Devi (1960), The More the Merrier (1943), Cluny Brown (1946), Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! (1994), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), The Family Way (1967), Father of the Bride (1950), Life With Father (1947) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Customs movies.
Storyline: 'Devi' focuses on a young woman who is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: indian cinema, classic film, drama, family drama, psychological drama, social critique, crisis of faith ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, world war ii, misunderstanding, love triangle, classic hollywood, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. Belinski soon falls in love with Cluny and tries to keep her from marrying Wilson.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, classic, black comedy, british film, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Prem, a top student, is learning the ropes of business under his elder brother Rajesh and his uncle Kailashnath, a big industrialist. In another town, Nisha is studying computer science and is the darling of her elder sister, Pooja, and her parents, Professor Choudhry and Kamladevi. Fate brings the two families together and this results in the the betrothal of Rajesh and Pooja. At the wedding, Prem meets Nisha and falls in love with this carefree woman. With Pooja as the woman of the house, joy knows no bounds in Prem's family. Months pass by and Pooja becomes pregnant. Nisha is invited to come and stay with her sister and attend the traditional function before the child's birth. Nisha's arrival is like a dream come true for Prem. Nisha stays there until the birth of the child, taking over the household chores, and becoming very much a part of the family. In soft whispers, Prem and Nisha commit their love for each other and secretly dream of spending a lifetime together. Then fate ...
Plot Keywords: romance, family, marriage, music, dance, bollywood, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, french film, biographical, mystery, medieval, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Married life is proving to be difficult for newlyweds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennett). With well meaning, but interfering parents, nosey neighbors, and a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage last? With all these pressures it's no wonder their personal life is suffering. Will there ever be any good news?—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, marriage, family, 1960s, sex comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Proud father Stanley T. Banks (Spencer Tracy) remembers the day his daughter, Kay (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, marriage, father-daughter relationship, wedding, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In late-19th-century New York City, a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls, and making money selling patent medicines. When it comes to light that he has never been baptized and everyone urges him to remedy this, it gets to be too much.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, classic, american, 1940s, black and white, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Faced with his father's untimely and bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, india, religion, life and death, father-son relationship, spiritual journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father. One way or another the wedding - if there is one - is going to be an unforgettable occasion.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, british film, black and white, 1950s, wedding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. Much of the humor comes from the couple's many problems they encounter while trying to fix up the place.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, country life, marriage, real estate, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marshal Antonio Carotenuto is sent to Sagliena, an imaginary little village in the center of Italy in the '50s, to assume his new mandate. In the village he knows Maria (Frisky) AKA 'la Bersagliera', secretly in love with a policeman (Carabiniere) reporting to Antonio. But also Paoletta, the priest's nephew, loves him. Things become more complicated when Annarella, the midwife, starts demonstrating her love to Antonio. She is hiding a secret and the Marshal soon will be in a restless situation.—1felco
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, italian cinema, classic, black and white, post-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: drama, family, village life, child's perspective, tradition, social outcasts, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 40 year old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virginal, educated, beautiful and very Catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies.—1felco
Plot Keywords: marriage, comedy, italian cinema, 1960s, marital relationship, social satire, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.—Mike Myers <mmyers@ucsd.edu>
Plot Keywords: magical realism, symbolism, love story, cultural heritage, surreal, visual art, tradition vs modernity ...
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