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Dark Comedy
In Pembrokeshire, a man working solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales hides from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. As his past actions catch up with him and his peace is shattered, he enlists the help of local ne’er-do-wells and oddballs (including a female Elvis impersonator, rampaging triplets and disgruntled sheep farmers) when local police officer Catrin grows increasingly suspicious.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, romantic comedy
Teddy (Johnathon Schaech) is a New York City con artist, womaniser, and exotic animal smuggler who travels to Australia after a deal goes awry, his latest shipment of rare tropical birds escapes, and must be replaced. While driving through an arid desert in the Northern Territory, he picks up a hitchhiker, Angie (Susie Porter), who seduces him and asks him to drive her to the beach, as she has never seen the ocean before. After a brief and sexually ravenous 'courtship', Angie proposes marriage after they reach the seaside and when Teddy pretends to accept, Angie knocks him unconscious.
Comedy
A Tribe Called Judah tells the story of a single mother, Jedidah Judah, who has five sons from five different fathers from five different tribes. The first two sons are responsible and try their best to work and support their mother. Meanwhile, the last three are less helpful: Pere is a chronic pickpocket, Shina is a hoodlum and tout in the community; and the last, Ejiro, is naughty and only cares about his girlfriend, Testimony.
Comedy, Crime Comedy, Heist
After leaving his lover Angel McGinnis behind in London, rich playboy Barney Lincoln breaks into a playing card manufacturer in Geneva to mark the cards, and then proceeds to break the bank at major European casinos. Barney meets up with Angel again in Monte Carlo, where he wins a great deal of money, but her suspicions after he left England caused her to consult her father, a Scotland Yard Inspector. He blackmails Barney into helping him catch a powerful drug smuggler named Harry Dominion, who owns a casino and also has a weakness for high stakes poker.
Comedy horror, Horror
In the clinic link episodes, Dr Tremayne, a psychiatrist in a modern mental asylum, reveals to colleague Dr. Nicholas that he has solved four special cases. Tremayne explains the case histories of patients Paul, Timothy, Brian, and Auriol, presenting each in turn to Nicholas: In "Mr Tiger", Paul is the sensitive and introverted young son of constantly bickering parents Sam and Fay Patterson.
Raunchy comedy, Science fiction
Aliens from Betelgeuse crash-land on Earth in their malfunctioning cargo ship. Their arrival draws the attention of four sexually frustrated humans in a nearby park: Oliver and Prudence (a mild-mannered professional and his highly-strung fiancée), Willy (a bumbling young shop assistant) and Cliff (a middle-aged man walking his dog). The quartet wander into the ship and encounter its all-female crew: engineer Partha, nurse Cosia and the captain, known as Skipper.
Comedy
Barry 'Bazza' McKenzie travels to England with his aunt Edna Everage to advance his cultural education. Bazza is a young Aussie fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas. He settles in Earls Court, where his old friend Curly has a flat.
Comedy, Drama, Satire
The plot concerns the coming of age and misadventures of three white youths from the small town of Holyoke, Iowa, who, having been seduced by the fast money and easy women of the gangsta rap lifestyle, yearn to be African American. The trio of would-be hoodlums ventures to Cabrini–Green housing project in Chicago, Illinois, where they come into conflict with actual criminals as well as the police. In a climactic finale, the irrepressible leader of the white hoodlums is beaten up and they return to Iowa and decide to stay there.
buddy film, Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama
There are three Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle child, is a timid dreamer.
Comedy, Comedy drama
A cocky American athlete named Lee Sheridan receives a scholarship to attend Cardinal College, University of Oxford in 1937. At first, Lee is reluctant to go to the college owing to his father, Dan's, limited income, but he finally does attend. Once in England, Lee brags about his athletic triumphs to Paul Beaumont, Wavertree, and Ramsey on the train to Oxford.
Comedy
Andy Kasper is a marketer who quits his job for something more fulfilling. He gets hired at LaHonda Research Institute, where Francis Benoit assigns him to design the PC99, a $99 PC. He moves into a run-down boarding house where he meets his neighbor Alisa, an artist.
Comedy, Drama
JC is a respected surf instructor, approaching his 30th birthday and living in an idyllic Cornish village with long-term girlfriend Chloe. He is focused on a dream of travelling the world surfing, with Chloe. His old friends from London visit late one night on an impromptu stag-weekend, including the 'kidnapped' groom-to-be Terry, who being more sensible and staid than the others is considered 'boring' and in need of livening up.
