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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 323.

Cook Off! (2007)

Comedy, Fake Documentary

The very different Minnesotan Sisters Sharon and Pauline Solfest both win entry into the one million dollar, Van Rookle Farms televised cooking contest. While the first enters a multiple chocolate dessert, nursing home employee and nutritionist Pauline enters a dish easy to digest for seniors. Sharon is engaged to Lars Hagerbakke, a black Swede, and they have vowed chastity until their wedding, while her sister works so much, she has no time for a relationship.

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Bit (2019)

Comedy, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Vampire

A vampire woman takes her human boyfriend to her home, explaining to him how vampires operate. Planning to start a new life with him, the vampire woman turns her boyfriend into a vampire as well. However, they are attacked by the woman's all-female coven, led by their matriarch, Duke.

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When night is falling (1995)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Camille Baker (Pascale Bussières) is a university literature professor at a religious college in a long-term relationship with fellow professor Martin (Henry Czerny). When her dog runs away and she finds him dead on the street, she ends up crying in the middle of the laundromat where she is approached by Petra (Rachael Crawford), who comforts her. Later on Camille realizes that her laundry was mixed up with Petra's and finds a business card inside the laundry bag.

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The Last Time (2006)

Dark Comedy, thriller film, Tragicomedy

Ted Riker, top salesman in the New York office of business machine company Bineview, is assigned to train callow rookie salesman Jamie Bashant, who just moved to the area with his fiancé Belisa. Jamie struggles greatly and Ted tries to help him improve, to no avail. Ted is introduced to Belisa, who is impressed by Ted's success and confident manner.

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Disorganized Crime (1989)

Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist

The story begins in a small town in western Montana where New Jersey–based bank robber Frank Salazar has been hiding out from the law after a series of bank robberies in Newark. Upon realizing that the local bank contains a large amount of cash, Salazar recruits four former accomplices to come to town and help him rob the bank. Among them are Nick Bartkowski, a nervous and possibly alcoholic safecracker; Max Green, an old school explosives expert with a heart condition; Ray Forgy, a young, wisecracking auto thief and getaway driver; and Carlos Barrios, a well-manicured lookout and weapons expert.

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Privilege (1967)

Comedy, Drama, Satire On Media, Science fiction

The story is presented as a narrated documentary, set in a near-future 1970s England, and concerning a disillusioned pop singer, Steven Shorter, who is the most loved celebrity in the country. His stage show involves him appearing on stage in a jail cell with handcuffs, beaten by police, to the horror and sympathy of the audience. It is described that the two main parties of England have formed a coalition government and encourage the success of Shorter to placate the masses and divert them from political activity.

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Den Brother (2010)

Family Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, teen film

Alex Pearson (Hutch Dano) is a self-absorbed, but avid Lemon Oaks High School hockey player who is seeking the attention of Matisse Burrows (Kelsey Chow), the most beautiful girl in school. Alex also wants a car, but his widowed father Jasper refuses to help financially, stating that Alex's "attitude" needs to improve, citing Alex's recent suspension from the hockey team for showboating; Alex also wants a spot on the All-Stars hockey team, but his tendency to showboat prevents him from getting on. In order to become more creditable with his father, Alex has to do chores and babysit his little sister, Emily (G.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009)

Comedy, Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, Vampire

Unemployed young lothario Julian Marsh is forced by his doctor father to accept a job directing an off-Broadway play called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, which is described as a weird adaptation of Hamlet. The play has been written by mysterious, pallid Romanian Theo Horace, a vampire who has just killed a young woman. Unaware of the danger surrounding Theo's play, Julian casts his best friend Vince as Hamlet and uses his new job to impress his ex-girlfriend Anna, an aspiring actress.

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It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

musical film, romantic comedy

Danny Miller is with a group of GIs awaiting transportation home to the US. On his last night there, he meets Jamie Shellgrove, who is a very shy young man whose grandfather feels should be taken under someone's wing. After observing Miller come to his grandson's aid at the piano, he asks Danny to speak with his son, to give him "some words of encouragement".

