Katharine Hepburn
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At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
4) Adam's rib
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Hepburn and Tracy are married lawyers who are on the opposite sides in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. The tension drives them apart in their personal life as well, but true love conquers all.
8) The Holiday
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An iconoclastic young man who's engaged to a snooty heiress discovers he's really in love with his fiancee's down-to-earth sister.
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Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
10) Summertime
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The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does -- with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
11) Holiday
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An iconoclastic young man engaged to a snooty heiress discovers he's really in love with his fiancee's down-to-earth sister.
12) Desk set
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A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
13) Summertime
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A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
14) Rooster Cogburn
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Wayne reprises his role from True Grit as a hard-drinking deputy marshall. He teams up with a prim missionary to avenge the death of her father.
16) The Rainmaker
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A con-man trying to sell rainmaking powers to drought-stricken ranchers falls in love with a lonely ranch girl.
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Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
19) The trojan women
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After their ten year siege, the victorious Greek army seeks to curse those Trojans whom fate has yet spared. Separated from their children, denied their mourning and destined to slavery, the woman of fallen Troy huddle within the parched wreckage of their once glorious city. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache, discovers her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen disparately wields...