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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 304.

Pretty Ugly People (2008)

Comedy drama, Dark Comedy, Drama

The film begins with a voice-over by Lucy (Missi Pyle) discussing what it's like being fat, and having skinny friends in college. She calls her friend Becky (Melissa McCarthy), crying and insinuating she is dying. She asks Becky to rally all of the women's college friends for one final trip to see Lucy, who now helps run Holland Lake Lodge in Condon, Montana.

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Vampira (1974)

Comedy horror, Horror, Parody, Vampire

Count Dracula is an old vampire who, because of his advanced age, is forced to host tours of his castle to get new victims. In an attempt to revive his long-lost love, Vampira, Dracula needs to find a victim with a very specific blood group combination to resurrect Vampira by a blood transfusion. So he sets out to collect blood from the bevy of Playboy Playmates visiting his castle after flipping through the July 1973 issue of Playboy.

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Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Gus Kubicek (played by Guttenberg) is a depressed and overweight cartoonist who recently won a battle against Hodgkin's disease. His caring sister Lizzie Potts (Long), a nosy romance novelist, responds to his sadness by trying to set him up with a suitable woman. Yet to do so she must make him seem more dynamic and attractive.

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Motherhood (2009)

Comedy, Drama

Welcome to one day in the life of Eliza Welch (Uma Thurman), former fiction writer now wife, mother and blogger. A single day that just about pushes Eliza to her absolute tipping point. After putting her deeper creative ambitions on hold to raise her two children, Eliza lives and works in a walk-up tenement in the middle of Greenwich Village.

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Luis & die Aliens (2018)

Adventure, Comedy, Computeranimation

On his 12th birthday, Luis has no friends, and his father, the ufologist Armin Sonntag, constantly does not have enough time for him. He does not even know that those whom he is so eager to find are right in front of his nose. On his birthday, Luis becomes the only witness to the crash landing of three aliens near their home.

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Modern Girls (1986)

Comedy, Teen Comedy Film

Three women in their early twenties, Margo, Kelly, and Cece, are roommates living in Los Angeles working menial jobs by day, and by night they enjoy the vibrant and decadent nightlife of the city. Margo has a boring job in telemarketing, Cece gets fired from her job at a department store, while Kelly works in a pet store and is very good at selling pets, mainly thanks to her looks. It is Friday night and the women are getting ready for a night out on the town.

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How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)

Crime Comedy, Heist

Jane, Elaine, and Louise are suburbanites in Eugene, Oregon. Friends since high school, they are struggling with money due to a turbulent national economy and high inflation. Jane is divorced, trying to cope with the man she is dating, Robert; her newly single father, who moves in after his wife leaves him for another woman; and her young children, who need dental work.

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Oblivion (1994)

Adventure, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, Western

Set in the year 3031 on a frontier planet light years away from Earth, a bizarre gang of futuristic desperadoes have their sight set on turning the tumbleweed town of Oblivion into their own private playground. The action begins with the murder of the town's Marshal Stone by a power-hungry villain called Red Eye. Using a substance prized on the planet—which also happens to short out electrical devices—Red Eye cheats his way to victory during a showdown on the street, killing Stone and disabling his cyborg deputy, Stell.

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The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember (2004)

Comedy, Documentation

The cast members reminisce about the show and present exclusive blooper footage never shown on television, as well as an update on their current activities. The reunion took place at Fran Drescher's oceanside home in California. The entire cast was present except for Daniel Davis, who was performing in the musical La Cage aux Folles on Broadway at the time and was unable to attend.

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Catfight (2016)

Action, Action Comedy, Dark Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

Artist Ashley Miller and housewife Veronica Salt are two unhappy women. Ashley is struggling to sell her artwork, straining her relationship with her girlfriend Lisa. Veronica, an alcoholic, treated with disdain by her husband Stanley, mocks her son Kip's drawing talent.

