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Comedy, fantasy film, medieval film, musical film, Science fiction, Time travel
American mechanic Hank Martin is knocked unconscious and awakens in the land and time of King Arthur. Initially captured and sentenced to die, he is freed and claims to be a wizard, awing the aged king and his court with the lighting of a match. Arthur rewards him with a blacksmith shop, a squire and the title of Sir Boss.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Drama, High School Comedy Film, Road Movie
In a last-ditch effort to win over the girl of his dreams, a nerdy high school senior and his best friends embark on a road trip to see their favorite band at the biggest music festival of the year, only to discover true love in the most unexpected place.
Family Comedy, teen film
Ready to Run is the story of 14-year-old Corrie Ortiz (Krissy Perez), an energetic girl who dreams of becoming a jockey in the predominantly male sport of Thoroughbred horse racing. Although her father died in a racing-related accident, and her mother is against it, Corrie's spirited memory drives her to try to achieve her goal. She also has the gift her grandmother calls the "confidence of horses".
Comedy, Comedy drama
The film centers around Paul Tracy (Charlie Sheen), a college student and intern to the influential United States Senator Kitteridge (Raymond J. Barry). Paul has political aspirations of his own, and hopes to win the Senator's favor to advance his ambitions of gaining a Congressional seat.
Comedy
At a midwestern college in 1951, student Mary Crawford has the combined good and bad fortune to meet Andy Schmidt, a remarkably conceited young man who is convinced that he is tremendously talented and has every intention of becoming a star. Andy wants Mary to marry him quickly before he becomes too famous to give her a second look. She cannot resist him and takes him home to Columbus, Ohio, to meet her straitlaced parents.
Comedy, Comedy horror, crossover fiction, Horror, Parody, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
A series of horrific murders has terrorized Victorian London and baffled police. While returning home from a pub, newspaper reporter Bruce Adams finds one murder victim, a prominent doctor. The next day, two American policemen, Slim and Tubby, who are studying London police methods, respond to brawl at a women's suffrage rally in Hyde Park.
Comedy, Comedy horror, teen film, zombie comedy
While working in the church, a woman named Grace finds a hidden crypt. While exploring she discovers a voodoo book; however, she is soon sent away by Father Cornelius. Grace's son, Nathan, attends the local high school with his friends Henry and Diggs.
Horror, Zombie
On a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a renegade group of scientists have smuggled aboard a secret container holding a fellow scientist infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus which reanimates the dead. The virus is said to be a variant of the "malaria virus." They discovered and manufactured the virus with the intent of turning it into a biological weapon. Their goal was to produce "super soldiers" who could continue fighting in the harshest conditions, including being mortally wounded or under heavy enemy fire.
Family Drama, romantic comedy
Carolina Mirabeau was raised 'free-spirited' with her two sisters Georgia and Maine by eccentric, domineering, paternal grandma Millicent in the countryside. When she grows up, she moves into LA, although regularly keeps in contact with them. Carolina's city neighbor, talented and witty Jewish author Albert Morris, is her best friend and confidant.
Comedy, Comedy drama, propaganda film, romance film, romantic comedy, war film
The documentary-drama follows seven women from different backgrounds who meet at an Auxiliary Territorial Service training camp. "Gentle" British girls, they are now doing their bit to help out in World War II: driving lorries and manning ack-ack batteries. Leslie Howard provides gently ironic narration throughout the film.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy, comedy television program, Computeranimation, crossover fiction, fantasy film
Two weeks ahead in the future dystopian Endsville, "Lord of Horror", an evil being, orders robotic duplicates of Billy and Mandy called Billybot and Mandroid to go back in time to eliminate their human counterparts and prevent them from reaching a powerful hand-like artifact in the Lord of Horror's possession before his past self does. Two weeks prior, Grim is sued for dereliction of duty and misuse of his powers by his old rival, the Boogey Man, the former having failed to reap General Skarr because of Billy and Mandy's interference. Grim, Billy, Mandy, and Irwin are set to be exiled by the Underworld Court and placed in the custody of…
Comedy
The film opens with an infomercial, given by Dick Dupre (a parody of Don Lapre, played by John C. McGinley), which Larry (Danny Masterson) and Rico (Ronnie Warner) are watching. Larry and Rico are two stoners who live in a one-room apartment, and after watching the entire infomercial, they decide to start a "tiny classified ads" business.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Liusaidh is a 24-year-old woman from Inverness, Scotland. Stuck in a dead-end job selling cheese at a supermarket, she spends her evenings binge drinking and engaging in casual sex with strangers. These behaviours are coping mechanisms she has adopted to deal with the suicide of her best friend, Alistair, who died by jumping off a bridge in front of a train almost a year earlier.
