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Crime, Erotic Thriller, romance film, thriller film
Frank (Simm), a librarian in the United Kingdom, falls in love with a mysterious American dancer named Miranda (Ricci). Frank appears naive, but his character is as complex as Miranda's. Graphic scenes of sex and seduction illustrate Frank's fantasy and unrealistic love for Miranda.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy, Computeranimation, fantasy film
In the town of Greenpatch, a courageous young koala named Blinky Bill tells a story about his father, Mr. Bill while embarking on a journey across the wild, and dangerous Australian outback in the hope of finding him. Blinky's dad had created their home Greenpatch, where every animal could feel safe and live in peace.
Horror, rape and revenge film
Scrapbook begins with opening credits rolling while a kidnapped woman has a frantic discussion in the dark with an incoherent female voice. As the credits conclude, the door to the van opens and the woman discovers, to her horror, that the incoherent voice belonged to a disemboweled woman. A man reaches in and removes the disemboweled woman.
Comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy
'Pop' Wonder is the owner of the Wonder Circus, which arrives at a local town with its featured attraction, Jumbo the elephant. The circus is however in debt as he has gambled the earnings on craps games. His daughter, Kitty Wonder, is approached by three creditors who demand repayment.
Comedy
After decades of comedic escapades, the Stooges enter a phase of retirement, embarking on a global journey accompanied by their dog, Moose, and equipped with a motor home and motor boat, the latter transported by cargo plane between destinations. Their travels take them across the vast wilderness of the western United States, spanning regions of Wyoming and Idaho. Throughout their excursion, Larry repeatedly encounters disappointment in his attempts to catch fish and capture a photograph of a deer.
Comedy
Archie Channing (Gary Busey), the jaded billionaire CEO of a technology corporation, dies in a car accident. To atone for his sins, God has Archie return to Earth in the form of a white Pomeranian named Quigley.
Comedy, Gangster Film, Heist
Webster McGee is a divorced computer programmer who abruptly quits his job and adopts a life of crime as a burglar and jewel thief in Houston, Texas. Leaving behind chess pieces and notes containing chess moves as a calling card, he becomes dubbed by the media as "The Chess Burglar". For his first job, he robs rich businessman Henderling, stealing from him not only money but also files with information that could destroy Henderling's career.
romantic comedy
Joe Fitzpatrick, a sergeant in the Air Force marries a feisty nightclub showgirl named Maggie on a whim. The day after their marriage Joe is sent to a base in Spain. Later that day Maggie is surprised to find that a unique custom car was delivered to her (a shiny red 1955 Lincoln Futura Concept automobile with bucket seats and a clear bubble top); he won it in a raffle.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher
The film opens with a priest presiding over a funeral for Annabelle Fitzwilliam Carslow attended by four relatives in mourning. After the procession, her daughter-in-law Stephanie asks the priest if she can stay behind to say a few words to the deceased; she is dragged against her will into the casket upon announcing she hopes her mother-in-law will rot in hell. College students Vivia, Jennifer, and Phoebe decide to pledge a sorority at their university, Briggs College.
Crime, Drama, Horror, thriller film
A police detective named Felix Detweiler visits the palatial English estate of Mister Frost, whose first name is never given, to investigate a report of a dead body. Frost, with very little prompting, cheerfully admits that he has many bodies buried in his yard. Frost is arrested and ultimately placed in an asylum located in France.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Sunset Strip tells the story of a number of music industry artists, all in the span of 24 hours on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Michael secretly pines for Tammy. She is busy sleeping with the up-and-coming country rocker Glen Walker and the rock star Duncan.
Western
Gambler Jason Sweet wins a flock of sheep in a poker game and proceeds to take them by train into the middle of cattle country. Before long, the townsfolk take notice (and object), but Sweet is more than up to the challenge. The first thing he does is pick a fight with the roughest, toughest man around, "Jumbo" McCall, and beats him up.
Comedy, Crime Comedy, prison film
Three prisoners nearing the end of their jail sentences, "Dodger" Lane, "Jelly" Knight and "Lennie the Dip", are visited by a vicar seeking to find employment for them. He is actually conman "Soapy" Stevens, who proposes a big diamond robbery. They will also all have alibis, because they will break out of prison, commit the robbery and then break back in.
