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American cinema: Romance/Comedy

A Damsel in Distress (1937)
George Stevens

Everyone at Tottleigh Castle knows that Lady Alyce Marshmorton is about to get married, but no one knows for certain who the lucky man will be...   [More...]

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Charles Crichton

London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West...   [More...]

A Night at the Opera (1935)
Sam Wood

By donating money to Otis B. Driftwood, an opera promoter of dubious repute, wealthy widow Mrs Claypool hopes to buy her way into high society...   [More...]

Adam's Rib (1949)
George Cukor

District Attorney Adam Bonner is far from pleased when he is called upon to prosecute Doris Attinger, a young woman who shot and wounded her husband when she found him in the arms of his mistress...   [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors...   [More...]

Anchors Aweigh (1945)
George Sidney

Returning home to a hero's welcome after WWII, navy personnel Clarence Doolittle and Joe Brady can hardly wait to get ashore and extract every last morsel of pleasure from their leave...   [More...]

The Artist (2011)
Michel Hazanavicius

Hollywood, 1927. George Valentin is a star of silent cinema on whom the sun has never ceased to shine. But the arrival of sound looks set to send him into obscurity...   [More...]

The Awful Truth (1937)
Leo McCarey

Jerry Warriner returns home after his holiday to find that his wife Lucy has apparently got herself romantically involved with her music teacher, Armand Duvalle...   [More...]

Bachelor Mother (1939)
Garson Kanin

Polly Parrish works as a shop assistant in a New York department store. On the day she learns she is to be dismissed she manages to get herself mistaken for the mother of a baby that has been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage...   [More...]

Bell Book and Candle (1958)
Richard Quine

One Christmas Eve in New York, Gillian Holroyd suddenly discovers that she is attracted to her neighbour, Shepherd Henderson...   [More...]

Born Yesterday (1950)
George Cukor

Not content with having made a fortune through his scrap metal business, Harry Brock arrives in Washington DC intending to expand his empire with the help of one or two corruptible congressmen...   [More...]

Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Howard Hawks

To secure a million dollar donation for his natural history museum, palaeontologist David Huxley finds he has to play a round of golf with his donor's agent, Mr Peabody...   [More...]

Call Me Madam (1953)
Walter Lang

The United States needs to appoint a new ambassador to the European country of Lichtenburg and who better than the oil tycoon and society queen Sally Adams...   [More...]

Carefree (1938)
Mark Sandrich

In a desperate attempt to get his fiancée Amanda to agree to marry him, Stephen Arden asks his psychiatrist friend, Dr Tony Flagg, to analyse her...   [More...]

Charade (1963)
Stanley Donen

Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas...   [More...]

Christmas in July (1940)
Preston Sturges

Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company's slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize...   [More...]

Desk Set (1957)
Walter Lang

Bunny Watson runs the reference department of the Federal Broadcasting Network, leading a team that provides answers swiftly and accurately on a whole range of topics to anyone else in the company...   [More...]

Father of the Bride (1950)
Vincente Minnelli

Stanley and Ellie Banks are an ordinary middle-class American couple who have lived a well-ordered, trouble-free life - until that awful Earth-shattering day when their daughter Kay announces that she intends to get married...   [More...]

Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Vincente Minnelli

With his daughter Kay now happily married, Stanley Banks thinks that his worries are over. How wrong he is. Just when everything appears to be going swimmingly, Kay drops her bombshell - she is expecting a baby...   [More...]

Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Francis Ford Coppola

Finian McLonergan absconds from his native Ireland with a stolen crock of gold, accompanied by his daughter Sharon. He arrives in Rainbow Valley, USA, believing that if he buries the crock near to Fort Knox he will become a wealthy man...   [More...]

Follow the Fleet (1936)
Mark Sandrich

When his dancing partner, Sherry Martin, declines to marry him, Bake Baker decides to join the navy. Bake soon grows disillusioned with the life of a sailor and, as soon as his ship docks at San Francisco, he heads straight for the nearest nightclub...   [More...]

Funny Face (1957)
Stanley Donen

Fashion magazine editor Maggie Prescott is convinced that the next glamour look will combine beauty with intellect. Dissatisfied with her leading model, she arranges a photo-shoot in a Greenwich Village bookshop with her faithful photographer Dick Avery...   [More...]

The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Mark Sandrich

After a brief stay in Paris, the celebrated American dancer Guy Holden travels to England with his friend, Egbert Fitzgerald, a lawyer who has agreed to temporarily take the reins at his father's London law firm...   [More...]

The General (1927)
Clyde Bruckman

America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life - his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee...   [More...]

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Howard Hawks

Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are showgirls who think of nothing but catching the man of their dreams. Lorelei believes she has already landed her man, a wealthy heir named Gus Esmond who can't help showering her with expensive presents...   [More...]

Gigi (1958)
Vincente Minnelli

Paris, 1900. The wealthy man of leisure, Gaston Lachaille, is bored with society women - unlike his ageing uncle Honoré, who has lost none of his enthusiasm for playing the field...   [More...]

Give a Girl a Break (1953)
Stanley Donen

Broadway producer Felix Jordan has a crisis on his hands when his temperamental lead actress walks out of his latest show Give a Girl a Break...   [More...]

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Busby Berkeley

The staff at the Wentworth Plaza, a high class hotel at Lake Waxapahachie, are used to handsome tips from their well-heeled clients...   [More...]

The Gold Rush (1925)
Charles Chaplin

An anonymous tramp makes the journey to Alaska, hoping to make his fortune in the gold rush. Caught in a snow storm, he takes refuge in a log cabin in which he confronts an escaped convict, Black Larsen, and another prospector, Big Jim McKay...   [More...]

Guys and Dolls (1955)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

New Yorker Nathan Detroit is struggling to make a dishonest living organising crap games for his gambling-addicted buddies...   [More...]



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