Valentine's Day Collection. Non-banal choice.
by yu-73431 | created - 13 Feb 2020 | updated - 4 days ago | PublicThe best of what I've seen, with my rating from 10 to 7 points.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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