Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "marriage-proposal-rejected"

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: 16,494

2. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

PG | 143 min | Adventure, Drama

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm

Votes: 21,246 | Gross: $45.90M

3. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.

Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, J.T. Walsh

Votes: 43,863 | Gross: $17.19M

4. Outback (2019)

R | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Down Under for an adventure-filled vacation, a young American couple quickly find themselves stranded in the unforgiving Australian outback.

Director: Mike Green | Stars: Lauren Lofberg, Taylor Wiese, Brendan Donoghue, Kym Cramp

Votes: 2,197

5. Save the Date (I) (2012)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

Sarah begins to confront her shortcomings after she rejects her boyfriend's hasty proposal and soon finds herself in a rebound romance. Meanwhile, her sister Beth is immersed in the details of her wedding.

Director: Michael Mohan | Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Mark Webber, Geoffrey Arend

Votes: 7,153 | Gross: $0.00M

6. Rich and Famous (1981)

R | 117 min | Drama

Liz and Merry become BFFs in college. A decade later, Liz is a serious writer with writer's block, and Merry is a homemaker and a mom who has written a novel. Other bestsellers, riches, and fame follow.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner

Votes: 2,051 | Gross: $14.49M

7. The Birthday Wish (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

On her birthday, a woman who desperately wants her boyfriend to propose to her wishes for the opportunity to see into the future, with surprising results.

Director: Peter DeLuise | Stars: Jessy Schram, Luke Macfarlane, Marcus Rosner, Yvonne Chapman

Votes: 2,662

8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (I) (1920)

Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane

Votes: 6,043

9. The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams

Votes: 4,474 | Gross: $1.43M

10. NY-LON (2004)

65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Filmed in London and on location in New York's Lower East Side, NY-LON follows the troubled romance between a bohemian New York record store clerk, Edie, and London stock broker Michael, after their chance meeting in his city.

Stars: Stephen Moyer, Rashida Jones, Navin Chowdhry, Rachel Miner

Votes: 522

11. I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Passed | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring - by robbing a resort hotel.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Votes: 1,616

12. Possessed (1931)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 2,306

13. The Company She Keeps (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama

A female ex-convict meets a handsome man and they start dating, but she jeopardizes their relationship by not telling him that she was in prison--and he doesn't reveal his involvement with her parole officer.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer, Dennis O'Keefe, Fay Baker

Votes: 651

14. Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

The story of matinee idol Tab Hunter from teenage stable boy to closeted Hollywood star of the 1950s.

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz | Stars: Tab Hunter, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood

Votes: 3,556

15. The Doughgirls (1944)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy

While sharing a hotel suite during the World War II housing shortage in Washington, D.C., three friends discover that their respective marriages are not legally valid.

Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman

Votes: 775

16. An Old Fashioned Christmas (2010 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Drama

The story of An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving continues. Isabella and Tilly pay a visit to Ireland, hoping Isabella's long-ago suitor, the Earl of Shannon, can assist Tilly in getting her writing published.

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Catherine Steadman, Jacqueline Bisset, Leon Ockenden, Marion O'Dwyer

Votes: 476

17. Bear with Me (2000)

Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Family

The family of eleven-year-old Emily (Kaitlyn Burke) searches desperately for her after she becomes lost in the Great Bear Rain Forest.

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Kaitlyn Burke, Michael Ontkean, Helen Shaver, Kimberley Warnat

Votes: 194

18. Bunker Bean (1936)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance

Bunker Bean, a meek office clerk, has grandiose dreams but seems destined to remain forever in his lowly station. He seeks out the help of a fortune- teller, who tells him he is the ... See full summary »

Directors: William Hamilton, Edward Killy | Stars: Owen Davis Jr., Louise Latimer, Robert McWade, Jessie Ralph

Votes: 219

19. Cheating Blondes (1933)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A reporter sets out to prove that the woman who rejected his marriage proposal is a murderer. Meanwhile, she's hiding in plain sight: posing as her missing twin sister.

Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Thelma Todd, Ralf Harolde, Inez Courtney, Milton Wallis

Votes: 75

20. Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors (2017 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary

Historian Lucy Worsley visits the places and houses in England. where Jane Austen spent time and which served as inspiration for the settings of her novels.

Director: Rachel Jardine | Stars: Lucy Worsley, Debbie Charlton, Jeanice Brooks, Judith Hawley

Votes: 147

21. My Past (1931)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance

Young man and an older man fall for a stage actress.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell

Votes: 294

22. Lady with a Past (1932)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wealthy, proper society girl finds that she's much more popular with men when she pretends to be a "bad" girl.

