Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "pretending-to-be-married"

1. Overboard (1987)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 67,763 | Gross: $26.71M

2. Robin Hood (2010)

PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In twelfth-century England, Robin Longstride and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow

Votes: 282,929 | Gross: $105.27M

3. The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

G | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder.

Director: Mark Dindal | Stars: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton

Votes: 225,104 | Gross: $89.30M

4. Allied (2016)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Vincent Ebrahim

Votes: 169,516 | Gross: $40.10M

5. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.

Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus

Votes: 97,835

6. Leap Year (2010)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy on February 29, leap day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.

Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow

Votes: 110,604 | Gross: $25.92M

7. It Happened One Night (1934)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 112,136 | Gross: $4.36M

8. Overboard (2018)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

After a spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and loses his memory, a mistreated employee convinces him that he is her working-class husband.

Director: Rob Greenberg | Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, John Hannah

Votes: 41,149 | Gross: $50.32M

9. Born to Dance (1936)

Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel

Votes: 1,931

10. A Walk in the Clouds (1995)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Romance

Paul Sutton, a young married soldier, befriends a pregnant lady who is petrified her father will disown her, and agrees to pose as her boyfriend. As time passes, they start growing fond of each other.

Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Anthony Quinn, Giancarlo Giannini

Votes: 36,582 | Gross: $50.01M

11. 45 Years (2015)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells

Votes: 35,109 | Gross: $4.25M

12. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

Votes: 57,095

13. Cactus Flower (1969)

M | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.

Director: Gene Saks | Stars: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston

Votes: 11,865 | Gross: $25.89M

14. Indiscreet (1958)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him--although he's already married.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert

Votes: 10,205

15. There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

In their sexual game, an egotistical and womanizing television host meets his match, Marion, who seeks to remain one step ahead of him.

Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Ruth Trouncer

Votes: 2,786 | Gross: $2.20M

16. Secret Agent (1936)

Not Rated | 86 min | Mystery, Thriller

After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Peter Lorre

Votes: 9,033

17. Sunburn (1979)

PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, Mexico, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up five million dollars. Hotshot investigator Jake Decker (Charles Grodin) and charming model Ellie (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) come in to check it out.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins

Votes: 831

18. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 12,011

19. 18½ (2021)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Thriller

In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½ minute gap in Nixon's tapes.

Director: Dan Mirvish | Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, John Magaro, Gina Kreiezmar, Marija Juliette Abney

Votes: 444

20. Mother's Love (2022)

TV-MA | 110 min | Comedy

A young man is stood up at the altar. His overprotective mother decides to join him is what would have been his honeymoon, so as not to waste the trip. He ails while his mum enjoys the trip of her life.

Director: Paco Caballero | Stars: Carmen Machi, Quim Gutiérrez, Justina Bustos, Yolanda Ramos

Votes: 3,713

21. Christmas in Connecticut (1992 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

Elizabeth, the star of a successful cooking show, is set to do a live show on Christmas, where she'll cook a Christmas dinner. But what no one knows is that she can't cook.

Director: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Stars: Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson, Tony Curtis, Richard Roundtree

Votes: 1,598

22. Seventh Heaven (1937)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, then marches away to war.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff

Votes: 1,048

23. Squeak-squeak (1963)

86 min | Comedy

Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in South America... See full summary »

Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc, Roger Dumas, Jacqueline Maillan

Votes: 2,048

24. Closeness (2017)

118 min | Drama

In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.

Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Darya Zhovner, Atrem Cipin, Nazir Zhukov, Veniamin Kac

Votes: 3,290

25. You Don't Choose Your Family (2011)

103 min | Comedy

Alex wants to adopt charming 5-year old little Miley, who lives in Thailand, but according to Thai law, adoptive parents need to be a married couple. Alex recruits his bankrupt auto-dealer ... See full summary »

Director: Christian Clavier | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Héléna Noguerra

Votes: 1,823

26. Occasional Wife (1966–1967)

30 min | Comedy

A junior executive convinces his female friend to pretend to be his wife so he can move ahead in his company.

Stars: Michael Callan, Patricia Harty, Jack Collins, Bryan O'Byrne

Votes: 111

27. Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A hair-dresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by success and the arrival of his old flame.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon

Votes: 901

28. The Blonde from Peking (1967)

87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

An amnesic young woman is found fainting on a bench. A tattoo identifies her as Erica Olsen, ex-companion of a Chinese scientist who holds atomic secrets.

Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Claudio Brook, Mireille Darc, Françoise Brion, Jean-Jacques Delbo

Votes: 221

29. Yathrakarude Sradhakku (2002)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two strangers pretend to be husband and wife in order to use a pre-reserved ticket bought from a scalper to get on a train , because of last second plans ,find that their lives intersect and later fall in love.

Director: Sathyan Anthikad | Stars: Jayaram, Soundarya, Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Sreenivasan

Votes: 597

30. Guest Wife (1945)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran, Charles Dingle

Votes: 498

31. Twin Husbands (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama

Chesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion...

