Top 20 movies like The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.

The Talk of the Town is of 1 hour(s) and 0 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It was released on 1918-09-28. It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.

Genres: ComedyRomance

1. The Grand Parade

The Grand Parade

No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.

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2. The Glimpses of the Moon

The Glimpses of the Moon

The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.

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3. Compromised

Compromised

Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.

It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.

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4. Tragedies of the Osage Hills

Tragedies of the Osage Hills

A lost film based on the 'Reign of Terror', a real-life series of several dozen murders committed against the Osage people. 'Tragedies of the Osage Hills' was directed by James Young Deer, the first known Native American film director, and boasted a cast of “hundreds of real Indians.” Described as a dramatic thriller interwoven with a “tender love story”, the film’s premiere in Cushing, Oklahoma occurred just months after the arrest of Ernest Burkhart, the subject of Martin Scorsese’s similarly themed 2023 film 'Killers of the Flower Moon'. The 'Cushing Daily Citizen' described 'Tragedies of the Osage Hills' as having a fictitious ending of the Osage and white men united under an American flag.

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5. Dumb-bells in Ermine

Dumb-bells in Ermine

In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.

It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.

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6. The Story of the Star Spangled Banner

The Story of the Star Spangled Banner

A very rare lost film by Pathe Exchange that was found by Ben Model on eBay and preserved in time. Not much information known to exist.

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7. The Shuttle

The Shuttle

Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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8. The Soul of Buddha

The Soul of Buddha

Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer . Bara's Bavahari becomes a celebrated dancer but is murdered onstage by a vengeful Buddhist priest .

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9. The Widow's Might (The Widow's Might)

The Widow's Might

Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is monotony as well. Then he falls in love with a girl on a calendar, and life takes on a new interest, particularly after he discovers who the girl is. The fact that her uncle swindled him on the ranch does not matter. He figures he can take care of the uncle, and he does, but not until he has been forced to masquerade as a woman, and have half the men at a fashionable resort fall in love with him.

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10. Stars in Your Eyes

Stars in Your Eyes

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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11. We Can't Have Everything

We Can't Have Everything

A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.

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12. Soltero soy feliz (Soltero soy feliz)

Soltero soy feliz

Gustavo and Ramón establish their own radio station, Radio Misterio, but life changes for Gustavo when he is offered a job at a prestigious radio station.

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13. Así te deseo (Así te deseo)

Así te deseo

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

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14. The Savage

The Savage

Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...

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15. Aloma of the South Seas

Aloma of the South Seas

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

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16. Don Mike

Don Mike

Following the "no good deed goes unpunished" idiom, when after rescuing a group of settlers, hero Don Miguel Arguella is double-crossed by the group leader who files a claim on his land and makes a move towards his girlfriend. Sadly, this is a lost film.

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17. Under the Yoke

Under the Yoke

As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez , he starts an insurrection among the native Filipinos. Maria's father Don Ramon is killed and Maria is held hostage. She gets word to Capt. Paul Winter of the American troops in Manila and he comes to her assistance, but his troops are outnumbered and they are made prisoners by the revolting revolutionists. Maria and Paul attempt to escape, but they are caught and brought back. At the Manila headquarters, trouble is suspected and reinforcements are sent. Before long, the revolt is subdued and peace reigns over Maria's home, and happiness over the betrothal of Maria and Paul.

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18. Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies

A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.

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19. The Great White Way

The Great White Way

The Great White Way

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20. Ducks

Ducks

A husband is addicted to the habit of going duck-hunting occasionally. Wifey suspects that his object is chasing chickens - those that walk with two feet - and so starts in pursuit. When hubby's pals get a ducking in the water, they are forced to go to a neighboring farmhouse where the farmer's daughters dress them up in feminine clothing until their own is dried. And the young bride frowns and pouts and stirs up some trouble before she finds out that the girls have a distinct place in the plot.

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