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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,658 films · Page 294.

Heritage of the Desert (1932)

Western

Based on the 1910 novel The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey, the film is about a rancher whose spread includes the only way out of the valley where an outlaw is hiding a huge herd of stolen cattle. When the outlaw decides to challenge the rancher's claim to the land, the rancher stays one step ahead of him and hires a surveyor to remap and confirm the property lines.

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He Was Her Man (1934)

Crime, Gangster Film, romance film

Flicker Hayes informs the police after he sets up two men to be caught in a phony robbery attempt, because they were responsible for his going to prison. Dan Curly escapes, but the other kills a policeman and goes to the chair, so Dan wants two hitmen to get Flicker, who plans to leave the country. But he meets down-and-out Rose Lawrence, an ex-prostitute looking to hitch a ride to a small fishing village in the south to marry a Portuguese fisherman, and Flicker decides it would be a nice place to hide.

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New Low (2010)

Comedy, Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy

Wendell, a neurotic, aimless twentysomething, struggles to figure out which girl he really belongs with: Joanna, the best girl he's ever known, or Vicky, the worst. His friend Dave helps him sort through his thoughts as Wendell discovers not only whom he should be with but who he truly is under all that neurosis.

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The Bride Comes Home (1935)

romantic comedy

After the bankruptcy of her father's business, penniless Chicago socialite Jeannette Desmereau works with magazine editor Cyrus Anderson and publisher Jack Bristow. They discuss love and wedding plans. However, when Bristow and Desmereau set in motion plans to marry, Anderson decides to win her back.

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Windhorse (1998)

Drama, musical film, romance film, war film

The film is set in Tibet. In a remote Himalayan village in Western Tibet, three young Tibetans - Dorjee, his sister Dolkar and their cousin Pema - witness their grandfather murdered by Chinese soldiers. Years later, the three children are living in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and their lives have taken different directions.

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Woman to Woman (1923)

Drama, romance film, silent film

As described in a film magazine review, Deloryse, a dancer of exquisite charm and grace, is wooed and won by David Compton, an English officer billeted in Paris. On the eve of their marriage, her fiancée is unexpectedly called away. A blow to the head robs him of his memory and he forgets all about the faithful young woman who sacrificed all for him.

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On Approval (1944)

romantic comedy

In a comedic documentary-style prologue, the current war conditions in England are contrasted against life in 1939 and during the Victorian era. George, 10th Duke of Bristol, and his friend Richard Halton are poverty-stricken members of the British upper class. George has squandered his money on women.

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Carnival Rock (1957)

Drama, romance film

A nightclub owner, Christopher "Christy" Cristakos, falls in love with the club's singer, Natalie Cook, but the singer is in love with Stanley, a local businessman/gangster. After the gangster wins control of the club, Cristakos, the previous owner, begins to perform comic routines between the acts at the night club as part of his plan to win Natalie back. Eventually, the gangster and the singer marry, which causes the previous owner to leave alone.

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Zombie Honeymoon (2004)

Comedy horror, Marital Tragedy, romantic comedy, Romantic drama, Zombie, zombie comedy

American newlyweds Denise and Danny have just begun their month-long honeymoon by the ocean in New Jersey when Denise witnesses a ragged man, fully clad, emerging from the water. She screams to rouse her sleeping husband, but it is too late; the zombie attacks. Holding Danny down, he vomits a black, viscous fluid into Danny's mouth before collapsing.

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Breakfast for Two (1937)

Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy

After drunkenly carousing on the town, idle playboy, Jonathan Blair, wakes up to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has spent the night in his mansion. He remembers little of the night and knows little about his houseguest. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform and then to marry him, explaining to her horse-breaking uncle Sam that she intends to "slip a bit in his mouth and make him like it".

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The Great American Broadcast (1941)

musical film, romantic comedy

Impoverished roommates Rix Martin and Chuck Hadley have dreams of being the first to operate a coast-to-coast radio broadcast. They invest what little profit their small station makes into advanced equipment and finally get their wish when they bootleg the Jack Dempsey—Jess Willard 1919 heavyweight title fight from ringside. Meanwhile, the station's band singer is surrounded by suitors—Payne, Oakie, and Chadwick, without whose money the station could not operate.

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The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973)

Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy

Kaspar (Ele Grigsby) is partnered with Detective Sam Trowel (Hugh Smith). He locates the hideout of a kidnapping and drug ring that Trowel has been unable to find because he is too focused on procedures. Trowel hires safecracker Frederick Fenzer (David Roster) and his bodyguard, Noname (Harlo Cayse), as phoney suppliers to set up Ruthie (Carla Rueckert) to be kidnapped by the ring.

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The Singing Marine (1937)

romantic comedy

Robert Brent, a shy rookie private in the Marine Corps from Arkansas, is discovered to have a wonderful singing voice and wins a talent contest in New York City (based on Major Bowes Amateur Hour). The prospect of radio stardom causes him to develop a swollen head; he finds a manager, Aeneas Phinney, starts touring as "the Singing Marine", and hesitates to sail to Shanghai with his unit. Eventually he follows his duty.

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In the Flesh (1998)

Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

When police detective Philip Kirsch (Ed Corbin) and college business student Oliver Beck (Dane Ritter), closeted gay men, are brought together, they end up outed at the same time. Detective Kirsch is working undercover to bust a drug ring that operates out of "The Blue Boy," a back street, gay bar and brothel, at which Oliver works as the head hustler—his calling card being his wearing red trousers. Oliver succeeds in hustling Philip, who subsequently falls in love with him.

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Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)

musical film

Luisa, daughter of Rico and Elsa Molina, returns to Costa Rica from school in the United States to find that her parents have arranged for her to marry Pepe Castro, a family acquaintance whom she has never met. Pepe has also recently returned from the States, bringing with him his girl friend, Celeste, who plans to work in Costa Rica and become acquainted with Pepe's parents. When Pepe confesses he has not yet told his father about her, Celeste becomes suspicious, prompting him to tell her about the situation with Luisa.

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A Matter of Resistance (1965)

romantic comedy, war film

On the coast of Normandy in May 1944, the peaceable Jérôme lives in his crumbling château with his widowed mother and his beautiful young wife Marie, daughter of Dimanche, a local farmer. She is fed up with country life and dreams of a glamorous existence in Paris. Snooping around the estate is a stranger named Julien who fascinates Marie, seeing in him a means of escaping the twin boredoms of rusticity and matrimony.

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