thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Love Parade (1929) Count Alfred, military attaché to the Sylvanian Embassy in Paris, is ordered back to Sylvania to report to Queen Louise for a reprimand following a string of scandals, including an affair with the ambassador's wife. In the meantime Queen Louise, ruler of Sylvania in her own right, is royally fed-up with her subjects' preoccupation with whom she will marry (particularly since they would only be a prince consort) Intrigued rather than offended by Count Alfred's dossier, Queen Louise invites him to dinner when she tries to find a suitable "punishment" for him. Their romance progresses to the…
The film follows three generations of a New York Italian American family, beginning in the 1950s with the courtship and marriage of Catherine Falconetti to local butcher Joseph Santangelo, who wins her hand after beating her father in a game of pinocle. The first half focuses on Catherine adjusting to her new life as a mother and housewife, as well as her strained relationship with her overbearing Old World mother-in-law, Carmela. The second half focuses on Catherine and Joseph's daughter Teresa, a devout Catholic more similar to her superstitious grandmother than her modernized and secularized parents.
Henry Roth is an obsessive-compulsive and somewhat misanthropic writer of children's books. His illustrator and only friend Rudy dies after a fabulously successful collaboration on their series of children's books about "Marty the Beaver". Henry is under contract to produce another "Marty the Beaver" book for Christmas sales.
Marnie is a recent graduate and is trying to find a temporary job. She wants to win the attention of a college friend named Alex (who is already in a relationship), while trying to cut down on her beer consumption. The story takes place around the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
The movie is told in non-chronological order, switching between the pre-production of Around the World in 80 Days in 1955 and scenes in Cantinflas' life between 1931 and 1955. In 1955 Mike Todd is trying to court famous actors and performers from around the world to perform the film, but struggles as he is unable to pay them properly. In 1931, Mario Moreno is an impoverished man living out of a suitcase working odd jobs.
American showgirl Eve Peabody arrives in Paris from Monte Carlo during a rainstorm with nothing but her evening gown. With no money and no place to stay, she persuades soft-hearted Hungarian taxi driver Tibor Czerny to drive her to nightclubs looking for a job in exchange for her doubling his fare. After an unsuccessful search, Tibor buys her dinner and offers to let her stay overnight at his apartment while he finishes his night shift.
A U.S. Army captain is flying three misfit deserters home for a court martial when the airplane has engine trouble and they crash-land in the ocean near an uncharted island. There they find a primitive society of cavewomen who routinely sacrifice virgins to appease "The Great One", the top-dog dinosaur on the island.
A man sings "Brazil" as the opening credits fade to the disembarkation of a ship, SS Brazil. As the exotic goods are netted off the ship the camera pans down to the archetypal exotic fruit hat on Carmen Miranda who reprises the song. Wealthy businessman Andrew J.
When the clean-cut but rebellious son of a small-town sheriff steals the race car of a professional driver, the sheriff forms a motorized posse to recover the car.
A suburban police station is understaffed due to a flu epidemic, and Sergeant Wilkins, under pressure to maintain staffing levels, is pleased to hear that three new recruits, fresh out of training school, are due shortly. On their way into the station, the three policemen inadvertently assist some bank robbers into their getaway car, and are embarrassed when they learn the truth. The new constables are self-proclaimed intellectual and amateur psychologist PC Stanley Benson, former socially well-connected playboy and cad PC Tom Potter, and extremely superstitious PC Charles Constable.
Comedy, Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Jeremy (Joshua Jackson), an American-British book editor living in London, is an aspiring writer seeking a new lease on life. He is sent by his employer to Tuscany, Italy to elicit a new book from American-Italian author Weldon Parish (Harvey Keitel). Parish, whose wife died 20 years ago, has been stricken with writer's block ever since, and for years he resisted the prospect of writers or editors soliciting more work from him.
The film is about two brothers in their mid-30s (played by Mark Kelly and Steve Zissis) whose lifelong rivalry compels them to secretly complete an athletic competition that they came up with in high school but left unfinished.
Erasmus and Paul are a couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten-year-old boy, Bill, shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus's grandson. Erasmus is a famous chef and Paul is the producer of his cooking show, and they live in a large showplace house in New Mexico. Bill's father, Beau, was the result of a one-time heterosexual encounter, and Erasmus has never met him or Bill.
Trapped in hell, murderous prom queen Mary Lou Maloney, who burned to death in 1957, manages to escape her chains by severing them with a nail file. Returning to her place of death, Hamilton High School, Mary Lou kills the school janitor and one of her many former boyfriends Jack Roswell by electrocuting him with a jukebox to the point that his pacemaker bursts from his chest. The day after Jack's death, Principal Weatherall officially opens Hamilton High's recently reconstructed gymnasium, accidentally severing one of his own fingers while cutting the ribbon with a pair of scissors, an act which prompts an unseen force to wreak havoc…
In a city plagued by human trafficking, an inhumanly strong woman named Lacey enters to foil a late-night abduction, devouring the attacker in a flood of screams and allowing the victim to flee. The tired and aging Detective Godfrey leaves the police station to continue his one-man investigation of a comfortably sinister character called Terrance, whom he suspects to be in charge of a trafficking operation. He takes up a surveillance post in an abandoned warehouse district, where a disheveled Lacey has also been waiting for the suspect to arrive.
Jadzia is the matriarch of a family of five children, four sons and a daughter. The household also includes eldest son Ziggy's Syrian-American wife Sofie, who works with Jadzia as a cleaner, and Ziggy and Sofie's baby. Jadzia is somewhat-happily married to Bolek, a baker whom she married after she got pregnant at 15, but she has also been having a long-term secret relationship with Roman.
Depressed and disappointed with his life after losing his job and his fiancée, Paul Berger attends a selection seminar for "Let's Get Pure", a secretive self-help program created by Ken Roberts. At the selection meeting, Paul takes an interest in fellow applicant Maggie Jameson. Paul is selected for the program's purification retreat.
Tricked into returning after being falsely told his high school buddy Mitchell died in a car accident, Patrick Hodges—a former high school quarterback-turned-Chicago businessman who is (unofficially) engaged to Ashley Sinclair, the daughter of a U.S. Senator considering running for president—is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown of Putnam over Thanksgiving weekend to help his old friends finish The Turkey Bowl, a legendary football game between his alma mater Putnam Badgers and the crosstown rival Noble Knights (who went on to win the state championship that year) that was suspended in the second half during a freak snowstorm 15 years…
The titular quartet are Yugoslavian-born Danilo Prozor, who arrived in America at the age of twelve and ever since has been trying to distinguish between the reality of his adopted homeland and the idealistic vision of it he brought with him; overweight, Jewish mama's boy David; Tom, the attractive WASP jock who has a way with the ladies; and free-spirited, self-assured Georgia, who fancies herself the reincarnation of Isadora Duncan, dreams of a successful career as a dancer, and is loved in turn by each of her three friends. The film is a series of vignettes whose primary focus is on Danilo: his conflicts with his father, his struggles…
In the last months of 1999 in Spokane, Washington, middle schooler Beverly Moody lives with her grandmother Gail, a USPS mail carrier. She has been raised by her, since the death of her teen parents who died in a car accident when she was two years old. Gail, upset by the death of her daughter Kim (Beverly's mom), avoids Beverly's constant questions about her, and fears that she could lose Beverly as she lost Kim.
