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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,757 films · Page 148.

Necessary Roughness (1991)

American football film, Comedy

The Texas State University Fighting Armadillos were once one of the most powerful teams in college football. After winning consecutive conference and national championships, massive NCAA violations resulted in the program having to forfeit years' worth of victories. All of the coaches were fired and all of the players are banned from returning and expelled from college except Charlie Banks, the only "clean" player, who never got to play despite having "heart".

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Killer Bean Forever (2009)

thriller film

One night in Beantown, Shadow Agency agent Killer Bean calls a DJ at a nearby warehouse party to lower the music's volume as it's disturbing his sleep. The DJ ignores his request, prompting Killer Bean to kill everyone at the warehouse. The DJ reveals he's a nephew of Cappuccino, a notorious crime boss and drug lord, before Killer Bean shoots him.

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Tales from the Crypt (1972)

Comedy horror, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, Zombie

Intro (wraparound) Five strangers are viewing old catacombs in the English countryside. Their names are Joanne Clayton, Carl Maitland, James Elliot, Ralph Jason, and Major William Rogers. They stumble into a room with a mysterious Crypt Keeper, who details how each of them will die.

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Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, fantasy film, Supernatural

An aged Henry Van Cleve enters the opulent reception area of "where innumerable people had so often told him to go", to be personally greeted by "His Excellency". Henry petitions to be admitted, fully aware of the kind of life he has led, but some doubt exists as to his qualifications. To prove his worthiness (and unworthiness of Heaven), he begins to tell the story of his dissolute life.

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Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (2015)

Comedy

DJ Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller) recounts a firsthand narrative that begins with Joe Dirt on a bus stop bench speaking to a woman. He reveals that he is waiting for a concert to end because he is part of the janitorial crew and then tells the story of how he lost his wife and children. Dirt recants Silvertown, Idaho, his marriage to Brandy (Brittany Daniel) and the birth of their triplet daughters Abilene, Cheyenne & Dakota.

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Find Me Guilty (2006)

Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Forensic, Mafia Film, trial film

In the mid 1980s, Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction soldier Jackie DiNorscio and 19 of his peers have been waiting a year for their federal racketeering trial to begin. While out on bail, Jackie is shot by his drug addict cousin Tony Compagna. Afraid of being killed by the extended mob family run by Nick Calabrese, Tony agrees to be a government witness for district attorney Sean Kierney.

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Hooper (1978)

Action, Action Comedy, Comedy

Sonny Hooper is the stunt coordinator on the action film The Spy Who Laughed at Danger, directed by Roger Deal and starring Adam West. Sonny's antics and wisecracks are a trial for the egotistical director and his officious but cowardly assistant, Tony. Years of numerous "gags" and his use of alcohol and painkillers are beginning to take their toll.

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Buster (1988)

Biography, Comedy drama, Crime Comedy, romance film, Tragicomedy

Buster Edwards is a petty criminal from Lambeth in 1963 London. His long-suffering wife June thinks of him as a lovable rogue. The film opens with Buster walking along his local high street and breaking into a shop to steal a suit, which he then wears to a funeral.

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Heavy Traffic (1973)

adult animated film, Blaxploitation, Cartoon, Comedy drama, live-action/animated film

The film begins in live-action, introducing Michael Corleone, a twenty-two year-old virgin who plays pinball in New York City while asking himself philosophical questions before envisioning an animated and dangerous New York neighborhood. Michael's Italian father, Angelo "Angie" Corleone, is a sleazy, struggling mafioso who frequently cheats on Michael's Jewish mother, Ida, with his mistress, Molly. Angie and Ida constantly bicker and try to kill each other at every opportunity.

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The Rocker (2008)

Comedy, musical film

In late 1986, Vesuvius, a rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, performs at a local theater and is offered a recording contract. When their manager tells them they will get to tour as the opening act for Whitesnake, Vesuvius decides to replace drummer Robert "Fish" Fishman with the president of the record company's nephew. 20 years later, Vesuvius remains an immensely successful band, while Fish lives a relatively ordinary life.

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Nim's Island (2008)

Adventure, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, teen film

11-year-old Nim Rusoe lives with her widower marine biologist father Jack on a secret island in the South Pacific. Nim's mother, Emily, died when she was eaten by a blue whale, after it was scared by a ship called The Buccaneer. Nim has several native animals for company: Selkie the sea lion, Fred the bearded dragon, Chica the sea turtle, and Galileo the pelican, and is an avid reader of the "Alex Rover" adventure book series.

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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Action, Comedy, Detective, musical film, mystery film

Private investigator Ford Fairlane is sitting on a beach smoking. A flashback shows a roaring crowd at a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado, given by heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black makes an entrance down a zip line from Creation Rock onto the stage and begins performing.

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Halloweentown High (2004)

Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film, teen film

Two years after the previous film, Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year. She asks the Halloweentown Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes bringing a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.

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The Night Stalker (1972)

Comedy horror, Horror

A series of murders plague the Las Vegas Strip. All of the victims had their bodies drained of blood. Carl Kolchak, a veteran reporter who has been fired from newspapers across the country due to his tenacious and unprofessional approach, thinks the killer believes himself to be a vampire.

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A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996)

Comedy drama, Dark Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy

Darnell Wright, a playboy and nightclub manager at Chocolate City, is known for trading VIP access for favors from women, despite harboring lingering feelings for his childhood sweetheart, Mia. Ambitious and self-assured, Darnell aspires to become a co-owner of the club. When Brandi Web, a wealthy and enigmatic woman, enters the club, Darnell sees her as the ultimate challenge for him as a womanizer and begins to pursue her romantically.

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Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)

Comedy, Parody, Western

The Old West town of Calendar in the Colorado Territory springs up almost overnight when clumsy, hotheaded Prudy Perkins notices gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father, bumbling farmer Olly, becomes the first mayor, but soon the town is at the mercy of the corrupt Danby family, who force the prospectors to pay a toll to use the only road in or out of Calendar. There is no sheriff, as the few who have taken the job have been run out of town or killed.

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Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

Crime, romantic comedy

Michael Felgate is an English auctioneer living in New York City where he manages the Cromwell auction house. He proposes marriage to his girlfriend Gina Vitale, but is disheartened to be turned down. Gina tearfully explains that her father Frank and most of her cousins and uncles are gangsters deeply involved in a Mafia crime family, and she is concerned that Michael will be forced into their world.

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Anywhere But Here (1999)

Drama

Adele August and her reluctant teenage daughter, Ann, leave their small town in Wisconsin and move to Beverly Hills. Adele hopes Ann will become a Hollywood actress despite Ann's interest in going to Brown University. They rent a run-down apartment and Adele becomes a speech-language pathologist at a high school in a bad part of town.

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Alligator (1980)

Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Drama, exploitation film, Horror, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

In 1968, a teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida and gives it the name Ramon. When the family returns home to Missouri, the girl's surly, animal-phobic father promptly flushes it down the toilet and into the city's sewers. The baby alligator survives by feeding on the discarded carcasses of pet animals (mostly dogs) used in illegal experimentation and dumped into the sewers.

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