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners, Don Alvarado

Votes: 407

23. Beauty's Worth (1922)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Snobbish Henry Garrison flirts with Prudence, but actually disdains her for her lack of worldliness and ... See full summary »

Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Marion Davies, Aileen Manning, Martha Mattox, Lydia Yeamans Titus

Votes: 912

24. Hoodoo Ann (1916)

65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An orphan girl, believing herself cursed with the hoodoo until she gets married, is adopted by a childless couple after the orphanage burns down. Boy-next-door meets girl-next-door, and all looks great until she finds a loaded gun.

Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown, Wilbur Higby

Votes: 937

25. Without Orders (1936)

Passed | 64 min | Drama

Len Kendrick, whose father J. P. owns Amalgamated Air Lines, breaks a cross-country flying record and is cheered by a crowd of fans as he lands at the airline's Portland, Oregon airport. In... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Frances Sage, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 80

26. Innocence (1923)

Passed | 58 min | Drama

Broadway star Fay Leslie (Anna Q. Nilsson) turns down her dancing partner, Paul Atkins (Earle Foxe), partner, and instead marries Don Hampton (Freeman Wood), a wealthy socialite. She soon ... See full summary »

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, Freeman Wood, Earle Foxe, Wilfred Lucas

27. Wimmin Is a Myskery (1940)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

When Popeye tells Olive Oyl that he will propose to her the next morning, she has a dream that their four boys will run roughshod over their house.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer

Votes: 191

28. Alice (1976–1985)
Episode: Good Night, Sweet Vera (1976)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy

Flo and Alice struggle with Vera and her sleeping pills.

Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Linda Lavin, Philip McKeon, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland

Votes: 87

29. Cagney & Lacey (1981–1988)
Episode: Hello Goodbye (1988)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

David Keeler proposes marriage to Christine.

Director: Janet Davidson | Stars: Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Al Waxman, Martin Kove

Votes: 42

30. Cheers (1982–1993)
Episode: Whodunit? (1985)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Much to Frasier's horror, his psychiatry mentor becomes involved with Carla and asks her to marry him. But she doesn't want to, even though she has just found out that she is pregnant with his baby.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman

Votes: 570

31. Dynasty (1981–1989)
Episode: The Accident (1984)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama, Romance

Blake and Jeff's suspicions about Peter's involvement in Allegre's abduction prove founded; Tracy orchestrates a press campaign to ruin Krystle; Fallon is warned against marrying Peter; emotions run high and result in a bad accident.

Director: Jerome Courtland | Stars: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Pamela Sue Martin, Pamela Bellwood

Votes: 73

32. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Little Miss Dangerous (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crocket and Tubbs visit Miami's kinky Sex World parlor when a sailor shows up murdered. The trail leads to a mysterious underage dancer Tubbs tries to straighten out - but is this more than social work?

Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 592

33. Vanity Fair (1998)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1998)

TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance

Sir Pitt's wealthy sister, Miss Crawley, takes an instant liking to her brother's governess, but is apalled when Becky marries her nephew. Amelia is unaware that while George?s father does ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Munden | Stars: David Bradley, Joanna Scanlan, Natasha Little, Casey O'Connor

Votes: 29

34. North & South (2004)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2004)

TV-14 | 58 min | Drama, Romance

Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Percival | Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Tim Pigott-Smith, Emma Owen, Travis Oliver

Votes: 503

35. Walker (2021– )
Episode: Freedom (2021)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Walker and Geri are both unsure of their feelings for each other and things get very complicated when Hoyt comes home from prison, but the welcome home party is interrupted when Micki and Walker get word that Clint West is on the run.

Director: Alex Pillai | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Lindsey Morgan, Molly Hagan, Keegan Allen

Votes: 1,795

36. The Lazarus Project (2022–2023)
Episode: Episode #1.7 (2022)

TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

George wakes up with everything he wished for - but all is not as it seems. George grapples with his guilt and begins to confront some unpleasant truths - including how his actions may have fundamentally changed him as a person.

Director: Akaash Meeda | Stars: Paapa Essiedu, Anjli Mohindra, Rudi Dharmalingam, Charly Clive

Votes: 290

37. Saga (2020)
Episode: Seriya 5 (2020)

45 min | Drama

Maryana risks her voice after straining her vocal chords while waiting for Sasha to return from the war--unaware that he has married the general's daughter. Meanwhile, Sergei is sentence to a Siberian prison camp.

