Valentine's Day Collection. Non-banal choice.

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1. The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. ... See full summary »

Director: Heiner Carow | Stars: Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder, Heidemarie Wenzel, Fred Delmare

Votes: 1,223

2. Red Meadows (1966)

92 min | Drama

To save their flocks from the heat and the sun, the shepherds of a Soviet cooperative farm decide to take them to a fertile but remote place, accompanied on this long journey by a ... See full summary »

Director: Emil Loteanu | Stars: Victor Sotchi-Voinicescu, Viktor Chutak, Grigore Grigoriu, Mihail Badiceanu

Votes: 65

3. Ház a sziklák alatt (1958)

101 min | Drama

A returned prisoner of war, his pretty new wife and his first wife's hunchbacked sister live together in a small isolated house, but none of them can find happiness.

Directors: Károly Makk, György Hintsch | Stars: János Görbe, Irén Psota, Margit Bara, József Bihari

Votes: 341

4. Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1951)

98 min | Drama, Romance, War

1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for the two lovers : war breaks out before ... See full summary »

Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Alida Valli, Jean Marais, Marcelle Arnold, Christine Chesnay

Votes: 107

5. The Little House (2014)

136 min | Drama, Romance

A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.

Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Votes: 1,454

6. Careless (1962)

111 min | Drama, Romance

The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. At least until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful ... See full summary »

Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Anthony Franciosa, Betsy Blair, Philippe Leroy

Votes: 311

7. Japanese Story (2003)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

73 Metascore

Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. ... See full summary »

Director: Sue Brooks | Stars: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran, Matthew Dyktynski

Votes: 6,752 | Gross: $0.65M

8. Desire (1936)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

86 Metascore

An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley

Votes: 2,802

9. A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa

Votes: 4,941

10. Obrechyonnye na voynu (2009)

94 min | Romance, War

The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. For four days, Zoska and Anton wander through the snow-covered forests, trying to fulfill the order of the commander of the partisan detachment.

Director: Olga Zhulina | Stars: Nina Loshchinina, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Darya Mikhaylova, Andrey Panin

Votes: 26

11. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp

Votes: 6,160

12. Se souvenir des belles choses (2001)

110 min | Drama, Romance

Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her ... See full summary »

Director: Zabou Breitman | Stars: Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Bernard Le Coq, Zabou Breitman

Votes: 1,418

13. Aanrijding in Moscou (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

68 Metascore

Matty, a 41-year old mother of three with a husband in his midlife-crisis, meets 29-year old Johnny, a truck driver, who takes an interest in her.

Director: Christophe Van Rompaey | Stars: Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet, Johan Heldenbergh, Anemone Valcke

Votes: 4,306

14. A Few Days with Me (1988)

PG-13 | 131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Lavanant

Votes: 1,209

15. Zeynep'in Sekiz Günü (2007)

123 min | Drama

An isolated woman meets a stranger at a party and falls in love with him, but he suddenly disappears in the morning. While trying to find him, she gets worse.

Director: Cemal San | Stars: Fadik Sevin Atasoy, Songül Bayoglu, Arzu Tan Bayraktutan, Cengiz Sezici

Votes: 446

16. Stealing Heaven (1988)

R | 108 min | Drama, History, Romance

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other. In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished.

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson, Denholm Elliott, Bernard Hepton

Votes: 829

17. Temptress Moon (1996)

R | 130 min | Drama, Romance

Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older ... See full summary »

Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, Saifei He

Votes: 2,037 | Gross: $1.08M

18. The Key (1958)

Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War

During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka

Votes: 1,641

19. Incantato (2003)

Unrated | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Comedy

48 Metascore

Nello Balocchi, a 35-year-old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father, the owner of the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. His father hopes Nello will find a soul mate in ... See full summary »

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Neri Marcorè, Vanessa Incontrada, Giancarlo Giannini, Nino D'Angelo

Votes: 1,085 | Gross: $0.02M

20. The Same Love, the Same Rain (1999)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The fascinating love story between Jorge and Laura from 1980 to 1999, within a context in which Argentine politics and history transits between the dictatorship, the Falklands war and the nascent democracy.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Ulises Dumont, Eduardo Blanco

Votes: 3,629

21. Ekhali dva shofyora (2002)

78 min | Comedy, Romance

A nostalgic story about a young driver who drives an old Russian truck along the roads of the Ural region of Russia.He does not take women seriously until he meets a proud and beautiful girl who drives a luxurious Ford.

Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Pavel Derevyanko, Irina Rakhmanova, Valeriy Ivakov, Vladimir Romanovsky

Votes: 73

22. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Romance

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

Director: José Quintero | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne, Jill St. John

Votes: 2,980

23. Elvira Madigan (I) (1967)

PG | 91 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.

Director: Bo Widerberg | Stars: Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen

Votes: 3,221

24. This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid

Votes: 6,309

25. The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997)

101 min | Drama, Romance

An ordinary foundry worker fakes a love story between him and the chambermaid from RMS Titanic. When ship sinks and chambermaid probably dies, his story gains popularity. But lie always has its price.

Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Olivier Martinez, Romane Bohringer, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Didier Bezace

Votes: 1,461 | Gross: $0.24M

26. Nuit d'été en ville (1990)

85 min | Drama, Romance

The whole life in one night. A young couple plays nearly any role of possible lifetime relationships.

Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Trintignant

Votes: 516

27. The Last Train (1973)

PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot

Votes: 1,732

28. Desire Under the Elms (1958)

Approved | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton

Votes: 1,446

29. The Light (2004)

TV-14 | 105 min | Drama, Romance

Camille arrives at the island Ouessant where she was born, to sell the house of her parents. She finds a book of a certain Antoine and starts reading. A story of a stranger is told who came... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Lioret | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Philippe Torreton, Grégori Derangère, Émilie Dequenne

Votes: 1,634

30. Red Dust (1932)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

66 Metascore

The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor

Votes: 4,926 | Gross: $1.70M

31. The Widow Couderc (1971)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Romance

John, an escaped convict, takes refuge on the farm of Widow Couderc. He becomes the older woman's lover and admits that he's on the run. The widow's in-laws, who despise her,

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier

Votes: 2,019

32. Somewhere Tonight (2011)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A pair of lonely lovers meet while chatting on a phone sex line.

Director: Michael Di Jiacomo | Stars: John Turturro, Elizabeth Marvel, Max Casella, Lynn Cohen

Votes: 284

33. Kruzhovnik (2007)

93 min | Drama

The film takes place on the day of the end of the Olympic Games, August 3, 1980. On the eve and during the Olympics, the Moscow authorities carry out the "capture" and expulsion of ... See full summary »

Director: Arvo Iho | Stars: Sergey Garmash, Ulyana Lapteva, Aleksandr Mashatkov, Dmitriy Pevtsov

Votes: 20

34. Vylet zaderzhivayetsya (1974 TV Movie)

77 min | Romance

During the WWII, Olga and Sergey loved each other, but after the war ended Sergey did not want to bind himself with responsibilities of a married life and lied to Olga to make her believe ... See full summary »

Director: Leonid Maryagin | Stars: Tatyana Lavrova, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Evgeniya Simonova, Viktor Ilichyov

Votes: 51

35. Baran (2001)

PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance

79 Metascore

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub

Votes: 8,957 | Gross: $0.13M

36. Larks on a String (1969)

94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská

Votes: 2,178

37. Quand j'étais chanteur (2006)

112 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow ... See full summary »

Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Cécile de France, Mathieu Amalric, Christine Citti

Votes: 2,325

38. Same Time, Next Year (1978)

PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A married man and a married woman end up sleeping with each other, and decide to meet at the same place every year on the anniversary of their one night stand. As the years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Alan Alda, Ellen Burstyn, Ivan Bonar, Bernie Kuby

Votes: 6,666 | Gross: $19.70M

39. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven

Votes: 4,539

40. Death in a French Garden (1985)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's ... See full summary »

Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy

Votes: 1,811

41. The Heiress (1949)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins

Votes: 17,336

42. Liza the Fox-Fairy (2015)

98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Liza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?

Director: Károly Ujj Mészáros | Stars: Mónika Balsai, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, David Sakurai, Zoltán Schmied

Votes: 9,606

43. Maria's Lovers (1984)

R | 109 min | Drama, Romance

At the end of WWII, Ivan returns home to Pennsylvania from the nightmares of a brutal Japanese POW camp, to his childhood friend, Maria. But he has rivals for her love.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Keith Carradine, Robert Mitchum

Votes: 2,901

44. The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

81 Metascore

A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.

Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa Nguyen

Votes: 9,966 | Gross: $1.91M

45. God sobaki (1994)

133 min | Drama, Romance

Sergei has been released from jail, where he has served a sentence for various criminal offences. Because of his past and his aggressive, disillusioned character, he experiences serious ... See full summary »

Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Inna Churikova, Igor Sklyar, Aleksandr Feklistov, Era Ziganshina

Votes: 167

46. Uvolnenie na bereg (1962)

88 min | Drama, Romance

During his leave ashore sailor Nikolai Valezhnikov meets a girl in trouble and decides to help her.

Director: Feliks Mironer | Stars: Ariadna Shengelaia, Lev Prygunov, Vasili Makarov, Svetlana Konovalova

Votes: 64

47. Dogfight (1991)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

56 Metascore

Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.

Director: Nancy Savoca | Stars: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark

Votes: 9,975 | Gross: $0.39M

48. Two English Girls (1971)

130 min | Drama, Romance

At the beginning of the 20th century, middle-class young Frenchman Claude Roc meets young Englishwoman Ann Brown in Paris. They become friends and she invites him to spend holidays at the ... See full summary »

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott

Votes: 5,851

49. Swann in Love (1984)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set. That life is threatened when he falls in love with Odette de Crécy, a ... See full summary »

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant

Votes: 2,146

50. A Tale of Springtime (1990)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy... See full summary »

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Eloïse Bennett

Votes: 5,728 | Gross: $0.20M

51. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

86 Metascore

When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.

Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez

Votes: 18,831 | Gross: $21.67M

52. Summer Interlude (1951)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson

Votes: 6,650

53. Zontik dlya novobrachnykh (1986)

89 min | Drama, Romance

Two middle-aged lovers pretend to be a married couple. Their new friends Tolya and Zoya are amazed at the matrimonial idyll of Kraskov and Vera. But this idyll is a myth.

Director: Rodion Nakhapetov | Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Nijole Ozelyte, Vera Glagoleva, Nikita Mikhaylovsky

Votes: 73

54. Vernost (1965)

87 min | Drama, Romance, War

Tenth-grader Yura Nikitin, after learning about the death of his father, became a cadet at a military school. Once, during a break in classes, he and his friend accidentally came to visit a... See full summary »

Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Vladimir Chetverikov, Galina Polskikh, Aleksandr Potapov, Evgeniy Evstigneev

Votes: 82

55. Gloomy Sunday (1999)

Not Rated | 112 min | Romance, Drama

60 Metascore

Follows three men who are in love with a beautiful waitress during World War II: an intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician, and an erratic businessman.

Director: Rolf Schübel | Stars: Joachim Król, Erika Marozsán, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker

Votes: 8,398 | Gross: $0.22M

56. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is ... See full summary »

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury, Eric Viellard

Votes: 5,668 | Gross: $0.82M

57. Barefoot in the Park (1967)

G | 106 min | Comedy, Romance

55 Metascore

Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.

Director: Gene Saks | Stars: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick

Votes: 20,474 | Gross: $19.99M

58. Passazhirka (2008)

95 min | Drama

1882. The Russian clipper "Bold" follows the route San Francisco - Hong Kong. In an American port, the Russian consul puts a passenger on the ship - a young widow Vera Sergeevna Clark and ... See full summary »

Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Ivan Agapov, Marat Basharov, Sergey Batalov, Fyodor Dobronravov

Votes: 147

59. Lyubov s privilegiyami (1989)

135 min | Drama, Romance

USSR, late 80s. Former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Kozhemyakin comes to rest in Yalta. Irina, who works as a van driver, was asked to meet him at the station. A casual ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Kuchinsky | Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Tabakov, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina

Votes: 134

60. Glaza (1992)

83 min | Romance

A hockey puck landed right in the eye of a young man, after the injury he was left under observation in one of the children's hospitals. There is an indisputable law in the hospital that a ... See full summary »

Director: Valentin Khovenko | Stars: Sergey Steblov, Inga Ilm, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Klara Luchko

Votes: 100

61. Goodbye Again (1961)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance

A successful business woman, dissatisfied with her current, philandering lover, starts an affair with a much younger man.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 3,114

62. The Lunchbox (2013)

PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance

76 Metascore

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey

Votes: 60,795 | Gross: $4.23M

63. A Heart in Winter (1992)

105 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.

Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine

Votes: 10,634 | Gross: $1.67M

64. White Nights (1957)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance

A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.

Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena

Votes: 8,987

65. Gorodskoy romans (1971)

100 min | Drama, Romance

A radiologist meets a young student of a pedagogical school. Masha immediately realized that this is true love. And for Evgeny, living together turned out to be unusual and uncomfortable. ... See full summary »

Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Evgeniy Kindinov, Zinoviy Gerdt, Gennady Sayfulin, Leonid Dyachkov

Votes: 139

66. The Collector (1967)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Patrick Bauchau, Haydée Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle, Alain Jouffroy

Votes: 9,776

67. Zaza (2009)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

Azalea comes to Moscow to visit her son Nikita, a seventeen-year-old student. At the train station, by the will of circumstances, she meets with a young guy Anton. Quite by chance it turns ... See full summary »

Director: Andrey Silkin | Stars: Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Artyom Grigorev, Andrey Shchipanov, Kseniya Borodina

Votes: 58

68. A Ballad of Love (1966)

45 min | Romance, Drama

The sculptress Galya is introduced to young engineer Mitya, but has lost her heart to the enigmatic Andrei, who is married. Mitya proposes to her, but she declines. She loves only Andrei.

Director: Mikhail Bogin | Stars: Viktoriya Fyodorova, Sergey Dreyden, Eleonora Shashkova, Vladimir Tikhonov

Votes: 171

69. Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Romance

74 Metascore

The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie

Votes: 22,628 | Gross: $8.72M

70. Flirting (1991)

R | 99 min | Drama, Romance

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.

Director: John Duigan | Stars: Noah Taylor, Thandiwe Newton, Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose

Votes: 6,402 | Gross: $2.42M

71. Daisy (2006)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

About a tragic love triangle story involving young painter Hye-young, Interpol detective Jeong Woo, and professional hitman Park Yi.

Director: Andrew Lau | Stars: Jun Ji-hyun, Jung Woo-sung, Lee Sung-jae, Sara Bernardo Aires

Votes: 6,670

72. Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)

114 min | Drama, Romance

Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Xuejian Li, Taishen Cheng, Dongyu Zhou, Rina Sa

Votes: 3,711

73. Autumn (1974)

93 min | Romance

A man and a woman were in love with each other in their youth, then broke up and started new families, but did not become happy.

Director: Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Natalya Rudnaya, Leonid Kulagin, Natalya Gundareva, Aleksandr Fatyushin

Votes: 209

74. A Summer's Tale (1996)

G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

91 Metascore

As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin

Votes: 9,951 | Gross: $0.20M

75. Mr. Jones (1993)

R | 114 min | Drama, Romance

47 Metascore

After being arrested during a manic episode, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder is treated by a psychiatrist who begins to develop romantic feelings towards him.

Directors: Mike Figgis, Jon Amiel | Stars: Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin

Votes: 7,652 | Gross: $8.32M

76. The Lacemaker (1977)

R | 107 min | Drama, Romance

A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.

Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Düringer

Votes: 3,020

77. Zakonnyy brak (1985)

93 min | Drama, Romance, War

A Moscow theater actor enters into a fictitious marriage with a homeless war refugee, so that she can live in his apartment.

Director: Albert S. Mkrtchyan | Stars: Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Kostolevskiy, Albina Matveyeva, Ernst Romanov

Votes: 116

78. Obyasneniye v lyubvi (1978)

135 min | Romance

The life of Filipok, a young man with a romantic personality, which happens in the first half of the 20th century in Soviet Russia. Filipok finds love with a young women, Zinochka who is of aristocratic roots.

