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romantic comedy
Mort Rifkin, a snobby elderly film critic from New York, is telling his therapist about the recent developments in his life. In the recount, he's accompanying his much younger wife Sue to a film festival in San Sebastián. She works as a press agent for Philippe, a French director whose banal and derivative anti-war film is being universally celebrated as a masterpiece, to Mort's chagrin.
Comedy, Drama, Romantic drama
A woman named Jenna is ten weeks pregnant. Her parents are pressuring Jenna and her live-in boyfriend Michael to get married. However, Michael is having second thoughts, despite considering Jenna an ideal companion.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Dorky executive Nelson Hibbert gets passed over for a promotion after spending years angling for the job, including engagement to one of his boss's daughters. He reacts angrily, swearing to kill the boss as security drags him away. When he later discovers his boss – already murdered – he assumes that he will be blamed.
romance film
In Chicago, Darius Lovehall, a writer and poet, meets photographer Nina Mosley at the Sanctuary, a nightclub where jazz and spoken-word are performed. After an awkward first meeting at the bar, Darius is called to the stage and performs a poem that he dedicates to Nina. The two are attracted to each other, but Nina is hesitant because she has recently ended an engagement with Marvin.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Raunchy comedy, teen film, Teen Comedy Film
After his girlfriend Tracy dumps him for her ex-boyfriend, Trent, Erik Stifler and his friend Cooze arrive at the University of Michigan as freshmen. Erik meets a girl named Ashley and his new roommate Bobby. Erik is then welcomed by his cousin, Dwight Stifler, the leader of the Beta House fraternity; who invites Erik, Cooze and Bobby to a party.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Dark Comedy, romantic comedy
In Tacoma, Washington, Catholic Italian American Joey Boca goes to church, and in the confession booth, admits to a priest to cheating on his wife Rosalie with at least seven women in the past two or three weeks. Despite asking for forgiveness, he remains unrepentant in his routine. Joey and Rosalie, who run a pizza parlor, have been married for years and have two children.
Comedy, Drama, Satire On Media
Acclaimed British comedienne and long-time US late-night talk show host Katherine Newbury show's ratings have been steadily declining. She must revamp the show or be replaced. Short of female staff, Katherine insists producer Brad remedy this.
Comedy horror, found footage film, Horror
Disgraced internet personality Shawn plans to livestream himself spending the night in Death Manor, a purportedly haunted house where several people have died. After Shawn arrives at the house, he throws his car keys down a sewer grate and its spark plugs into the woods. Shawn recounts Death Manor's reported haunting by the ghost of Mildred Pratt, a wealthy Mormon heiress and failed poet who died by suicide after her publisher and paramour Lars's sudden death.
Comedy, Crime
When the famous Pink Panther diamond is stolen again from Lugash, Chief Inspector Clouseau is called on the case despite protests by Chief Inspector Dreyfus. While on the case, Clouseau is pursued by the Mafia. Clouseau first goes to London to interrogate Sir Charles Litton (having forgotten that he lives in Southern France).
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
A wealthy businessman meets up with his ex-girlfriend 20 years after they broke up. She tells him that she was pregnant when she left but that their son has recently died.
Comedy, teen film
In February 1964, the Beatles will make their debut performance on Ed Sullivan's show, which broadcasts out of New York City. In Maplewood, New Jersey, Janis, a folk music devotee, detests the Beatles, unlike her friends Rosie and Pam. Janis's other friend, Grace, wants to rent a limousine, pull up to the Beatles' hotel and get exclusive photos of the band.
children's film, Christmas film, Comedy, comedy television program, fantasy film, musical film
During the holiday season, the Muppet Theater is going through financial hardship, and the Muppets are seeking Kermit the Frog for guidance. Kermit is very upset and irritable, lamenting over lost money, fear of losing the theater, and feeling that he is not useful to anyone. An angel named Daniel brings this up with his Boss as they review what has gone on with Kermit in the past hours.
