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Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 216.

Elvis & Nixon (2016)

Biography, Comedy drama, Drama

On the morning of December 21, 1970, actor-singer Elvis Presley arrives at the White House and requests an urgent meeting with President Richard Nixon. Presley opposes the drug culture, the hippie movement, SDS, and the Black Panther Party; he wants Nixon to swear him in as an undercover agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Two of Nixon's senior aides, Dwight Chapin and Egil Krogh, set up a meeting between the two men.

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Freebie and the Bean (1974)

Action, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

Freebie and Bean are a pair of maverick detectives with the San Francisco Police Department Intelligence Squad. The volatile, gratuity-seeking Freebie is trying to get promoted to the vice squad to garner perks for his retirement while the neurotic and fastidious Bean has ambitions to make lieutenant. Against a backdrop of the Super Bowl weekend in San Francisco, the partners are trying to conclude a 14-month investigation, digging through garbage to gather evidence against well-connected racketeer Red Meyers, when they discover that a hit man from Detroit is after Meyers as well.

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Catch Me If You Can (1989)

Action

The film follows the antics of high school students and their adventure in saving their school from being closed. Class president Melissa has started raising money through donations to keep the school open, but when the fundraising begins to slow down, Dylan convinces Melissa that he can save the school. They take $3000 of the money that has already been raised to bet on an illegal car race that Dylan is convinced he will win.

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The Butcher Boy (1997)

black comedy film, Comedy, Drama

The film is set in Ireland in the early 1960s in the small town of Clones. Francie Brady is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, the Atomic Age. When his mother suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately commits suicide, he is left in the care of his father, an emotionally distant and ill-tempered alcoholic.

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Learning to Drive (2014)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

Wendy is a known book critic, who has just broken up with her husband, Ted, during an argument in a bar. Her husband leaves the scene and calls a taxi that is driven by Darwan, who is an Indian Sikh. When Wendy suddenly jumps in the car, Darwan experiences their anger and heated exchange.

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