Stars: Aleksandra Liutaya, Liliya Tsvelikova, Hryhorii Baklanov, Oleksandr Sokolov

38. Never Have I Ever (2020–2023)
Episode: ...lost my virginity (2023)

TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy, Drama

An awkward end to an intimate moment has Devi fuming all summer. As senior year begins, the crew has college -- and complicated feelings -- on the brain.

Director: Erica Oyama | Stars: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Richa Moorjani, Jaren Lewison, Darren Barnet

Votes: 577

39. One Day (2024)
Episode: Episode #1.8 (2024)

TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

1995. On the last day of the school term, Emma gets into a compromising position at work. When she gets home, things become even more uncomfortable.

Director: John Hardwick | Stars: Ambika Mod, Anne Bird, Mark Rowley, Stephen Whitfield

Votes: 527

40. Miss Scarlet & the Duke (2020– )
Episode: Bloodline (2022)

TV-14 | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Detective Fitzroy sees one of his colleagues plant evidence on a suspect. With Duke away, Fitzroy turns to Eliza and hires her to look into a case of police corruption.

Director: Ivan Zivkovic | Stars: Tim Chipping, Evan McCabe, Simon Ludders, Kate Phillips

Votes: 240

41. Fantasy Island (2021–2023)
Episode: Forever and a Day (2023)

TV-14 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Oliver's fantasy is to surprise his boyfriend, Emilio, with the perfect proposal, but when Emilio says no, Oliver finds himself reliving that day over and over again. Roarke must confront her fears about her relationship with Javier.

Director: Raúl Marchand Sánchez | Stars: Roselyn Sanchez, Kiara Barnes, John Gabriel Rodriquez, Jonathan Bennett

Votes: 138

42. Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)
Episode: Part VI (2023)

TV-MA | 46 min | Drama, Western

Chaos ensues as a firefight breaks out in Checotah. Bass and Jennie have a painful reunion. Bass has an unsettling realization about the myth of Mister Sundown.

Director: Damian Marcano | Stars: David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Demi Singleton, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 479

43. People Just Do Nothing (2014–2018)
Episode: Clubnight (2015)

TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Music

Michelle is thrilled to be taken on permanently at the salon but Grindah is more concerned with Kurupt FM's appearance at Chabuddy's club. The opening night is a success, with Grindah ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Clough | Stars: Allan Mustafa, Hugo Chegwin, Asim Chaudhry, Steve Stamp

Votes: 173

44. Dickensian (2015–2016)
Episode: Episode #1.17 (2016)

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Miss Havisham never wants to see Compeyson again, but can he persuade her to give him a second chance? Determined to have one last shot at solving Marley's murder, Bucket and Mr Venus make a startling discovery.

Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Stephen Rea, Omid Djalili, Sophie Rundle, Alexandra Moen

Votes: 111

45. Another Period (2013–2018)
Episode: Congress (2018)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, History

Lillian and Beatrice take up Hortense's mantle to begin fighting for women's rights, and Peepers bristles at Father Black Donahue's new role at the manor.

Director: Jeremy Konner | Stars: Michael Ian Black, Paget Brewster, Donna Lynne Champlin, Beth Dover

Votes: 82

46. Kaderimin Yazildigi Gün (2014–2015)
Episode: 1. Bolum (2014)

Drama, Romance

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Directors: Hakan Inan, Ulas Inan Inaç, Sadullah Sentürk | Stars: Özcan Deniz, Hatice Sendil, Begüm Kütük, Gürbey Ileri

Votes: 11

47. Modern Family (2009–2020)
Episode: A Year of Birthdays (2019)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The birth of Haley and Dylan's twins approaches as a look back at how the family celebrated their birthdays over the past year is discussed.

Director: Steven Levitan | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell

Votes: 1,888

48. Amigas y rivales (2001)
Episode: Episode #1.29 (2001)

43 min | Drama, Romance

Roxana declines. Laura pities Ulises. Yolanda has big news. Jimena introduces her new bow to the others.

Stars: Michelle Vieth, Angélica Vale, Ludwika Paleta, Arath de la Torre

49. Detective Anna (2016–2017)
Episode: Drama (2016)

48 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery

The young playwright is murdered in his own estate after the presentation of his play. Anna and Shtolman must disclose this crime within 24 hours. Among the witnesses of the incident - ... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksandra Nikiforova, Dmitriy Frid, Elena Polyakova, Algis Arlauskas

Votes: 53