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Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
The movie chronicles New Orleans through the eyes of Master P growing up in the notorious Calliope Projects. His brother Kevin Miller is played by Anthony Boswell. Master P wrote, directed, and acted in the film.
Comedy, Drama, Noir
After one book ending in the remainder bins, novelist Byron Tiller's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife. Desperate for any income, he meets Luther Fox, an Englishman who runs an exclusive escort service called Elysian Fields and is offered a job. Hiding his new employment from his wife, Byron finds that one of his clients, Andrea, is married to a much older, ill Pulitzer Prize-winning author whom Tiller dramatically admires.
Drama
In 1913, Amy Medford leaves her possessive, wealthy husband to begin a new life teaching speech to deaf students in the rural Appalachian Mountains at a school for blind and deaf children. Though encountering resistance from those who question whether it's even possible to teach speech to children with hearing impairments, Amy becomes close to the staff and children, building a new life for herself and gaining the personal strength she will need to stand up to the domineering husband who is not content to let her live her own life.
Adventure, Comedy, Crime Comedy
In a bombed-out post-war London neighbourhood, British boys' magazines with illustrated adventure stories are a guilty reading pleasure for members of a teen-age clique, the Blood and Thunder Boys. But their leader, Joe Kirby (Harry Fowler), discovers the plotlines of the popular publication are being copied by a crew of local thieves to plan and execute their jobs. Joe notifies C.I.D.
Comedy
Carnelle Scott enters the Miss Firecracker beauty pageant, which her hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi stages every Fourth of July, hoping to emulate her cousin Elain Rutledge's win years prior. Carnelle was taken in as an orphan by her genteel cousins after the death of her mother and grows up promiscuous, brash, unfeminine and lacking in grace. Carnelle's closest friends and relatives think she is heading for a big disappointment instead of a triumph at the pageant, but Carnelle is ever hopeful.
Tragicomedy
France de Meurs (Léa Seydoux) is the star reporter for a popular French TV news show. Thanks to her charm and hard-hitting reports from war zones, she plays the role of a hard hitting and honest reporter. However, when we see the other side of the shots on location, we realize that her concern is not only the strict journalistic truth, but also the staging of sequences that show her off to best advantage.
Comedy
Chuck (Tate Donovan), an uptight college student in Los Angeles, is hired by a successful businessman to deliver a Porsche to his daughter in Lake Tahoe, with the promise of a job if the delivery is successful. His fun-loving, girl-obsessed friend and roommate, Wally (Grant Heslov) convinces Chuck to drive him to San Diego first. The Porsche is stolen, and Chuck decides to try to get it back with Wally's help but without involving the police so that the businessman does not find out.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Set mostly in a small San Francisco apartment and almost in real-time, Vashti Blue is an out-of-work actress who returns to her home that she shares with her pets goldfish and an owl. On the answering machine, Vashti listens to her messages and hears her agent remind her of an audition, as well as a notification about her overdue telephone bill. She also hears a voice she believes is her former lover, Larry.
Christmas film, comedy television program, Family Comedy
Zeus, a Labrador Retriever and a former police dog, has lost his bark after his barking ended up blowing off a five-year investigation and his partner can't shoot straight again and ends up at the pound. He is adopted by George Bannister as both an early Christmas present and as a good guard dog for the house, but the mom is hesitant and didn't want a dog. The dog is left home alone on Christmas Eve when the family head off to visit Grandma's house.
Action Comedy
Jet fuel is stolen by weapons smugglers. The fuel is reacquired by the Hong Kong police but then once again stolen by a yakuza boss named Akatora who is trying to sell it with the help of Hong Kong thug Daniel. Three rebellious cops go undercover to find both the jet fuel and Akatora.
Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Josh and Cin meet at a party in Sydney three days before he is due to return to London. Originally planning just to spend the night, Josh decides to stay at her flat until he has to leave for the airport. The two gradually grow closer, feeling a strong connection.
Comedy drama
Set in Cleveland in the early 1970s, the film follows William Messerman, a teenager who struggles to define his own identity while living in the shadow of his older brother Clive, a socially withdrawn mathematical prodigy. Their parents, particularly their father Simon, place great expectations on Clive, which creates tension within the family. William becomes involved with Sandra, a troubled teenage girl who is secretly living in the family’s basement and is romantically involved with Clive.
