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In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
City Lights (1931)
Charlie Chaplin · 68 critic votes
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Billy Wilder · 64 critic votes
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
The Apartment (1960)
Billy Wilder · 49 critic votes
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Modern Times (1936)
Charlie Chaplin · 45 critic votes
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Ernst Lubitsch · 31 critic votes
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Howard Hawks · 30 critic votes
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Frank Capra · 29 critic votes
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick · 28 critic votes
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
His Girl Friday (1940)
Howard Hawks · 27 critic votes
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ernst Lubitsch · 21 critic votes
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
All about Eve (1950)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 20 critic votes
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Duck Soup (1933)
Leo McCarey · 17 critic votes
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Sullivan's Travels (1942)
Preston Sturges · 14 critic votes
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Vincente Minnelli · 13 critic votes
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
The Shop around the Corner (1940)
Ernst Lubitsch · 12 critic votes
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Howard Hawks · 12 critic votes
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
The Band Wagon (1953)
Vincente Minnelli · 12 critic votes
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
It Happened One Night (1934)
Frank Capra · 9 critic votes
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
The Awful Truth (1937)
Leo McCarey · 9 critic votes
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
The Great Dictator (1940)
Charlie Chaplin · 9 critic votes
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
George Cukor · 9 critic votes
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
The Quiet Man (1952)
John Ford · 9 critic votes
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
Duck Amuck (1953)
Chuck Jones · 8 critic votes
The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
Design for Living (1933)
Ernst Lubitsch, Ben Hecht · 6 critic votes
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Dorothy Arzner · 6 critic votes
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
The Lady Eve (1941)
Preston Sturges · 6 critic votes
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
John Ford · 6 critic votes
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
Flaming Creatures (1963)
Jack Smith · 6 critic votes
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 5 critic votes
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Ernst Lubitsch · 4 critic votes
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
Angel (1937)
Ernst Lubitsch · 4 critic votes
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Ninotchka (1939)
Ernst Lubitsch · 4 critic votes
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
H. C. Potter · 4 critic votes
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Preston Sturges · 4 critic votes
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Preston Sturges · 4 critic votes
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Charlie Chaplin · 4 critic votes
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Limelight (1952)
Charlie Chaplin · 4 critic votes
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Hatari! (1962)
Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick · 4 critic votes
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Russ Meyer · 4 critic votes
A trio of thrill-seeking go-go dancers kidnap a young girl and attempt to seduce an old rancher and his two sons out of their small fortune, but their scheme doesn't play out as intended.
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley · 3 critic votes
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
It's a Gift (1934)
Norman Z. McLeod · 3 critic votes
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Midnight (1939)
Mitchell Leisen · 3 critic votes
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.
The Women (1939)
George Cukor · 3 critic votes
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Preston Sturges · 3 critic votes
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Cluny Brown (1946)
Ernst Lubitsch · 3 critic votes
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Ed Wood · 3 critic votes
A man who secretly cross-dresses struggles to reveal his true self to the woman he loves in a provocative exploration of gender and social prejudice.
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · 3 critic votes
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
Charade (1963)
Stanley Donen · 3 critic votes
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
Dave Fleischer · 2 critic votes
Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive?
Monkey Business (1931)
Norman Z. McLeod · 2 critic votes
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Rouben Mamoulian · 2 critic votes
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Dorothy Arzner · 2 critic votes
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
The Music Box (1932)
James Parrott · 2 critic votes
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.
Top Hat (1935)
Mark Sandrich · 2 critic votes
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Letter of Introduction (1938)
John M. Stahl · 2 critic votes
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
The Pirate (1948)
Vincente Minnelli · 2 critic votes
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Monkey Business (1952)
Howard Hawks · 2 critic votes
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
The Long Gray Line (1955)
John Ford · 2 critic votes
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Frank Tashlin · 2 critic votes
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
A King in New York (1957)
Charlie Chaplin · 2 critic votes
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
The Pajama Game (1957)
George Abbott, Stanley Donen · 2 critic votes
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
One, Two, Three (1961)
Billy Wilder · 2 critic votes
In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by a Communist.
