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black comedy film, Comedy horror, Horror
A news report shows a victim being pulled away on a stretcher. It is revealed that a serial killer, having murdered over thirty people, is on the loose in a Los Angeles suburb. Horace Pinker, a television repairman, is the culprit.
Animation, children's film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, musical play
One morning in the Hundred Acre Wood, Roo and his friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger are surprised when they wake up to hear a loud trumpeting noise. While they visit Rabbit's house for help in determining the source of the sound, Roo discovers a trail of large, circular footprints, which Rabbit concludes to have come from a Heffalump, an elephant-like creature whose species is feared by the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood due to its supposed hostility. Per Roo's suggestion, Rabbit organizes an expedition to travel to Heffalump Hollow and capture the Heffalumps living there in order to prevent further invasions.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
After eight months at sea aboard the USS Knoxville, United States Navy sailors Clarence Doolittle and Joseph "Joe" Brady are granted a four-day shore leave in San Diego, which they choose to spend in Hollywood. Joe, an incorrigible womanizer, plans to reunite with an old flame, Lola. Clarence, a shy and inexperienced choir boy turned sailor, asks Joe to teach him how to meet women.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Celeste and Jesse start dating in high school and eventually marry young. Their relationship is depicted via photo montage, ending with Celeste walking away from Jesse during a party. Celeste and Jesse get along well.
romantic comedy
Broadway dancer Ashley Davis has rarely been back to her hometown in the 12 years since landing a part in the Christmas-themed show Jingle Belles. After a misstep onstage, Jodie the choreographer tells her she has been replaced by a younger dancer to keep it fresh. Ashley's mom Lily calls to say she and her dad Stan are coming to see her show on Christmas Eve; Ashley tells them she is coming home for Christmas to her parents' venue The Rhythm Room in Sycamore Creek instead.
Comedy, Crime
In Lugash, the fabled Pink Panther diamond is stolen. A mysterious woman looking to procure the priceless gem has a tête-à-tête with a man regarding price. Clouseau, who had disappeared inexplicably on a plane flight, bursts in.
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Heist, musical film
In the 1930s "Big" Jim Stevens, undisputed boss of the Chicago underworld, gets an unexpected birthday present from his ambitious lieutenant, Guy Gisborne. Big Jim gets shot by all the guests at his birthday party, and Gisborne takes over. He orders all the other gangsters in town to pay him protection money, but declares it is still "All for One".
Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Agathe is a French bookseller who works at Shakespeare and Company in Paris and lives with her sister and her sister's young son. She cycles everywhere, as she has been nervous in cars since her parents were killed in a car accident in which she was injured. She is very close to her co-worker and best friend Félix.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
An up and coming actor, Nicholas, is interviewed by Catherine, first in an airport and then during a flight from New York to LA. She comments on how much easier the careers of his white colleagues seem to have progressed compared to his own, while he guesses, correctly, that she has a straight, male intern working for her. He pushes her to give him details of her notoriously cruel father, but she only admits that he adored her.
black comedy film, Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, historical drama
William Burke and William Hare, immigrants from Ulster, attempt to sell cheese mould as a patent medicine. When their fraud is discovered, they flee to an inn owned by Hare's wife, Lucky. One of her lodgers has died and she wants Burke and Hare to remove the body.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy, fantasy film, musical film
Dorothy Gale is an orphaned teenage girl living in a trailer park in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Her dream of becoming a singer is slim, but when she overhears that the Muppets are looking for a backup singer, Dorothy hurries to the audition and gives them a demo CD. In returning home, the civil defense sirens sound as a tornado is headed for Dorothy's trailer park.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
Rachel is a young, workaholic executive New Yorker who takes a work call right before going down the aisle. The processional music starts, she finally hangs up, stashing the phone in her bouquet and starts the walk. The officiant is her boss, who shares some personal details about the groom, and then turns to Rachel.
Drama, Mafia Film, romantic comedy
"Dave the Dude", a very successful New York City gangster, has one superstition: he believes that the apples he buys from alcoholic street peddler Apple Annie bring him luck. Annie assures the Dude that his latest purchase is especially lucky. He then meets Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin, the daughter of a friend and speakeasy owner recently murdered for owing a lot of money to the wrong people.
