Divorce In The Family

Love Bound

March 1932 •English

A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.

Life Begins

September 1932 •English

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.

Bellevue

June 1969 •Czech

JugJugg Jeeyo

June 2022 •Hindi

A marriage. A re-marriage. A pending divorce. It's been five years since Kukoo and Nainaa got married after knowing each other practically all their lives, and now they need to break it to their family that they want a divorce. Kukoo's parents, Bheem and Geeta, a couple that everyone looks up to, have no plans of making Kukoo and Naina's lives easier. They have their own plans and set of surprises in store for the young couple; all this in the middle of Kukoo's sister's wedding.

Hide-Out

March 1930 •English

A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.

Dragnet Patrol

December 1931 •English

A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.

A Lost Lady

September 1934 •English

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

Half Marriage

October 1929 •English

A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.

Dance Hall

December 1929 •English

A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.

Ann Carver's Profession

May 1933 •English

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.

Success at Any Price

March 1934 •English

A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.

I Want a Divorce

September 1940 •English

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

Anna Christie

December 1930 •German

A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)

Innathe Chintha Vishayam

April 2008 •Malayalam

Garment exporter Gopakumar, with the help of his fashion designer Kamala and broker Immanuel, brings together three couples who are on the verge of separation.

Attorney for the Defense

May 1932 •English

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

The Gay Diplomat

August 1931 •English

Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.

Are These Our Children?

November 1931 •English

A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.

A woman pays the price

October 1993 •Arabic

The singer Nahid marries Youssef who gains from gambling and fraud in sailing lands. Disputes arise between them and they separates, Nahid with her only daughter from him goes to work as a singer since then in amusement parks and weddings.

Carnival Boat

March 1932 •English

Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buck to take over when he retires. Buck is in love with Honey, a show-girl on the carnival boat, but she won't live in a lumberjack camp.

The Woman Between

August 1931 •English

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.