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Comedy, Coming-of-age, Drama, teen film
Angus Bethune is a 14-year-old boy in Minnesota who, despite his talents in football and science, holds deep insecurities. Since kindergarten, he has been harassed by handsome, cruel Rick Sanford and his cohorts for not being "normal". His only friend is Troy Wedberg, another social outcast.
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Parody, thriller film
Ned Ravine, who is both a police officer and lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he will throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, he encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain; the next day, Lola shows up at his law office, saying that she needs him to look over some papers she has come across. Meanwhile, Max Shady, who was just released from prison after seven years, starts stalking Ned, planning to kill him for failing to successfully defend Max in court.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
In (fictional) Burnfield, four young adult friends spend their nights hanging out drinking at "the corner" outside a Circle A convenience store and gas station run by Nazeer and Pakessa, a young Pakistani married couple. Jeff is aimless, writing some and dating Sooze, a community college student who wants to study visual arts in New York City. His best friends are dimwitted, libidinous Buff, and Tim, a disaffected heavy drinker recently honorably discharged from the Air Force.
Christmas film, Tragicomedy
Mike and Carol Brady have a savings account, which both spouses planned to use to bankroll a vacation for the other; Carol wanted to take Mike to Greece, while Mike wanted to treat Carol to a trip to Japan. When they realize their ideas collide, they use the money to try to reunite the entire family for Christmas by paying for airline tickets for their children, grandchildren and their in-laws. However, all of the Brady kids are facing personal obstacles that might keep them from enjoying the festivities: Greg's wife Nora is spending Christmas with her family; Peter is romantically involved with his boss Valerie and his inferior position…
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, Romantic drama, Tragicomedy
Tomas, a German filmmaker based in Paris, has completed his latest film. At the wrap party, he meets Agathe, a young primary school teacher, and dances with her after his husband, Martin, an English printer, declines to dance with him. Tomas goes to Agathe's home for an after-party, and the two have sex.
Comedy, Crime, fantasy film, romantic comedy
Advertising man Steve Brooks (Perry King) — a womanizer and chauvinist — is invited to a surprise party by three former lovers: Margo Bronfman (JoBeth Williams), Liz (Lysette Anthony), and Felicia (Victoria Mahoney), who attempt to drown him in the hot tub. When they do not succeed at drowning Steve, he lunges at them. Margo then shoots Steve in the chest, killing him.
Drama, Sitcom, Social Drama
The film follows the lives of multiple characters, all of whom are connected via their patronage of a small Brooklyn tobacconist store managed by Augustus "Auggie" Wren. Auggie has been taking photographs of the store from across the street at 8:00am every morning and collects all his photos in albums. Paul Benjamin, a recently widowed writer, spends an evening with Auggie and is initially dismissive of his photography project, saying that the photos are "all the same".
Adventure, children's film, Comedy, comedy television program, Computeranimation
During the summer after their 5th grade year, Arnold and Gerald plan to make a humanitarian video to win a trip to San Lorenzo, a Central American country where Arnold's parents were last seen. They try to record themselves making a house out of junk for one of their friends, Monkeyman. However, as they are filming, the local homeless claim the junk as their property and destroy the home.
B movie, Comedy, Comedy horror, Dark Comedy, fantasy film, Gothic film, gothic horror film, Horror, independent film
In the year 1506, the sorcerer Dr. Erasmus Craven has been mourning the death of his wife Lenore for over two years, much to the dismay of Lenore's stepdaughter Estelle. One night he is visited by a raven, the wizard Dr.
romantic comedy, teen film
Francine Lawrence, a teenager going on 17, enjoys the summer break before her senior year. She detests man-hunting with her girlfriends, but how else can she socialize? During one such visit to the beach with her "well-developed" girlfriends, flat-chested tomboy Francine meets surfer Moondoggie.
romantic comedy
Ryan Dunne is a local baseball player who dreams of playing in the Major Leagues. He helps his dad with his landscaping business and takes care of Veteran's Field, where his team, the Chatham A's play. Ryan, in his dedication to making the pros, has sworn off girls and drinking to avoid distractions.