Comedy, musical film, war film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|Katharine Hepburn and Cheryl Walker in Stage Door Canteen The film, made in wartime, celebrates the work of the Stage Door Canteen, created in New York City as a recreational center for both American and Allied servicemen on leave to socialize with, be entertained or served by Broadway celebrities. The storyline follows several women who volunteer for the Canteen and must adhere to strict rules of conduct, the most important of which is that their job is to provide friendly companionship to and be dance partners for the (often nervous) men who are soon to be sent into combat. No romantic fraternization is allowed.
Erotic Film, Parody, Science fiction, Superhero
Patricia Porker is a shy New Jersey high school girl whose life is changed forever when she is bitten by a genetically-engineered spider and turns into a wall-climbing beauty with superhuman strength. Calling herself SpiderBabe, she uses her newfound powers to enter a wrestling contest and win enough money to move out of her Uncle Flem and Aunt Maybe's home and into her own apartment with best friend Lisa Knoxx. A robber murders Uncle Flem and inspires Patricia to use her newfound powers to battle crime in New York City, while she also tries to tell her best friend Mark Wetson that she wants to be his girlfriend and has copious amounts of…
Comedy
Eddie Garrett is a gambling addict working as a parking attendant outside Wrigley Field. One morning Eddie finds Michael, a local thug, sitting in his kitchen. Michael asks Eddie to store a mysterious duffel bag, without opening it or asking questions, while he is in prison for six months, promising to pay Eddie $10,000.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
After 10 years of marriage, the once-happy lovers Xavier Rousseau and Wendy separate. When she moves with their two children, Tom and Mia, to New York City, he also moves there to be near the children. While Wendy lives with her new boyfriend John, a wealthy American, in a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, Xavier initially stays with his lesbian Belgian friend Isabelle (who is pregnant thanks to a sperm donation from Xavier) and her Chinese-American girlfriend Ju in their Brooklyn loft.
Comedy horror, Horror, Science fiction
Set in a different northwestern city some years after the events of the first film, the film opens with a beautiful young woman, Delia, making out with a guy in a car on a cold, snowy night. After being interrupted by a passing-by officer, the two resume their activity only for tentacles to erupt from Delia's chest. In an Evolutionary Biology class held by Prof.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
Winter 1986, a small Canadian town called Hobart which is still suffering the effects of financial recession. Tim, a student with pretensions of sophistication, enters a student exchange program in hopes the French student will share his love of the cultured things in life. Something he feels is sorely lacking in his provincial classmates.
American football film, musical film, romantic comedy
The film is set in 1927 at fictional Tait College, where football is all the rage ("Tait Song"/"Good News"). Tait's football star Tommy Marlowe is a prime catch for the college girls. Tommy tells his friend and non-playing teammate Bobby Turner that the trick to attracting girls is to show no interest ("Be a Ladies' Man").
Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Air Force Capt. Richmond Talbot inadvertently volunteers to make the first crewed flight around the Moon. He is ordered to keep the upcoming flight a secret, even from his family on his upcoming leave.
trial film
In the eight years since the series ended, founding senior partner Leland McKenzie has retired and left Douglas Brackman Jr. as the senior managing partner. New employees to the firm are Brackman's over-achieving son, Jason, who's at odds with his father, and ambitious, conniving associate Chloe Carpenter, who is at odds with others.
Comedy, Science fiction
In the mid-1960s, Roy Fleming is fairground operator of a kiddie-spaceship ride in Sweetwater, Missouri. Despite being 35 years old, he still lives with his parents and suffers from extreme acrophobia (fear of heights). His father, Arbuckle "Buck" Fleming, a World War I veteran, wants better things for his son, so he sends an application to NASA.
Comedy, Drama
The aristocratic Hulot family gathers at the deathbed of their matron Adeline. Adeline's husband, the Baron Hector Hulot, has squandered their fortune on an extravagant string of mistresses and plunged them heavily into debt, a fact which stresses the entire family. Adeline's Cousin Bette, a poor and aging spinster, has spent her life supporting Adeline and her family with little return, and promises the dying Adeline that she will watch over the family, especially Adeline's young, unmarried daughter, Hortense.