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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 324.

Trust the Man (2005)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

The film centers around four best friends: Married couple Tom and Rebecca and longtime relationship partners Tobey and Elaine. The film follows the two couples as they face trials and temptations in their relationships. Tom, after feeling a lack of intimacy with his wife, meets a divorced mother at his sons school.

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Double Trouble (1992)

Action, Action Comedy

Peter Jade earns his living as a crook. During one of his thieving tours, a puzzling circuit board falls into his hands. He soon realizes that there is a counterpart to this plate; with both plates, you are able to open a safe on the international diamond exchange.

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Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)

Comedy

Sidney overhears a band in his local pub and aspires to be their manager, not so ably assisted by his brother-in-law, Timmy, both still window cleaning for a living. They rename the band Kipper and after a misfortune, Timmy joins the line-up and many sexual encounters follow as a result. Unfortunately, Timmy's natural talent is more mayhem than rock star and disaster ensues of mostly the semi-clothed kind.

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Wild Nights with Emily (2018)

Biography, Comedy, LGBTQ-related film

In her teens, Emily Dickinson befriends Susan Gilbert during a recitation of the Amherst Shakespeare Society, and during a scene in which they play lovers, a romance blossoms. On a stroll afterward, they kiss. Emily's family leaves for a month long trip, and Susan stays with Emily for the duration.

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George Washington Slept Here (1942)

Comedy

Manhattanite Connie Fuller (Ann Sheridan) secretly acquires a dilapidated house in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania, without her husband Bill's (Jack Benny) knowledge. The couple were forced out of their New York City apartment after their dog damaged the carpets. The house Connie buys is believed to have served as George Washington's temporary home during the Revolutionary War.

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Up the Sandbox (1972)

Comedy, musical film, Tragicomedy

Margaret Reynolds is a young wife and mother of two living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, Paul, a Columbia University history professor. Margaret is bored with her bourgeois day-to-day life and neglected by Paul, who is consumed by his work. She soon discovers that she is pregnant again and initially does not tell her husband, and instead finds refuge in her outrageous fantasies: being sexually pursued by a Central American dictator modeled on Fidel Castro, imagining confrontations with her husband and mother, going on an anthropological visit to an African tribe that promises a ritual of pain-free childbirth, and…

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Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

Comedy

A small British colony is invaded by its neighbour, the country of Maguadora, under dictator General Mosquera. As President of the United States Barbara Adams attempts to assist, the peace talks are sabotaged by the world's leading terrorist, Lacrobat. Conservative British Prime Minister Sir Mortimer Chris sends a task force to recapture the islands.

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Mr. Lucky (1943)

romantic comedy

Late one winter night, Swede rows up to a public dock in a dinghy. He hides when he spots a young woman who walks to the end of the pier. When a new night watchman (an uncredited Emory Parnell) notices her and fears she is about to jump, Swede stops him from bothering her.

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Ski Party (1965)

Comedy, musical film, teen film

Todd Armstrong (Avalon) and Craig Gamble (Hickman) are college undergraduates from California, whose romantic relationships with students Linda Hughes (Walley) and Barbara Norris (Craig) are rocky. Arrogant, handsome, athletic classmate Freddie (Aron Kincaid) has no such problems and chooses not to resist all the women chasing after him. As president of the Ski Club, Freddie organizes a midterm vacation trip to ski country (in Sawtooth National Forest) in Idaho.

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Busting (1974)

Action Comedy, buddy film, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, Police Film

Keneely and Farrell are detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) vice squad. Although they show great talent for breaking up prostitution and drug rings, many of these enterprises are protected by crime boss Carl Rizzo, who exerts his influence throughout the city and the department. Evidence is altered before trial, colleagues refuse to help with basic police work, and the detectives are pushed to pursue other cases—mostly stakeouts on gay bars and public lavatories.

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Filth and Wisdom (2008)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, musical film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama

Described as a comedy/drama/musical/romance, the story revolves around a Ukrainian immigrant named A.K. who finances his dreams of rock glory by moonlighting as a cross-dressing dominatrix and his two female flatmates: Holly, a ballet dancer who works as a stripper and pole-dancer at a local club and Juliette, a pharmacy assistant who dreams of going to Africa to help starving children.

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The Munsters' Revenge (1981)

Science fiction

The Munster family visits a local wax museum where they have made wax replicas of them. As the museum closes, a scientist activates his controller, causing some of the figures (which are actually robots) to move. The robots of Herman and Grandpa terrorize some citizens and steal their items.

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Alien Xmas (2020)

Adventure, animated film, Christmas film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction

Long ago, a race of colorful extraterrestrials known as Klepts became greedy and plundered their home planet of its resources. Their color faded away, and they set off into outer space, moving from galaxy to galaxy and stealing whatever they could. The leader of the Klepts, known as Supreme Leader Z, decides to steal all of the "stuff" on the planet Earth.

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Downtown (1990)

Action Comedy, buddy film, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Police Officer Alex Kearney is a patrolman in Bryn Mawr, an affluent, plush suburb of Philadelphia—until he stops an important businessman and his account of the incident is not believed. As punishment, he is assigned to work Downtown, considered the most dangerous, high-crime precinct in the city. Everyone at the precinct is certain that the 'by the book' suburban, pampered cop is going to get himself (and whoever is assigned as his partner), killed.

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All the Queen's Men (2001)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Military Film, Satire On War, war film

During World War II the British army is attempting to retrieve an Enigma machine from Germany. Having failed in previous attempts, they decide to send four men undercover to the factory that makes the devices in Berlin. Unfortunately the factory is populated entirely by women, and they only have men to send.

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Sprung (1997)

Comedy, romantic comedy

In the 1990s Pittsburgh, Montel (Rusty Cundieff) and Clyde (Joe Torry) are friends who could not be less alike. An introverted photographer, Montel wants to meet the one right girl for him and settle down to build a family, while Clyde is a flamboyant womanizer just out for a good time. At a party, they meet Adina (Paula Jai Parker), a sexy golddigger seeking a wealthy husband with robotic determination, and her shy law clerk friend Brandy (Tisha Campbell).

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