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Comedy, Coming-of-age, teen film
Harold Clemens is a 16-year-old boy with early male pattern baldness. He copes all right in his hometown of Douglas, until his mom, Maureen, announces that the family is moving to a new house in Fredericksburg due to a promotion at her job. When he arrives in his new house, Harold is met by an elderly neighbor, Maude, who assumes Harold is older because of his baldness and flirts with him.
Comedy drama, Crime, Dark Comedy
J, a former hair dresser, has broken up with his wife and become an aimless drug addict frequenting Times Square. He lives his new life by dealing drugs from time to time for Vivian, a successful and intimidating drug dealer. J thinks that his life is about love and peace, yet he and his fellow friend and junkie Billy Dynamite try to steal a safe behind the back of a cashier.
romantic comedy
Mike Christian falls in love with a Jewish girl, Dylan Lipnick. Her grandparents initially disapprove, but finally agree to their marriage after Mike converts to Judaism. Dylan's parents' divorce badly affected her and she draws up with a long prenup that Mike signs without reading.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Childhood friends Olly Pickering and Murray go their separate ways when Olly goes to university. While there, Olly meets James. Murray vomits all over James, creating instant enmity between them.
Comedy, historical film, Parody
The film opens with a passage, which states: This film is based on a recently discovered manuscript by one William Cobbler, which reveals that Henry VIII did in fact have two more wives. Although it was first thought that Cromwell originated the story, it is now known to be definitely all Cobbler's... from beginning to end.
Crime Comedy, prison film
James 'Jimmy' Hands and Rudy 'Rud' Guscott are two friends who used to play "Cops & Robbers" when they were young. Now adults, they plan to actually rob a bank, but the robbery goes wrong and Hands flees the bank leaving Guscott trapped behind the security shutters. Hands is caught and arrested not long later.
Comedy drama, Drama
Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South Los Angeles who, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock, and ride skateboards. Avoiding the violence of their dangerous home turf is an everyday challenge. The climax of the film occurs out on a skate-ride around Beverly Hills, California.
American football film, Comedy, sport film
George Plimpton, a writer for Sports Illustrated, has been indulging in a variety of Walter Mitty-like whims and stunts, trying his hand at being a professional athlete (such as briefly pitching in an exhibition game against All-Star baseball players or boxing a round with Sugar Ray Robinson), then writing about the experience. During a game of touch football, his editor gets an idea that Plimpton should try going to a professional football team's training camp as a player. The Detroit Lions agree.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama
Michael Makeshift is a lonely, sad man who can't get over the fact his fiancée dumped him. He regularly attends various support groups to meet people. To make matters worse, his landlord is beginning to bug him for long-overdue rent.
Comedy
Thirteen years later, a widowed Mrs. Garrett is heading back to America on a cruise ship, ready for a whole new life and also looking forward to seeing "her girls" again, all of whom have grown into successful, independent women: Blair Warner is a lawyer and also owns a hotel empire (Warner Enterprises) with her husband Tad Warner, managed by Mrs. Garrett's son Raymond; Blair and Tad have no children.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, independent film
Spider is a young man who makes a meager living repairing CB radios and spends his spare time volunteering with REACT International. He lives with his father, an irascible retired truck driver whose CB handle is Papa Thermodyne. Chrome Angel is a truck driver named Harold who is injured in an accident and then issues an emergency call over CB radio.
Christmas film, Comedy
When Santa Claus leaves an elf behind on Christmas Eve, the Harper kids help him realize that he's the super-hero Elf-Man. Together they must save their Dad's new invention from a bumbling gang of thieves, and enjoy the best Christmas ever.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Private detective Jake Masters is with his girlfriend Renee when he gets a call about a new case. The New York City Police Department is hunting for an eccentric millionaire, Jason Dominic, in connection with the murder of a cocktail waitress named Lucille Reynolds. Jason wants Jake to find the real killer.
Family Drama, Tragicomedy
Samuel (Omar Sy), runner, party-goer and womanizer, lives by the sea in the south of France. Unattached, his life changes the day when Kristin (Clémence Poésy), a former fling, places his three-month-old daughter Gloria in his arms. Unable to take care of her, he embarks on a trip to London, in order to return Gloria to her mother.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, teen film
Greg is nearing the end of his high school days as graduation slowly approaches. He is also anxiously awaiting prom and has the hopes of going with Cinny, the school's local beauty. As he tries to ask his parents for help paying for prom, they begin nagging him after finding out he hasn’t filled out one college application, telling him they won’t give a dime until he fills one out.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
While navigating their identity around friends and family, Layla, a non-binary British-Palestinian drag queen living in London, falls in love with Max, an advertising executive.
Comedy, Drama, fantasy film
An undercover ex-cop named Francine Driver (Carla Gugino), who poses as a hitman, meets a dentist – Nick (Zachary Quinto) – in a Los Angeles bar. Nick wants his wife Karen (Lauren Lee Smith) dead. He does not have the upfront payment of $20,000, but he promises he can get it for her before the night is over.
Comedy
Rupert Rigsby, the middle-aged landlord of a decrepit townhouse, takes in a new tenant, art student John Harris. John is allocated the same room as medical student Philip Smith, who claims to be the son of an African chief. Rigsby has fallen for his only female tenant, Ruth Jones.
romantic comedy
Laida Magtalas is a modern-day Belle. "Miggy" is the youngest member of the Montenegro clan – a well-established family in the business. She applies as an Editorial Assistant at Miggy's newly launched men’s magazine, "Bachelor".
Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
A yuppie husband and wife, Alan and Juliette, watch a fifties sci-fi tape, Remote Control. The film also starts with a couple, Milo and Eva, watching a tape called Remote Control on a futuristic viewing screen. The tape hypnotizes Eva into killing Milo with her futuristic sewing device.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
A married couple (Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally), who fight non-stop, attempt to save their marriage by turning their arguments into songs.
Christmas film, Comedy, Drama, family film, romance film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
After helping a boy take his little sister to see Santa, 13-year-old Holly Grant tells a shopping mall Santa Claus that she would like to have a boyfriend for Christmas. Twenty years later, Holly is a romantic skeptic and is more focused on her career as a social worker. At the time, she is in court helping a mother get her children back from foster care.
romantic comedy
Jennifer "Jenny" Morgan (Heidi Noelle Lenhart) is a young and intelligent working-class woman who just graduated from UCLA with an MBA. She is engaged to Charlie, a feckless man who intends to spend his summer traveling around Europe. After a job offer falls through, she finds herself searching and responds to a promising job ad for Oliver Caldwell's (Gregory Harrison) company, Caldwell Corporation International (CCI).
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
Russell is 16 years-old and is going on dates with girls. But he's recently started falling for football quarterback Kevin. When Min stumbles across Russell and Kevin kissing for the first time during a school trip, she decides to invite Russell to an LGBT support group in the school.