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Action, Comedy, fantasy film, Parody, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, Superhero
Jefferson Reed is a school teacher in Washington, DC. His neighborhood is terrorized by a gang called the Golden Lords led by Simon Caine and allied with drug lord Anthony Byers. One night, Jeff steps in to rescue a woman from the gang.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Erotic Film, Raunchy comedy, sexploitation film
Philip "Philly" Fillmore is an adventurous 15-year-old boy and the son of a rich businessman in Phoenix, Arizona; when his father leaves town on an extended trip during summer break, the young man is left in the passing care of Nicole Mallow, a French housekeeper, and Lester Lewis, the family's chauffeur. Philly is quickly infatuated with Nicole, and after spotting Philly peeping into her room, she invites him inside. To his utter shock, she starts undressing in front of him, but when a fully nude Nicole invites him to touch her, Philly panics and leaves.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, High School Comedy Film, romantic comedy
Upon first arriving at Vernon Academy, a prestigious boys' preparatory school in Illinois, Jonathan Ogner is mocked for wearing his school uniform. Then, going up to his dormitory, he meets his roommate, who introduces himself as Squire Franklin Burroughs IV but tells him to call him "Skip". Skip then takes off his bathrobe, revealing a red bra and panties, then explains to the shocked Jonathan that it is tradition for seniors to parade around campus wearing only girls' underwear.
Comedy horror
Christmas film, fantasy film, Marital Tragedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, romance film, romantic comedy
Alice Tate is an upper-class Manhattan homemaker who spends her days shopping, getting beauty treatments and gossiping with her friends. She has been married to wealthy Doug for 16 years, and they have two children who are being raised by a nanny. One day, she has a brief encounter with Joe Ruffalo, a handsome jazz musician.
Comedy, Surrealist
As a child in El Salvador, Alejandro is raised by his mother Dolores, an artist who encourages his imagination, despite her recurring dream of her son facing unknown dangers in a cave. As an adult, Alejandro lives in Bushwick, New York City, and struggles to achieve his dream of designing toys at Hasbro. He applies to Hasbro's internship program with ideas such as smartphones for Cabbage Patch Kids, but is rejected.
Comedy horror, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Parody, Slasher, teen film
Pleasure Island is a resort off the coast of Costa Rica, owned by famous, washed-up musician Coconut Pete. Staff members Rolo, Stacy, and Kelly sneak into the jungle to have sex, where they are ambushed and murdered by a masked figure. Meanwhile, Lars, the new fill-in masseur, arrives at the resort.
romantic comedy
Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) is a 33 year-old divorced mother who moves to a rural Arizona town to make a living by training and boarding horses. She becomes friends with the town's pharmacist, Murphy Jones (James Garner), an idiosyncratic widower. A romance between them seems unlikely, both because of the significant age difference and because Emma allows her ex-husband, Bobby Jack Moriarty (Brian Kerwin), to move back in with her and their 12-year-old son, Jake (Corey Haim).
Comedy
At the prestigious five-star Majestic Hotel, guest Lionel Spalding and his dog Neil fall victim to an overflowing fountain, the result of a prank by Kyle and Brian Grant, sons of the hotel's widowed manager Robert. Though disappointed in his sons' behavior, Robert promises them a vacation in Barbados - a trip that's already been postponed twice. However, the strict hotel owner Elena Dubrow forces another cancellation due to the upcoming Crystal Ball, where they expect a critic from the Le Monde Traveller Organization to potentially award the hotel a sixth star.
black comedy film, Comedy drama, Dark Comedy, fantasy film
A self-described "academic ladyboy" is overwhelmed by the dust stirred up by his city's renewal projects and purchases a vacuum cleaner to tidy his apartment. At night he overhears his new vacuum coughing, and in the morning finds that it has expelled the dust it had cleaned. The Ladyboy calls for a repairman, who arrives almost instantly.
Melodrama, romance film, Tragicomedy
Emma recalls meeting her eventual husband Jesse 15 years previously at a high school keg party with her best friend Sam. Now, at her parents,' celebrating her recent engagement to Sam, she gets a shocking call from Jesse, saying he is still alive, four years after he was declared dead. Emma remembers her first kiss with Jesse in the police station, taken in for attending an underage party.
Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
thumb|The real dagger of Mahmud I Jewel thief Elizabeth Lipp visits Istanbul, where she sees a traveling fair featuring replicas of treasures from the Topkapı Palace. She then cases the Topkapı, fascinated by the emerald-encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud I. Leaving Turkey for Paris, she recruits a former lover, Swiss criminal mastermind Walter Harper, to plan a theft of the dagger.
Comedy, High School Comedy Film, teen film
Nick Brady and Shawn Colfax are popular high school football players who con their way into cheerleading camp in order to meet girls. While attending the cheer camp, not only do Nick and Shawn hook up with girls, but they realize that they actually enjoy cheerleading. As they start to care about their squad and the cheer competition, they help motivate their teammates to improve and to believe in themselves.
