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1. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

R | 174 min | Drama, Romance

A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli

Votes: 283,015 | Gross: $11.99M

2. Tromeo and Juliet (1996)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance

Tromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.

Director: Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Valentine Miele, William Beckwith

Votes: 6,869

3. Requiem (II) (2021)

25 min | Short, Horror

Requiem is set in 1605, against the backdrop of the witch trials. It's a coming of age story, following Evelyn as she engages in a game of cat and mouse against her father, Minister Gilbert, in order to be with Mary, the woman she loves.

Director: Em J. Gilbertson | Stars: Bella Ramsey, Safia Oakley-Green, Simon Balcon, Sean Buchanan

Votes: 576

4. The Extra Girl (1923)

Not Rated | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

A small town girl dreams of movie stardom. A switched photo wins her a movie contract. Arrivng in Hollywood, she is assigned to the props department. Her parents visit and invest some money with a very shifty individual.

Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, George Nichols, Anna Dodge

Votes: 1,208

5. Billboard Girl (1932)

21 min | Comedy, Musical, Short

Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Bing Crosby, Marjorie Kane, Dick Stewart, James Eagles

Votes: 75

6. Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life (1915)

24 min | Comedy, Short

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and... See full summary »

Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Al St. John, Josef Swickard

Votes: 295

7. All Aboard (1917)

12 min | Comedy, Short

In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward . . . And the girl.

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Gus Leonard, Charles Stevenson

Votes: 182

8. Crazy Like a Fox (1926)

Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Comedy

Two rich families arrange a marriage between their children. The kids rebel, each running away, and run into each other at the train station. Not knowing the other's identity, they fall for each other and work to sabotage the plan.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, William V. Mong, Martha Sleeper

Votes: 301

9. Roars and Uproars (1922)

Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Comedy

A rare film from C.L. Chester Productions. The wealthy and now-dead Mr. P. Nutt, in revenge upon his, bequeaths estate to his lovely niece-on the condition she marry a genius whom the world calls crazy. The search is on for a crazy genius.

Director: William Campbell | Stars: Jack Cooper, Bobby Ray, Ernest Shields

Votes: 18

10. Fireman Save My Child (1918)

8 min | Comedy, Short

Harold decides to crash a fireman's ball just to see the girl he loves. However, their parents decided she would marry the fire department chief and Harold is out of consideration. But when... See full summary »

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, William Blaisdell

Votes: 106

11. Won by Law (1925)

Comedy, Short

Parents lament at their lazy 20-year-old daughter, so her father fixes her up with a Mountie in the hope he will inspire her to marry.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Wanda Wiley, Bob Reeves, Lillian Worth, Frank Whitson

Votes: 12

12. Rudolph's Revenge (1928)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy

Relentless Rudolph blackmails Belinda's father for her hand in marriage, but she is in love with handsome Harry, who will do anything to save his girl from the villain's clutches.

Stars: Vincent Brownell, Wanda Sibbald, Jimmy Aubrey, Bud Duncan

Votes: 17

13. Dynamite Doggie (1925)

18 min | Short, Comedy

Al wants to elope with his girlfriend, but her dog Pete disrupts the plan.

Directors: Grover Jones, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Al St. John, Doris Deane, George Davis, Glen Cavender

Votes: 15

14. Weak Knees (1925)

10 min | Comedy, Short

A father wants his daughter to marry a scheming Count, but is unaware she has just become engaged to her sweetheart. The sweetheart blowing up Father's car does not help his case.

Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Cliff Bowes, Virginia Vance

Votes: 12

15. Love vs. Title; or, an Up-to-Date Elopement (1906)

9 min | Short, Comedy

A father forbids his daughter to marry her fiance and orders him out of the house, so the fiance arranges for the couple to elope--and with angry dad hot on their tail, for an unorthodox wedding ceremony.

16. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.809 (1969)

TV-G | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A woman attacked by the werewolf dies. Charity accuses Quentin of being the murderer.

Director: Henry Kaplan | Stars: Nancy Barrett, David Selby, Jerry Lacy, David Henesy

Votes: 25

17. The Long Hot Summer (1985)
Episode: Part 1 (1985)

120 min | Drama, Romance

A handsome stranger is hired to work for a family farm: the domineering father, unmarried daughter, and the browbeaten son and his sexy wife. Sparks soon fly.

Director: Stuart Cooper | Stars: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Judith Ivey, Cybill Shepherd

Votes: 15

18. Family Guy (1999– )
Episode: Peter & Lois' Wedding (2019)

TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Comedy

When the Wi-Fi goes out, Peter and Lois tell the kids the story of how they met and fell in love in this spoof of the '90s sitcom Friends and everything else '90s.

Directors: Joe Vaux, Dominic Bianchi, James Purdum | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis

Votes: 1,054

19. Family Guy (1999– )
Episode: Heart Burn (2019)

TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Comedy

To celebrate Peter and Lois' wedding anniversary, the Griffins present their own versions of three well-known love stories.

Directors: Steve Robertson, Dominic Bianchi, James Purdum | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis

Votes: 974

20. Affairs of the Heart (1974–1975)
Episode: Grace (1974)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mr. Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Diana Rigg, George Cole, Jeremy Brett, Celia Bannerman

Votes: 32

21. Tôkyô zenryoku shôjo (2012– )
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2012)

54 min | Comedy

The father and daughter pair are reunited and living under the same roof again thanks to Sakurai and his white lie. His boss is unimpressed still after getting punched however. The ... See full summary »

Director: Mitsuru Kubota | Stars: Emi Takei, Atsuro Watabe, Shôhei Miura, Takashi Tsukamoto