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Adventure, Comedy, romance film
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the Brenda Starr comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip.
Comedy horror, comedy thriller
New Yorkers Tommy Larson and Bill Turner are best friends who spend their time reading comic books which they buy from Mr. Sumatra's newspaper stand. However, they are also under constant bullying from local hoodlums Vinnie Benedetti, Booger Martin, and Podowski.
Action Comedy
A Ming Dynasty officer, He Ying, was tasked with bringing a mythical time traveling device from India with a LINGA back to the Ming emperor. He was betrayed, and subsequently frozen. He Ying, Sao and Niehu were frozen during a fight.
Comedy, Drama, teen film, Tragicomedy
In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer, a 17-year-old "goth" girl who just graduated from high school, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris, who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroom clerk. Jennifer refers to herself simply as "J", and thus asks Randall if it's okay if she calls him "R", to which he accedes. One day, as there is nothing more to be done in the stockroom, J makes her way to the front of the store and begins to interact with customers.
Comedy, screwball comedy film
Henrietta and Pete Robbins are a young couple in Brooklyn struggling to get by on the income he earns as a cab driver. His pompous sister-in-law Helen delights in reminding them that an early marriage robbed him of a college education and how much better off she and her husband Fred are. When Pete gets an inside tip on pork belly futures, Henrietta borrows $3,000 from a Mafia loan shark to purchase the commodity.
Comedy
An opening pre-credits sequence shows events which led to the conception of both "Lads" during a Second World War air raid. After the opening titles, Bob and Terry, both aged about thirty, are seen playing football with some boys on a patch of rough ground, which leads to Bob having to be rescued from a high roof by the fire brigade. Later, Bob and Terry visit their favourite pub, the Fat Ox, which is about to be demolished, along with the surrounding terraced housing where both used to live.
Comedy, Drama, war film
At Norfolk Naval Base in the opening months of World War II, newly commissioned lieutenant John W. Harkness bids farewell to his wife Ellie and reports aboard the PC-1168, unaware that his civilian background in engineering and Rutgers education have landed him the command of the ship for a secret project. The Navy has installed a steam engine and an experimental evaporator-condenser in the ship to try to increase the speed of patrol craft by 10 knots and has assigned Harkness to conduct the sea trials.
Crime, thriller film
The film follows a series of encounters of a group of patrolling Police Tactical Unit troopers during one night, which starts off when the patrol-team tries to help a sergeant of the District Anti-Triad Squad of the Hong Kong Police Force, Lo Sa, to retrieve his lost service-issue revolver after he was assaulted by a group of triad members. The films portrays the police officers' use of extra-legal means to achieve the results of investigations and reveals the complex relationships between criminals and police officers, the hostility amongst criminals themselves and even the rivalry among different bureaux within the Hong Kong Police Force.
Comedy, Comedy drama
At a dinner celebrating the 70th birthday of their father Henry Meyerwitz, tensions among the four Meyerwitz siblings explode thanks to the success of the youngest son, Nathan, whose new novel Peep World is a thinly veiled portrait of the family. The best-selling expose reveals the oldest, "responsible" son, Jack, as a porn addict, the daughter, Cheri, as a catty drama queen, and the third son, Joel, as a living disaster with a loony plan to change his life. The story takes place over the course of a single day.
Comedy
Matt Cunningham, a widowed father of five, finds out he has inherited a farm. After some persuasion, he leaves his London home for the farm to use it as a retreat to get a pitch that his boss is hampering him for completed on time. However, when he arrives, his farm hand Beano along with his kids and the village people have other ideas than just work.
