Girl Happy (1965)
musical film, romantic comedy
A nightclub singer takes a spring-break job chaperoning his boss’s daughter, complicating his own holiday plans and romantic life.
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musical film, romantic comedy
A nightclub singer takes a spring-break job chaperoning his boss’s daughter, complicating his own holiday plans and romantic life.
Comedy, Dark Comedy
In a surreal suburb where golf carts and braces are the norm, a mother’s impulsive offer to give her baby to a friend upends her family life.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Middle-class family man Stanley Banks learns that his recently married daughter Kay and her husband Buckley Dunstan are expecting a baby. Stanley's wife Ellie and Buckley's parents Doris and Herbert are delighted, but Stanley broods that he is too young and vibrant to be a grandfather. Ellie throws Kay a baby shower, although Stanley balks at the cost.
Comedy drama, Drama
After a painful breakup leaves her disillusioned with city life, a New York journalist returns to her hometown and takes up her old job as a community-pool lifeguard.
Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
A Londoner moves to the Scottish coast with a mischievous pet otter, finding new companionship and inspiration in their life together.
Comedy
The film loosely recreates the story of young Irish rocker McCormick and his younger brother, Ivan, who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their secondary school friends form one of the biggest bands in the world, U2.
Comedy
When the Seaver family home is put up for sale, the grown children and their parents find themselves at odds over its future.
romantic comedy
Set in Nottinghamshire, Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins), sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However, after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down.
Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
A psychiatrist and a widowed mother try to build a new relationship while their children struggle to become a family.
association football film, Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
A football-loving postman in crisis finds unexpected guidance from his sporting hero.
Biography, Drama
An Irish immigrant builds a lifelong home at West Point, where generations of cadets become the family he and his wife never had.
Comedy, romantic comedy
A lonely woman’s promising new romance turns alarming when her charming fiancé refuses to take no for an answer.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
When a war orphan’s hair mysteriously turns green, he must decide whether to hide his difference or use it to speak out for children affected by war.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
The film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a 22-year old Jewish man from Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York, with dreams of stardom. He moves to Greenwich Village, much to the chagrin of his overprotective mother.
Comedy, Drama, Family Comedy, Family Drama
A young telegram delivery boy in wartime California confronts the weight of other families’ loss while trying to support his own.
Action, alien invasion, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
A lecturer searching for his missing ex-wife uncovers a seemingly unchanged Illinois town with an extraterrestrial secret.
Comedy
A reserved London bank manager is swept into an eccentric aunt’s globe-trotting schemes after meeting her at his mother’s funeral.
romantic comedy
A newly fired woman buys her way onto New York billboards in pursuit of fame, complicating her growing relationship with a documentary filmmaker.
children's film, Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
A heroic young man and his sidekick try to stop a disguised villain whose gloom beam threatens to throw the world into chaos.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
As graduation nears, a high-school senior's plan for his first time with his girlfriend is complicated by feelings he is only beginning to understand.
Arranged Documentary, Comedy, documentary film, musical film
Dave Chappelle brings hip-hop and R&B artists together for a free Brooklyn block party that becomes a filmed concert event.
Action Comedy
After a personal crisis leads her to an underground women’s fight club, a struggling woman must decide whether to fight her way toward a new life.
Comedy, family film