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1) Charade
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
In this equally thrilling and romantic classic, Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) while on holiday in the French Alps. Her newfound romance is interrupted, however, upon her return home, when it is revealed that her husband has been murdered. Regina and Peter soon find themselves pursued by her husband's World War II cronies, Tex (James Coburn), Scobie (George Kennedy) and Gideon (Ned Glass), who are after...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Love arrives with a splash when a handsome, eligible tycoon and a beautiful working woman meet over an outside mud puddle. He's enchanted by her small town ways, and she's captivated by his romantic, debonair manner. But when it comes to marriage they have decidedly different views, she wants it and he doesn't! It's a game of cat-and-mouse as each tries to win the other, with hilarious and heartwarming results.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. Try as they each might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help but meddle in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman, and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fianče's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately, one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realizing she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness5and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he2s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who2s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed.
10) Penny serenade
Series
Publisher
American Pop Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Classic soap opera, Penny Serenade is the story of a young couple who seem to have everything, but must overcome a great tragedy to learn the value of true love.
12) His girl Friday
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1940
Language
English
Description
An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses dirty tricks to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and marrying a mama's boy.
13) Father Goose
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
14) Indiscreet
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair. But it turns out that the actress isn't the only one with the talent for role-playing--her married lover is actually a single playboy with no intentions of settling down. When his secret is revealed, she decides to give her Romeo a taste of his own medicine."--Container....
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Videos
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. At first Poppy is worried and wants to get rid of her, but with love and patience they finally manage to integrate her into the family. Just then Anne invites another orphan, the aggressive handicapped Jimmy-John, to their...
16) Suspicion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1941
Language
English
Description
A handsome playboy meets and marries a shy heiress-to-be. But after their honeymoon, she starts believing her husband is a murderer and fears that she could be his next victim.
18) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The U.S.S. Sea Tiger is on its last legs until the handsome skipper and his ingenious, if slightly unethical, junior officer scavenge the parts and supplies needed to put the sub back into action. Forced out to sea prematurely by an enemy air attack, the sub leaks and limps along until five stranded Army nurses come aboard and initiate their own renovations. From one mishap to another, the sub ends up a blushing pink, making it a target for both Japanese...
20) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood's most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding...
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