251. 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, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier
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.
252. Red Violin, The ( violon rouge, Le )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: François Girard
Actors: Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Anita Laurenzi, Tommaso Puntelli, Samuele Amighetti, Jean-Luc Bideau
Plot: Through three centuries, a certain red violin - perfect in every way - inspire passion amongst its various owners from an Austrian monastery to China during the Cultural Revolution. Now, at an auction house in Montreal, it will write its next chapter.
253. Disobedience
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Actors: Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Anton Lesser, Nicholas Woodeson, Cara Horgan
Plot: Years after being shunned by a community for an attraction towards a childhood friend, a woman returns home only to find the passion rekindled in a relationship that will test the bounds of faith and sexuality.
254. Funny Face
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Ruta Lee, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng
Plot: Musical about high-fashion photography in Paris starring Audrey Hepburn as a newly-discovered fashion model.
255. Like Water for Chocolate
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfonso Arau
Actors: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez, Ada Carrasco, Yareli Arizmendi
Plot: A Hispanic woman has fallen madly in lve with a man who has a pre-arranged marriage to someone else.
256. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: Roger Livesey, Anton Wallbrook, Deborah Kerr, Spencer Trevor, Roland Culver, Eric Maturin
Plot: The Second World war and Boer war veteran Major Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) finds himself in charge of a home guard unit under attack from a young ambitious lieutenant.
Wynne-Candy,now a rotund and seemingly blustery old duffer is outraged when the Lieutenant and his troops invade his London Club breaking all the rules of fair warfare.
The two men argue then wrestle each other and end up falling into a swimming pool. As Wynne Candy emerges from the pool he has now become a young man and his life in the military is told in a series of flashbacks.
257. 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, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
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.
258. 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, Jill Eikenberry, Stephen Elliott
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.
259. 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, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main
Plot: Stella Davis wanted nothing other than the good life... until she had a daughter.
260. 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, Kiki Sugino
