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Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Set in 1969, the film is based on the true story of Elliot Tiber, an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents, Jake and Sonia, own the small dilapidated El Monaco Resort in White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York. A hippie theater troupe, The Earthlight Players, rents the barn, but can barely pay any rent. Due to financial trouble, the motel may close.
Comedy, Horror, Tragicomedy
A rich American industrialist's Paris trip with his estranged daughter Madeleine goes awry when French food, a vintage horror movie, and a meddling hotel worker interfere with their plans.
Comedy, Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Sissy Hankshaw is a woman born with a mutation (she would not call it a defect) giving her enormously large thumbs. Sissy makes the most of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker. Her travels eventually take her to New York City, where she becomes a model for a homosexual feminine hygiene products mogul, known as "The Countess".
Comedy, romantic comedy
Nikki and Leo grow up together in Toronto's Little Italy neighborhood, where their families run a pizzeria. After winning a pizza competition, a feud developed between Nikki's father Sal and Leo's father Vince which caused them to dissolve their partnership and start separate restaurants side by side. The reason for the feud is a secret.
Comedy horror, cosmic horror film
Slacker David Wong recalls confronting a zombie skinhead he beheaded a year earlier and wonders if an axe that had its handle and head replaced over time is still the same axe. In the present day, he meets with a reporter, Arnie Blondestone, to recount the supernatural events that plagued the small, undisclosed city he lives in. Some time ago, David is at a party with his friend John, with acquaintances Fred Chu, Justin White, and Amy Sullivan, who has had a hand amputated.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
A group of childhood friends have a sleepover as a bachelorette party for Jamie, where the conversations evolve from the topic of their relationships with men to sex and related fantasies. The group includes two sisters, Rachel and Jill, between whom remains some emotional tension. The hostess for the evening, the bisexual Georgina, is pestered by her possessive live-in lover Chris, who declines to join the party, staying in her bedroom.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, comedy thriller, teen film, thriller film
In Grandsboro, California, Leigh Ann Watson is a high school student living with her single mother, Faye, who works as a waitress. Leigh Ann's goals are to get top grades, become valedictorian, and leave town. However, her grade in history class is threatened by her teacher, Mrs.
romantic comedy, Time travel
Noah Ashby is in love with beautiful Avery Martin after meeting her at a 2014 Halloween party, but she regards him as a friend. Avery meets her fiancé, Ethan, the day after she and Noah met. Three years later, Noah remains distraught at not having been able to win her over.
romantic comedy
thumb|right|Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo and Richard Carle thumb|right|Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, three agents from the Soviet Board of Trade, arrive in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Count Alexis Rakonin, a White Russian nobleman reduced to employment as a waiter in the hotel where the trio are staying, overhears details of their mission and informs the former Russian Grand Duchess Swana that her family jewels are to be sold by the three men. Swana's debonair paramour, Count Léon d'Algout, offers to help retrieve the jewelry before it is sold.
Comedy, fantasy film, satanic film
Stanley Moon, a short-order cook in a Wimpy restaurant in London, is infatuated with waitress Margaret Spencer, but is too shy to approach her. Distraught, he attempts suicide by hanging but is interrupted by George Spiggot, a man claiming to be the Devil. In return for his soul, George offers Stanley seven wishes.
Biography, Comedy drama, Drama
19-year-old Amberley Snyder is a nationally ranked rodeo barrel racer who spends most of her time training with her horse Power at her home in Utah. On her way to Denver, Amberley loses control of her truck and crashes; ejected from the vehicle, she hits a fence pole, rendering her a paraplegic. Amberley is rushed to a hospital where doctors confirm she will live the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
Comedy drama, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
In Los Angeles, Bobby is an amateur boxer with ties to local mob boss Max. Between his lackluster boxing career and working as a mason on Max's construction projects, Bobby struggles to support his girlfriend Jessica, a stripper in Max’s employ, and her daughter Chloe. After Bobby beats up a handsy customer at a bachelor party, his associate Horrace is assigned to escort Jessica instead.
Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Jack Walsh enlists as a U.S. Naval Seaman shortly after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, at the start of US involvement in World War II. His wife Kay signs up to work in an armaments factory in California while he is overseas in naval service.
Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Historie, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
John Worthing, a carefree and seemingly respectable young gentleman, has crafted a fictitious brother named "Ernest", whose scandalous and wicked behavior provides John with the perfect excuse to leave his peaceful country estate and travel to London whenever he pleases. In the city, John stays with his close friend, Algernon Moncrieff, who is equally mischievous and shares John's fondness for bending social norms. While in London, John assumes the persona of Ernest, and under this guise, he has won the affections of Algernon's beautiful cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax.
Comedy, Heist, High School Comedy Film, teen film
Abraham Lincoln High School's head B-Squad cheerleader Lisa Janusch, who recalls about how Diane Weston, the kindhearted popular head cheerleader of Abraham Lincoln High School's A-squad, became pregnant by the well-known football quarterback Jack Bartlett. After announcing the pregnancy to their parents, the two are kicked out of their respective homes and find an apartment of their own. Jack initially has issues keeping a job, but eventually gets hired at a video rental store.
romantic comedy
thumb|upright=1.25|Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the romantic comedy film Indiscreet.Famous London-based theater actress Anna Kalman is bored with her latest romantic infatuation and has returned home early from a trip to Mallorca. Her sister, Margaret, and brother-in-law, Alfred Munson, arrive at Anna's apartment with Philip Adams, a handsome American economist who is being courted by Alfred to accept a NATO position in Paris. Rather than let Anna spend the evening alone, they urge her to attend the dinner lecture that Phillip is to give on economics.
Biography, Comedy, Drama, Erotic Film
In Berkeley, California, in 1988, Mark O'Brien is a 38-year-old poet who is forced to live in an iron lung due to complications from polio. Due to his condition, he has never had sex. After unsuccessfully proposing to his caretaker Amanda, and sensing he may be near death, he decides he wants to lose his virginity.
Comedy horror, Splatter Film, supernatural horror film
In 1993 Encino, Skye Willow, drummer of the heavy metal band Dream Widow, is crawling along the floor with a broken leg, followed closely by band's frontman, Greg Nole, who is holding a hammer. Skye sees the body of another band member, who has had his jaw broken by Greg, before Greg drives the hammer through her forehead and repeatedly hits her head with it, crushing her skull. Greg then hangs himself from a window.
Comedy, Drama, Family Drama, slice of life
The film is set in 1969 Morrison, Alabama. The Caldwell family includes two World War II veterans, their sister Donna, brother Jimbo and a patriarch, Jim, who is a World War I veteran. The Caldwells are involved in a cultural clash with the Bedfords, a family which includes Phillip, a World War II veteran, his sister Camilla, and their father Kingsley, also a World War I veteran.
Action Comedy, buddy cop film
Two undercover agents—an FBI agent (Sprouse) and a DEA agent (Gooding)—separately infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel. When they mutually reveal their identities at a remote border meet-up, they become trapped in a sniper-led ambush. Realizing they’ve been working parallel sides, they must overcome their distrust to survive.
Comedy, Drama, Family Drama
Years have passed since the death of her daughter, Emma. Aurora Greenway is still her usual strong, willful self, but all is not well with the three grandchildren she raised after Emma's death, particularly elder boy Tommy, who is serving time in jail on a drug charge. Younger grandson Teddy now has a girlfriend and a son, neither of whom Aurora warms to.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Susan (who initially calls herself Rita), a 26-year-old working-class hairdresser, is dissatisfied with the routine of her work and social life; she is reluctant to have a child, fearing it will tie her to the same monotonous routine for life, and she yearns to escape to something more profound, without exactly knowing what that is. She seeks to better herself by signing up for and attending an Open University course in Literature. Susan's assigned Open University tutor, Frank Bryant, is jaded and has long ago openly taken to the bottle, describing himself as "an appalling teacher".
Comedy, Comedy drama, romantic comedy
The film is narrated by the fictional Joe, voiced by Allen. Joe begins by relating how two burglars got involved in a radio game show after answering a random phone call during a home burglary; the burglars ransacked the house but the residents won the game show prizes. He goes on to explain that he associates old radio songs with childhood memories.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy
Paige Evans is a student at Miller High School who has a passion for art and hopes to study at a summer program at her dream school, CalArts. She struggles with the prompt which is to describe her happiest moment; she considers her unrequited long-time lesbian crush on popular student Gabby Campos as a possible topic. Further complicating matters is ‘KingPun’, an anonymous artist who vandalizes the school with pun-based graffiti.