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton

Votes: 128

32. Espionage (1937)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Musical

Rival reporters pose as honeymooners on a European train to track a munitions magnate.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Madge Evans, Paul Lukas, Ketti Gallian

Votes: 173

33. People in Luck (1963)

95 min | Comedy

Every day, the newspaper reports the story of a man or woman especially in vein, who won a prize or a spectacular contest.

Directors: Philippe de Broca, Jean Girault, Jacques Pinoteau | Stars: France Anglade, Francis Blanche, Blanchette Brunoy, Daniel Ceccaldi

Votes: 353

34. Katorse (1980)

Drama, Romance

Too much too soon--a child--a woman at 13--and a mother at 14.

Director: Joey Gosiengfiao | Stars: Dina Bonnevie, Alfie Anido, Gabby Concepcion, Janet Bordon

Votes: 22

35. The Good and the Bad (1976)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey, Bruno Cremer

Votes: 367

36. Get 'Em Young (1926)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy

Returning from Europe to get a million dollars by fulfilling the provisions in a will, a young man falls in love and is married on the boat. As he has to be married in the presence of the ... See full summary »

Directors: Fred Guiol, Stan Laurel | Stars: Stan Laurel, Harry Myers, Eugenia Gilbert, Max Davidson

Votes: 96

37. Bashful (1917)

10 min | Comedy, Short

In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell

Votes: 295

38. The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933)

94 min | Drama, Romance

In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother and sister in a troupe of travelling entertainers, who perform at a geisha house in mining country.

Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Ôhinata, Tokuji Kobayashi, Kinuko Wakamizu

Votes: 120

39. We Are Basically Normal (1982)

88 min | Comedy

Loose sequel to the comedy Pátek Není Svátek, which follows the fate of the Novák family.

Director: Otakar Fuka | Stars: Petr Kostka, Jorga Kotrbová, Magdalena Reifová, Magda Bicíková

Votes: 51

40. Quiere casarse conmigo...?! (1967)

87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A store clerk, film extra, aspires to live an affair with her singing idol.

Director: Enrique Carreras | Stars: Palito Ortega, Sonia Bruno, Eddie Pequenino, Tono Andreu

Votes: 40

41. Flirtation (1934)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A precode romantic melodrama about a burlesque dancer and a country boy who must pretend to be married.

Director: Leo Birinsky | Stars: Jeanette Loff, Ben Alexander, Arthur Tracy, Emma Dunn

Votes: 73

42. So and Sew (1936)

15 min | Comedy, Short

A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest. Soon there is quite a web of confusion that also involves the decorator's girlfriend and the wife's suddenly returned husband.

Stars: Lucille Ball, Billy Gilbert, Lorin Raker, Constance Bergen

Votes: 27

43. Meet the Bride (1937)

17 min | Short, Comedy

Newlywed Pat gets a raise from his boss. Herman, seeing how simple it is, tells his boss of his own marriage plans. All goes well until both bosses drop in on both young men to "meet the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Hall | Stars: Tim Herbert, Pat Rooney Jr., Sally Starr, George Shelton

44. One Too Many (1916)

16 min | Comedy, Short

When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.

Director: Will Louis | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Billy Ruge, Billy Bletcher, Joe Cohen

Votes: 174

45. Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode: The House That Bled to Death (1980)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A family move into a house that was the scene of a macabre murder years ago, but soon after moving in A series of strange events begin.

Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: Nicholas Ball, Rachel Davies, Brian Croucher, Patricia Maynard

Votes: 781

46. Alias (2001–2006)
Episode: Welcome to Liberty Village (2005)

TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Sydney and Vaughn go undercover as an arms dealing married couple in a mock-up setting of American suburbia to find a stolen electro-magnetic pulse weapon that when detonated, could bring ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Michael Vartan, Carl Lumbly

Votes: 468

47. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: Nightmare on Becker Street (2003)

TV-PG | Comedy

John is stalked by a frisky, elderly neighbor. Linda decides to tell the truth about where she resides to her boyfriend, who thinks she lives in L.A.

Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Hattie Winston, Alex Désert

Votes: 95

48. The Doris Day Show (1968–1973)
Episode: Married for a Day (1969)

TV-G | 23 min | Comedy

Doris' single boss convinces her to pretend to be married to him when his old flame arrives in town.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Doris Day, Denver Pyle, Philip Brown, Todd Starke

Votes: 34

49. A Fine Romance (1981–1984)
Episode: The Hotel (1983)

25 min | Comedy, Romance

Mike accompanies Laura on a business trip. When they arrive at the hotel, Laura tells Mike that she has booked their reservation as Mr. and Mrs. Selway.

Director: Don Leaver | Stars: Michael Williams, Judi Dench, Charles Pemberton, Geoffrey Larder

Votes: 19

50. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Detour (2004)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Charlotte has to go to a conference and Frasier offers to drive her to the train station. However, they miss the train (numerous times at numerous stations) and end up stranded in the middle of nowhere.

Director: Kelsey Grammer | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 805