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Comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy
A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson (Donald O'Connor), persuades her to let him tag along as her press attaché.
Comedy
At fictitious Chippenango State College, Bobby Fine (Ryan O'Neal) is a professor of English, who learns during a meeting with Chair Lincoln of the English Department (Fred Gwynne) that he is a candidate for tenure. During the meeting, Fine impresses Lincoln by responding in kind to an obscure line from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Another professor (David Rounds) is amazed, and Bobby explains that with his father in the dress business, he'd always liked the play.
Cartoon
One dark night, Bugs Bunny pokes up out of his rabbit hole, dressed in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and asks the audience, "Did you ever have the feeling you were being watched?" In fact, he is being watched by a mad scientist (a caricature of Peter Lorre) who is planning to catch a rabbit to provide dinner for his large, hairy, orange-red, sneaker-wearing monster (Gossamer). The mad scientist lures Bugs to his castle via a shapely robotic female rabbit, with a large wind-up key in the back, and accompanied by "Oh, You Beautiful Doll". Once Bugs gets to the castle and begins kissing the mechanical rabbit on the hand, the robot…
Comedy, Crime
Television mystery writer and director Elliott Nash is blackmailed by Dan Shelby over nude photographs of his wife Nell, taken when she was 18 years old. Elliott does not inform Nell, the star of a Broadway musical, but works feverishly to pay off the increasing demands. Finally, Elliott decides that murder is the only way out.
Action, Animation, Comedy, crossover fiction
Robin Hood, his companion Jerry, and the merry men attempt to ambush a tax money transport going through Sherwood Forest; the transport is a setup for a trap by the Sheriff of Nottingham, Prince John’s right-hand man who is accompanied by his henchcat Tom. However, thanks to Jerry’s warning, Robin has summoned his Merry Men to the scene, ambushing the ambushers and successfully seizing the gold transport. When John and the Sheriff discuss this latest fiasco, the Sheriff deduces that Robin uses Jerry to ferry information to and from a spy inside the castle, and tasks Tom to catch Jerry to flush out the traitor.
Comedy, Heist, Treasure hunt, Western
Sam Whiskey, an adventurer and rogue in the Old West, is seduced by Laura Breckenridge, a wealthy widow and daughter of a prominent Oklahoma political family, into promising to retrieve $250,000 in gold bars from a riverboat that recently sank in Colorado's Platte River. The gold had been stolen by Laura's late husband, Congressman Phillip Breckenridge, from the Denver Mint during an official visit and replaced with plated lead fakes. Once the mint receives its next inspection, due in one week, it will resume minting coins and discover the theft.
Comedy, Drama, Melodrama, romantic comedy
Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) is an expatriate American artist living in Paris among some of the noted artists and writers of the time, including Ernest Hemingway (Kevin J. O'Connor), Gertrude Stein (Elsa Raven), and Alice B. Toklas (Ali Giron).
Comedy horror, Horror, thriller film
An impatient uncle attempts to calm his rambunctious nephew by telling him three horror stories. The first story tells about a fisherman's son who is sold as a slave to two witches that are trying to resurrect their sister. The second story is about a teenage girl who picks up the medication for her grandmother, which is mixed up with medicine intended for a werewolf.
Comedy, musical film
The Stooges, employed as traveling salesmen, join the Woman Haters Club, dedicated to eschewing romantic entanglements with women. Their resolve is swiftly tested when Jim (Larry) succumbs to the charms of Mary and proposes marriage. His comrades, Tom (Moe) and Jack (Curly), talk him out of it, citing their oath to the club.
Comedy, Splatstick
The Stooges portray medical school graduates whose only credentials are that they had the highest temperatures in their class. They are hired as doctors at the Los Arms Hospital solely because they have been in their senior class for too many years. Despite their superintendent's acknowledgment of their limited intellect, they are tasked with upholding the principles of "duty and humanity".