Comedy
An ancient but still fleshy Chinese corpse is on auction in England. A young businessman (Sam Christopher Chan) purchases the corpse. The corpse is revealed to be the body of his third great-grandfather and he intends to give it a proper burial in Hong Kong.
Family Comedy, Family Drama, teen film
After inheriting a family resort in Hawaii from Jeffrey's late aunt, Jeffrey and Susan decide to head for Hawaii with his identical triplet teenage daughters, Lisa, Jessie and Megan, before spending their 2-week honeymoon in Australia, with Susan's twin sister Sharon Grand taking care of the girls. They find the resort in a run-down condition, and they decide to repair it and sell it. The triplets spend most of their time at the beach having fun and meeting boys.
Comedy, Tragicomedy
Lewis Riley, lacking direction, has difficulty holding down a job. He applies for a job as a director/drama teacher at a mental hospital, where he is expected to produce a variety show aimed at the inmates' abilities. During auditions, manic-depressive Roy overwhelms the pushover Lewis, with Roy selecting the six cast members: Ruth, a suicidal woman whose rendition of “I’m So Excited” is dejected; Cherry, a woman prone to false claims of sexual harassment who lusts after Lewis; Julie, a recovering drug addict, the only one who can actually sing; Doug, a cat-burning pyromaniac; Henry, who is completely submissive to Roy; and Zac, an…
romantic comedy
Peaches (Mo'Nique), a hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister, Angela (Kellita Smith), the owner of an upscale salon in Beverly Hills, get reacquainted when Peaches decides to attend a celebration for Angela in Los Angeles. The reunion is bittersweet and worsens when Angela finds out that Peaches is on the run from the IRS and only has 60 days to pay $50,000 in back taxes. After some hilarious moments and passionate exchanges, the two sisters join forces to fight off a pesky rival salon owner Marcella (Gina Torres) and save Peaches from her troubles by competing for a lucrative cash prize and bragging rights at the city's…
musical film, musical comedy
A New York City poet named Archy (Eddie Bracken) attempts suicide, only to come back as a cockroach. As he learns how to write poetry by hopping on typewriter keys, he grows used to his new life and becomes infatuated with Mehitabel (Carol Channing), a singing alley cat who goes out with tomcat Big Bill (Alan Reed). When Big Bill dumps Mehitabel, Archy confronts her about her wild ways in general and her affinity for bad-boy tomcats in particular.
independent film, Tragicomedy
Comedy, Comedy drama
Based on the play by Ivan Menchell, this comedy-drama concerns three friends, Doris, Lucille, and Esther. All three live in the same Jewish community in Pittsburgh, are in their mid-to-late 50s, and have become widows within the past few years. Once a week, they gather to visit their husbands' graves and meet at a deli afterward to talk about their lives.
Adventure, Comedy
King Rudolf IV of Ruritania dies in a balloon accident upon the celebration of his eightieth birthday. In order to secure the throne, General Sapt and his nephew Fritz travel to London, where the King's son, Rudolf V, lives through the day in London's pleasure establishments; but the King's demented half-brother Michael, thinking that he is the better claimant, sends an assassin after them. Hansom cab driver Sydney (or Sidney) Frewin, the new King's half-brother from an affair with a British actress, rescues Rudolf from an assassination attempt.
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman, Ellie, who is looking for a ride from the city into the Mojave Desert, where her mother Julie lives. Al discovers romance with the free-spirited Julie despite the nearby presence of her boyfriend Boyd, who seems likely to go berserk at any moment. Strange events follow and it's up to Al to find an explanation.
Action, Comedy, Crime Comedy, Heist
Four groomsmen are preparing for a wedding, donning tuxedos. Buzz, a former soldier, has a few handguns in his tuxedo, Teddy, a browbeaten house husband, is meticulously getting ready, Sol, a former criminal lawyer now specializing in divorce, dresses neatly while Billy, a failing actor, is shown watching a newscast. The reporter describes a recent bank robbery where the robber recited works by William Shakespeare before escaping.
Drama, romantic comedy
Hugo Dugay runs a small company, Hugo Pool, that cleans swimming pools in Los Angeles. The film covers one day in her life, during which she must clean many pools in the midst of a drought that interferes with her usual water supply. In addition to dealing with several eccentric customers, including mobster Chick Chicalini and filmmaker Franz Mazur, Hugo must care for her needy parents Minerva and Henry.