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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 162.

Stay Hungry (1976)

Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy

Craig Blake is a young Southerner born of a wealthy family, but left lonely and idle after his parents died in a plane crash. He is content to spend his time fishing, hunting, and puttering around his large family mansion in Birmingham, Alabama, inhabited only by himself and a butler. Meeting in hotel banquet hall, Blake is a conspirator in a shady stealth real estate bundling scheme run by slick con artist Jabo.

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Hoot (2006)

Adventure, children's film, Comedy, family film

Middle school student Roy A. Eberhardt and his parents have just moved to the fictional coastal town of Coconut Cove, Florida from Montana. Roy is mercilessly teased and bullied at his new school by Dana Matherson being called a “cowgirl”, until he accidentally breaks Dana's nose while getting harassed on the school bus and struggling to get free.

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Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)

Animal horror, comedy television program, disaster film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, speculative fiction

Following the events of the previous film, Fin and April travel to London with their young son Gil to attend a NATO meeting regarding the escalating sharknado threat. Meanwhile, Nova and her assistants investigate a temple hidden beneath Stonehenge, and Nova summons Fin to aid her. They discover a shrine dedicated to an ancient shark god and collect an artifact, which has the unforeseen consequence of unleashing a new type of sharknado with a dimensional vortex inside it.

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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)

Adventure, children's film, Comedy, Computeranimation, musical film

Sometime after the events of the first film, the Radcliffe family and their 101 Dalmatians are preparing to move to their "Dalmatian Plantation", a home in the countryside with plenty of room for all of them. However, one of the puppies, Patch, feels ignored and wishes to be unique like his television hero, Thunderbolt (portrayed by a German Shepherd actor). While watching The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour, Patch hears about a chance to appear on the show.

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Legal Eagles (1986)

Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, Forensic, romantic comedy, thriller film

Tom Logan, an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, has his sights set on being the next District Attorney. Laura Kelly, an attorney representing performance artist Chelsea Deardon, seeks out Logan to discuss her client's case. Accused of attempting to steal a painting from millionaire Robert Forrester, Chelsea claims that her artist father, Sebastian Deardon, gave her the painting eighteen years earlier for her 8th birthday.

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Straight to Hell (1987)

Action, Comedy, Spaghetti Western, Western

Three hitmen, Willy, Norwood, and Simms, are staying in a Los Angeles hotel. After failing a job, they take off in a car with Velma, Norwood's pregnant wife. They flee to Mexico to escape the wrath of their boss, Amos Dade, robbing a bank along the way.

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Feast (2005)

Action, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, monster film, Splatter Film, thriller film

As people are enjoying drinks in a Nevada-located bar, a man covered in blood—identified onscreen as "Hero"—enters through the door and warns them all of impending danger. No one heeds his warning, so he shows the bar patrons the head of a repulsive creature to make them take him seriously. He is soon pulled through a window and decapitated by one of the monsters.

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Ball of Fire (1941)

Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy

A group of professors, all bachelors except for one widower, have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an encyclopedia of all human knowledge. The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts, is a grammarian who is researching modern American slang. The professors are accustomed to working in relative seclusion, at a leisurely pace, with a prim housekeeper, Miss Bragg, keeping watch over them.

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Resistance (2020)

Biography, Comedy drama, Drama, historical film, Historie, Tragicomedy, war film

The film opens in 1938, in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Nazi Brown Shirts invade the home of a young Jewish girl, Elsbeth, and kill her parents. In Strasbourg, France, 1939, a young Marcel Marceau works unfulfilled in his father's butcher shop.

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Georgy Girl (1966)

Comedy drama, romance film, Tragicomedy

Georgina "Georgy" Parkin is a 22-year-old Londoner who has musical talent, is well-educated, and has an engaging, unpretentious character. She has an inventive imagination and loves children. Overweight, Georgy believes herself to be plain, dresses haphazardly, and is incredibly naïve about love and flirtation, having never had a boyfriend.

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Meet Cute (2022)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Time travel

Manhattan resident Sheila discovers that a tanning bed in June's nail salon is a time machine. One night at a bar, she runs into Gary, a meek man who prefers to watch movies over sports. They go on a date and bond over their similar taste in drinks, and childhoods before the night ends.