Comedy
In the second Stooge adaptation of the 1913 play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, the Stooges find themselves entangled in a wager between two psychologists, Professors Quackenbush and Sedletz, who seek to transform the repairmen into gentlemen through environmental influence. Amidst the tumultuous training process, marked by comedic misadventures and the Stooges' amorous escapades with Professor Quackenbush's daughter Lulu, the stakes escalate toward a decisive test of their refined behavior at an upscale society gathering. However, the anticipated soirée descends into chaos as the Stooges' innate antics disrupt decorum with inadvertent…
Comedy, Melodrama, romantic comedy
Charming and attractive Alex, his sister Mélanie and her husband Marc operate a unique business for concerned third-party clients—breaking up relationships, but only those in which the woman is "unhappy without realising it", often at the request of a family member or close friend. The trio concoct elaborate, custom and sometimes expensive ruses to deceive the women. After each woman has fallen for his act, Alex tells her she has made him come alive again, but that it is too late for him.
Comedy, Crime, Dark Comedy
Colleen Gibson doesn't realize live-in boyfriend Dick Rasmusson, a third-rate private detective, has been cheating on her until phony psychic Madame Hugonaut inadvertently provides accurate details about his most recent indiscretion. When Colleen confronts him with what she believes is an empty gun, she shoots and kills Dick, who had loaded the firearm without her knowledge. Enter Daniel Gallagher, an Irish mobster whose desire to be a crooner was dampened by his ex-girlfriend Mary when she laughed at his singing.
Comedy
Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
In 1940, while on a vacation cruise, a drunken "Doc" Ryan falls overboard, and when Larry Wilson throws him a lifebuoy, the rope becomes tangled around his ankle, causing Larry to fall into the sea. As a group of sailors rescue the two men, Larry is accidentally hit on the head with an oar. He awakens in his cabin with Doc by his side and remembers that he is actually George Carey, a suave con man.
Comedy horror
A woman is chased by an attacker in a parking garage. She grabs her phone in attempt to end the attack by insisting that "it" wasn't part of the plan. The person on the other end puts her on hold.
buddy film, Comedy
Rubin Farr is an eccentric, unsociable young man who lives in a motel run by his mother and mourns his cat, which is being stored in a refrigerator until he can find a proper spot to bury it. Ed Tuttle is a divorced, middle-aged yuppie who works for real estate pyramid schemer Mr. Busta as a recruiter for his $3,000 "seminars".
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
A failed playwright, Henry Harrison, develops an odd mentor relationship with Louis Ives, a troubled, cross-dressing, aspiring writer to whom Henry sublets a room in his New York apartment. Henry teaches Louis the art of being an "extra man", accompanying and entertaining wealthy older women in their fanciful social lives. Along the way, Louis encounters an environmentally conscious co-worker, Mary Powell, and a jealous, eccentric neighbor, Gershon.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Family Comedy
Robert Axle, a New Orleans–based infomercial guru, loses it all when one of his inventions maims thousands of customers. After eight years in a maximum-security prison, Axle is ready to redeem his name and rebuild his billion-dollar empire. But first he must convince his estranged daughter to let him live with her and her quirky, over-protective roommates.
Tragicomedy
Alfred Byrne is a closeted homosexual bus conductor in 1963 Dublin. His sister tries to find him a suitable woman, but his real passion is putting on amateur theatre productions of Oscar Wilde plays, particularly Salome. The film deals with his struggle, temptation, and friendships, and how they are affected by his homosexuality.
Comedy
Comedy, Teen Comedy Film
Helen McNichol, a high school senior, decides to lose her virginity to Stanford Prescott, her jock boyfriend. However, she learns that her name is written in the high school football team's secret "Bang Book" and it is Stanford's job to deflower her. The tables are turned and the battle begins when she and her two best friends, Katelyn Chase and Trish Van Doren, form a pact to maintain their virginity, embarrass the team and foil the plot against them.
Comedy drama, Drama
Josie (Pat Shortt) is a good-natured man with learning difficulties who lives and works at a garage in a small rural Irish village. The owner, Mr. Gallagher is a former schoolmate who is not interested in the garage and is only waiting for the right offer from developers so he can sell.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Ed and Alice are in love, but not passionate, ripping-clothes-off in love. They do laundry on Saturday, and do small things that make each other happy. At their engagement party, Alice sees a friend hook up with a server and comes to the conclusion that she would like to try more sexual partners before she settles down for the rest of her life.