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Comedy, Drama
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary primadonna while the strange hotel staff share meals which consist of human meat. The story expands to involve a hit man, a call girl and the Hollywood producer. The film itself makes several mentions of the Dogme 95 style of film-making, and has been described as a "Dogme film-within-a-film."
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Dance Film, Drama, Melodrama, musical film, Romantic drama, teen film
After a ballet-school rejection leaves her stranded in New York, an ambitious dancer finds a new opportunity—and a dance partner—in a local club.
Christmas film, Drama, Tragicomedy
Two French sisters rally a New England town to help them build a children's hospital.
Comedy
A young spelling-bee competitor expresses himself through dresses, challenging the expectations of his conservative school community.
Comedy, musical film
A Montmartre cabaret owner’s can-can performances bring her into conflict with the law—and into a complicated romance.
Comedy
Inseparable since childhood, levelheaded Katie takes her co-dependent best friend Delaney on a girls' trip to break the news that she is getting married.
Biography
A Dutch secretary who comes to New York hoping to marry her fiancé discovers a different path to independence and success.
Comedy
A well-meaning father tries to steer his daughter away from her friends and boyfriend, but his efforts to bridge the generation gap keep misfiring.
Comedy, Drama
A close-knit London couple navigate family entanglements and class divides with stubborn optimism.
Action, Action Comedy, Drama, thriller film, vigilante film
A veteran boxing coach and his agoraphobic neighbor take on a local cartel after violence reaches the coach’s gym community.
Comedy, Parody
A school’s pupils scheme to derail their beloved acting headmaster’s bid for a new post just as inspectors arrive to assess the staff.
Comedy drama
Erwin, a recent Harvard graduate and aspiring actor, is dismissed from his first film role after disrupting a shoot. Leaving the set, he travels through Texas but becomes stranded when his car breaks down in an oil-producing region. Lacking funds for repairs, he accepts temporary work from a local driller, Merle.
Comedy
When his brother's wedding plans bring their estranged parents together, Carter discovers his own childhood has been turned into material for a book about children of divorce.
Comedy, romantic comedy, sex comedy
Two friends are transported by a vintage porn viewer into a world where everyone behaves as if they are in a pornographic film.
Coming-of-age, Drama, romance film, teen film, Teen Comedy Film
A sheltered high-school senior enters the local rock scene and pursues the experiences she believes will make her an adult.
Comedy drama, Drama
Dan is a lonely country policeman in regional Victoria, Australia, who spends his mornings feeding his angry rooster. His mental state appears to be fragile, especially after a childhood friend, Steve, is found dead in the forest, and his rooster is killed by a fox. He takes time off work and explores the bush, where he encounters The Hermit living in a hut in the forest.
Comedy, Western
A modern-day Ned Kelly robs banks in Australia and gives all the money to the poor people. Ned is forced to go to Hollywood to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks there for his own benefit.
Animal horror, Horror
A Manhattan banker’s effort to eliminate a rat spirals into an obsessive battle that threatens his home and priorities.
Coming-of-age
Four working-class friends work on Long Island, New York, as clam diggers. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must learn to face the changing times in both their personal and professional lives.
Action, Comedy, comedy thriller, Dark Comedy, thriller film
Two old friends compete for cash in a rich couple’s escalating series of dangerous dares.
Comedy
A would-be rock star bets his girlfriend’s father he can earn $100,000 in six months, while trying to get his band a record deal.
B movie, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, teen film, thriller film
A film crew making a movie about an unsolved high-school murder spree finds its own production beset by disappearances.
Crime, Drama, Tragicomedy
A distracted college basketball star juggles a turbulent affair, his roommate’s rebellion, and the pressures of the Vietnam-era draft.
Comedy
A British art expert, Henderson Dores, travels to Georgia in the United States in order to purchase a rare painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He comes across some crazy characters in the process.