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1. Forsaking All Others (1934)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 1,594

2. Libeled Lady (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Votes: 8,943

3. I'm No Angel (1933)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold

Votes: 3,994 | Gross: $6.21M

4. Love Among the Ruins (1975 TV Movie)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An aging actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover, and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it. She realizes that the ... See full summary »

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Richard Pearson

Votes: 1,171

5. Counsellor at Law (1933)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell

Votes: 1,514

6. Scattered Clouds (1967)

108 min | Drama, Romance

A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko Mori

Votes: 1,348

7. Play Girl (1941)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

The fascinating Grace Herbert has many years' experience as a professional gold-digger. Her finances at a low ebb, she finds her mature beauty less effective than of yore, and takes on ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Kay Francis, James Ellison, Mildred Coles, Nigel Bruce

Votes: 392

8. Too Many Kisses (1925)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Richard Gaylord, Jr. is a modern Lothario who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Richard Dix, Frank Currier, Albert Tavernier, Frances Howard

Votes: 251

9. A Letter for Evie (1946)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance, War

An oafish soldier receives a shirt but disregards the letter inside sent by a lovelorn secretary, prompting his bumbling friend to impersonate him in order to win her heart.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Marsha Hunt, John Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Spring Byington

Votes: 460

10. Blackmail (1920)

60 min | Drama

Confidence artist Flossie Golden attempts to fleece foolish but wealthy James Venable with a breach-of-promise suit. Venable's shrewd attorney, Richard Harding, outwits Flossie by proposing... See full summary »

Director: Dallas M. Fitzgerald | Stars: Viola Dana, Alfred Allen, Wyndham Standing, Edward Cecil

11. We're in the Money (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

Two gold-digging process servers are tasked with subpoenaing one's boyfriend, who has been using a pseudonym to avoid breach-of-promise servings and suits.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Ross Alexander

Votes: 518

12. Havana Widows (1933)

62 min | Comedy

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 536

13. Redhead (1941)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Romance

A young playboy and a girl marry because they think the boy's rich father will pay the girl $20,000 to divorce his son, and they will then split the money. Instead, the father works out a ... See full summary »

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: June Lang, Johnny Downs, Eric Blore, Weldon Heyburn

Votes: 121

14. Monte Carlo Nights (1934)

Approved | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Mary Brian, John Darrow, Yola d'Avril, Astrid Allwyn

Votes: 172

15. Seven Days Ashore (1944)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Dooley Wilson

Votes: 212

16. Girl in the Street (1937)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Jacqueline, a London gutter-snipe is "befriended" by Marius Andreani, a diplomat known for being a rounder with the ladies, but he goes pure with Jacqueline, resolved to help her to the ... See full summary »

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati, Robert Douglas, Horace Hodges

Votes: 39

17. Strange Testament (1941)

Passed | 11 min | Short, Drama, History

Story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later life.

Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: Edward Ashley, John Nesbitt, Ava Gardner, Dorothy Morris

Votes: 54

18. She Couldn't Say No (II) (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Comedy

Wally is a lawyer with no clients so when he gets a job to buy a lake and the surrounding 1000 acres for Trans Atlantic Airlines, he jumps at the chance. But when ole man Potter puts a load... See full summary »

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Roger Pryor, Eve Arden, Cliff Edwards, Clem Bevans

Votes: 193

19. Dizzy Daddies (1926)

Short, Comedy

Difficulties befall a father who attempts to alibi his chosen son-in-law in the eyes of his daughter when a lady of past acquaintance unexpectedly intrudes upon a peaceful home.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Tyler Brooke, Gertrude Astor, James Finlayson, Molly O'Day

Votes: 25

20. Manhattan Parade (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical

The fortunes of a Broadway costume company rise and fall depending on who is running it, and whether its clients' shows succeed or not.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joe Smith, Charles Dale, Winnie Lightner, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 173

21. The Path Forbidden (1914)

Drama

Twenty-five years ago, a frivolous, beautiful girl, Violet Dare, created havoc among the summer boarders at an Adirondack hotel. Two young chaps, Joe Brill and Jim Kent, were the favored ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Handworth | Stars: Octavia Handworth, Gordon De Main, William A. Williams, Hamilton Crane

22. A Game of Wits (1917)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Jeanette Browning overhears Silas Stone, an aged Wall Street wolf, demanding her as his wife in payment for saving her father from financial ruin. Upon her acceptance of Stone's proposal, ... See full summary »

Director: Henry King | Stars: Gail Kane, George Periolat, Spottiswoode Aitken, Lew Cody

23. Southern Exposure (1935)

Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Charley, is a descendant of the Blue Grass State Chases. Assuming that they ... See full summary »

Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Charley Chase, Constance Bergen, Bob Burns, Jessie Arnold

Votes: 71

24. A Girl's Best Years (1936)

Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Mary Doran, John Warburton, Barnett Parker, Sheila Terry

Votes: 119

25. Damages for Breach (1919)

Short, Comedy

A bachelor, sued by his numerous fiancées, marries a cook.

Director: Arrigo Bocchi | Stars: Kenelm Foss, Manora Thew, Hayford Hobbs, Evelyn Harding

26. The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Episode: A Woman's Privilege (1962)

29 min | Crime, Drama

A shipboard romance leads to a lawsuit for breach of promise.

Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Bernard Archard, Ann Lynn, Patrick Wymark

Votes: 38

27. The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode: Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee (1963)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

After being treated to Aunt Bee's hospitality and home cooking, Briscoe Darling decides he is going to marry her. He even resorts to kidnapping her. Andy comes up with a clever solution to the whole mess.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier

Votes: 349

28. F.C. De Kampioenen (1990–2020)
Episode: Omkoopschandaal (1990)

31 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

When the women find out that DDT is involved in a bribe scandal with the Kampioenen, they think they now have enough money to buy many many clothes. But the story isn't as simple as it looks.

Director: Willy Vanduren | Stars: Danni Heylen, Carry Goossens, An Swartenbroekx, Marijn De Valck

Votes: 33

29. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode: Home Fires (1974)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama

Lady Prudence hijacks the Bellamy drawing room for an officers tea party and in her new job as conductress, Rose collects a fare from a very special passenger.

Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Meg Wynn Owen

Votes: 86

30. Heirs to the Land (2022)
Episode: Esclavos (2022)

TV-MA | Drama

With Hugo in custody, Regina begs for his release. However, her love for him is a double-edged sword and comes with its own set of consequences.

Director: Jordi Frades | Stars: Yon González, Elena Rivera, Rodolfo Sancho, Aria Bedmar

Votes: 58

31. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020)
Episode: Chapter Three: The Trial of Sabrina Spellman (2018)

TV-14 | 57 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

As Sabrina confronts a long line of family secrets, Harvey faces turmoil at home - and shares a secret of his own.

Director: Rob Seidenglanz | Stars: Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis, Chance Perdomo

Votes: 2,483