Comedy, Crime, Splatter Film
Hazel Aiken (Carroll Baker) runs an electrolysis business from her home that also serves as a front for arranging murders for clients. She employs only women as assassins and rents rooms to some of them. Her household includes her husband (Gordon Oas-Heim), her elderly mother (Mary Boylan), and her daughter-in-law Mary (Susan Tyrrell), who lives there with her baby while waiting for her absent husband to return.
children's film
Pebbles (who currently works for an ad agency) and Bamm-Bamm (who currently works in a car repair shop) decided to get married after Bamm-Bamm proposes with a poem in the middle of the street (after Pebbles mistakenly thinks he was trying to dump her when Bamm-Bamm read her a letter that started "Dear Pebbles"). However, Fred loses his family savings when he bets it on his team, the Bedrock Brontos, who lost on a game. Fred tries to secretly earn more money to pay for the wedding and replace the savings before Wilma learns about it.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy
Danish hairdresser Ida (Trine Dyrholm), who has recently completed a successful breast cancer treatment after undergoing a mastectomy, returns home to find her husband Leif having an affair with his accountant, Tilde. In a different part of Copenhagen, English businessman Philip (Pierce Brosnan) is a successful exporter of fruits and vegetables who has become misanthropic after the death of his wife. Meanwhile, Ida's daughter Astrid and Philip's son Patrick have gone to Italy to prepare Patrick's family's villa for their wedding, which is to take place only three months after they met.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Jordan Abrams, a conservative Jewish accountant, lives a stable but rather boring life with his girlfriend Rachel Stern. The night before they are supposed to leave for an extended vacation where Jordan had been planning to propose, Rachel says she cannot marry him due to his sexual ineptitude. Rachel leaves him in order to explore her own sexuality.
Comedy
Six slackers who mooch off Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz and have been crashing at his California mansion for years struggle to maintain their lifestyle when he informs them that he is selling his home. Individually, the friends seek new living arrangements to no avail, so they attempt to prevent the sale of the home altogether, as well as raise money to purchase it.
Comedy, family film, fantasy film
Jack Simmons (Peter Billingsley) lives with his widowed mother (Anne Bloom). She sends Jack to buy groceries with their last $50. Jack notices a Yamaha YZ-80 two-stroke racing motorcycle and buys it from Max (Gavin Allen).
Comedy, Crime Comedy, mystery film
Maurice Pogue has retrograde amnesia, which prevents him from remembering anything that happened to him the day before. He realizes from a recording he made for himself the previous night – to keep himself in the know – that he is a private investigator in Los Angeles. He acquired the condition after being injured during a case.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Parody
The story is a satire of the outlaw biker film genre. It follows two biker gangs, one male and one female. The male biker gang are the "Born Losers".
Comedy
The St. Trinian's girls burn down the school building, go on trial at the Old Bailey, and are found guilty. Professor of Philosophy Canford of the University of Baghdad suggests that, rather than punishment, the girls need sympathy.
Comedy drama, Dark Comedy, Tragicomedy
Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) accidentally runs a man over with his underground train, after the man is pulled on to the tracks by his dog. After a week off he kills a second passenger who falls onto the tracks after having a heart attack. Before taking time off for the second accident his colleagues tell him about a little-known 'rule' at London Underground that no-one talks about: three 'under' within a month, and you lose your job - earning yourself ten years' salary in one lump sum.
Horror, Slasher
Screenwriter Stanley Caldwell lives in a cabin at the edge of Summit Lake. After speaking with his agent, Regan, over the phone, Stanley accesses a hidden room in his house revealing a young woman who is chained to the floor by her ankle. He greets the woman and calls her Kimberly as he places a plate of food in front of her.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
Mildred is a widow living with her rebellious, irresponsible twentysomething daughter Annie in Salt Lake City. One day after a fight, Annie goes to live as a vagrant with her boyfriend, leaving Mildred alone for the first time in her life. Her wayward neighbor Monica knocks on Mildred's door, begging her to watch her young son J.J.
Comedy, Western
Josie is a young woman living in the fictitious Arapahoe County, Wyoming. She accidentally kills her abusive alcoholic husband when she opens a bedroom door and knocks him backward down the stairs. She is put on trial for his death but is acquitted.
Comedy drama