THEME EXPLORATION

shotgun marriage

12 films · 3 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Hope Springs
Hope Springs
2012 · David Frankel
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
1920 · Ernst Lubitsch
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Scenes from a Marriage
Scenes from a Marriage
1973 · Ingmar Bergman
...And God Created Woman
...And God Created Woman
1956 · Roger Vadim
Christmas Holiday
Christmas Holiday
1944 · Robert Siodmak
Das Madchen vom Moorhof
Das Madchen vom Moorhof
1935 · Douglas Sirk
Late Spring
Late Spring
1949 · Yasujiro Ozu
Atlantics
Atlantics
2019 · Mati Diop
To Live
To Live
1994 · Zhang Yimou
Ixcanul
Ixcanul
2015 · Jayro Bustamante
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
1995 · Ang Lee
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Preston Sturges USA

His screwball comedies like 'The Lady Eve' and 'Sullivan's Travels' frequently explore hasty marriages and unconventional courtships driven by circumstance and deception.

 Frank Capra USA

Films like 'It Happened One Night' and 'You Can't Take It with You' center on romantic entanglements that lead to sudden, forced, or comedically inevitable marriages.

 Billy Wilder Austria/USA

His works including 'The Apartment' and 'Some Like It Hot' deeply explore themes of coercion, circumstance, and marriages born from chaos and moral compromise.