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musical film, romantic comedy
Composer Roger Bond and his orchestra are appearing in Miami, with vocalist Honey Hale. Despite the warnings of accordionist and assistant bandleader Fred Ayres, Roger is attracted to the beautiful and flirtatious Belinha in the audience. He leaves the bandstand to pursue her.
Drama, Erotic Film, Romantic drama, Sex Film
The lead characters of the Story of O and Retour à Roissy novels, Sir Stephen and O, are placed in southern China where Sir Stephen owns a casino. Sir Stephen places O in a Chinese brothel for "training" and O is then subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience. A sub-plot concerns a local rebellion due to the resentment towards Europeans by the local population and a young man desperate to afford O's favors at the brothel.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Attorney Harold Fine is cornered into setting a date for marriage by his secretary/fiancée, Joyce. Because of a fender bender, he ends up driving a hippie vehicle, a psychedelically painted station wagon. When taking his hippie brother, Herbie, to the funeral of his family's butcher he encounters Nancy, Herbie's girlfriend, an attractive, free-spirited, barefoot flower power lady.
Comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy
Ted Scott (John Payne) is a band pianist whose publicity manager decides that, for good press, the band should adopt a foreign refugee. The band goes to Ellis Island to meet the girl and soon discovers that the refugee is not a 10-year-old child, but a young woman, Karen Benson (Sonja Henie). The surprise comes right before the band is to travel to Sun Valley, Idaho, for a Christmas event.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Swedish-American Katie Holstrom leaves the family farm to attend nursing school in Capitol City. Barn painter Adolph Petree, who completed a job for Katie's father, offers her a ride, then steals her money along the way. Katie, refusing to ask her family for help, goes to work as a maid for political power broker Agatha Morley and her son, U.S.
romantic comedy
Dana Randall is the pilot for Fullerton Airways, the tiny Queensland company which both aids people in the remote area and serves visiting tourists. Her dad Jeff chides her for blowing off high-paying visitors to transport a resident's dog to the vet, as their bills are mounting. William Mitchell is sent all the way from London by ITCM Financial, his father Duncan's UK investment firm, to the tropics of Australia to shut down Fullerton Airways.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film
Elder Aaron Davis, a young Mormon from Pocatello, Idaho, is sent to Los Angeles with three other missionaries to spread the faith. They move into an apartment next to openly gay party boy Christian Markelli and his roommate Julie Taylor, an aspiring singer. Christian and Julie work as servers at Lila's, a trendy restaurant owned by retired actress Lila Montagne.
Adventure, Drama
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, marries Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk Bungalow, the plantation house built by his father in Ceylon. They are stopped by a bull Indian elephant on their way to the house, and John frightens it away with a few gunshots. Ruth discovers that John is still dominated by his father, whom he calls the governor, long after his death, and that John's mother was never happy at Elephant Walk.
romantic comedy
In Seattle, Susan is a mostly pro bono lawyer for Whitaker Associates who goes undercover to investigate the online dating website Love, Guaranteed. Her client Nick has had 986 dates through them with no luck finding love. The three dates she tries go decidedly wrong, and she also goes to secretly observe his 1000th date to make sure he's on the up and up.
Daffy Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy, satanic film
thumb|left|thumbtime=20|Madam Satan (1930) The first 50 minutes present four characters' relationships, with the next 1 hour and 10 minutes set on a Zeppelin trip. One morning after awakening to discover her husband Bob never returned home last night, socialite Angela Brooks reads in the newspaper that Bob and a woman named "Mrs. Brooks" were in night court together along with Bob's best friend Jimmy Wade.
Dance Film, Drama, musical film, romance film
Nisa is a native princess from a northern Brazilian tribe who travels to Los Angeles to stop an American corporation from destroying her rainforest home. Accompanying her is the tribal shaman Joa, who uses black magic to bypass the corporation's guards and confront its chairman, leading to his arrest. Alone in Los Angeles, Nisa finds work in a Beverly Hills mansion with the help of a woman named Carmen.
Cartoon, crossover fiction, musical film, science fiction comedy
In the space age, while Elroy is busy working on a time machine, George Jetson comes to Mr. Spacely's office for a serious discussion. Spacely's rival, Cogswell, has been stealing his business ideas, putting their jobs in jeopardy.
