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Comedy, Tragicomedy
Rita and Sue are two teenage girls in their final year of school who live on a run-down council estate in Bradford. They babysit for Bob and Michelle, a middle-class couple who live in a better part of town. While driving the girls home, Bob stops on the Yorkshire moors and complains about his wife's lack of interest in sex.
association football film, Christmas film, Comedy, sport film
Anna Montgomery (d'Abo), a teacher from Surrey, England, finds herself in the fictional town of Elma, Texas in the United States as part of an exchange program. Faced with the challenge of engaging her disheartened students, who view themselves as destined for failure, Anna introduces them to soccer in a novel attempt to connect. This introduction comes about when, in frustration, she inadvertently uses a broken globe to demonstrate soccer techniques.
Comedy, romantic comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
NASA is training for the first human mission to Mars, which will involve the spacecraft Aries. Because of a supposed glitch in the computer navigation system, NASA looks for the original programmer of the software to understand why it seems to be broken. Fred Z.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Doris Miller is a shy, eccentric, 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, with whom she had lived her whole life. At the funeral, her brother Todd and his wife Cynthia try to persuade her to sell the house, and especially get rid of the excessive possessions hoarded there over decades. Doris had been caring for her mother for years, thereby neglecting her own social life and development.
Comedy
In Atlanta, Georgia, Madea's household is getting ready for the graduation celebration of her great-grandson, Tim, who is accompanied by his friend, Davi. The visitors include Tim's mother Laura, who arrives with her friend Sylvia, who helped her in her divorce with her ex-husband Richard; Laura's sister Ellie, whose status as a cop pits her against Joe; Aunt Bam, who flirts with Davi upon seeing him; and Agnes and Cathy Brown, Davi's family from Ireland. They go to dinner at Red Lobster later that night.
Comedy, teen film
Seventeen-year-old twin sisters Jane, an uptight overachiever, and Roxy Ryan, a rebellious, aspiring rock star, are polar opposites who have not seen eye to eye since their mother's death. The twins live with their widower father in Syosset on Long Island. The two journey into NYC so Jane can deliver a speech for a prestigious college scholarship for Oxford and Roxy can hand her band's demo tape to Simple Plan, who are in town shooting a music video.
buddy film, Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Military Film, Raunchy comedy, Satire
Danny and Elliot are two friends who try to get out of the draft by pretending to be gay. They are placed under surveillance by the Army and have to keep up the pretense. They move into a gay apartment building and try to blend in with the residents, all the while trying to maintain their romantic relationships with women and not get caught by the Army.
Action Comedy, buddy film, fantasy film, Martial arts, Modern-Day Fantasy, Secret Agent
Eddie Yang is a Hong Kong police inspector cooperating with Interpol in the capture of a crime lord named AJ "Snakehead" Staul. Snakehead procures an ancient book from a Chinese bookstore keeper, which tells the story of a boy chosen every thousand years to bind the two halves of a legendary medallion. In Hong Kong, Eddie and Interpol agent Arthur Watson led a raid to capture Snakehead and his men, who were about to kidnap the boy named Jai.
Drama, Tragicomedy
James is forced to live in an underground bunker with his parents Ted and April Mitchum. While Ted tells James that the outside world is dangerous, James often sees him leaving the bunker with a gas mask on. James is fascinated with an educational children's show titled Brigsby Bear Adventures, centered on the titular bear helping characters escape from trouble, because it is the only show he owns and is allowed to watch.
Comedy, musical film
The situation is that of a group of people on a British mystery tour in a 1967 coach, focusing mostly on Richard B. Starkey and his recently widowed Auntie Jessie. Other group members on the bus include the tour director, Jolly Jimmy Johnson; the tour hostess, Miss Wendy Winters; the conductor, Buster Bloodvessel; and the other Beatles.
Comedy, Drama, musical film, pseudo-documentary
Emmet Ray is a jazz guitarist who achieved some acclaim in the 1930s with a handful of recordings for RCA Victor, but faded from public view under mysterious circumstances. Although he is a talented musician, Ray's personal life fell into shambles after his disappearance from public view. He's often late in or even absent from performances with his quintet due to heavy drinking.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, female buddy film, teen film
At the first meeting of the summer, Kristy Thomas, the president and founder of a babysitting club called "The Babysitter's Club", has the great idea of holding a day camp for their babysitting charges for the entire summer. She and her co-founders (Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, Stacey McGill, Dawn Schafer, Mallory Pike, and Jessi Ramsey) vow to keep an eye on the children. Mary Anne and Dawn, who are stepsisters, offer their parents' backyard to serve as the campsite, as long as the kids do not come inside the house and the barn (leading the club to rent a porta potty for the summer).
