251. Ninotchka
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi
Plot: A no-nonsense Russian woman, sent to Paris to make sure the sale of the jewels of exiled Grand Duchess Swana goes off without a hitch, finds her hard exterior being slowly chipped away by Count Leon. Falling in love, the Grand Duchess becomes jealous - while the relationship itself goes against the Russian political system.
252. Arthur
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steve Gordon
Actors: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot: Happy drunk Arthur is given an ultimatum - if he want to keep the family fortune he stands to inherit, he must marry Susan, a woman who has means but who Arthur feels nothing for. When he meets an ordinary women he actually falls in love with, he must decide if she's worth more to him than his lifestyle.
253. The Year of Living Dangerously
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy
Plot: The story revolves around a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. It follows a group of foreign correspondents in Jakarta on the eve of an attempted coup by the so-called 30 September Movement on 30 September 1965 and during the beginning of the violent reprisals by military-led vigilante groups who killed hundreds of thousands.
254. Stella Dallas
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: King Vidor
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil
Plot: Stella Davis wanted nothing other than the good life... until she had a daughter.
255. Time ( Shi gan )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Actors: Jung-woo Ha, Ji-Yeon Park, Ji-heon Kim, Sung-min Kim
256. The Remains of the Day
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Ivory
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
Plot: A head butler who has given his life to serving the house of Lord Darlington but two things will make him question his long-standing loyalty - the arrival of a housekeeper, with whom he shortly begins a relationship - and his master's ties the Nazi part in the years leading up to WWII.
257. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Actors: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King
258. Lovers of the Arctic Circle, The ( amantes del Círculo Polar, Los )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Julio Medem
Actors: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo, Nancho Novo
259. The Duchess
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Saul Dibb
Actors: Keira Knightley, Charlotte Rampling, Ralph Fiennes, Angus McEwan
260. Daddy Long Legs
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Negulesco
Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter
Plot: While visiting France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton becomes enchanted by an 18-year-old orphan. Fully aware of the age difference, he instead provides money for her to attend college in New England. For three years she writes him letter - and for three years he ignores them. When he finally decides to visit and watch her dance, he finally realizes his love cannot be contained. But coming together is not as straight-forward as he imagined.
