Warning to Wantons (1949)
romantic comedy
A young woman escapes her strict convent school and enters high society, where she has the time of her life.
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romantic comedy
A young woman escapes her strict convent school and enters high society, where she has the time of her life.
On John Conroy's property, the 2-year-old colts and fillies are mustered and brought to the homestead for horse breaking. Two of the colts are of very good stock, especially the beautiful and spirited colt from the famous racehorse Regret (John Conroy says that the colt is worth a thousand pounds (£1000) and that he wants the colt to eventually be the stud horse for the property). Jim Ryan arrives at John Conroy's property following the death of his father.
romantic comedy
A young Frenchwoman living with her aunt and uncle in New Jersey has ambitions of making it in Hollywood and sets out to hitchhike her way there. Her adventures involve her briefly being sent to jail for stealing a car and taking part in a series of crooked beauty contests. Eventually she makes it to Hollywood and tries to target a contract with a big film director, discovering in the process that the fiancée she left at home is now a big movie star.
Drama, romance film
LGBTQ-related film
Cynthia (Hobel), Marc (Lucas) and Robert (Williams) are young friends in New York City and recent New York University graduates. Marc is a struggling actor, Robert is an actor/songwriter and Cynthia is desperately trying to attract the attention of Tina Brown to break into magazine publishing. Cynthia and Marc find an apartment together in Greenwich Village.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
The 'Girl' of the working title is Nell Tiscowitz (Otto), a struggling actress with an affinity for horses. She meets wealthy rock music promoter and stable owner Digby Olsen (Kemp). Nell's best friend and flatmate, Wendy (Carides) provides dubious love-lorn advice.
thriller film
The story relates the destiny of a young, beautiful, and talented Vietnamese woman who sacrifices herself for her family. The film chronicles the fate of Kieu, who soon after her secret engagement, returns home to find her father is about to be imprisoned on trumped-up charges. Kieu offers herself in payment for her father's debt without fully understanding the ramifications of this decision.
romantic comedy
Comedy, romance film
An organized ardent female art enthusiast who is about to marry the man of her dreams faces sudden obstacles and challenges after becoming pregnant accidentally even before her marriage. This spoiled her well-prepared and carefully laid out plans and strategies, and she embarks on a challenging mission in search of the father of her unborn baby.
Drama, romance film
Four brothers feel cursed by their family's gambling bug. All four try to overcome the addiction: only one, the youngest, is successful.
Crime, Drama, romance film
romance film
Roanne Sanchez (Sarah Geronimo), a young girl with high ideals about romance is assigned to accompany the spoiled son of the president, Enrique "Eric" Rodriguez III (Gerald Anderson) as he goes on an immersion trip. Coming from different worlds, the two find much to fight about, but sudden attraction between then soon gets the better of them.
thriller film
Renowned scientist Professor Henrik returns to England from a working trip overseas and is met by his glamorous secretary Joan. American Ted O'Hara has come in on the same flight and in the bustle of the airport he and Henrik mistakenly pick up each other's identical briefcases, and O'Hara innocently departs with a briefcase containing a top-secret formula for a revolutionary new type of jet fuel. Later, Henrik is abducted by a group headed by a sinister man named Zelinsky, who are eager to lay their hands on the formula.
Drama, romance film
The "Black Cats", who are part of the Aerial Circus run by "Speed" Hardy, are a vagabond troupe of aerial performers in the 1930s. Speed takes on a new performer, former airmail pilot Ace Murray. After performing a "double parachute" jump with his kid brother Bud, who is also a pilot, Ace becomes aware that his brother is enamoured with Speed's young wife Ann.
Drama, musical film, romance film
In New York City, a young writer's resolute belief in true love is put to the test by a beautiful girl and her struggle with addiction.
romance film
Seye George, a divorced billionaire with two adult children—socialite/events manager Temi and London-based investment banker Sammy—is named Forbes Africa's Top African Businessman. To finance his newest venture—a winery—George applies for a loan with a bank where Tunji, an ambitious but toxic accounts officer, is supervisor. Tunji's girlfriend Kaima is a corper and aspiring banker whose tenure at the bank is almost complete but her future uncertain, as is her relationship with Tunji who hardly appreciates her.
Drama, romance film
mystery film, romance film
At the Hamilton Court shops in Los Angeles, a shot rings out in a darkened apartment. A woman (June Clyde) screams and flees, seeing a car driven by architect Jimmy McMillan (Chick Chandler). She orders him at gunpoint to speed away, in the rush to get away.
romantic comedy
American millionaire Samuel C. Adams brings his daughter Dorothy to England to see a specialist about her heart trouble. So that she will not be hounded by the press and fortune hunters, Dorothy makes herself up to look extremely plain.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
June Drew is the daughter of widowed Christopher Drew, who suffers in silence as his daughter tries to "match" him with every eligible woman in sight.
romance film, silent film
right|thumb|L—R: Bebe Daniels, James Rennie, and Ricardo Cortez As described in a review in a film magazine, during a two-year absence in the United States, the guardians of Consuelo Garcia arrange her marriage to Juan Martin, who lives in the same hometown in Argentina. However, she is in love with the American Philip Sears, who is coming to her country to build a bridge, so she turns Juan down. Juan is furious and vows to kill anyone who comes between them, and does kill Rafael, the son of Senator Cornejo, after he sees him flirting with Consuelo.
romantic comedy
On a whim, Herbert Blake proposes a wager with Roger Fallon that he won't be able to get a kiss during the coming 48 hours from the next woman who happens to walk into the room. Fallon takes the bet, whereupon the woman who turns up is Herbert's wife.
romantic comedy
The small sleepy remote town of Kilnerry struggles as most of the residents are elderly and the younger ones will be going off to college soon. When a representative from the EPA visits the town's quarterly townhall meeting to tell them their chemical plant has been polluting the waters and creating toxic fish, they learn a new mandatory process, called P172, must be adapted by the plant. However, there is one small side effect.
Drama
Two stokers who work on the same ship become rivals for the love of a woman who works in a saloon in the tough Barbary Coast area of San Francisco.