Topic: Romantic Comedy

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Virginia Cherrill · Florence Lee · Harry Myers

Synopsis The Little Tramp falls in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). She believes he is wealthy and he, in turn, sets out to raise the money for the operation that could restore her sight.

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Mariel Hemingway · Michael Murphy

Synopsis Manhattan (1979) follows Isaac, a neurotic television writer in New York City, navigating love, relationships, and his own insecurities. Divorced twice, he dates a high school student while developing feelings for his best friend's mistress, Mary. As Isaac grapples with...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Greta Garbo · Melvyn Douglas · Bela Lugosi · Ina Claire

Synopsis Ninotchka is a stern, straightlaced Communist Party member sent to Paris to finish the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for the Soviet government. But, while studying the frivolous materialism of Paris, Ninotchka meets Leon, Swana's lawyer and sometime lover,...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Barry Fitzgerald · Ward Bond

Synopsis John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases his birthplace from its current owner, enraging the wealthy and...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast James Stewart · Margaret Sullavan · Frank Morgan · Felix Bressart

Synopsis The Shop around the Corner (1940) follows two bickering coworkers, Alfred and Klara, who unknowingly fall in love as anonymous pen pals. Set in a small Budapest leather goods store, their professional rivalry masks their growing romantic connection through heartfelt...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · James Stewart · Ruth Hussey

Synopsis The Philadelphia Story (1940) follows Tracy Lord, a wealthy socialite preparing for her second marriage. As her wedding approaches, her ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven, unexpectedly returns, complicating matters. Meanwhile, a tabloid journalist and photographer arrive to cover the event, adding...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Tony Roberts · Carol Kane

Synopsis Annie Hall (1977) is a witty and introspective romantic comedy that explores the complexities of love and relationships. The film follows the life of Alvy Singer, a neurotic New York comedian, as he reflects on his failed romance with the...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · May Robson

Synopsis Bringing Up Baby (1938) follows the chaotic misadventures of a straight-laced paleontologist, David Huxley, whose life is turned upside down when he meets the free-spirited Susan Vance. After a chance encounter, Susan becomes infatuated with David and embroils him in...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis His Girl Friday (1940) is a fast-paced screwball comedy that follows ace reporter Hildy Johnson as she plans to leave journalism to marry her fiancé and start a new life. However, her charismatic and scheming ex-husband and editor, Walter Burns,...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Lou Jacobi · Bruce Yarnell

Synopsis The film version of Irma La Douce (which means "Irma the Sweet") tells the story of Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), an honest policeman who finds a street full of prostitutes in a popular area in Paris. After reporting the ladies...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gregory Peck · Audrey Hepburn · Eddie Albert · Hartley Power

Synopsis On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne (Audrey Hepburn) escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), who, recognizing a hot news story, pretends that he doesn't...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers

Synopsis In Ball of Fire (1941), a group of professors working on an encyclopedia encounter Sugarpuss O'Shea, a vivacious nightclub singer on the run from the law. She takes refuge with them, bringing chaos and charm into their sheltered academic world....

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis It Happened One Night (1934) follows a spirited runaway heiress, Ellie Andrews, who escapes her controlling father to reunite with her new husband. On a bus to New York, she crosses paths with Peter Warne, a sharp-witted, out-of-work reporter. Recognizing...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · John Barrymore · Mary Astor

Synopsis Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is an American showgirl in Paris who is out of work, money, and luck when a handsome cabbie (Don Ameche) offers to drive her around the city to search for employment as a nightclub chanteuse. Nobody's...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Spencer Tracy · Judy Holliday · Tom Ewell

Synopsis Adam's Rib (1949) is a witty courtroom comedy that explores gender dynamics and marital conflict. The story follows married lawyers Adam and Amanda Bonner, who find themselves on opposing sides of a high-profile case. Amanda defends a woman accused of...

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Audrey Hepburn · George Peppard · Patricia Neal · Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is New York call girl, whose allure captivates her upstairs neighbour Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a writer who pays the rent with the help of his own wealthy "sponsor" (Patricia Neal).

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast William Powell · Carole Lombard · Gail Patrick · Alice Brady

Synopsis Director Gregory La Cava deftly balances satire, romance, and social comment in this 1936 classic, which echoes Frank Capra in its Depression-era subtext. The Bullocks are a well-heeled, harebrained Manhattan family genetically engineered for screwball collisions: father Alexander (Eugene Pallette,...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best

Synopsis At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna and their long...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander

Synopsis When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur). Suddenly, he becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives.

Direction Osamu Sekita

Synopsis TV Series (2009-2010). 1 season. 50 episodes. 5th grader Koh Kitamura lives next door to the Tsukishima family, owners of a batting cage and the Clover cafe. His girlfriend, Wakaba, is the 2nd Tsukishima daughter; the 3rd daughter, the baseball...