Action, Comedy, fantasy film, Secret Agent, spy film
Sam Makin is a tough Brooklyn, New York City street cop and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. He is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization, CURE. The recruitment is through a bizarre method: his death is faked and he is given a new face and a new name.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film
Hercules, at Olympus, berates his father Zeus for not allowing him to leave the gods' abode to adventure on Earth. Eventually, Zeus sends Hercules, on a beam, to the land of men. After some strange encounters in the air and at sea, including scaring an old woman on a passenger jet, Hercules arrives in New York City, where hilarity ensues in the form of interactions with various New Yorkers, who regard him as physically superior but socially awkward.
Adventure, buddy film, Cartoon, Comedy, Comedy drama, family film, musical film
The film opens with Tod and Copper chasing a cricket together. They see a line of trucks bringing the county fair to town, and Copper is mesmerized by the sound of dogs singing together in an old school bus with "The Singin' Strays" painted on the side. The pair are eager to go see the fair, but when Copper's clumsy tracking disappoints his master Amos Slade yet again, the pup is tied up in the yard while Slade and Chief go to the fair without him.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Satire
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, vegetarianism and physical exercise. The sanitarium attracts well-to-do patients including William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are suffering from poor health following the death of their child.
animated film, Animation, Computeranimation
In a dark room, a large illuminated balanced-arm desk lamp named Luxo Sr. sees a small yellow ball with a blue stripe and a red star on the front roll-up to him. He eyes the ball curiously and pushes it away, but the ball comes back to him.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, family film, Horror, Supernatural
When the Gordon family moves from Brooklyn to the small town Bridge Hollow, the town's obsession with Halloween fascinates daughter Syd and disgusts her scientist father, Howard. She meets her new school's Paranormal Society, who inform her that her family's new house is believed to be haunted. Despite Howard's contempt for Halloween, his wife Emily makes gluten free and sugar free snacks for the local Stingy Jack festival and Syd puts up Halloween decorations.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
Michael is a high school graduate living in North Hollywood, California with dreams of becoming a professional skateboarder. After being noticed by two professional skaters, Michael quits his water polo team to focus exclusively on skating. This leads to tension within Michael's relationship with his friends and his father.
Comedy
In 1914, Leo Harrigan goes from being a lawyer to a writer and then to a film director while having problems, such as being hopelessly smitten with Kathleen Cooke. While directing a scene of his friend Buck rising in a balloon, Kathleen gets trapped in a rope and is hoisted in a most undignified manner. They keep filming, including the balloon crashing onto a moving train.
Drama, Melodrama, Raunchy comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Alfie and Helena divorce. Helena begins seeing a fortune teller, Cristal, for spiritual advice. Their daughter Sally has a troubled marriage with author Roy, who once wrote a successful book and is now anxiously waiting for a response from his publisher about the manuscript of his newest one.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, monster film
Lila Jenkins arrives at Devil's Lake, North Dakota, to help greenify an old house owned by her sorority at Laramore University. Lila hitches a ride from Ozzie Jones and reveals that her mother, Tory Redding, died the year prior to cancer. Ozzie accidentally drops his phone while unloading Lila's luggage and heads back to retrieve it.
Drama, neo-noir, Superhero, thriller film
Two hitmen, Lee Woods and mafioso Dosmo Pizzo, walk into a bedroom where a sleeping couple, Olympic athlete Becky Foxx and her ex-husband Roy Foxx, are in bed. Lee injects Becky with a tranquilizer and then shoots Roy in the head. Lee and Dosmo then drive to an abandoned area off Mulholland Drive, where Lee shoots Dosmo to set him up as the fall guy.
Adventure, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
left|thumb|Ava Gardner in Mogambo New York socialite Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly arrives at a remote African outpost, looking for a rich maharaja acquaintance, only to find he has cancelled his trip owing to unrest in his realm. While waiting for the next river boat out, she spars with hardworking big game hunter and wild animal catcher Victor Marswell from the United States, who initially views her as disreputable. Marswell's business partner is plucky Englishman and big game hunter John Brown-Pryce, known as "Brownie." "Brownie" is sympathetic to Kelly, and believes that her "scars aren't visible, but they're there." Marswell also has a…
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, romantic comedy
Prominent Paris art collector Charles Bonnet forges and sells famous artists' paintings. His disapproving daughter, Nicole, constantly fears his being caught. Late one night at their mansion, Nicole encounters a burglar, Simon Dermott, holding her father's forged "Van Gogh".