A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Hands Across the Table (1935), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), Hum Tum (2004), Choose Me (1984), The Cheyenne Social Club (1970), Think Like a Man (2012), Cousins (1989) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Misunderstandings movies.
Storyline: In London, George Thomason, his seductive American girlfriend Wanda Gershwitz, and their associate Ken Pile are planning their latest crime, a diamond heist that should net them £13 million. They plan on leaving the country with the goods after the heist. On Wanda's recommendation, they enlist the help of her brother, Otto, a weapons expert, for this heist. In reality, Otto is not Wanda's brother, but her latest lover, a dimwit who gets off on his own body odor, who believes he's an intellectual because he reads Nietzsche, and who does not tolerate being called stupid by anyone. Wanda has one weakness in men which is how Otto was able to get her to be his lover: speaking Italian in seduction. Wanda and Otto plan to double cross George by having him arrested for the heist, while they abscond with the jewels. Wanda further plans to triple cross Otto by eliminating him from the picture after she has the jewels. They are able to get George arrested with him not knowing who tipped the ...
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british, heist, dark humor, romance, london ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore 'Ted' Drew III. After a date with Ted, she lets him sleep on her couch when he's too drunk to go further; but what is she to think when he wants to extend the arrangement?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, classic hollywood, social class, love triangle, lighthearted tone, paramount pictures, screwball comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Pete's plane crashes in the swamp, he's rescued by young Tammy, an unsophisticated backwoods girl who lives with her lay-preacher-cum-moonshiner grandfather. When Pete's well, he goes back home to his fiancée. But then Grampa gets sent to jail and he sends Tammy to stay with Pete. At Pete's house, Tammy's home cooking, enthusiasm and quaint sunshiny personality bring about changes in Pete's family and in Pete himself.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, musical, 1950s, hollywood, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Life is not always like the movies. Love isn't always at first sight. Very often, a relationship develops slowly and it takes many years between "boy meets girl" and "boy gets girl". Hum Tum is a refreshing look at the eternal battle of the sexes as it follows the lives of Karan (Saif Ali Khan) and Rhea (Rani Mukerji). Karan is a cartoonist and his character "Hum" and "Tum" reflect his perspective on the strange love-hate relationship between men and women. Rhea is sensitive, well bred and self-confident. She can give as good as she gets and is not afraid of standing up to men. Initially, the two have very little in common. But, as life would have it, their paths keep crossing and, over the course of a decade, their relationship evolves, from hate to mutual respect, friendship and finally - In a cinematic universe that offers simplistic scenarios to the complex relationship between men and women. Hum Tum is a novel look at the trials and tribulations of "every man" and "every woman" ...
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, bollywood, love story, drama, romantic comedy, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.—Robert Dennys <robertd@psy.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, love, drama, american, 1980s, complex relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cowboy John O'Hanlan (James Stewart) is surprised to learn that someone's left him a business in Cheyenne, Wyo. He sets out to claim it -- and is shocked to discover that it's a brothel. Madam Jenny (Shirley Jones), who runs the place, is dismayed when O'Hanlan wants to close it down, but his plans are derailed when he finds out that a local customer has beaten Jenny. He kills the man in a shootout, and then must protect himself and the girls from the dead man's vengeful clan.
Plot Keywords: western, comedy, buddy film, lighthearted, social satire, period piece, american west ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four women have given up on getting their men to do what they want until they find a how to book written by Steve Harvey. They start using his advice about relationships, and their men start falling in line, until the men discover what the women have been doing, then the war is on.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, love, relationships, dating, modern romance, african american, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Legal secretary Maria is married to car salesman Tom. Dance teacher Larry is married to the striking Tish. Larry's uncle is marrying Maria's mother. Tom and Tish meet at the wedding and waste no time taking more than a test drive in his BMW. So when Maria and Larry become acquainted later in the day they already have a common interest. But more than that, they find they like each other. A lot.—Jeremy Perkins
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, drama, love, marriage, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vinod "Guddu" Shukla is a television reporter in Mathura. He falls for the headstrong Rashmi Trivedi. Guddu wants to get married but Rashmi suggests a live-in relationship. They decide to try the live-in relationship when both their traditional families assume they're married and start living with them.—Santhosh
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, bollywood, family drama, social satire, cultural clash, love story, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A statue in a town's square narrates to a journalist the story of 9th standard-failed, unemployed, trouble-maker and stutterer Premshankar Sharma. Premshankar, cons Mr. Pinto into buying a dilapidated flat to pay for expenses of the Happy Club over which he presides, much to the disapproval of his restaurateur father, Shivshankar, who wants him to wed Shakuntala Mishra. Premshankar's life will undergo many changes after he falls in love with Pinto's adopted daughter, Jenny. He believes that she also loves him, and even helps her to elope after her parents force her to wed wealthy Tony. Premshankar ends up in despair when he finds out that Jenny's true love is Canada-based Rahul, the son of wealthy politician, Pitambar Jalan.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, bollywood, hindi film, love story, musical, comedy, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drakes School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful, divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan isn't there. Louise, an editor for Modern Design Publication, is lying in Dr. Cannon's office from fainting due to being over-worked and stressed-out. At home after the graduation ceremony, Dr. Cannon has a talk with Louise's three daughters, Tess, Ilka and Alix. He tells them that their mother needs a vacation badly, but, the only way she can relax is if she goes without the girls. The girls agree, but, Louise is reluctant, but goes. The girls see their mother off on her one month Cuban cruise. When the girls get home they discuss their mother, and believe if they bring their father back home it will make their mom happy and healthy again. In reality, Louise has kept the truth about their father from them. Their father was actually a very uncaring man, who left them and left Louise to raise the girls on her own. The girls go to see their father's boss, Robert Nelson to locate their father and bring him home. Meanwhile on Louise's Cuban cruise, she meets famed pianist and conductor, Jose Iturbi. Jose is immediately taken by Louise, but she plays hard to get, but has the time of her life. When Louise finally returns home, she has a secret to tell the girls, but, the girls have a secret too..—Kelly
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, family, drama, classic, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and thus pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language...
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, family, travel, humor, hilarious, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) visit his hometown, sober, and link art and corpses to a spy ring.
Plot Keywords: comedy, mystery, crime, detective, classic film, black comedy, whodunit ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Owen Waterbury, bestselling novelist, recruits aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord as his latest of many secretaries. The stars in her eyes fade when she finds she is to work in his apartment, with a constant parade of eccentric visitors and slapstick provided by klutzy roommate Ronnie. Moreover, Waterbury's idea of work looks a lot like play, his interest less in books than in blondes. She leaves; to get her back, he swallows his playboy principles and marries her. Can the leopard change his spots? Can Stephanie turn the tables?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, 1940s, workplace, black-and-white, classic hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carolyn and Michael fall in love and decide to marry. However, Michael insists that Carolyn quit her job. She immediately realizes that he cannot make financial ends meet on their salary alone, so she gets another job & tries keeping it a secret, from him.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, marriage, 1930s, love, social norms, female independence, fashion ...
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