251. Poor Things
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Margaret Qualley, Jerrod Carmichael
Plot: When Bella Baxter is brought back to life by her quite unorthodox father/scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter - she is kept sheltered until a debauched lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn, convinces her to join him on a whirlwind getaway. She soon learns to break from the conventions of the time - yearning for equality and liberation.
252. 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.
253. 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.
254. 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.
255. 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.
256. 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
257. 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, James Fox, Peter Vaughan
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.
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, Peru Medem, Sara Valiente
259. 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, Suzzanne Douglass, Michael J. Pagan
260. 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, Simon McBurney, Aidan McArdle
