The perfect match

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows the perfect match

poster The Hansom Cabman

The Hansom Cabman

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and …

poster A Modern Cinderella

A Modern Cinderella

This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being th…

poster Hook, Line and Sinker

Hook, Line and Sinker

75mn - Comedy, Romance

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly a…

poster Princess in Love

Princess in Love

94mn - Drama, Short

The relationship that blossomed between Diana, Princess of Wales, and Captain James Hewitt. Based on Hewitt's book.

poster The Delicious Little Devil

The Delicious Little Devil

77mn - Comedy, Drama

A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the famil…

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 The Barometer of Fidelity

The Barometer of Fidelity

This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.

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 Aah

Aah

146mn - Drama, Romance

At the behest of his father, Raj writes letters to Chandra, a prospective bride. However, unbeknownst to him, it is Neelu, Chandra's sister, who responds to his letters and falls in love with him.

poster So Near, Yet So Far

So Near, Yet So Far

15mn - Romance, Drama

It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy bot…

poster Daddy's Double

Daddy's Double

16mn - Comedy, Romance

This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.

poster Love Affair

Love Affair

88mn - Drama, Romance

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.

poster Brothers Under the Chin

Brothers Under the Chin

Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." The other as captain of a sailing vessel needs an extra…

poster Lost for Words

Lost for Words

107mn - Drama, Romance

A wounded ex-Marine seeking a fresh start in Hong Kong falls for a talented Chinese ballerina from Beijing, but as their cross-cultural romance deepens through language lessons and shared dreams, mounting…

poster A Tale of Two Bunnies

A Tale of Two Bunnies

0mn - Short, Drama

Two small-town girls arrive in Chicago to find fame and fortune. Ruby wants to be a fashion designer; Holly simply wants a city salary to help out her family. Both girls' heads are turned by the chance to…

poster Babul

Babul

Two fathers, one poor and the other rich, hope that a wealthy postmaster will wed one of their daughters.

poster Anything Once!

Anything Once!

ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump …

poster Love Lessons

Love Lessons

97mn - Drama, Short

An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.

poster His Trysting Places

His Trysting Places

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 Roommates

Roommates

100mn - Drama, Short

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.

Related terms

See also