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Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime
Chicago cop Tony Church and his team are completing a drug bust. Just as the cops make the arrest a masked thief called Adam "Dancer" Booth intervenes and executes all of the officers. Church attempts to apprehend Dancer but Dancer outwits him and takes a hostage Della Roberts.
Comedy
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith is a small town boy whose father, "Hinky Dinky" Truesmith, was a Marine who died a hero in World War I. Woodrow has been discharged from the Marine Corps after only a month owing to his chronic hay fever. Rather than disappoint his mother, he pretends to be fighting overseas in World War II while secretly working in a San Diego shipyard.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Francis and Marie, two best friends in their 20s living in Montreal, first meet Nicolas at a dinner party. After meeting up with Nicolas at a coffee shop, Francis and Marie both feign lack of interest in him. Over the next couple of weeks, the three form a close friendship, meeting up regularly and even sleeping together in the same bed.
Comedy, Drama
In Helsinki, Waldemar, a traveling shirt salesman, quarrels with his wife and leaves her. He decides to leave his business and sells his remaining shirts. He gambles his earnings at a poker game and wins a lot of money.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, romantic comedy
Beatrice (Sarah Polley) is a young woman working in a television network under a woman known only as The Boss (Helen Mirren). She receives a recording from her fiancé Jim, who has been sent as part of a small production crew to Iceland to investigate a Monster that lives there. Determined to find her fiancé, Beatrice convinces her boss to send her to Iceland, but her plane crashes.
Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
A small spaceship docks at a refuelling station, carrying four aliens: Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period at the station, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian begin playing with the ship's controls, while Bernard goes outside to play a game of spaceball. Their recklessness causes a malfunction that disconnects Bernard's part of the ship, leaving him stranded, while the other three crash-land on a nearby blue planet — Earth.
Comedy horror
"Emergency" At night, Jay and Dennis travel along a dark highway, accidentally running over a pregnant woman crossing the street. They immediately rush her to the hospital. Other people in the ER were: a gay man named Julius who thinks he has a fever, an English-speaker named Ehrick who keeps complaining about the hospital's defective apparatus and a badly injured man who immediately recognizes the woman.
romantic comedy
Quinn (Simon Helberg) and Devon (Melanie Lynskey) have been a couple since high school. Quinn works at a flower shop, and Devon teaches at the local university. Kelsey (Maggie Grace), Quinn's coworker, tells Quinn she's in love with him.
Comedy drama, Drama
A young girl named "Marky" is given by her father to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When he loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with her on their hands. They decide to keep her temporarily and use her to help pull off one of their fixed races, naming her as the owner of the horse to be used in the race.
animated film, Comedy
After Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm get married and move to Hollyrock in I Yabba-Dabba Do!, Fred and Barney are both working overtime for Mr. Slate, and Wilma and Betty now own a food delivery service called "Bone Appetite", but much to Fred's disgust. Wilma is not there to cook for him, so he cooks his TV dinners and Barney's.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
On the eve of his high school graduation, Caleb Kahn, a South Florida boy realizes he has been exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for the definitive tests on his status, he finds love in the most unlikely of places, and gets help from many new friends.
Comedy
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
thumb|thumbtime=20|Juno and the Paycock (1930)|left In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, Captain Boyle lives in a two-room tenement flat with his wife Juno and their two adult children Mary and Johnny. Juno has dubbed her husband "the Paycock" because she thinks him as useless and vain as a peacock. Juno works while the Captain loafs around the flat when not drinking up the family's meagre finances at the neighbourhood pub.
Comedy
Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown are sidewalk peddlers who hawk neckties out of a suitcase. Chased by a cop, they duck into a movie theater, not realizing that it is now being used as an Army enlistment center. Believing that they are signing up for theater prizes, they accidentally enlist.
Comedy, Dark Comedy
Ward's wife Stacy is very domineering towards him, much to the chagrin of his friends David and his ex-wife Amanda, Tom and his wife Gina, and their single friend Ronnie. One day at a birthday party, Stacy suggests that she and Tom have an affair with one another. Tom gets irritated and shoves Stacy's face into the cake and as she protests she slips on icing and falls, knocking herself out.
Christmas film, Comedy, romantic comedy
Sidney Milburn, known as the "Lemon Drop Kid," is a New York City swindler. He illegally touts horses at a Florida racetrack by recommending each horse in a race to different people, claiming a percentage of their winnings each time. The Kid encounters a beautiful woman intending to bet $2,000 on a horse.
Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Natives on a jungle island find two long-haired, bearded men dressed in frayed tuxedos asleep in the jungle and carry them to their chief and his daughter, who insists on protecting them. She mimes instructions that the men are to be dressed, shaven and given haircuts, all while they are still asleep. Upon waking, the men introduce themselves to the chief's daughter Nona and explain that they had fallen from a plane en route to Guam, deployed their parachutes and have been living on wild berries and raw fish.
romantic comedy
Irritated neighbor Wendell Burnshaw brings the Larkin family to the attention of the Internal Revenue Service. Lorenzo Charlton is assigned to the case by his boss, Oliver Kelsey. Ma and Pop Larkin warmly welcome him to their family farm in Maryland, at first unaware of why he is there.
Comedy
Corporate executive Donald Beeman, fed up with the rat race, impulsively quits his job and takes to the road as a traveling tap dancing magician under the tutelage of Mr. Delasandro. His former boss Paul Turnbull, determined to convince him to return to his nine-to-five existence, chases after him as he performs his routine in seedy nightclubs and honky tonks, but instead the two create Tap Dancing Magicians, a course for pressured businessmen.
romantic comedy
Upset with his current living arrangements, Sam rotates occupancy of a flat with slob Brian and painter Ellen. Each of them gets the apartment to themselves two days each week. Sam and Ellen never see each other, they just leave notes.
Action, Comedy, Crime, slapstick
While filming on location at a race track, womanizing bit actor Spencer Holden, who lives life on one scam after another, overhears a couple of inept thugs named Maurice "Binky" Drundza and Wayne "Turnip" Parragella while they dope a race horse Sorry Sue with a supposed undetectable super stimulant. The thugs find out that Spence overheard them and will do anything to catch him to prevent him from going to the authorities with the information. Spence, however, enlists the help of his best friend, drive-in carhop and aspiring restaurateur Dennis Powell, to bet on the race with that horse so that they can make some guaranteed money.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and affecting a superior attitude toward the smug bourgeois types he exploits. Although a talented poet, he is a chronic drunk, indifferent to the wounds he can casually inflict with his wit.
monster film, science fiction comedy
After Baron Henry von Frankenstein creates a Bride for his Monster, he decides to make arrangements for a lavish wedding at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel. Henry's assistant Igor is jealous of the Monster and wants the Bride for his own, much to the annoyance of Henry. Arriving at the hotel, Henry gets the wedding booked on Friday the 13th while having the hotel manager Harold write down the required foods.
Comedy drama, Drama
Leo Pickett and Will Haney, railroad workers in Clifford, a fictional town in Arkansas, find out the parent company of the Southland railroad is about to close their yard and lay off the employees, switching all future shipments to the air freight business. In a last-ditch effort to save their jobs, the two men "borrow" a locomotive and drive it to Chicago to make their case to Thomas G. Clinton, the railroad's chairman of the board.