111. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, Natalie Wood, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown
Plot: A house is haunted by a ghost that Mrs. Muir loves.
112. Secretary
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Shainberg
Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen McHattie, Patrick Bauchau
Plot: A story of a secretary who starts a new job and discovers masochism. Her job consists of typeing, filing, making coffee and getting spanked.
113. Blue is the Warmest Color ( vie d'Adèle, La )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Actors: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing
Plot: Explores the relationship between a young lesbian couple from inception all the way through to one possible end.
114. The Maltese Falcon
Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma Todd
Plot: P.I. and a cast of shady characters seek the aforementioned statue. Pre-dates the Bogart version, but a good adaptation nonetheless.
115. Lonely Wife, The ( Charulata )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal, Gitali Roy, Bholanath Koyal
Plot: Charulata is attractive, intellectual and a bit unfulfilled as her husband, Bhupati seems more interested in his newspaper job than in her. When his bohemian brother, Amal, returns from college - she connects with him on many levels.
116. Dear John
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lasse Hallström
Actors: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Scott Porter, Henry Thomas, Leslea Fisher
Plot: Based on the book by Nicholas Sparks: a soldier home on leave finds himself falling for a conservative college student.
117. The Big Country
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford
Plot: A sea captain has retired with a good bit of wealth and relocates the vast expanse of the West and plans to marry his fiancee. But soon after arriving, he finds himself in the middle of a feud with his wife's family and the rough hewn Hannassey family over a key piece of land.
118. Dangerous Liaisons
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Uma Thurman
Plot: Set in 1760s France, a group of wealthy, bored aristocrats play a deadly game of seduction and betrayal.
119. The Sand Pebbles
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Emmanuelle Arsan, Gavin MacLeod
Plot: In 1926 China, the U.S.S. San Pablo patrols a Yangtze tributary. When engineer Jake Holman joins the crew, his personality clashes with those aboard and the local population. Everything comes to a head when the ship is ordered to crash through a river-boom.
120. Princess and the Warrior, The ( Krieger und die Kaiserin, Der )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Joachim Król, Lars Rudolph, Melchior Beslon, Ludger Pistor
Plot: Sissi is a young woman who devotes her life to working at a nurse at the Birkenhof asylum. Yet everything changes when Bodo enters her life. The accident nearly kills her, but Bodo saves her life. Sissi is convinced Bodo is the man she has been waiting for, but Bodo rejects her caught between a past he cannot forget and a future that portends a life of crime.
