghost   Jerry Zucker
    7 Stars 1945 The Enchanted Cottage   John Cromwell
  7 Stars 1990 Edward Scissorhands   Tim Burton
  7 Stars 1937 The Dybbuk   Michael Waszynski
  7 Stars 1987 A Chinese Ghost Story   Ching Siu Tung
  7 Stars 1956 Carousel   Henry King
  7 Stars 1954 Brigadoon   Vincente Minnelli
  7 Stars 1959 Black Orpheus   Marcel Camus
  6 Stars 1999 Me Myself I   Pip Karmel
  6 Stars 1998 Sliding Doors   Peter Howitt
  6 Stars 1980 Somewhere in Time   Jeannot Szwarc
  6 Stars 1992 A Prelude to a Kiss   Norman Rene
  6 Stars 1985 Ladyhawke   Richard Donner
  5 Stars 1999 The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns   John Henderson
  5 Stars 1990 A Chinese Ghost Story 2   Ching Siu Tung
    5 Stars 1995 Evening Liaison   Chen Yi-fei
  5 Stars 1944 It Happened Tomorrow   René Clair
  5 Stars 1989 Chances Are   Emile Ardolino
  4 Stars 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream   Michael Hoffman
  4 Stars 1998 What Dreams May Come   Vincent Ward
  4 Stars 1991 A Chinese Ghost Story 3   Ching Siu Tung
  4 Stars 1998 Twice Upon a Yesterday   Maria Ripoll
  4 Stars 1997 A Life Less Ordinary   Danny Boyle
  4 Stars 1996 The Preacher's Wife   Penny Marshall
  4 Stars 1995 Three Wishes   Martha Coolidge
    4 Stars 1987 Made in Heaven   Alan Rudolph
  4 Stars 1992 Forever Young   Steve Miner
  4 Stars 1989 Always   Steven Spielberg
  3 Stars 1998 City of Angels   Brad Silberling
  3 Stars 1998 Meet Joe Black   Martin Brest
    3 Stars 1996 Moon Lake   Hu Chen-hsiang
    3 Stars 1915 Cinderella   James Kirkwood
  3 Stars 1987 Date with an Angel   Tom McLoughlin
 
 
 
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