Comedy, Destiny, Drama
Henry "Hank" Chinaski is working toward becoming a writer while struggling with alcoholism and holding various menial jobs. The film follows Chinaski as he works at, and gets fired from, various jobs, which include cleaning a massive sculpture, delivering ice, working at a pickle factory, and working at a bicycle supply warehouse. In the course of sampling the smorgasbord of short-lived occupations, he meets up with assorted eccentric, frequently alcoholic characters.
Drama, romance film, war film
A small northern town soon finds out that a large U.S. Army base is being established for the build-up to the Normandy landings. Soon thousands of rambunctious American troops, or "Yanks" as they are known to the British, descend upon the area.
Drama, romance film
Wealthy department-store heir Paul Saxon has a romantic fling with a Nebraska dress-shop owner, Rae Smith, who breaks it off when she discovers he is married. Rae moves to New York to become a fashion designer, then on to Rome to become the famed Dalian's partner in a salon. Paul continues to woo her, explaining that his alcoholic wife Liz won't grant him a divorce and is unstable, having tried to commit suicide.
Drama, musical film
Glenn Tyler, a childish 25-year old, gets into a fight with and badly injures his drunken brother. A court releases him on probation into the care of his uncle in a small town, appointing Irene Sperry to give him psychological counselling. Marked as a trouble-maker, he is falsely suspected of various misdemeanors including an affair with Irene.
romance film
Sir Giles Staverley, a compulsive gambler, is tricked into gambling away his home by his old adversary, Lord Harry Wrotham. As Staverley is distraught and desperate, Wrotham gives him one last chance―he will gamble everything Staverley has lost against Staverley's daughter's hand in marriage and her trust fund of 80,000 guineas. Desperate to recoup his losses, Staverley agrees, despite his nephew Nicholas's desperate attempt to persuade him against it.
romantic comedy
thumb|upright|Drive-in advertisement from 1957 Struggling writer Rockwell P. Hunter is low rung of the ladder at the La Salle advertising agency. With the agency set to lose its biggest account — Stay-Put Lipstick — he hatches an idea to get the perfect model and spokeswoman for Stay-Put's new line of lipstick: famous actress Rita Marlowe.
romantic comedy
The film follows the exploits of film actor Jack Noah, who is filming in the small, fictional South American country of Parador when Paradorian President Alfonse Simms, a dictator, invites him and the cast and crew to the film at their palace. Simms seems delighted at Jack's imitation of him. Suddenly, Alfonse Simms dies of a heart attack.
Drama, Horror, sexploitation film
In Paris during the late 18th-century, Justine (Romina Power) lives with her sister Juliette (Maria Rohm) in a convent. When they learn of their father's death, they are ordered out of the convent with their father's remaining money - 100 coins, which is not enough to survive. Juliette takes Justine to a friend, Madame de Buission, a brothel owner who requires the girls to work as prostitutes in return for accommodation.
Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film, romance film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Murder! (1930)|left Diana Baring, a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. The poker used to commit the murder is at Diana's feet, but she has no memory of what happened during the minutes that the crime was committed.
Drama, romance film
In 1949, guilt-ridden Holocaust survivor Herman Broder lives in New York with his wife, Yadwiga. During the war, Yadwiga—the Broders' gentile servant—saved Herman's life by hiding him in a hayloft. Believing his wife, Tamara, to have perished in a concentration camp, Herman took Yadwiga with him as his wife when he emigrated to the United States.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Road Movie, romantic comedy
Lonnie Earl Dodd is a Little Rock car dealer who stars in his own cheesy television commercials. He and his wife Darlene are best friends with Roy and Candy Kirkendall, who are trying to start a family. When the two couples decide to drive cross-country to see a monster truck rally, Lonnie Earl pulls a new SUV off his lot and the four set off.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
left|thumb|275px|Doris Day as Georgia Garrett, singing "I'm in Love". Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) and her husband Michael (Don DeFore) suspect each other of cheating. For their wedding anniversary, Elvira books an ocean cruise to Rio de Janeiro but her husband claims that unexpected business will prevent him from going.