Adventure, children's film, children's music, Comedy, direct-to-video film, live-action/animated film, musical film
Wally the Great (Tony Harvey), great-grandson of Waldo the Magnificent, is an amateur magician whose dream is to win the competition at the Magic Club for Best Magician. He is confronted with a rival, Roland the Remarkable (Dale Burridge), who believes Wally is a nobody. Meanwhile, the titular children's entertainers, consisting of lead singer Greg Page, guitarist Murray Cook, drummer Anthony Field and keyboardist Jeff Fatt, are performing at a nearby school for Dorothy the Dinosaur's birthday party.
boxing film, Comedy
Jimmy Connelly is a milkman who is thrust into the spotlight after a brutal fighter, Pete Wright, gets injured. Under manager Herbie Bush, Jimmy must fight the middleweight champion of the world, Jose Mendez. Within the lead up to the fight with Mendez, Jimmy has to take part in a press conference, in which Bush recommends him to give Mendez fighting talk.
Comedy horror
Two desperate and young filmmakers stumble upon the ultimate subject, a 33-year-old cannibalistic serial killer named Anthony McAllister, who has agreed to let them document every aspect of his horrifically violent life-style. Initially terrified, the filmmakers get to know Anthony as a person. They even begin to identify with his ecological and philosophical justifications for his cannibalistic lifestyle.
Comedy, teen film
A group of film students at Leatherhead University in search of funding for their feature film "The Love Storm" end up having to rewrite and make it into a porno. This leads the boys head first into a world of erotica that they didn't even know existed and into the life of actress Candy Fiveways .
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The United Artists release includes most of the sequences familiar to readers of the book, including the fence-whitewashing episode; Tom and Huckleberry Finn's attendance at their own funeral, after the boys, who were enjoying an adventure on a remote island, are presumed dead; the murder trial of local drunkard Muff Potter; and Tom and Becky Thatcher's flight through a cave as they try to escape Injun Joe, who is revealed to be the real killer.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Sergeant Eustis Clay cannot wait to finish his peacetime service and move on to bigger, better things. He is a personal favorite of Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter, a career soldier who is considerably brighter than Clay, but enjoys his company and loyalty. Slaughter is wired into all the perks, back channels and supply sources an Army base can provide, and they all filter through his nearly autonomous cabin hub.
Comedy, Drama
Nina Geld is a successful New York comedian, but in her private life she is a disaster. Apart from a good relationship with her mother, she has only had occasional relationships with men except for a relationship that drags on with Joe, a violent and married policeman, whom she cannot get rid of. When her agent offers her to join the cast of a successful television show recorded in Los Angeles, Nina jumps at the chance to change her scene and, aware of the great risk she is taking, decides to move to the West Coast in search of the success that will change her life.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Two dumb blondes, Dee Twiddle and Dawn St. Dom, meet each other for the first time at their first lesson in flight school and they like each other right away due to their numerous similarities. Dee is a professional dancer who has breast implants and a gassy pet turtle named Virgil.
Comedy, Dance Film, musical film
Travis W. Redfish is a beer-drinking, bar-brawling, fun-loving Texan who works as a distributor of Shiner beer. He also helps his father, Corpus C.
Comedy, retrofuturism
In the (then-near future) year 1998, the United States has run out of oil. Many Americans are living in their now-stationary cars and using nonpowered means of transportation, such as jogging, riding bicycles, and rollerskating. Tracksuits have become a common attire, and paper money has lost all its value.
Comedy
Bill is an elderly ex-vaudevillian who lives alone, often looking at photographs of his deceased wife. Each day after breakfast, he goes to the supermarket, where he is friendly to employees, often charming them with a magic trick. Kate is a 14-year-old teenager who gets in a squabble with an intimidating man named Demesta.