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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,658 films · Page 275.
romantic comedy
New York novelist Anthony Amberton meets up with actress Cherry Chester. The two date and later marry, though neither knows of the other's fame. The real adventure begins on the honeymoon, when their relationship heats up with insults and arguments.
romantic comedy
Switchboard operator Marie Lawson is conned by admirer Nicky, who tells her it is just a practical joke, into redirecting a phone call. However, Nicky uses what he learns to his own benefit, costing the intended recipient a lot of money. When the victim complains to Marie's boss, telephone repairmen Terry Riley and John are called in to see if the phone was tapped.
Drama, romance film
Naive carnival sideshow performer Lilly Turner marries the flamboyant Rex Durkee, a magician she meets while working in Buffalo, New York. Shortly into the marriage, Lilly becomes disillusioned with Rex, who misleads her into believing the couple are going to start a new life in New York City. Instead, Rex takes Lilly along with him to a number of cities where he continues his sideshow act, claiming that his prospects in New York City's vaudeville circuit are low.
Drama
Gloria Joyce is a chorus girl who has an affair with a delivery boy, David, when she realizes that her long-time affair with a nightclub comedian, Joey Jordan, is not going anywhere.
romantic comedy
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Drama, romance film
Amélie (Pauline Étienne) is a Japanese-born Belgian woman who left Japan at the age of five with her parents and returned to Belgium. At the age of 20, she decided to return to Japan to reconnect with the Japanese culture. She moves to a small apartment in Tokyo.
romantic comedy
Movie director Ivan Ivanski (Leonid Kinskey) stages a publicity stunt involving actress April Tremaine (Marjorie Woodworth), railroad engineer Mike Monohan (Victor McLaglen), and a baby (Gay Ellen Dakin), which turns into a real kidnapping, leaving Tremaine caught in the middle aboard the flagship train of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Comedy, musical film
Sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer work as carhops in a Texas drive-in restaurant with their aunt Susan, the cook, when they are notified that an expected inheritance of $55,000 is only $4,000 after taxes and fees. Determined to marry a millionaire, Kay tells Barbara and Susan to spend the money on a trip to Miami, hoping to hook a rich man at a resort. With Barbara posing as Kay's secretary and Susan as her maid, the three women check into the Flamingo Hotel and make the acquaintance of Jack O'Hara, a bartender who pontificates about his hatred of fortune hunters.
romantic comedy
In Monte Carlo, Paul Gaillard, an impoverished Russian exiled aristocrat, has a run of good luck, breaking the bank at the baccarat table. His winnings, ten million francs, are so vast he needs a suitcase to carry away the banknotes. The management tries to entice him to stay, placing various signs of good luck including four-leaf clovers, a horseshoe, and a hunchback in his path, to no avail.
Drama, romance film
On an ocean liner from Colombo to Singapore, black sheep Hugh Dawltry tries, but fails to become better acquainted with fellow passenger Philippa Crosby. He is pleasantly surprised to find that they are both getting off at Khota. Ashore, she rebuffs his advances again, informing him that she has come to marry Dr.
Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Romantic drama
A liberated woman tempts a local police officer into a romantic entanglement with tragic consequences.
Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Daniel and Tommy met in college and played lacrosse together, and Tommy has been crushing on Daniel ever since. The film opens with Tommy, who has since come out, and Daniel unexpectedly meeting one another in a bar and reminiscing over their college years. They end up sleeping together after leaving the bar, and the next morning, Daniel announces he is engaged to Jen.
Drama, romance film
New York actor Madden Thomas has fallen from grace due to alcoholism and manages to get fired from his job as Santa Claus in a department store on Christmas Eve. This puts both him and his sweet young daughter Kathi on the spot. Kathi is physically challenged with a paralyzed foot.
boxing film, Drama, romance film
Rising boxer Jimmy Kane is sent from New York City to the Rosario Ranch and Hot Springs in New Mexico to regain his health after spending too much time with women and drink. There he meets young widow Peggy Harmon and her son Dickie. She eventually falls in love with him, and he likes her too.
romance film, war film
In May 1942, an Allied base on Java is bombed by Japanese aircraft, with another attack expected the next day. With only one working fighter and five American pilots who all volunteer to fly it, Dutch commander Major Eichel (Steven Geray) chooses George Collins (Franchot Tone) because he has come up with a daring plan: attach a bomb rack to the fighter to bomb the Japanese aircraft carrier from which the attack came. After George takes off, Eichel asks the other pilots to tell him about George.
romantic comedy
Jay Brooks (Montgomery), a black man, vows to give up dating white women in favor of dating black women, only to fall in love with a biracial woman.
Drama, romantic comedy
Lorry and Minnie are prostitutes who occasionally get hapless male admirers drunk before robbing them. After being released from a Louisiana jail, they head down the Mississippi River on a steamboat. Lorry steals $60 from a "Mr.
romantic comedy
Judge James Hardy is informed by Jonas Bronell, a lawyer from Detroit, that Hardy will inherit $2 million if he proves to be the great-great-grandson of Colonel James Standish Leeds, a hero of the War of 1812. This is due to the most recent Mr. Leeds dying without a clear heir.
romance film, war film
In 1918 during World War I, the United States Navy submarine AL-14 is sent with the rest of Submarine Flotilla 1 to Taranto to fight in the Adriatic Sea. The submarine's commander was wounded on its last cruise, and Lieutenant Thomas Knowlton, his second in command, expects to be promoted and take his place. However, Lieutenant Commander T.
Comedy
Arthur Prohack, a Treasury civil servant who is extremely frugal with the government's money, suddenly inherits £250,000 and is convinced to go on six months' sick leave. His children Charles and Mary tap him for money for an investment scheme and a theatrical production respectively, whilst his wife Eve buys the family a far larger house, which she fills with an aviary and then aquariums. Charles also buys his father a new car, which on its first drive is involved in an accident with Mimi Warburton.
romantic comedy
Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal, and Phil, elope to Mexico City. Barbara discovers that her boyfriend, stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, not only has his flight been delayed but the two become trapped in bureaucratic red tape, including the need for a doctor's certificate, and may not have their wedding before he has to return to his military base. The US Embassy Vice Consul goes to great lengths to intervene and help the young lovers, but frequent misunderstandings jeopardise his own upcoming marriage, including when Barbara's diving accident in a pool makes her want to pursue him instead.
romantic comedy
Ewan McEwan, an easy-going sheep and corn farmer on Beigg, a (fictional) Scottish island, is unable to marry his childhood sweetheart Katie as his hell-raising preacher uncle is opposed to consanguinity – all the islanders are related to each other. When Katie leaves for Glasgow to train as a nurse, he is persuaded to find a wife on the mainland (which he has never visited). Withdrawing £400 from the £800 he has saved in a bank in Oban, he sets out to meet the local girls.
Comedy, romance film
Celeste Blodgett is a somewhat unkempt young woman who moves from her small hometown to Manhattan with aspirations of becoming a journalist. Her romantic ideas about New York are quickly shattered when she discovers her new apartment is small, dirty and rat-infested. Luckily, her neighbor Kyle is an interior designer and helps her fix up the place.
romantic comedy
Overworked World War II riveter Maisie Ravier becomes irritable and starts involuntarily winking at people, so the factory's doctor prescribes a two-week vacation with pay. She runs into her friend and bandleader Tommy Cutter, who wants her to sing for two weeks in Reno. When she goes to the bus station, she encounters Sergeant Bill Fullerton, who is also going to Reno.