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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 279.

The Story of Robin Hood (1952)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

Young Robert Fitzooth, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father Sir Hugh at King Richard's palace. On the way home, Sir Hugh is killed by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, taking on the name Robin Hood and gathering together his band of Merry Men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge Sir Hugh's death and to help the people of the land whom Prince John is over taxing.

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Jackie's Back (1999)

Comedy, musical film

Presented as a mockumentary, Jackie's Back chronicles the life and career of Jackie Washington (Jenifer Lewis), a 1960s/1970s R&B diva. After several years of toiling in obscurity, Washington decides to organize her own comeback concert with filmmaker Edward Whatsett St. John (Tim Curry) filming the event.

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Please Sir! (1971)

Comedy

Mr Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistic teacher of the rebellious Class 5C of Fenn Street School lobbies to have his class allowed on the annual school camping trip despite opposition from the head teacher Mr Cromwell, the fastidious and officious school caretaker Mr Potter, snobbish teacher Miss Ewell and the world-weary Mr Price. Eventually (with Mr. Hedges having won the hearts and minds of Mr Cromwell and Miss Ewell with a speech about giving Class 5C a helping hand with the benefits of the trip to the countryside) Class 5C get to go on the trip – providing Mr Hedges comes along to supervise his unruly class.

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Howling III (1987)

Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Werewolf

Harry Beckmeyer, an Australian anthropologist, obtains film footage from 1905 that shows Australian Aborigine ceremonially sacrificing a wolf-like creature. Alarmed by the reports of a werewolf killing a man in Siberia, Beckmeyer tries to warn the U.S. president about widespread werewolf attacks, but the president is dismissive.

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Buck and the Preacher (1972)

Western

Set in the late 1860s in the Kansas Territory shortly after the American Civil War, a former soldier named Buck leads wagon trains of African Americans from Louisiana west to the unsettled territories of Kansas. In order to ensure safe passage and food for his company, Buck negotiates with the Native Americans in the area. He pays them, and in turn they allow him to kill limited numbers of buffalo to eat, and to pass through their land providing they do it quickly.

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