Movies and TvShows featuring "drawing-room" theme.

Death Comes to Pemberley is a TV show set in the 19th-century Georgian era. It revolves around a murder mystery that takes place at Pemberley, the estate of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. As the investigation unfolds, secrets are revealed and relationships are tested.

Double Harness is a 1933 film about a playboy who tries to get out of marriage but ends up falling in love. The story involves deception, debt, and a complicated love triangle.

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.

Anthology series of one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.

In a city where everyone's shadow is visible, a man without a shadow navigates through the shadows of others. He discovers the meaning of life and the true nature of wealth. With the help of a devil, he escapes the confines of society and finds solace in the pursuit of his own desires.

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.

In formal attire, Ivan Vassilievich Lomov calls upon his neighbor, the bluff Stefan Stefanovich Chubukov. Chubukov fears that the prolix Lomov has come to borrow money, but is delighted when Lemov finally gets to the point and proposes to marry Chubukov's daughter Natalia. Without telling her why, Chubukov sends Natalia into the drawing room, and Lemov begins an even more roundabout proposal. Before he can make his intentions clear, Natalia takes exception to something he says, and an argument ensues. Lemov works himself into a lather. Will a funeral be required? Perhaps a neutral conversational topic, such as hunting dogs, can ease the couple past their disagreement.

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

A noble socialite and her butler must concoct a plan to stop her husband's affair with a younger woman.

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.

The Norman Thomas Quintet performs "Sleep Baby Sleep," "Listen to the Mockingbird," and "Melody in F," with quite a flair for comedy mixed in.