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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,757 films · Page 146.

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)

Animation, children's film, Comedy, Fairy tale

In the royal palace, Cinderella's mice friends Jaq and Gus head to a chamber where the Fairy Godmother is reading the story of Cinderella to the other mice. Much to their disappointment, Jaq and Gus arrive just as she has finished the story. With her help, the mice set off to make a new book to narrate what happens after the Happily Ever After, by stringing three segments of stories together into one narrative.

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Polyester (1981)

Comedy, Comedy drama

thumb|left|Tab Hunter and Divine in a publicity still for the film Overweight housewife Francine Fishpaw watches her upper-middle-class family's life crumble in their suburban Baltimore home. Her husband Elmer is a polyester-clad lout who owns an adult movie theater, causing anti-pornography protesters to picket the Fishpaws' house. Francine's Christian beliefs are offended by the behavior of her teenage children—Lu-Lu, her spoiled, promiscuous daughter, and Dexter, her delinquent, glue-sniffing son who derives sexual pleasure from stomping on women's feet.

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Música (2024)

Coming-of-age, romantic comedy

Rudy is a young man plagued by synesthesia in his head. He gets distracted from his relationships and studies due to symphony of everyday sounds and noises. He struggles to balance his artistic pursuits, like puppetry and music, with the expectations of his mother Maria to embrace his Brazilian heritage in Newark, New Jersey and find a more stable career path.

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Dragnet (1987)

buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime, Parody, Police Film

LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday's nephew and namesake, whose anachronistic views reflect those of his deceased uncle, is involuntarily assigned a cocky, streetwise new partner, Pep Streebek, as Friday's previous longtime partner in the Robbery-Homicide Division, Frank Smith, recently quit the department without notice after their 12 years together to buy a goat farm in Ukiah. Their contrasting styles clash at first, with Friday criticizing Streebek's attitude, hairstyle and wardrobe. However, they start to bond while investigating a series of bizarre thefts.

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Longfellow Deeds is the co-owner of a tallow works, part-time greeting card poet, and tuba-playing inhabitant of the hamlet of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. During the Great Depression he inherits 20 million dollars from his uncle, Martin Semple. Semple's scheming attorney, John Cedar, locates Deeds and brings him to New York City.

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Look Who's Talking Too (1990)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Several months after getting married, Mollie Jensen and James Ubriacco welcome their child, Mikey's half-sister Julie into the family. While at first, Mikey is excited to be a big brother, he begins to resent Julie shortly after she is born when the reality does not match what he dreamed being a big brother would be like. He finds Julie annoying and resents sharing both toys and his parents attention; being constantly mean to her as a result.

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Cabin Boy (1994)

Comedy, fantasy film

Nathaniel Mayweather is a snobbish, self-centered, arrogant, virginal "fancy lad." After graduation, he is invited by his father to sail to Hawaii aboard The Queen Catherine. After annoying the limousine driver who is taking him to board the boat, he is forced to walk the rest of the way. Nathaniel makes a wrong turn into a small fishing village where he meets the imbecilic cabin boy/first mate Kenny of The Filthy Whore, which Nathaniel believes to be The Queen Catherine as part of a theme.

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Eagle vs Shark (2007)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Lily, a shy, wistful girl, is a songwriter when no one is listening. She works at a Wellington fast food restaurant and has a crush on Jarrod, a geek who works in a video game store. One day, Jarrod gives Lily an invitation to his "dress as your favourite animal" party to pass along to her workmate Jenny, who throws it away.

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Money Train (1995)

Action, buddy cop film, Comedy, comedy thriller, Heist

Foster brothers John and Charlie Robinson are decoy transit cops patrolling the New York City Subway. Chasing muggers into a subway tunnel, John and Charlie are furious when one of the teenage thieves is gunned down by officers guarding the money train, hauling subway revenue. A brawl ensues, and transit captain Donald Patterson blames the brothers for delaying the money train.

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Real Women Have Curves (2002)

Comedy, Coming-of-age, Drama

In East Los Angeles, California, 18-year-old Ana García, a high school student in Beverly Hills, struggles to balance her dream of going to college with family duty and a tough economic situation. While Ana's sister Estela and their father Raúl approve of her ambitions, Ana's mother Carmen resists the idea in favor of Ana helping Estela, who oversees a small, rundown family-owned textile factory. She wants to both keep her family together and resolve their precarious finances.

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Cannibal! The Musical (1996)

Biography, Cannibal, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, musical film, Western

The film begins with a reenactment of the gruesome act of cannibalism described by the prosecuting attorney during Alferd Packer's 1883 trial. During this sensationalized account, a haggard Packer repeatedly insists that was not how it happened. During a break in the trial, Packer is enticed by journalist Polly Pry to tell his side of the story, which he proceeds to do, via flashback beginning with his horse Lianne galloping in a field.

