So You&#x27;re Taking in a Roomer

1948

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

So You Want to Be a Detective

1948

6.8

So You Want to Be in Politics

1948

Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.

So You Want to Be in Politics

1948

10.0

So You Want to Be on the Radio

6.1

1948

Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.

So You Want to Be on the Radio

1948

6.1

So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.

So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

1949

10.0

So You Want to Be Popular

Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox

So You Want to Be Popular

1949

8.0

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

Joe wants to be a muscle man.

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

1949

8.0

So You're Having In-Law Trouble

Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.

So You're Having In-Law Trouble

1949

10.0

So You Want to Get Rich Quick

Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.

So You Want to Get Rich Quick

1949

8.0

So You Want to Throw a Party

Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.

So You Want to Throw a Party

1950

7.0

So You Think You're Not Guilty

Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.

So You Think You're Not Guilty

1950

6.0

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to take have any impact on Joe, until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

1950

9.0

So You Want to Move

Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.

So You Want to Move

1950

8.0

So You're Going to Have an Operation

A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.

So You're Going to Have an Operation

1950

10.0

So You Want to Be a Handyman

Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves.

So You Want to Be a Handyman

1951

8.0

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie shown on the screen as Jump-Along Skip-Along McGur

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

1951

9.0

So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.

So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

1951

7.0

So You Want to Buy a Used Car

In need of a new vehicle, Joe goes to the Cagey Car Company lot to get a used car,... with predictable results.

So You Want to Buy a Used Car

1951

10.0

So You Want to Be a Bachelor

"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alice.

So You Want to Be a Bachelor

1951

10.0

So You Want to Be a Plumber

5.0

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

So You Want to Be a Plumber

1951

5.0

So You Want to Get It Wholesale

Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.

So You Want to Get It Wholesale

1952

10.0

So You Want to Enjoy Life

Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.

So You Want to Enjoy Life

1952

6.0

So You Want to Go to a Convention

Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.

So You Want to Go to a Convention

1952

9.0

So You Never Tell a Lie

When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.

So You Never Tell a Lie

1952

6.5

So You're Going to the Dentist

Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.

So You're Going to the Dentist

1952

9.0

So You Want to Wear the Pants

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

So You Want to Wear the Pants

1952

6.0

So You Want to Be a Musician

Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.

So You Want to Be a Musician

1953

9.0

So You Want a Television Set

Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator.

So You Want a Television Set

1953

8.0

So You Love Your Dog

Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving information to the enemy, Joe brings him home with him.

So You Love Your Dog

1953

10.0

So You Think You Can't Sleep

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.

So You Think You Can't Sleep

1953

6.5

So You Want to Be an Heir

Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.

So You Want to Be an Heir

1953

7.0

So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor.

So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

1954

7.0

So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.

So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

1954

10.0

So You Want to Go to a Nightclub

In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke.

So You Want to Go to a Nightclub

1954

9.0

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

1954

10.0

So You Don't Trust Your Wife

7.5

When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does.

So You Don't Trust Your Wife

1955

7.5

So You Want to Be a Gladiator

Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the lyre for King Nero.

So You Want to Be a Gladiator

1955

6.5

So You Want to Be on a Jury

Joe and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interference from both sides makes their task difficult.

So You Want to Be on a Jury

1955

9.0

So You Want a Model Railroad

Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and become obsessed to the point he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy and money. When Alice's mother comes to dinner, Joe even has a rigged-up train serving as the dumb waiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice to solve her problem.

So You Want a Model Railroad

1955

7.0

So You Want to Be a V.P.

8.8

Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.

So You Want to Be a V.P.

1955

8.8

So You Want to Be a Policeman

Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop.

So You Want to Be a Policeman

1955

7.0

So You Think the Grass Is Greener

When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde.

So You Think the Grass Is Greener

1956

7.0

So You Want to Be Pretty

3.3

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.

So You Want to Be Pretty

1956

3.3

So You Want to Play the Piano

Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.

So You Want to Play the Piano

1956

6.0

So Your Wife Wants to Work

7.5

Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?

So Your Wife Wants to Work

1956

7.5

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.

California Split

1974

6.6

Rounders

1998

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.

Rounders

1998

7.0

Mississippi Grind

2015

Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their way down the Mississippi River, Gerry and Curtis manage to find themselves in just about every bar, racetrack, casino, and pool hall they can find, experiencing both incredible highs and dispiriting lows, but ultimately forging a deep and genuine bond that will stay with them long after their adventure is over.

Mississippi Grind

2015

6.0

Dirty Work

6.2

1998

Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.

Dirty Work

1998

6.2

Hard Eight

1997

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

Hard Eight

1997

6.8

Indecent Proposal

6.4

1993

John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

Indecent Proposal

1993

6.4

The Landlord

5.9

1970

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

The Landlord

1970

5.9

Bookies

6.4

2003

Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.

Bookies

2003

6.4

Atlantic City

1980

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Atlantic City

1980

6.8

Poolhall Junkies

6.4

2002

A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.

Poolhall Junkies

2002

6.4

Ballad of a Small Player

5.8

2025

Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.

Ballad of a Small Player

2025

5.8

Time Lapse

2014

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Time Lapse

2014

6.5

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