Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "jealous-rival"

1. Persuasion (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Drama, Family

Anne was in love with Frederick, who was rejected by her snobby parents 8 years ago. They've now hit hard times and rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law. He returns a Royal Navy captain. Will he remember Anne?

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Alice Krige, Anthony Head, Julia Davis

Votes: 16,524

2. Ninotchka (1939)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 22,938 | Gross: $1.19M

3. Houseboat (1958)

Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.

Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino

Votes: 9,664

4. The Inheritance (1997 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama, Romance

A 19th-century woman, companion to a blue-blooded New England girl, falls for an aristocrat.

Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Cari Shayne, Brigitta Dau, Paul Anthony Stewart, Brigid Brannagh

Votes: 1,648

5. The Appointment (1969)

R | 115 min | Drama, Romance

The lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to believe that his wife Carla in secret is Rome's highest paid prostitute.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Didi Perego, Fausto Tozzi

Votes: 901

6. New Orleans (1947)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Dorothy Patrick, Marjorie Lord, Irene Rich

Votes: 674

7. Retreat to Paradise (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Romance

Ellie tends to the injured and cantankerous Jordan as he heals from a shoulder injury. Though he struggles to learn to use his arm again, his attitude leaves Ellie wanting to leave him in ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Brough | Stars: Melanie Stone, Casey Elliott, Brian Krause, Jaclyn Hales

Votes: 770

8. Squeal (2021)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and making a slave on the farm.

Director: Aik Karapetian | Stars: Kevin Janssens, Laura Silina, Aigars Vilims, Normunds Griestins

Votes: 374

9. Babysitter's Black Book (2015 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Friends start a babysitting business to save up for college, but when the babysitting money just isn't cutting it, they start a prostitution business as well.

Director: Lee Friedlander | Stars: Spencer Locke, Ryan McPartlin, Perrey Reeves, Angeline Appel

Votes: 2,286

10. The Luzhin Defence (2000)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance

Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.

Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson

Votes: 4,708 | Gross: $1.05M

11. After Office Hours (1935)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke

Votes: 1,045

12. The Shopworn Angel (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel

Votes: 1,662

13. Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)

Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Romance

Don Cesar, son of Zorro, is framed for murder while visiting Spain, and becomes the whip-wielding outlaw Don Q.

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald, Donald Crisp

Votes: 571

14. The Comic (1985)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

In a future police state, a stand-up comic murders a competitor for a job, then gets mixed up with a stripper.

Director: Richard Driscoll | Stars: Steve Munroe, Berderia Timini, Jeff Pirie, Bernard Plant

Votes: 157

15. Too Many Kisses (1925)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Richard Gaylord, Jr. is a modern Lothario who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Richard Dix, Frank Currier, Albert Tavernier, Frances Howard

Votes: 251

16. Three Hearts for Julia (1943)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, War

World War II home front romantic comedy in which a war correspondent's wife wants a divorce along with his help in choosing her next husband.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Ann Sothern, Melvyn Douglas, Lee Bowman, Richard Ainley

Votes: 262

17. The Great Divide (1929)

Passed | 72 min | Musical, Romance, Western

Steven Ghent has decided to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. When the representatives are delayed for a few days, he ... See full summary »

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith, Myrna Loy, Creighton Hale

Votes: 203

18. Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (1985)

Drama, Crime

Esther meets Dr. Woodcourt, who plans to be a ship surgeon. Lady Dedlock visits Jo concerning Nemo and later meets the Jarndyce wards. Charley is hired by Jarndyce, who later learns of the plans of Ada and Richard.

Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott, Bernard Hepton, Sylvia Coleridge

Votes: 13

19. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1995–2000)
Episode: The Cat Who Paints (2000)

TV-Y | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Ace and his pet monkey investigate the snobby art world to figure out who kidnapped a famous cat artist.

Stars: Michael Daingerfield, John Beach, Jeff Bergman, Richard Binsley