Lolita (1962)
Stanley Kubrick · 2 critic votes
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Donovan's Reef (1963)
John Ford · 2 critic votes
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Jerry Lewis · 2 critic votes
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
Madam Satan (1930)
Cecil B. DeMille · 1 critic vote
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
Whoopee! (1930)
Thornton Freeland, H. Bruce Humberstone · 1 critic vote
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
Working Girls (1931)
Dorothy Arzner · 1 critic vote
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Any Old Port! (1932)
James W. Horne · 1 critic vote
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
County Hospital (1932)
James Parrott · 1 critic vote
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.
Helpmates (1932)
James Parrott · 1 critic vote
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
Me and My Gal (1932)
Raoul Walsh · 1 critic vote
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
One Hour with You (1932)
Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor · 1 critic vote
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
The Dentist (1932)
Leslie Pearce · 1 critic vote
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
The Old Dark House (1932)
James Whale · 1 critic vote
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Mark Sandrich · 1 critic vote
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
The Thin Man (1934)
W. S. Van Dyke, Lesley Selander · 1 critic vote
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Them Thar Hills (1934)
Charley Rogers · 1 critic vote
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
Twentieth Century (1934)
Howard Hawks · 1 critic vote
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Sam Wood · 1 critic vote
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Hands across the Table (1935)
Mitchell Leisen · 1 critic vote
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Leo McCarey · 1 critic vote
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Swing Time (1936)
George Stevens · 1 critic vote
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
A Day at the Races (1937)
Sam Wood · 1 critic vote
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of the sanitarium, isn't really a doctor, he's a veterinarian.
Easy Living (1937)
Mitchell Leisen · 1 critic vote
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Frank Borzage · 1 critic vote
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Holiday (1938)
George Cukor · 1 critic vote
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Garson Kanin · 1 critic vote
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Frank Capra · 1 critic vote
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Remember the Night (1940)
Mitchell Leisen · 1 critic vote
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Stormy Weather (1943)
Andrew L. Stone · 1 critic vote
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
The More the Merrier (1943)
George Stevens · 1 critic vote
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Frank Capra · 1 critic vote
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Good News (1947)
Charles Walters · 1 critic vote
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
The Cat Concerto (1947)
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera · 1 critic vote
Tom Cat is a concert pianist who plays beautifully until he is interrupted by Jerry Mouse.
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Billy Wilder · 1 critic vote
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
Good Sam (1948)
Leo McCarey · 1 critic vote
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Preston Sturges · 1 critic vote
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 1 critic vote
A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one.
On the Town (1949)
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · 1 critic vote
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Rabbit of Seville (1950)
Chuck Jones · 1 critic vote
Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him on stage. As the orchestra begins playing, Bugs comes into play as the barber who is going to make sure that Elmer is going to get a grooming he will never forget.
An American in Paris (1951)
Vincente Minnelli · 1 critic vote
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
It's a Big Country (1951)
Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis, William A. Wellman · 1 critic vote
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
Feed the Kitty (1952)
Chuck Jones · 1 critic vote
A bulldog adopts an adorable kitten, but he can't let his owner know.
It Should Happen to You (1954)
George Cukor · 1 critic vote
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Artists and Models (1955)
Frank Tashlin · 1 critic vote
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 1 critic vote
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
One Froggy Evening (1955)
Chuck Jones · 1 critic vote
A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the frog will sing only for him, and just croak for the talent agent and the audience in the theater he's spent his life savings on.
The Court Jester (1956)
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama · 1 critic vote
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Funny Face (1957)
Stanley Donen · 1 critic vote
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Chuck Jones · 1 critic vote
Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
Auntie Mame (1958)
Morton DaCosta · 1 critic vote
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Blake Edwards · 1 critic vote
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
Paul Wendkos · 1 critic vote
Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis...
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Stanley Kramer · 1 critic vote
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
My Fair Lady (1964)
George Cukor · 1 critic vote
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
Frank Tashlin · 1 critic vote
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
Mary Poppins (1965)
Robert Stevenson · 1 critic vote
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Vinyl (1965)
Andy Warhol · 1 critic vote
Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.
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