What’s in a name

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows what’s in a name

poster The Doll
The Doll
(3.7/5)
48mn - Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually th…
poster Feet of Mud
Feet of Mud
(3.3/5)
17mn - Comedy
As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself co…
poster A Gasoline Wedding
A Gasoline Wedding
9mn - Comedy
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.
poster X's & O's
X's & O's
93mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodra…
poster Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell
(3.1/5)
6mn - Animation
Herman the mouse installs a bell on a cat to help his mice friends.
poster His Trysting Places
His Trysting Places
21mn - Comedy
On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "t…
poster The Saphead
The Saphead
77mn - Drama, Comedy
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making …
poster His Picture in the Papers
His Picture in the Papers
(3.0/5)
62mn - Comedy
Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and vigor. Furthermore, the film brought him together with …
poster A Life for a Life
A Life for a Life
(3.2/5)
67mn - Drama
Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.
poster The Barometer of Fidelity
The Barometer of Fidelity
15mn - Comedy
This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.
poster Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
67mn - Drama, Romance
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a r…
poster The Luck o' the Foolish
The Luck o' the Foolish
(3.2/5)
21mn - Comedy
Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to bei…
poster Angora Love
Angora Love
21mn - Comedy
Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.
poster The Inn Where No Man Rests
The Inn Where No Man Rests
5mn - Fantasy, Comedy, Horror
A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happen in his room, and before long he has created a distu…
poster East Is East
East Is East
(3.1/5)
80mn - Drama, Romance
Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone off on…
poster A Dog's Love
A Dog's Love
(3.3/5)
12mn - Fantasy
A lonely little girl is befriended by Shep, a neighbor's collie. The girl meets an untimely death, leaving Shep behind.
poster Excuse My Dust
Excuse My Dust
48mn - Drama, Comedy, Action
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterwards his wife takes their infant son and leaves him to…
poster How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
11mn - Action, Comedy, Romance
A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...
poster A Sailor-Made Man
A Sailor-Made Man
(3.4/5)
46mn - Comedy
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
poster Picking Peaches
Picking Peaches
22mn - Comedy, Animation
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when…
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