Equinox Flower (1958), The White Ribbon (2009), Beautiful City (2004), Love Actually (2003), Maborosi (1995), Saving Face (2004), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Matchmaking movies.
Storyline: A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family and romantic relationships. He is always very calmly and objectively able to give great insight and assistance to these particular situations. However, when it comes time for him to be objective regarding his oldest daughter, he finds it very difficult...—Karl Engel <cassiel@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: marriage, young woman, domineering father, forbidden love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, train station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.
Plot Keywords: year 1914, sexual abuse, repression, fatal accident, patriarchy, patriarch, verbal abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, 'Beautiful City' is a cinematic gem not to be missed. Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the conviction could be carried out. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A'la, a friend of Akbar, who himself has undergone imprisonment for burglary, soon after his release tries desperately to gain the consent of Akbar's plaintiff so as to stop the execution. 'Beautiful City' is a simple film about the power of forgiveness.—IMVBox.com
Plot Keywords: iran, teen suicide, injustice, illiteracy, 2000s, iranian, suicide ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Against the backdrop of aged has-been rock star Billy Mack's Christmas themed comeback cover of "Love Is All Around" which he knows is crap and makes no bones about it much to his manager Joe's chagrin as he promotes the record, several interrelated stories about romantic love and the obstacles to happiness through love for Londoners are presented in the five weeks preceding Christmas. Daniel's wife has just passed away, leaving him to take care of his adolescent stepson Sam by himself. Daniel is uncertain how to deal with Sam and his problems without his wife present, especially in light of a potential budding romance within their household. Juliet and Peter have just gotten married. They believe that Peter's best friend and best man Mark hates Juliet but won't say so to his or her face. Others looking at the situation from the outside believe Mark is jealous of Juliet as he is in love with Peter himself. Jamie, a writer, is taking a writing retreat by himself in rural France ...
Plot Keywords: christmas, adultery, love at first sight, female rear nudity, female nudity, woman on top, sex on floor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: piano teacher, japan, husband wife relationship, hope, hit by a train, happiness, haircut ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: lesbian love, mother daughter relationship, sex, bare breasts, lesbian romance, honor, fear ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel.
Plot Keywords: male objectification, bechdel test failed, gold digger, camp, campy, blonde woman, woman wears a red dress ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the pups, and wants to get hold of them, as well as more pups, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat... Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the pups and hold them at her mansion. Will Pongo and Perdita find them in time ?
Plot Keywords: rescue, cigarette holder, based on novel, castle thunder, disney, talking animal, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: screenplay adapted by author, new york city, judaism, matchmaking, based on play, pickle, matchmaker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jane Austen's beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending, is reimagined in this. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.—Focus Features
Plot Keywords: based on novel, apology, marriage proposal, painting, farmer, female protagonist, selfishness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: circumcision, car, driving, kindergarten, little girl, awkwardness, crying ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the Smart Girls (nominal ages 14-20) sweeps all before it, but a romantic complication between middle sister Kay and their accidental ally, Lord Michael Stuart, threatens shipwreck to their schemes...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: father daughter relationship, fired from the job, engagement, fistfight, gym, horse riding, impersonation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Plot Keywords: matchmaker, female protagonist, duet, snob, singing, horse and buggy, dancing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend Buzz kidnap her in the family trailer to live a life on the open road without worries about how to make ends meet. They then get the idea to find a husband for her whom both she and Pinkie would like.—Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
Plot Keywords: police, photographer, millionaire, marriage of convenience, lawyer, invention, insurance ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two young assistants in New York City realize they can make their lives easier by setting up their workaholic bosses to date. While trying to perpetuate this romantic ruse between their nightmare bosses, the assistants realize they might be right for each other.
Plot Keywords: boss, job, employer employee relationship, gay friend, engagement party, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, trapped in an elevator ...
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