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Movies: Best "landlady" Movies


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Chocolat(2000)

3.5/5 (with 1,486 votes)

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of Boat Gypsies float down the river, the prejudice of the Mayor leads to a crisis.

The Ladykillers(1955)

1h 31min | Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 194 votes)

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

That Darn Cat!(1965)

3.3/5 (with 70 votes)

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

Umberto D.(1952)

1h 31min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 288 votes)

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Memmo Carotenuto, Lamberto Maggiorani, Riccardo Ferri, ...

The Notorious Landlady(1962)

3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

The Lodger(1944)

3.2/5 (with 37 votes)

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

The Mad Magician(1954)

1h 12min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

Directed by John Brahm - With Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, Patrick O'Neal, Corey Allen, John Emery, ...

The Miracle Woman(1931)

1h 30min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

Directed by Frank Capra - With Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Beryl Mercer, Sam Hardy, Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Al Stewart, ...

The L-Shaped Room(1962)

2h 6min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.

Waterloo Bridge(1931)

1h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.

Mystery Street(1950)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

The Girl from 10th Avenue(1935)

1h 9min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam.

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Inn for Trouble(1960)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.

Bumping Into Broadway(1919)

25min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

Hello, Sister!(1933)

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...

Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes(2001)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.

You Belong to Me(2007)

1h 22min | Thriller
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Jeffrey has met the man of this dreams, hunky Frenchman René, he impulsively moves into the same building. The move backfires as Remé becomes cold and distant. Landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant.

Jiivi(2019)

2h 2min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Frustrated at his failed romance, Saravanan decides to steal from his landlady’s house. Even as he comes up with clever ways to outsmart the cops, he realises that his actions are echoes from the past.

The Deep Blue Sea(1955)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)

How Master Cute Thrice Saved The Idiot Ming(1966)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama

The third live action Old Master Q movie depicts drama and hilarity between a young couple during their hardships.

My Sin(1931)

1h 20min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?

Directed by George Abbott - With Tallulah Bankhead

Blow, Wind!(1973)

1h 27min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid, humble and clear-hearted orphan Baiba.

Probation(1932)

1h 7min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.

About Mrs. Leslie(1954)

1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.

Nowhere in Moravia(2014)

1h 42min | Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and naïve outsider Olin – or fighting with her imperious mother. Lightened with a touch of black humor, this laconic village drama is the directorial debut of the artistic director of Prague’s Dejvice Theater who gave the members of his ensemble a one-of-a-kind acting opportunity in film.

Hinugot sa Langit(1985)

1h 40min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.

Directed by Ishmael Bernal - With Maricel Soriano

A Sea Dog's Tale(1926)

11min | Comedy

An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.