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Balls Out (2014)

American football film, Comedy

Caleb (Jake Lacy) is a fifth-year senior preparing to graduate. Not quite ready to settle into the life, expectations, and realities outside of his college, he decides that he wants to reassemble The Panthers, an intramural football team that had to shut down after one of the team members ended up getting partially paralyzed for life. Doing so is going to be far more difficult than he expected.

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Polly (1989)

musical film

Set in Alabama during the 1950s, Polly Whittier, an orphan who is sent to live with her aunt Polly Harrington, who is a descendant of the founding family of a small Southern town (also called Harrington) during the segregation era. A key point in dividing the town is a ravine which has an unrepaired bridge which burned down many years ago, and no one knows how it started and is suspicious of everyone else. Polly is able to convince people to look at the bright side of things, but tragedy strikes when Polly falls two stories from a tree, suffering a spinal injury.

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Viva Knievel! (1977)

Action

Daredevil motorcycle rider Evel Knievel stars as himself in this fictional story. The film opens with Knievel sneaking into an orphanage late at night to deliver presents: Evel Knievel action figures. One of the boys casts away his crutches, telling Knievel that he will walk after his accident just as Knievel had.

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Hamburger... The Motion Picture (1986)

Comedy, Splatstick, teen film

Russell Proco has been expelled from multiple schools because of his crude behavior, predominantly having women throw themselves at him (even when he is in no mood). He was given a large trust fund, but his grandfather's will stipulated that it is frozen unless he receives a college diploma. While trying to mull over his problem at a local Busterburger owned by a friend of his, who said he had a similar problem and that he received the equivalent of a college diploma after finishing Busterburger University.

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The Card (1952)

Comedy

The film follows the adventures and misadventures of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, an ambitious young man from a poor background. Denry surreptitiously changes his poor grades to qualify for entry to a "school for the sons of gentlemen". At the age of 16, he becomes a junior clerk to Mr.

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Fantasm (1976)

Comedy

German psychiatrist Professor Jungenot A. Freud takes the audience through a series of female sexual fantasies including: sex in a beauty salon fruit fetishism lesbianism in a sauna teacher student seduction rape in a gym transvestism reverse Oedipus complex (Electra complex)

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The Infidel (2010)

Comedy

Mahmud Nasir is a husband, father and a British Muslim who listens to rock music, particularly the long deceased pop star Gary Page, and occasionally drinks alcohol. His son, Rashid, wishes to marry his fiancee Uzma, but they need the blessing of her devout Muslim cleric stepfather, Arshad Al-Masri (Yigal Naor), something Mahmud is initially resistant towards, given Al-Masri's supposed links to Islamic extremists. However, he agrees to put on the act of devout Muslim for the occasion.

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Street Dreams (2009)

Comedy drama, Coming-of-age

Derrick Cabrera (Paul Rodriguez) is an up-and-coming street skateboarder from Chicago with dreams of going pro. He and his fellow skateboarding friends Cash (Ryan Dunn), Reese (Terry Kennedy), and Troy (Rob Dyrdek), as well as filmographer friend Mikey (Adam Wylie), spend their days skating at spots around the city, being pursued by cops for skating where they shouldn't be, and planning how to make names for themselves. In Derrick's case, this means landing one special trick on-camera for a sponsorship video that has never been done before, affectionately dubbed the N.A.C.

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Angels In the Infield (2000)

Comedy, fantasy film

When Eddie Everett was a rookie in 1992, he was one of the best pitchers of his time. He led the California Angels to the American League Championship Series, where they played the Boston Red Sox, and were one out away from making it to the World Series (this same situation occurred in real life, but in 1986, not 1992). When a rookie playing for the Red Sox hits a ground ball to Eddie, he drops the ball and is unable to get the other player out, while the runners he let on base score, losing a chance for the Angels to make it to the World Series.

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