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The Hard Way (1991)

Action, buddy film, Comedy, Crime, Sitcom

Cynical NYPD Lieutenant John Moss pursues a serial killer known as the "Party Crasher" through a local nightclub, but fails to prevent the murder of a local drug dealer. During an interview with the press, Moss vents his frustration at the camera during a live broadcast. In Los Angeles, entitled Hollywood movie star Nick Lang sees the interview and is impressed by Moss's aggression.

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Freaks of Nature (2015)

Comedy horror, Horror, Science fiction, Vampire, Werewolf, zombie comedy

The town of Dillford, Ohio, is home to three species who despise each other: humans, vampires, and zombies. Vampires are at the top of the food chain, both literally and in social circles, and tend to be the cooler kids in town. The zombies are able to leave their ghetto with special collars that keep them compliant.

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Hyperspace (1984)

Comedy, Science fiction

A Star Wars–style text crawl explains how a resistance force led by Princess Serina has stolen vital radio transmissions from an evil Galactic Alliance. The Darth Vader–like villain, Lord Buckethead (named only in the closing credits), pursues Serina, but, due to an error in navigation, instead lands on Earth. Lord Buckethead then leads his Jawa-like minions into the nearby suburb while none-the-wiser of his blunder.

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Problem Child 2 (1991)

Adventure, Comedy

Ben Healy has divorced his controlling and overbearing wife Flo before he and his adoptive son Junior Healy move to Mortville, Oregon, a quiet community, as a way to start over. Ben is initially sad to leave Cold River until Junior reminds him that everyone there has been horrible to him his whole life. Before they arrive at their new house, Junior sees a girl roller skating on the sidewalk with a balloon.

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It Runs in the Family (1994)

Comedy

The film takes place in the summer of 1941, after the events of A Christmas Story, which took place in December 1940. It has several plotlines, one each for 10-year-old Ralphie Parker, his father, and his mother, followed by a recurring subplot involving him and his dad on a fishing trip, that proves frequently fruitless until a single night when all fish are caught. This also feeds a needless obsession in Ralphie's 7-year-old brother Randy, much to Mrs.

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Meet the Browns (2008)

Comedy drama, Drama, romance film

In Chicago, Brenda Brown-Davis is the struggling single mother of Mike Jr., Lena, and Tosha. She receives a letter saying that the father she has never met died and his funeral will be in Georgia. The plant where she works with her friend Cheryl "relocates its business to Mexico" adding to her existing financial difficulties.

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The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Coming-of-age, Drama, Family Drama, lesbian-related film, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

In the 1950s, Win Berry and his wife have five children, John, Franny, Frank, Lilly, and Egg. The Berrys decide to open a hotel near the prep school that John, Franny, and Frank attend; they call it the Hotel New Hampshire. John loses his virginity to the hotel waitress.

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The Cooler (2003)

Comedy, Drama, neo-noir, romance film, Romantic drama

In Las Vegas, unlucky Bernie Lootz works at the Shangri-La casino as a "cooler" – a man with near-professional bad luck whose presence at a casino is designed to stop people from winning. A cocktail waitress, Natalie, takes no real notice of Bernie, who is smitten with her. The casino manager and partner, Shelly, prides himself on running a "classically" Las Vegas casino, and resents the new establishments that attract a lower clientele.

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Class of 1984 (1982)

Action, Crime, Drama, rape and revenge film, Science fiction, thriller film

Andrew Norris is the new music teacher at Lincoln High School, a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan, who is carrying a gun. When Andrew asks about the firearm, Terry assures him he will learn why the protection is necessary.

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La Dolce Villa (2025)

romantic comedy

Fifty-something American widower Eric Field is an Ohio business owner, who returns to Italy to find his 24-year-old daughter Liv (Olivia), despite having bad experiences there in the past. He hopes to stop her from blowing her inheritance on rebuilding a villa. Eric has taken time off now for the first time in years from his restaurant support company Main Course Consulting, out of concern that Liv is possibly jeopardizing her future.

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Grind (2003)

Comedy

After high school graduation, skateboarder friends, Eric Rivers, Dustin Knight, and, Matt Jensen, take one last Summer road trip together, with the goal of getting noticed by pro skater legend, Jimmy Wilson, on his demo tour. Following their dreams and Wilson's national tour, the trio start their own skate team, reluctantly sponsored by Dustin and his college fund. After recruiting laid-back ladies man, "Sweet" Lou Singer to join their crew and provide the van for their tour, team Super Duper launches the ride of their lives in an outrageous road trip from Chicago to Santa Monica.

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Gringo (2018)

Action Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy

In the Chicago offices of Promethium Pharmaceuticals, co-presidents Richard Rusk and Elaine Markinson receive a call from a company employee, Harold Soyinka, who claims he has been kidnapped in Mexico and that his abductors are demanding a ransom of five million US dollars. One day earlier, Harold, Richard, and Elaine arrive in Mexico; There, they meet Sanchez, the head of Promethium's Mexico plant. Unbeknownst to Harold, it is revealed that Sanchez has been selling Promethium's latest product, medical marijuana in the form of a pill, to a Mexican cartel.

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