Comedy
Recently widowed Joan (Hodge) discovers that her late husband invented an Elixir of Eternal Youth and shares it with two friends Linda (Keaton) and Susan (Lulu). However, are the three women still equipped to be youthful in the modern world?
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
The plot revolves around the Jordan sisters: Trish, Joy, and Helen. Joy has married Helen's former neighbor, Allen Mellencamp, who continues to struggle with his compulsion to make obscene phone calls. Trish has been raising her three children, Billy (now off at college), Timmy and Chloe.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Crime, Dark Comedy, Drama
In an industrial area of Adelaide, Bubby is a mentally challenged 35-year-old man who lives in a squalid house with his abusive and religious fanatic mother, Florence. He has never left the house, due to his mother convincing him that the air outside is toxic, and that he would be struck down by Jesus should he leave. He and his mother regularly have incestuous sex, with his mother often encouraging Bubby to fondle her breasts.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, musical film, romantic comedy
Walter Mitty is a kind but mild man, henpecked and harassed by his overbearing mother, his idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his dimwitted fiancée Gertrude, Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby, and Gertrude's loud-mouthed mother. Walter escapes their incessant needling by imagining himself leading exciting lives, fueled by the pulp magazines he proofreads at the Pierce Publishing Company in Manhattan. These daydreams frequently cause him trouble.
Action, Action Comedy
Former safecracker Red is released from prison after two years. Red reconnects with his wife Chloe, their daughter "Bea" Beatrice (who now only speaks in her mother's native French after learning it from her nanny Lolita) and his former colleague Le Roi, who has been holding $500,000 in untraceable bearer bonds for him from their last heist in his pawn shop's hidden basement; Red's parole officer DPO Ernesto Sanchez remains suspicious of him and Le Roi. In Le Roi's basement, Red attempts to crack his safe, which is identical to the one from the bank he had robbed but finds he is no longer able to do so due to a lack of practice.
Action, Action Comedy, buddy film, Comedy
In Hong Kong 2007, detective Bennie Chan has been tracking notorious crime boss Matador, whom he believes to be businessman Victor Wong. While tracking him, Chan's partner Yung Bai is captured. Yung sacrifices himself and gives his watch to Chan to remember him by.
Comedy, Coming-of-age
In 1993, 16-year-old Johanna Morrigan lives on a council estate in Wolverhampton with her aspiring rock star father Pat, exhausted mother Angie, brothers Krissi and Lupin, and two infant twins. Johanna dreams of escaping her life to become a writer, and finds comfort in speaking with the portraits of her idols covering her bedroom wall. A poem she wrote is selected for a televised competition, but she is overcome with nerves and humiliates herself on national television.
Adventure, Cartoon, Comedy, Comedy horror, family film, Family Comedy, fantasy film, Ghost
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Scrappy-Doo are on their way to Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. However, once there, they find that it is actually a school for daughters of paranormal beings. The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenteen Sr.; Winnie, the daughter of the Wolfman; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short) the ghostly daughter of a phantom; and Tanis (named after an Egyptian city), the daughter of the Mummy.
Coming-of-age, romance film, romantic comedy
Childhood friends Sidney and Dre, who originally bonded over their love of hip-hop, face an evolving relationship as adults. Sidney has just been appointed the editor-in-chief of the hip hop magazine XXL, and Dre is an A&R for Millennium Records. While Sidney's career is flourishing, Dre is increasingly frustrated with his label's preference for marketable artists over true talent.
Comedy, Raunchy comedy, sexploitation film
Sandy Brooks is desperate to become pregnant, but her husband Jeff, a television script writer, is under too much stress to have sex. They go on a pleasure cruise together, where they meet another couple, Claire and King Banner. The couples set out on a drunken spree and change partners after returning to their rooms.
children's film, Comedy, Superhero
One year after the events of the previous film, Bartleby and his dog Budderball are spending the summer at the farm of Bartleby's grandfather Marvin. On Bartleby's twelfth birthday, Marvin gives him the first issue of the comic book Kid Courageous and Captain Canine, which details the origin of the superhero Captain Canine. He comes from the planet of Inspiron, which was peaceful until the alien warlord Drex invaded, seeking to steal the Rings of Inspiron.