151. In the Mood for Love ( Fa yeung nin wa )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Zhi-gong Chen, Ping Lam Siu, Man-Lei Chan
Plot: In Hong Kong, two neighbors find themselves with a mutual when when each
suspects their significant other of conducting an extramarital affair.
152. Wild Strawberries ( Smultronstället )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Victor Sjostrom, Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, Jullan Kindahl, Bjorn Bjelfvenstam
Plot: Professor of medicine Isak Borg travels to Lund University in order to receive his anniversary title. Along the road he meets strangers and relatives, and in his dreams he is confronted with his own past as well as fear of insufficiency.
153. True Grit
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld, Paul Rae
Plot: The Coen Brothers' take on the classic western: A grizzled U.S. Marshal and stubborn young woman join forces to track down the men who murdered her father.
154. Roman Holiday
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Harcourt Williams, Hartley Power, Margaret Rawlings
Plot: A princess escapes her boring family life when she meets an American Newsman and falls in love.
155. Tale of Princess Kaguya, The ( Kaguyahime no monogatari )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Isao Takahata
Actors: Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Darren Criss, Lucy Liu, James Marsden
Plot: Based on the oldest surviving, and one of the most famous, Japanese folklore tales - an old man who makes a living selling bamboo comes across a princess, no bigger than his finger, in one of the plants. Named Kaguya, she grows and when she is of age, five suitors from five prestigious families come to propose. She requests five memorable wedding gifts - but each of the five men fails to bring her what she wants - then, the Emperor of Japan proposes as well.
156. Sling Blade
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, John Ritter, J.T. Walsh, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black
Plot: An institutionalized man is released to live in a small community and start a new life, even though he killed his parents when he was very young.
157. Drive
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
Plot: A stuntman-turned-wheelman must use all his skills to survive after a botched job results in a contract on his head.
158. Notorious
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schünzel
Plot: A man asks woman to spy on a group of her friends who are Nazis. Located in South America, the girl is torn between what is right and wrong.
159. Walk the Line
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller
Plot: The Biography of music star Johnny Cash follows him as he spends time in the Korean War, to the time he spends in rehab in his later life.
160. Almost Famous
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Zooey Deschanel
Plot: A 15-Year old is given the chance of the lifetime when Rolling Stone hires him to accompany an up-and-coming band, Stillwater, on their tour. What follows is a lesson on life, love and rock n roll.
