Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Comedy, Crime
Nick and Nora Charles are drawn into a murder investigation amid horse-racing and wrestling-world intrigue.
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Comedy, Crime
Nick and Nora Charles are drawn into a murder investigation amid horse-racing and wrestling-world intrigue.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
Seven loosely connected couples cross paths on Hampstead Heath as conversations about love, sex and commitment reveal where their relationships stand.
Comedy
A Great Dane puppy raised among dachshunds grows up convinced he is one of them.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Marital Tragedy
A newlywed couple's plans for married life are tested by a crowded family home, a ruined honeymoon, and a lack of privacy.
Comedy, Silly Movie
Ronnie Dobbs—a redneck petty criminal whose hijinks are caught on tape by a Cops-like television show called Fuzz—is noticed by failing infomercial personality/inventor Terry Twillstein, who notices Dobbs' popularity with lowbrow viewers. He promotes the idea for a Ronnie Dobbs show to television executives entitled "Ronnie Dobbs Gets Arrested" in which Ronnie is arrested in a different city each week. The show becomes a phenomenal success leading to a level of fame and fortune that dramatically changes Dobbs' life.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Ross Carpenter is a Hawaii-based fishing guide and sailor who enjoys boating and sailing out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he seeks to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he built with his father. Ross is caught in a love triangle with two women: childish, insensitive club singer Robin, and sweet Laurel.
Parody, Secret Agent, spy film
A former criminal mastermind is recruited by British intelligence to protect a diamond shipment from a rival schemer.
Comedy
A caravan-site holiday, an archaeological dig and a tangle of romantic schemes collide in this British comedy.
Comedy, Satire
A struggling Iowa town takes on a tobacco company’s seemingly impossible challenge: go smoke-free for a month and win $25 million.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, High School Comedy Film, LGBTQ-related film, teen film
After a lightning strike frames his story as a flashback, an ambitious high school senior tries to make his literary ambitions come true.
Comedy, Ghost
A grieving widow and her ghostly husband devise an extraordinary plan to overcome the limits of death.
Comedy, Satire, Silly Movie
A mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley, suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. He has a crisis of conscience about the ethics of advertising, which leads to mania. He then develops a boil on his right shoulder that comes to life with a face and voice.
Drama, romantic comedy
Richard Babson and Paula McCullen are a couple of Hollywood screenwriters who have lived and worked together for a number of years. Richard desperately wants to get married but Paula does not feel the need. Having just written a film script for producer Larry Weisman, the couple decides to get married without letting anyone else know.
Comedy, Satire
A self-styled biblical archaeologist tries to keep his ministry clients convinced that his dubious discoveries are genuine.
Comedy, romantic comedy
The story takes place on 14 February 1895. It is about two gentlemen pretending to be people other than themselves. Interwoven in their storylines are two romance-stricken ladies, each possessing an unusual allegiance to the manliness of the name Ernest.
Comedy
In 1937, newly qualified vet James Herriot travels to Yorkshire for the post of assistant in Siegfried Farnon's practice. He learns the facts of country life, but has to overcome the prejudices of the Darrowby locals who are sceptical of the novice vet's ability. In between cases, Herriot courts farmer's daughter Helen Alderson.
Drama, romantic comedy
After her husband’s infidelity, a society woman challenges the expectations of marriage and weighs what she wants from love.
Comedy, Parody, Satire, Western
The story begins in 1885 with the arrival of an important new guest star in Buffalo Bill Cody's grand illusion, Chief Sitting Bull of Little Big Horn fame. Much to Cody's annoyance, Sitting Bull proves not to be a murdering savage but a genuine embodiment of what the whites believe about their own history out west. He is quietly heroic and morally pure.
Cartoon, Comedy horror, crossover fiction, Werewolf
When Theodore is bitten by a mysterious creature, Alvin and Simon must find a way to help their brother before the next full moon.
Biography, Comedy drama, Drama, musical film
A determined stage mother pushes her daughters toward vaudeville fame, but when one daughter’s path changes, she turns her ambitions toward the other.
Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Abbie and Sam have been best friends since childhood and are engaged to be married. Their lives come crashing down when Abbie is given a terminal cancer diagnosis. Faced with the prospect of an uncertain timeline, Abbie begins a search for a new love to take care of Sam.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama, Melodrama
After her husband's death and mounting debts force her to leave home, a widowed mother and her two sons try to rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, thriller film
Tom and Janet's friends are jealous of their lustful relationship. When a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, they begin to question the loyalty of their so-called friends.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, Computeranimation, Detective, family film
After helping Mystery Inc. solve a factory mystery, Velma Dinkley receives a call from her mother to check on her younger sister Madelyn, a student of the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, after learning it is being terrorized by a gryphon. Upon their arrival, the gang meet Madelyn, who has a years-long crush on Shaggy Rogers; the academy's namesake Whirlen Merlin; his brother Marlon, the academy's cook and butler; Crystal, Whirlen's former stage assistant; Amos the groundskeeper; and Alma Rumblebuns, the school's head maid.