Biography, Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
In Wollaston, Massachusetts in 1913, teenage student Ruth Gordon Jones dreams of a theatrical career after becoming mesmerized by a performance of The Pink Lady at a Boston theater. She writes a fan letter to leading lady Hazel Dawn, who replies with encouragement for Ruth to pursue her dreams. Ruth schemes to withdraw from school and move to New York City.
Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Satire
Toby, a young homeless man, and paparazzo Les meet when Toby interrupts a crowd of paparazzi waiting to take pictures of pop diva K'harma Leeds (Allison Lohman). Toby volunteers to go get coffee for Les and two of his colleagues. On his way back with the coffee, Toby is stopped by K'harma's agent from inside the building and asked to see if the photographers are looking.
Comedy, Drama, independent film
The movie follows three recent college graduates in Chicago: Tim, Chris and Alex. Tim watches the screen of his laptop as he makes out with his girlfriend. Chris conducts relationships by cellphone.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Bonita Friml is a Las Vegas lounge singer whose husband Harold Benson is a cigar-smoking recreational gambler with a long winning streak. It seems that he cannot lose to one blackjack dealer in particular, a man named Willie Brodax. When the casino notices Willie's losing streak, they fire him, figuring that he must be jinxed.
Action, buddy film, buddy cop film, Comedy
Oshima attempts to sell a revolutionary turbo charger to an auto maker headed by Derek Jarryd. However, the deal is being brokered by two goons, Scully and Kosnic. When Oshima backs out at the last second, explaining he has hidden the turbo charger, he is tortured and hung upside down, where he has a fatal heart attack, dying before he can disclose the location of the turbo charger.
Comedy, spy film
In the 1960s, Alan Quimp is a schoolteacher of English grammar and married to the very demanding Daisy Quimp. In order to avoid the constant mockery in Daisy's family, Alan says that he is a secret CIA agent. Daisy tells everybody, the CIA acknowledges the lie, but due to a coincidence, Alan has just helped and hidden the professional Russian dancer Petrov who wanted to leave Russia.
Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, thriller film
Young and naive 19-year-old slacker, Adam (Jack O'Connell), lives with his mother Nicky (Kierston Wareing) in the home of her intimidating gangster boyfriend, Peter (Peter Mullan). After Adam wrecks Peter's luxury car, Peter demands Adam work to repay him. He sends Adam to drive for a criminal associate of his.
Comedy, Crime, thriller film
Car thief Dick Kanipsia gets out on parole from a penitentiary. He intends to go straight, but first he goes to see an old friend Harry Moss, only to see Harry shot. The dying Harry tells Dick to find Barry Fenaka, who supposedly knows where to find a stash of stolen cash that Harry has hidden.
Comedy
William Horatio Ambrose wants desperately to live up to the proud family naval tradition. Ambrose has a debilitating problem however: he suffers from violent seasickness. As a result, his contribution to the Second World War consists of testing cures for the malady.
buddy film, Comedy
Six months after Martin meets Ginnie's estranged father Frank Gallo for the first time, Frank shows up at Martin's door looking for Ginnie who hasn't returned his calls, texts, or emails in ten days. While Martin and Ginnie had broken up three months earlier, Martin, who hates his roommate and who still has feelings for Ginnie, agrees to help Frank look for her. After Martin and Ginnie broke up, Ginnie moved in with Gary and Roberta, so Frank and Martin first try looking for Ginnie there, but Ginnie has moved out due to Gary leering at her, and neither Robert nor Gary can find the paper they wrote her new address on.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
The film follows a day in the life of Detective Chief Inspector George Gideon of the Metropolitan Police. His day starts when he receives information that one of his officers has been taking bribes. Despite his hectic schedule, his wife reminds him his daughter has a violin recital that evening; she also tells him her aunt and uncle are coming for tea before the concert.
Comedy, Silly Movie
Pilots Philo Henderson and George Bunkle are about to land a plane, only for Philo to accidentally knock out his contact lenses, causing the plane to malfunction and crash into a Los Angeles skyscraper. The destruction is then revealed to be a simulator and the duo was taking an exam in pilot school, causing the two to be attrited for unsatisfactory performance. Unemployed and out of options, they enroll in Weidermeyer Academy, one of the top stewardess schools in the country.