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Millions (2004)

children's film, Christmas film, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, Science fiction

Damian, a 9-year-old Catholic boy, and his family move to the suburbs of Widnes after the death of his mother. One day, while playing in a cardboard box by the train tracks, Damian is disturbed by a bag of money flung from a passing train. He immediately shows the money to his brother, 12-year-old Anthony, and the brothers think of what they should do with it.

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Rover Dangerfield (1991)

animated film, children's film, Comedy, Family Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Rover Dangerfield is a Basset Hound living the life of luxury in Las Vegas with his owner Connie, a showgirl. One night, he sees Connie's duplicitous boyfriend Rocky negotiating with a pair of gangsters and accidentally disrupts it by dropping a bone into the meeting. Thinking Rocky is an undercover cop setting them up, the gangsters flee as their boss tells Rocky that he has blown his last chance as he claims that it was a "stupid dog" that intruded.

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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)

Adventure, Comedy, Computeranimation, fantasy film, musical film, musical play, romantic comedy

The Troubadour, a French music-loving tortoise, tells the tale of The Three Musketeers from his comic book. The story takes place in 17th-century France, where four young street urchins, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Mickey's dog, Pluto, struggle to survive. One day, the four are harassed by the Beagle Boys before being saved by royal musketeers, who gift Mickey one of their hats, inspiring him and his friends to follow their example and become musketeers themselves.

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Freaky Friday (2018)

Comedy, family film, musical film, teen film

The film starts off with Ellie and her two friends, Karl and Monica, discussing an annual school-wide scavenger hunt. Ellie's brother Fletcher comes in and does a magic trick, but she is unimpressed. Fletcher steals an hourglass that Ellie's late father had given to her.

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Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)

Comedy, Comedy drama, comedy thriller, Crime, Crime Comedy, Detective

At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, Ponce, a male student is experiencing sexual frustration, surrounded by a seemingly unending stream of beautiful and sexually provocative classmates. Michael "Tiger" McDrew is the high school's football coach and guidance counselor, who has frequent sexual encounters with several female students.

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

romantic comedy

In London just prior to World War II, Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged, straitlaced vicar's daughter and governess, has just been dismissed from her fourth job, without her wages, because of her unconventional notions of child rearing. On her way to an employment agency, she collides with a man who tells her that he has just been released from prison; she flees, leaving her suitcase behind with all her belongings. Now destitute, Guinevere heads to a soup kitchen.

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The Emperor's Club (2002)

Comedy drama, Drama

In the early 1970s, William Hundert is a revered classics teacher at Saint Benedict's, a boys' boarding school for the sons of wealthy families. Hundert attempts to impart wisdom and a sense of honor to his students. He begins the new school year by making student Martin Blythe read a plaque that hangs over his door.

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Loverboy (1989)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Randy Bodek is a rebellious college slacker, living with his girlfriend Jenny Gordon. His father, furious over Randy's lack of direction or work ethic, forces Randy to come back home and get a job. Randy eventually finds work as a pizza delivery driver at Señor Pizza, but his pitiful earnings will not allow him to fund college on his own and he despairs of being able to return to Jenny next semester.

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A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (2011)

Comedy, Family Comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy, teen film, Teen Comedy Film

Teenage aspiring singer, Katie Gibbs, is over-worked, bullied, and constantly harassed by her adoptive family, the Van Ravensways — shallow stepmother, Gail, bratty older adoptive sister, Beverly "Bev," and troublemaking adoptive younger brother, Victor. Despite how badly they treat her, Katie does what they want with no complaints in fear that Gail will place her back into foster care, her parents having died prior to the events of the movie. In a dream, Katie performs a music video for her hit single ("Run This Town").

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The Fighting Temptations (2003)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

In 1980, Beulah Baptist Church choir singer Mary Ann Hill is found singing secular R&B music in her fictional hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia. Though supported by choir leader – and her aunt – Sally Walker, Mary Ann is exiled from the choir and town by the self-righteous Paulina Pritchett, and leaves with her son Darrin Hill to pursue her dream of singing professionally. However, Mary Ann is killed in a traffic accident when Darrin is a teenager.

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