Movies and TvShows featuring "father-pressures-his-daughter-to-marry-the-man-he-picked-for-her" theme.

The Extra Girl follows the story of a young small-town girl who dreams of becoming a movie star. She faces various obstacles and adventures as she tries to make her mark in Hollywood. Along the way, she finds herself caught up in romantic rivalries, comedic situations, and filmmaking challenges. Will she be able to achieve her dreams and find love? Join her on this journey of self-discovery and ambition.

In 1605 England, a teenage girl faces persecution and accusations of witchcraft in a society dominated by patriarchy and superstition. She must navigate through arranged marriage, the pressure to conform, and the trials of a witch-hunt while discovering her own identity and fighting for her freedom.

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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 Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.

Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.

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.

In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her 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.

In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.

"Fatty", a poor good hearted farm boy is deeply in love with Winifred, a farmer's daughter. A rich neighbor offers the farmer a large plot of land if Winifred marries his slow witted son Al. "Fatty" has less then one day to save heartbroken Winifred from the rushed ceremony.

Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servants to feed her and even plays tennis sitting in a chair. One day she decides to wake up to win the man she loves by going on an outdoor adventure that involves skunks and moonshiners!

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue.

Virginia Vance's father wants her to marry a count who has a couple of sidekicks to help him rob his hosts. Miss Vance, however, is engaged to Cliff Bowes. When she introduces him to father, he dislikes him because Cliff has blown up his car. Quite by accident, of course.

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

Relentless Rudolph is back with another scheme to capture Belinda and humiliate Hairbreadth Harrry.

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.

The heroine must marry one of three prospective bridegrooms who are all lunatics with odd fake facial hair to inherit $500,000. When one of the spurned bridegrooms releases a bunch of lions to disrupt the ceremony, the result is a lot of ROARS AND UPROARS. Will love triumph, or will the lions mess everything up?