Director: Ilya Averbakh | Stars: Ewa Szykulska, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Kirill Lavrov, Angelina Stepanova

Votes: 155

79. El amor perjudica seriamente la salud (1996)

117 min | Comedy, Romance

Two young people meet in the 60's as a result of their devotion to John Lennon, and have a recurring relationship during the next thirty years at the oddest of moments, in the most diverse ... See full summary »

Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira | Stars: Ana Belén, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Gabino Diego, Penélope Cruz

Votes: 1,785

80. Room at the Top (1958)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

84 Metascore

An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit

Votes: 7,304

81. Fasten Your Seatbelts (2014)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to ... See full summary »

Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Kasia Smutniak, Francesco Arca, Filippo Scicchitano, Carolina Crescentini

Votes: 3,116

82. The Way We Were (1973)

PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance

61 Metascore

During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles

Votes: 27,437

83. S lyubimymi ne rasstavaytes (1980)

76 min | Drama, Romance

Mitya stops believing his wife Katya. He is tormented, tormented by jealousy, despite the fact that his wife did not cheat. They are getting divorced. Shortly after the divorce, Katya ends ... See full summary »

Director: Pavel Arsenov | Stars: Irina Alfyorova, Aleksandr Abdulov, Lyudmila Drebnyova, Rufina Nifontova

Votes: 243

84. Molodaya zhena (1979)

97 min | Drama, Romance

To spite the deceiver-groom, young Manya marries a widower with a child. Difficult love in the Soviet countryside.

Director: Leonid Menaker | Stars: Anna Kamenkova, Vladlen Biryukov, Galina Makarova, Sergei Prokhanov

Votes: 153

85. Read My Lips (2001)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

82 Metascore

She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier

Votes: 16,456 | Gross: $1.36M

86. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)

R | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance

56 Metascore

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Kounen | Stars: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova, Natacha Lindinger

Votes: 7,028 | Gross: $1.72M

87. Otpusk za svoy schyot (1982 TV Movie)

134 min | Comedy, Romance

Katya, a kindergarten teacher from Verkhneyarsk, comes to Moscow to meet a young man named Yura, whom she met on his business trip. She does, it seems, impossible to be with him: she is ... See full summary »

Director: Viktor Titov | Stars: Olga Melikhova, Igor Kostolevskiy, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Miklós Kalocsay

Votes: 210

88. Encore, Once More Encore! (1992)

96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In a distant garrison, officers and soldiers are influenced by their love affairs.

Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Valentin Gaft, Irina Rozanova, Evgeniy Mironov, Elena Yakovleva

Votes: 338

89. Besieged (1998)

R | 93 min | Drama, Romance

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria, John C. Ojwang

Votes: 5,219 | Gross: $2.03M

90. Zhenskaya sobstvennost (1999)

89 min | Drama, Romance

Andrey Kalinin is taking the entrance exams to the Theater Institute. He doesn't have enough talent, but he has an abyss of charm. In addition, he falls in love with one of the examiners - ... See full summary »

Director: Dmitriy Meskhiev | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elena Safonova, Aleksandr Abdulov, Nina Usatova

Votes: 184

91. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

In Lapland's cold Arctic Circle, under the eternal midnight sun, unfavourable circumstances reunite two kindred spirits. And governed by circular motifs woven by faith and love, they must answer a pivotal question. Can they deny destiny?

Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo, Maru Valdivielso

Votes: 20,200 | Gross: $0.50M

92. The Woman Next Door (1981)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner

Votes: 8,779

93. Indochine (1992)

PG-13 | 160 min | Drama, Romance, War

Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.

Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh-Dan Pham, Jean Yanne

Votes: 10,935 | Gross: $5.73M

94. The Forty-First (1956)

88 min | War, Drama, Romance

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak

Votes: 1,717

95. My Night at Maud's (1969)

GP | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez

Votes: 14,530

96. Love (1991)

Not Rated | 105 min | Romance

Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.

Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Natalya Petrova, Dmitriy Maryanov, Tatyana Skorokhodova

Votes: 298

97. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

R | 124 min | Drama, Romance

64 Metascore

Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.

Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan

Votes: 15,040 | Gross: $22.60M

98. The Quiet American (2002)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

84 Metascore

An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 29,711 | Gross: $12.99M

99. The Silence of the Sea (2004 TV Movie)

93 min | Drama, Romance, War

In a small town in the west of France, during the German occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Boutron | Stars: Julie Delarme, Michel Galabru, Thomas Jouannet, Marie Bunel

Votes: 1,542

100. Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man's personality is shaped, involving some weird happenings around.

Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mira Banjac

Votes: 6,781



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