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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 331.

Boy's Night Out (1962)

Comedy

Three married men, George, Doug, and Howie, and divorcé Fred are friends who commute to work from Greenwich, Connecticut, to New York City on the same train. Seeing Fred's philandering boss, Mr. Bingham, with his mistress sets the men to fantasizing about sharing the expense of an apartment in the city as a love nest.

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Blondie (1938)

Comedy, Drama

Dagwood Bumstead is a good-natured but scatterbrained young salesman at the Dithers Construction company office, with a wife, young son, and dog. He often arrives at work barely on time, after clumsily colliding on foot with the mail carrier. In this pilot episode, Blondie secretly orders new furniture on credit for their anniversary, not realizing Dagwood is broke because he had helped out a needy friend.

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Hating Alison Ashley (2005)

Comedy

At school, Erica is not very popular. She is an arrogant girl who believes herself superior to everyone in Barringa East, a council town that is dilapidated and mostly vandalised. Sitting alone in class, she is distant towards other students as she feels her intellect is far higher to theirs.

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Carry on Cowboy (1966)

Comedy, Parody, Western

Outlaw Johnny Finger, better known as The Rumpo Kid (Sid James), rides into the frontier town of Stodge City, and immediately guns down three complete strangers, orders alcohol at the saloon—horrifying Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams), the teetotal Mayor of Stodge City—and kills the town's sheriff, Albert Earp (Jon Pertwee). Rumpo then takes over the saloon, courting its former owner, the sharp-shooting Belle (Joan Sims), and turns the town into a base for thieves and cattle-rustlers. In Washington DC, English "sanitation engineer first class" Marshal P.

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Momo (1986)

Comedy, Fairy tale, Science fiction

In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed Italian city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen—really listen. By simply being with people and listening to them, she can help them find answers to their problems, make up with each other, and think of fun games.

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The New Age (1994)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama

Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups.

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Inserts (1974)

Comedy, Drama

Before the opening titles, in the present day, an audience of men and women are watching a 1930s black-and-white stag film. After it ends, a man complains that there was no "cum shot". In Hollywood in the early 1930s, shortly after the start of the talkie period, a young Hollywood director known as Boy Wonder has fallen out of favour with the studios, ostensibly due to his reluctance to lower his standards or abandon his experimental style, such as using a hand-held camera.

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Finding Mr. Right (2013)

romantic comedy

Wen Jiajia is pregnant with the child of her boyfriend, a corrupt businessman in Beijing who is already married. She flies to Seattle so she can have her child in an illegal maternity center because of legal issues with giving birth to the baby in China. At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport she is picked up by Frank, a taxi driver who was a doctor in China, but came to Seattle in order to take care of his daughter, while his ex-wife, who works as a manager for a pharmaceutical company, has plans to immigrate to the United States.

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The Convincer (2011)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

Wisconsin insurance salesman Mickey Prohaska is in desperate financial straits. His wife JoAnn has thrown him out of the house, and he is willing to do or say practically anything to sell anybody a policy. Mickey accompanies another insurance agent he has just met, Bob Egan, to the farm of an elderly man named Gorvy Hauer.

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Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

High roller rancher Chuck Rodwell arrives at the Sands Hotel for his annual visit to the gambling tables. He is greeted warmly by the staff, who all like him and want him to avoid losing everything, as he has done on his prior trips. He has a superstition: he thinks holding hands with any unsuspecting woman walking by brings him luck.

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My Dream Is Yours (1949)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

The film opens in Los Angeles, where Doug Blake is dumped as a manager by Gary Mitchell. He goes to New York City to find a new singer to replace Gary on the Hour of Enchantment radio show. While in New York, he discovers Martha Gibson turning records in a jukebox factory.

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The Ladies Man (1961)

Comedy

Shortly after graduating from Milltown Junior College in New Jersey, young Herbert H. Heebert plans to propose to his sweetheart Faith, only to find her in the arms of another man. Heartbroken, he announces to his grieving parents that he has decided to swear off women and remain a bachelor.

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Mostly Ghostly (2008)

children's film, Comedy horror, fantasy film

Max Doyle (Sterling Beaumon) is an 11-year-old whose love of performing magic disappoints his father (David DeLuise) and draws ridicule from his 15-year-old older brother, Colin (Adam Hicks). While doing laundry in the basement, Max hears voices. While investigating the source of the sound, he sees a hand come out of the wall.

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The Moguls (2005)

Comedy

Six friends come together to try to gain fame by making the world's most "innocent" adult movie ever made. After the clueless crew finally completes the film, they screen it for the first time at the local bar. The brother of a girl whose scene ultimately was not used (besides some brief shots of her face) barges in, takes the reel off the projector, covers it in whiskey and sets it aflame.

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Hotel for the Holidays (2022)

romantic comedy

The film revolves around the staff and guests at New York City's Hotel Fontaine during the christmas season. The personal and work life of the hotel's manager, Georgia, become entangled when she is torn between Luke, the hotel's resident chef, and Raymond, a former prince staying at the hotel over the holidays.

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Perri (1957)

Adventure, Comedy, documentary film, fantasy film

Fishtales (2007)

children's film, fantasy film

Widowed Classics Professor Thomas Bradley (Billy Zane) is about to lose his research grant studying ancient love spells at Oxford University. He knows he is close to a major academic breakthrough and desperately needs more time to complete his research. Thomas is given one last chance to finish his work, and goes to the Greek island of Spetses, where he has been invited to stay at the home of a supportive Oxford don Professor Coulter.

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Roxie Hart (1942)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

thumb|left|upright|Ginger Rogers as Roxie Hart Stuart Chapman starts a new job as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, where he is pulled into a murder investigation together with his new colleague, veteran reporter Homer Howard. As they sit in a bar having a drink after a long day, Homer starts telling about a case he reported on in 1927: a murder case involving the young dancer Roxie Hart. Back in 1927, a theatre booking agent, Fred Casely, has been murdered, and his body is found in Roxie Hart's apartment.

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A Christmas Melody (2015)

Christmas film, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Widowed mother Kristin has recently moved back to her home town of Silver Falls, Ohio with her daughter Emily after her fashion business in Los Angeles folded. The process has been difficult for both of them, especially as the move brings Kristin face to face with Melissa, her former rival from high school and the current president of the local Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). However, things change when Emily finds a mentor in her music teacher Danny, Kristin's former classmate who was secretly attracted to her.

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