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Mr. Jealousy (1997)

romantic comedy

Aspiring writer Lester Grimm starts going out with Ramona Ray after being introduced by Lester's friend Vince and Vince's fiancée Lucretia. They immediately hit it off, but Ramona mentions on their first date that one of her ex-boyfriends is famous writer Dashiell Frank. Lester becomes slightly jealous.

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Flux Gourmet (2022)

black comedy film, Dark Comedy

A trio of experimental performance artists led by a narcissistic, controlling woman named Elle di Elle, takes up residency at a remote artistic institution, run by a wealthy, enigmatic director named Jan Stevens, who is funding the project. A self-described "hack" journalist named Stones is hired to document the day-to-day activities of the group involving their process of "sonic catering" (where they extract disturbing ASMR made by the sounds from various foods) while dealing with unpleasant gastrointestinal disorders, for which tests are being administered by an on-site doctor. As Stones documents the artistic collective's power…

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The Grand (2007)

Comedy

Jack Faro is a recovering drug addict who, after many relapses, decides to move into a rehabilitation facility full-time. Having been married 75 times, he is a serial husband and is always on the lookout for number 76. He enters The Grand, a Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament in Las Vegas created by his grandfather Lucky Faro.

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No Time for Nuts (2006)

Animation

Between the events of the second and third film, Scrat is looking for a place to hide his acorn when he digs up a time machine. The machine shows the year to be 20,000 B.C, before it zaps itself, Scrat, and the acorn to the Middle Ages. The acorn is wedged under a large rock.

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Cinco (2010)

Comedy horror, Horror, Psychological horror, Zombie

The film is divided into five parts entitled "Braso" (), "Paa" (), "Mata" (), "Mukha" (), and "Puso" (), which all revolve around a hand with an "R.I.P." tattoo. One: Braso (Arm) Three neophytes are brought to a morgue while dressed in lingerie for the final part of their initiation to join a fraternity. After snooping around the place, the boys find a detached arm with an "R.I.P." tattoo of a corpse and it comes to life, much to their terror.

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The Happening (1967)

Comedy drama, Crime Comedy

Four bored beach bums from Miami come across kids playing with toy guns. They chase one of them into a house, which, by chance, belongs to one Roc Delmonico, a former gangster who is now retired from organized crime and has become a respectable businessman. Delmonico assumes it to be a kidnapping and volunteers to go quietly.

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Body Slam (1986)

Comedy, musical film, sport film

M. Harry Smilac, once a successful music promoter, is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his sole client, the rock band Kick. Behind on his car payments and owing a large amount to a banker, he reluctantly accepts a job finding musical acts for the fundraiser of unpopular politician Norman Wiltshire.

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Not Quite Human (1987)

Comedy, Science fiction, teen film

Dr. Jonas Carson (Alan Thicke) creates an android that looks just like a human teenage boy, and he "adopts" him as his son and as an older brother to Becky (Robyn Lively), who names him Chip. After the Carsons move to a new town, Chip (Jay Underwood) is enrolled in high school alongside Becky.

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Skipped Parts (2000)

Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

In 1963, liberal-minded and reckless Lydia Callahan is raising her 14-year-old son, Sam. Lydia's father Caspar, a prominent local businessman, is running for governor of North Carolina, and does not want Lydia and Sam in his way, so the two are banished from North Carolina. They travel across the country and settle in Wyoming, where Lydia only wants to have a good time and refuses to allow Sam to call her "mom." Sam soon finds out that he is one of only two students in Gro Vont High School who read.

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The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Comedy horror, Horror, mystery film, silent film

In a decaying mansion overlooking the Hudson River, millionaire Cyrus West approaches death. His greedy family descends upon him like "cats around a canary", causing him to become insane. West orders that his last will and testament remain locked in a safe and go unread until the 20th anniversary of his death.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Detective, Parody

The film begins in a theatre, where a pianist begins to play a piano accompaniment to the actual film being shown in the theater. Holmes has just restored a stolen artifact to three French nuns, and is later called on a case by Dr. Mortimer concerning Sir Henry Baskerville and a legendary hound that curses the Baskerville estate.

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