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The Birds(1963)

NR
| 1h 59min | Horror
3.8/5 (with 1,746 votes)

Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Charles McGraw, ...
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Savage Grace(2007)

NR
| 1h 37min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 80 votes)

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.

Directed by Tom Kalin - With Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, Elena Anaya, Belén Rueda, ...
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It Happened One Night(1934)

NR
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 504 votes)

A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, ...
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Subway(1985)

1h 44min | Action, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 183 votes)

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.

Directed by Luc Besson - With Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Richard Bohringer, Jean-Pierre Bacri, ...

French Exit(2021)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 51 votes)

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Directed by Azazel Jacobs - With Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots

High Society(1956)

NR
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 90 votes)

Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding. A remake of the 1940 rom com The Philadelphia Story.

Directed by Charles Walters - With Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern, ...
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Reversal of Fortune(1990)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 119 votes)

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Directed by Barbet Schroeder - With Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Christine Baranski, Felicity Huffman, ...
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Auntie Mame(1958)

2h 23min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

Directed by Morton DaCosta - With Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Roger Smith, Peggy Cass, Joanna Barnes, ...
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Someone to Watch Over Me(1987)

R
| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 73 votes)

Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Orbach, Andreas Katsulas, John Rubinstein, ...
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High Road to China(1983)

PG
| 1h 45min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 38 votes)

A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.

Directed by Brian G. Hutton - With Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley, Cassandra Gava, ...
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Mr. Skeffington(1944)

G
| 2h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, John Alexander, Andrea King, ...
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Factory Girl(2006)

R
| 1h 30min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 103 votes)

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.

Directed by George Hickenlooper - With Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, ...
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The Entitled(2011)

1h 31min | Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 63 votes)

Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course of one long night, Paul and his accomplices hold the rich kids hostage awaiting the ransom with little idea of the secrets that will surface between the fathers when they are forced to choose between their children and their money.

Directed by Aaron Woodley - With Kevin Zegers, Tatiana Maslany, John Bregar, Devon Bostick, Dustin Milligan, Victor Garber, ...

Dark Victory(1939)

NR
| 1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 55 votes)

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

Directed by Edmund Goulding - With Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald, George Brent, Henry Travers, ...
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Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber(2005)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Romance / Love, TV Movie
2.2/5 (with 25 votes)

Social satire based on the best-seller by Adele Lang humorously chronicles the life of Katya Livingston, a self-centered, obnoxious and conceited 28-year-old ad sales exec who won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top of the San Francisco social ladder.

Directed by Dana Lustig - With Jennifer Love Hewitt, Colin Ferguson, Natassia Malthe, James Kirk, Sonja Bennett
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Buddy(1997)

PG
| 1h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.4/5 (with 29 votes)

An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

Directed by Caroline Thompson - With Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall, Paul Reubens
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The House of Mirth(2000)

2h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

Directed by Terence Davies - With Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Elizabeth McGovern, ...

The Yellow Rolls-Royce(1964)

NR
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Passion, intrigue, adventure, love... everything happens in The Yellow Rolls-Royce. One luxury automobile ties together three stories as it passes from owner to owner. In the first, an aristocrat with a penchant for the racetrack discovers his wife has a penchant for backseat amour. Then a moll takes a spin down lover's lane in the Rolls while her mobster boyfriend is busy rubbing out the competition. Finally, an imperious widow purchases the car and drives straight into danger as she helps an anti-fascist escape the Nazis.

Directed by Anthony Asquith - With Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif, ...
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Petulia(1968)

R
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.

Directed by Richard Lester - With Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Ellen Geer, ...
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The Mad Miss Manton(1938)

NR
| 1h 20min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Directed by Leigh Jason - With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Clarence Wilson, Grady Sutton, Hattie McDaniel, ...

Kitty Foyle(1940)

NR
| 1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Gladys Cooper, Nella Walker, ...
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Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich(2022)

1h 41min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Stories from survivors frame this documentary detailing the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a socialite and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein.

Directed by Maiken Baird
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The Possession of Joel Delaney(1972)

R
| 1h 45min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.

Directed by Waris Hussein - With Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Michael Hordern

This Is Paris(2020)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Meet the real Paris Hilton for the very first time as she embarks on a journey of healing and reflection, reclaiming her true identity along the way.

Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl(2023)

Documentary
1.4/5 (with 2 votes)

This documenary reveals the story behind the now-defunct "Park Avenue Peerage" blog. In the height of heiress-era NYC, an anonymous blogger infiltrated Manhattan's elite, bringing socialite celebrity to new heights, according to the doc’s logline. When the website's creator was unmasked, the mastermind was not who anybody expected.

The Magnificent Matador(1955)

NR
| 1h 34min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

Directed by Budd Boetticher - With Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Caruso, Eduardo Noriega, Lola Albright, Manuel Rojas, ...

Too Much, Too Soon(1958)

NR
| 2h 1min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore becomes reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.

Directed by Art Napoleon - With Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Gavin Muir, Joanna Barnes, Kathleen Freeman, ...

The Little Giant(1933)

NR
| 1h 16min | Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth
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The Mating Season(1951)

1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.

Directed by Mitchell Leisen - With Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling, Billie Bird, ...

The Dragon Murder Case(1934)

NR
| 1h 7min | Mystery
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.

Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone - With Warren William
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