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A Family Affair (1937), What Every Woman Knows (1934), The Clandestine Marriage (1999), Susan and God (1940), Hobson's Choice (1954), The Young in Heart (1938), The Pleasure of His Company (1961) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

A Family Affair (1937)

A Family Affair (1937)

6.8/10 Comedy

Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calmness to all.

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What Every Woman Knows (1934)

What Every Woman Knows (1934)

6.6/10 Comedy

The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five years. Recognizing his ambitions, Maggie helps to guide his career without his realizing it. He honors his commitment, even though he does not feel real love for her as she does fo...Read all

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The Clandestine Marriage (1999)

The Clandestine Marriage (1999)

5.9/10 Comedy

A period movie, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family. The planned marriage suffers a last-minute upset when the would-be husband switches affections to the bride's sister.

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Susan and God (1940)

Susan and God (1940)

5.9/10 Comedy, Drama

Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found religious experience with her closest friends - only to drive them crazy. Meanwhile, her husband Barrie, and daughter Blossom yearn for a stable family life. Barrie will even become sobe...Read all

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Hobson's Choice (1954)

Hobson's Choice (1954)

7.7/10 Comedy

Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a successful bootmaker, a widower and a tyrannical father of three daughters. The girls each want to leave their father by getting married, but Henry refuses because marriage traditions require him to pay out settlements.

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The Young in Heart (1938)

The Young in Heart (1938)

7.3/10 Comedy

Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.

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The Pleasure of His Company (1961)

The Pleasure of His Company (1961)

6.9/10 Comedy

San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father, "Pogo" Poole, whom she hasn't seen for years, comes to the wedding. He arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife, Katharine, and her long-suffering husband, and befriending their cook, Toy. At first it seems that Pogo is set on brea...Read all

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Desperado Square (2002)

Desperado Square (2002)

6.9/10 Comedy, Drama

In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders him to re-open the old neighborhood movie theater, thus breaking the vow that Morris had made years before never to screen movies again. Nissim and his brother George, together with ...Read all

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The Affairs of Julie (1958)

The Affairs of Julie (1958)

6.6/10 Comedy

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence ...Read all

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The Bride Goes Wild (1948)

The Bride Goes Wild (1948)

6.4/10 Comedy

McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play...Read all

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Equinox Flower (1958)

Equinox Flower (1958)

7.9/10 Comedy, Drama

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

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The Catered Affair (1956)

The Catered Affair (1956)

7.5/10 Comedy, Drama

When Jane tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran, her mother Agnes, starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it.

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Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

7.3/10 Comedy, Drama

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

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Major Barbara (1941)

Major Barbara (1941)

6.8/10 Comedy

A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.

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Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

6.6/10 Comedy

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is...Read all

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An Ideal Husband (1948)

An Ideal Husband (1948)

6.5/10 Comedy, Drama

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

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Prosperity (1932)

Prosperity (1932)

6.3/10 Comedy, Drama

In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are still bickering. When Lizzy inadvertently starts a run on the bank, it closes when Maggie learns that John has done what she had told him never to do - used the bank bonds for a get...Read all

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Our Betters (1933)

Our Betters (1933)

6.2/10 Comedy

Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, but they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps our equals, in morality.

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