Movies and TvShows featuring "quandry" theme.
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
When a murder occurs in New York City, a socialite forms a group of amateur detectives to solve the case, leading to unexpected twists and turns.
In Du Barry was a Lady, a man named Louis dreams of being a king and a lady named May dreams of being a famous singer. They get caught up in a world of deception, reprisal, and treachery as they navigate a dual-role quandary. With a touch of greed, desperation, and havoc, this slapstick comedy takes you on a hilarious journey of love, rivalry, and determination.
Alex is a successful film director in Hollywood who is going through a creative crisis. Feeling trapped by the demands of the movie studio, he embarks on a drug trip that takes him on a surreal journey of self-discovery. Along the way, he encounters sexual imagery, hare krishna, and Fellini-esque dream sequences. This acid trip leads him to question his career and explore the creative process in a whole new way.
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Kitty Foyle, a salesclerk in New York City, navigates through various challenges, including the loss of her father, a difficult relationship with her Irish-American husband, and the discovery of her pregnancy. As she struggles with decisions and betrayal, Kitty finds strength in her friendships and ultimately finds love and happiness.
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
In this pre-code film, a bankrupt hotel becomes a setting for a real estate scam orchestrated by schemers and bootleggers. As despair and desperation unfold, determination and anguish collide in a hilarious musical farce filled with song and comedic chaos.
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Bickering brothers Phil and Freddie Russo unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
In 'Ghosts on the Loose,' a quartet of friends find themselves in a hilarious quandary when they accidentally end up in the wrong house on their wedding day. Mass confusion and a series of comedic events ensue as they try to resolve the situation. The film takes place in New York City and showcases the misadventures of the group as they navigate through various challenges and obstacles.
The Wild Party is a pre-code film set in the roaring 20s during the prohibition era. A college professor finds himself entangled in the wild party scene of a group of party girls. The film explores themes of trauma, false accusation, and self-sacrifice.
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.