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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,658 films · Page 264.

The Last Fling (1987)

romantic comedy

Divorce attorney Phillip Reed is tired of one-night stands, like Joanne. He commiserates to happy couple, Linda and Jack, the lack of romance in his life. At a Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum football game, Gloria Franklin, marrying in two weeks, finds out her fiancé Jason is going to Vegas for a bachelor party weekend.

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The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

romantic comedy

Sally Warren runs a horse farm, but her husband Jeff has a dislike and fear of horses. He is a Civil War historian and lecturer, which bores Sally but is very popular with local ladies who call themselves the Mason-Dixon Dames. As a Christmas gift, Jeff intends to please his wife by buying her a horse called Albert, but her horse trainer Lance Gale, an old beau, insults Jeff about the kind of horse he picked.

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What Every Woman Knows (1934)

romantic comedy

Alick Wylie and his sons David and James are greatly concerned about Alick's daughter Maggie, who has been jilted by a minister. She is less than heartbroken, but they fear for her marital prospects at the age of 27. When they catch poor but ambitious 21-year-old John Shand breaking into their house late at night to use their library, they seize the opportunity.

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Lady in a Jam (1942)

romantic comedy

Jane Palmer's reckless spending and behavior concern her guardian Billingsley so much that he goes to a New York City clinic to seek psychiatric help for her. Dr. Enright, taking the case, sees how Jane refuses to even acknowledge that she has squandered her entire inheritance, and that her remaining possessions are being auctioned off.

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Love at First Sight (1976)

romantic comedy

A young woman, Shirley (Mary Ann McDonald), and a clumsy blind man named Roy (Dan Aykroyd) flee to Niagara Falls to open a restaurant with money given to them by Shirley's grandmother (Jane Mallett), after Shirley's controlling and unpleasant father Frank (George Murray) objects to their relationship.

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Dear Ruth (1947)

romantic comedy

Teenager Miriam Wilkins is an energetic activist during World War II. She blithely involves her family by enlisting them for causes without first gaining their consent. Her father Judge Wilkins and mother Edie are puzzled when Lieutenant William Seacroft, a complete stranger, appears at their home asking for their 22-year-old daughter Ruth.

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She Married Her Boss (1935)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Julia Scott is a very efficient secretary at a department store. She is in love with her boss, Richard Barclay, who pays no attention to her, unless it has to do with business. Julia goes to lunch with Martha Pryor, who tells her she has been offered a manager position of a department store in Paris.

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On Broadway (2007)

Drama

Emotionally devastated by the death of his uncle, Boston carpenter Jack O'Toole (McIntyre) writes a play inspired by the man's wake. When nobody will produce the play, Jack quits his job to produce it himself, imagining that this play will give a new start to the strained relationship Jack has with his father. But the only stage Jack can afford is in the back room of a neighborhood pub.

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Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo (2010)

Comedy, Romantic drama, silent film

Morgan (Gordon-Levitt) and Destiny (Hulme) pay a visit to an ornate zoo aboard an airship, where they find the old foodpenguin, now costumed in a giant panda outfit, has attained a job selling zoo-related souvenirs. At the zoo, Morgan is suddenly faced with tough opposition: the advances of Destiny's ex-boyfriend, Lionel (Tatum). When Destiny's cat, the cartoonized Madame Ballafur, suddenly disappears aboard the airship, a scramble ensues for Destiny's affections, with Morgan and Lionel both seeking the "purrpet" in hopes of returning her to Destiny in triumphant victory.

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Phone Swap (2012)

Comedy, romance film

Struggling fashion designer Mary Oyenokwe and arrogant businessman Akin Cole are handed the wrong phones after they collide at the airport. After parting, Akin receives a message on Mary's phone from her boss Alexis which reads "Enjoy your flight to Owerri". Thinking the message is from the similarly-named Alex - Akin's loyal but incompetent assistant - he books another ticket to Owerri.

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Love's Brother (2004)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

Angelo Donnini and his younger brother Gino are of Italian origin, living in Australia in the 1950s. Angelo is insecure, silent and introverted and not at all good-looking, while Gino is the complete opposite: outgoing, funny and handsome. Angelo looks for a wife and writes letters to Italian girls in hope of a match.

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The Go Getter (1937)

romance film

When the US Navy rigid airship Macon is damaged in a storm and crashes into the water (as the real did in 1935), helmsman Bill Austin stays with his commanding officer until the rest of the crew has gotten safely away. Bill loses a leg as a result of the crash and leaves the Navy. He goes looking for employment, but jobs are scarce in San Francisco.

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The Richest Girl in the World (1934)

Comedy, romantic comedy

When the sinks, infant Dorothy Hunter is orphaned, but inherits a fortune. She is brought up by John Connors, whose wife also perished in the disaster. He goes to such great lengths to protect her privacy that, though she has grown into adulthood and acquired the title of the richest girl in the world, the newspapers do not have an up-to-date photograph of her.

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Saltwater (2012)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

The low budget indie drama begins with Will (Ronnie Kerr), a gay officer in the U.S. Navy who leaves the armed forces. He then reconnects with his old friends, and begins to look for a new boyfriend to settle down with.

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The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)

Comedy

Victoria Layton is a suburban housewife who is dissatisfied with her marriage, and fears that her sex appeal is fading. Her husband works as a press agent, and his biggest client is a movie star who is known as an international sex symbol. On hearing that The Movie Star indulges in the services of prostitutes, Victoria decides to surreptitiously pose as one to prove to herself that she is still sexually attractive.

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The Act of the Heart (1970)

Martha Hayes (Geneviève Bujold) is a devoutly religious young woman from Québec's Côte-Nord who fancies herself as some kind of a saint. She has come to Montreal to serve as a nanny to Russell (Bill Mitchell), the son of a widowed business woman (Monique Leyrac). Martha joins a church choir and becomes attracted to Father Michael Ferrier (Donald Sutherland), an Augustinian friar who has selected her to sing solo in an interfaith concert.

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The Last Performance (1929)

Horror, silent film

thumb|left|The Last Performance, silent version with Danish intertitles Conrad Veidt stars as Erik the Great, a sinister stage magician who is in love with a woman half his age, Julie, played by Mary Philbin. A young thief, Mark Royce (played by Fred MacKaye) is caught stealing from Erik's apartment and is taken in at Julie's suggestion. Secretly she falls in love with the new apprentice.

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