Comedy, Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, Raunchy comedy, romantic comedy
In a Baltimore neighborhood known for having the thickest local accent, unassuming 18-year-old Pecker works in a sandwich shop and takes photos of his loving but peculiar family and friends on the side. Pecker, named for his childhood habit of "pecking" at his food, becomes unexpectedly popular when savvy New York art dealer Rorey Wheeler "discovers" his work. Pecker's pictures, taken with a cheap Canon Canonet 28, are grainy, out-of-focus studies of unglamorous subjects, but they strike a chord with New York art collectors.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
The film follows various plot arcs all occurring on New Year's Eve of 1981. Monica is throwing a big party and is desperately afraid no one will attend. Early on, the only arrival is her friend Hillary.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Danica (Tika Sumpter) is a successful worker at a marketing firm, and has been in a relationship with "Charlie" (Mehcad Brooks), a man she met online a year ago but has never seen in real life. When she is sent to go pick up her recently paroled sister Tanya (Tiffany Haddish) from prison, her mother Lola (Whoopi Goldberg) also tells Danica that Tanya must stay at her house. Tanya is amazed by Danica's apartment, and discovers that Danica's ex-fiancé Bailey (Adrian Conrad) left her for another woman.
Comedy, Drama
The eccentric Magrath sisters—Lenny, Meg, and Rebecca "Babe"—reunite at their family home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi on Lenny's birthday, after Babe shoots and seriously injures her abusive husband, Zackery Botrelle. The three sisters were raised by Old Granddaddy after their mother committed suicide by hanging herself and the family's cat. Lenny is a wallflower who bemoans her shriveled ovary and has lived largely a life of solitude in the familial home caring for Granddaddy, while Babe married and moved in with the wealthy Zackery.
Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Jan Morrow is an interior decorator in New York City. She lives alone and claims to be happy when questioned on that subject by her drunken housekeeper, Alma. The only irritant in her life is the party line that she shares with Brad Allen, a Broadway composer and playboy who lives in a nearby apartment building.
romantic comedy
In 1962, aspiring author Barbara Novak arrives in New York to promote her book, Down with Love, to Banner House publishing. It is about freeing women from love, enjoying sex without commitment, and replacing the need for a man with things such as chocolate. Barbara believes that her rules will help boost women in the workplace and the world in general.
romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Private eye Jack Singer swore to his mother on her deathbed that he would never marry. His girlfriend Betsy wants to get married and start a family, and he proposes a quick Las Vegas marriage. They check into the Bally's Casino Resort.
Blaxploitation, Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Over a single Friday in July, the Dee-Luxe Car Wash welcomes all manner of strange and unusual visitors. A hysterical wealthy woman from Beverly Hills arrives with a carsick son. Money-hungry evangelist "Daddy Rich," who preaches a pseudo-gospel of prosperity theology, appears with his loyal (and singing) entourage, The Wilson Sisters.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
The people of Harford Road are firmly divided into two camps: the neuters, the puritanical residents who despise anything even remotely carnal; and the perverts, a group of sex addicts whose unique fetishes have all been brought to the fore by accidental concussions. Repressed Sylvia Stickles finds herself firmly entrenched in the former camp. Sylvia's promiscuous daughter Caprice, a go-go dancer at a local biker dive-bar, the Holiday House, performs under the stage name "Ursula Udders" because of her very large N-cup breast implants and has a penchant for indecent exposure.
romantic comedy
Doug Ireland is a concierge at the Bradbury, a luxurious hotel in New York City. Doug is very well-connected and is very good at his job, giving personal attention to guests like Gene Salvatore while occasionally pocketing a big tip. He also helps people who don't tip as well, such as Harry Wegman.
Animation, Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, mystery film, Science fiction, thriller film
Bill is a man whose daily routines, perceptions, and dreams are illustrated through multiple split-screen windows that are narrated by an uncredited Don Hertzfeldt. He often has meetings with his ex-girlfriend, but suffers from an unnamed illness which interferes with his seemingly mundane and uneventful life. One day, he visits his doctor, who informs him that his illness is getting worse; as the days pass, Bill's hallucinations and thoughts worsen until he has a hallucinogenic mental breakdown and passes out in an alley.
Comedy, political film, Political Satire
Plunged into despair by the results of the 2016 presidential election, veteran Democratic Party campaign consultant Gary Zimmer is shown a viral video of retired Marine Col. Jack Hastings giving a speech in support of the illegal immigrant population of his hometown, the fictional town of Deerlaken, Wisconsin. Calculating that getting Hastings elected as a Democrat in Deerlaken's upcoming mayoral election will help him convince the American people in the heartland to vote Democrat in the next presidential election, Zimmer travels to Wisconsin to persuade Hastings to run.