Comedy, Drama, Family Drama, female buddy film, romantic comedy
In 1937 Louisiana, four little girls in the woods at night take a blood oath of loyalty to one another, led by Vivi Abbott, who dubs the group the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood." In 2002 New York City, Vivi's eldest daughter, playwright Siddalee "Sidda" Walker, gives an interview with a reporter from Time, mentioning her unhappy childhood as a major source of inspiration for her work. The reporter sensationalizes Sidda's complaint, implying abuse and deep, dark family secrets. The article upsets Vivi, who calls Sidda and angrily declares that she is dead to her.
black comedy film, Comedy horror, Vampire
A family of vampires who choose to abstain from drinking blood are confronted with the problem of their teenage children, whose bloodlust proves difficult to control. When their identity is exposed, parents Helen and Peter are forced to confront who they are, with the help or hindrance of Peter's twin brother Will, who is a practising vampire.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
The film mainly focuses on the "coming of age" of four girl students at a Midwestern university during spring vacation. In a class discussion, smart, down-to-earth Merritt Andrews suggests that premarital sex might be something young women should experience. Melanie Tolman, a magnet for young men, loses her virginity on her first date, soon after the young women arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Comedy, Concert film, musical film
Unlike most movies, there is no "plot" per se in this movie, rather a succession of seemingly unrelated scenes. The throughline in the film comes from the themes inherent in it: a biting satire of television; an indictment of fame, especially fame gained too early in life; commentary on the Monkees themselves and their experience as both product and performers; and a meditation on the power of media. Head begins at the dedication of a bridge.
Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, teen film
Ryan Woodman is a bit of a geek with eyes for the school's most popular girl, Ashley Grant. This induces cringing in his neighbor and best friend, Maggie Carter, a cute, intellectual girl. Football jock Chris Campbell, who happens to be Ashley's cousin, has his eyes on Maggie, though.
romantic comedy
Ben King and Alice Mori, friends from college and now in their late twenties, separately attend a wedding between their friends, Matt and Amanda. Having recently broken up with her boyfriend, Nate, Alice gets drunk. Ben is fixated on former classmate Jess Ramsey and hopes to establish a romantic relationship with her.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Celeste Talbert, the long-time star of the daytime soap opera The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by her ambitious co-star Montana Moorehead; Montana connives to replace Celeste as the star by promising sexual favors to producer David Seton Barnes. To make the audience hate Celeste's character, Montana and David come up with a plot in which she will accidentally kill a young, homeless deaf-mute, played by the newly cast Lori Craven. Despite the objections of head writer Rose Schwartz and Celeste herself, the scene plays out, but is interrupted by the latter's recognition of Lori as her real-life niece.
Comedy, Dance Film
Quinn Ackerman, a quirky and intelligent high school senior, works as a technical director for the Thunderbirds, her high school's elite dance team, which is well known around the state as the reigning champions of the Work It dance competition. When Quinn sets something on fire by accident, the ruthless leader of the Thunderbirds, Julliard Pembroke, fires her from the position. Quinn's dream to attend Duke University, her late father's alma mater, is soured when the admissions counselor, Veronica Ramirez, informs that her chances of standing out to the admission's team are not good.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, Drama
Victor Maynard is a reclusive hit-man perpetuating a family line of professional assassins. His father, a well-known assassin, is deceased, but he operates under the constant watchful gaze of his domineering mother, Louisa, who wants him to preserve the family reputation. Rose is an ingenious con artist, who manages to sell a fake Rembrandt, painted by her friend in the Restoration Department of the National Gallery, to Ferguson, a billionaire, for £900,000.
Action, Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, spy film, thriller film
When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes awry, CIA agent Kevin Pope is killed. Pope was working undercover as an antiquities dealer under the name Michael Turner. The CIA, which is desperate to complete the mission, discovers that Agent Pope had a twin brother, Jake Hayes, from whom he was separated at birth; their mother died giving birth and Hayes suffered from a severe lung infection that prompted the doctors to separate them because they felt that Hayes was unlikely to live for very long.
Comedy, Horror, teen film
At a Los Angeles area beach city high school, on the last day of school before summer vacation, physical education teacher Freddy Shoop is preparing for a vacation to Hawaii with his girlfriend, Kim. Vice principal Phil Gills hands out paper slips informing several underachievers that they must attend summer school for remedial English. Among the students are easily distracted Pam House; "nocturnal" Larry Kazamias, a male stripper; football jock Kevin Winchester; pregnant Rhonda Altobello; geeky Alan Eakian; dyslexic Denise Green; intimidating Jerome Watkins; and two horror film-obsessed underachievers, Dave Frazier and Francis Gremp, a.k.a.