Drama, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy, teen film
Terri Fletcher is a Flagstaff, Arizona teenager who dreams of becoming a professional singer. She wants to participate in a music program that could give her a $10,000 scholarship. Her overprotective father Simon, a second-generation restaurateur, disapproves of Terri's plans, wanting her to run the family business.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Sarah, a talented baker, is killed in a bike accident on her way to pick up the keys to her brand new bakery venture. Her best friend, Isabella, the joint owner of the bakery space, must work together with Sarah's daughter, Clarissa, and Sarah's estranged mother, Mimi, to fulfill the dream of a successful bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, they take inspiration from the pastries and people that Sarah loved.
Comedy, romantic comedy, teen film
Mandy Yang is a high school senior who is obsessed with going to Harvard to achieve her dream, something which the school counselor, Ms. Chen, hears ad nauseam. Her best friend is Ben Plunkett whom everyone at school knows as "No Nuts" Plunkett due to a childhood peanut allergy incident.
romantic comedy, Science fiction
In 2049, Walt works as a barista on a college campus. He applies 37 times to the Kovi Industries Student Mars Program, which sends college students to Mars. At a college party, he meets Sophie, a no-nonsense student whose boyfriend Calvin is on Mars, and falls in love with Ginny, a student who is sent to Mars the next morning.
Biography, Dark Comedy, Tragicomedy
Reality is raised by her mother Billie, a social worker, and father Ron, an unemployed writer, in Texas. Reality has an interest in social justice and languages. She joins the Air Force out of high school, hoping to provide aid in Afghanistan.
Comedy, Fake Documentary, mockumentary
Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the film concerns Leonard Zelig, a nondescript man who has the ability to transform his behavior and demeanor to that of the people who surround him. He is first observed at a party by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who notes that Zelig related to the affluent guests in a refined Boston accent and shared their Republican sympathies, but while in the kitchen with the servants, he adopted a coarser tone and seemed to be more of a Democrat.
Comedy, sport film
In Harlem, Dax Winslow is the underappreciated basketball coach of the Harlem Money and their star player, Casper Jones. Dax spends lavishly to keep both his girlfriend, Jess, and Casper happy, despite being a clerk at Foot Locker. During practice Mookie Bass, Dax's longtime rival, arrives and taunts him about the upcoming Rucker Classic.
Drama, flashback film, romance film
In Hollywood, director Fred Amiel, movie star Georgia Lorrison and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields in Paris. Film producer Harry Pebbel gathers them in his office and explains that Shields has a new film idea and that he wants the three of them for the project. Shields cannot procure financing on his own, but with their names attached, there would be no problem.
Road Movie, romantic comedy, Sitcom
Ben Holmes is a "blurb" writer responsible for writing the short introductions on the sleeves of hardcover books. On his way from his home in NYC to Savannah, Georgia for his wedding to Bridget, he is already anxious about flying. His nerves are worsened when he's seated next to Sarah, a free-spirited drifter who talks to Ben immediately.
Comedy, Road Movie
Mel Coplin and his wife, Nancy, live in New York, near Mel's neurotic, Jewish, adoptive parents, Ed and Pearl Coplin. Mel and Nancy have just had their first child, and Mel won't decide on a name for their son until he can discover the identity of his biological parents. When Tina Kelb, an adoption agency employee, locates his biological mother's name in a database, Mel decides to meet his mother personally.
Comedy drama, Pseudoscientific Documentary, Science fiction
Filmed in Portland, Oregon, What the Bleep Do We Know!? presents a viewpoint of the physical universe and human life within it, with connections to neuroscience and quantum physics. Some ideas discussed in the film are: That the universe is best seen as constructed from thoughts and ideas rather than from matter.
Comedy horror
Ethan Morgan is a geeky high school freshman, not trusted by his parents to take care of his little sister Jane on his own. They hire Erica, a teenage girl from Ethan's school who is a huge fan of Dusk (a parody of Twilight), as a babysitter. Erica instead decides to attend a party thrown by Jesse, the vampire ex-boyfriend of her best friend Sarah.