Rentadick (1972)
Comedy
Comedy movies
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The Facts of Life (1960)
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
As the yearly vacation of six neighbors, the Gilberts, Masons and Weavers, approaches, Kitty Weaver and Larry Gilbert find themselves frustrated with the predictable routine of their lives. When their spouses are kept away from the vacation and the Masons are bedridden with illness, Kitty and Larry find themselves alone in Acapulco. Spending time together, Kitty and Larry fall in love.
Let's Make It Legal (1951)
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Miriam and Hugh Halsworth are in the final stages of their divorce, which she initiated because he is an inveterate gambler. Their adult daughter Barbara is living in the family home with Miriam, along with Barbara's husband, Jerry Denham, and Barbara and Jerry's baby daughter Annabelle, while Hugh is living at the Hotel Miramar in Santa Monica, where he works as head of publicity. Jerry, who works for Hugh, would like to leave the house so that Barbara will stop relying on her mother so much, but Barbara does not want to leave Miriam alone.
Rocket to the Moon (1967)
Comedy, Science fiction
In Victorian England, everyone is trying to make new scientific discoveries, including such failures as the Duke of Barset's attempt to create the first house in England illuminated by electricity (leading to its going up in flames), Sir Charles Dillworthy's suspension bridge (which falls apart directly as Queen Victoria cuts its inaugural ribbon) and, in Germany, the disastrous recoil of Siegfried von Bulow's powerful new explosive (which is intended to require only a minute quantity). In the US, meanwhile, when Phineas T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth" burns to the ground, he heads to England with his star, General Tom Thumb.
Phffft (1954)
romantic comedy
Nina and Robert Tracey (Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon), married for eight years, suffer marital problems and divorce. Robert shares the home of his womanizing Navy buddy Charlie Nelson (Jack Carson) while Nina looks to her interfering mother for guidance. Robert spends an evening with Janis (Kim Novak), who finds the dashing Robert "real cute", but he feels uncomfortable with Janis and other girls he dates.
George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing (2005)
Comedy
Odd Squad: The Movie (2016)
Adventure, Comedy
Olympia and Otis are partners at Odd Squad, an organization run by kids that uses math and gadgets to correct peculiar problems. After stopping a giant mouse from ruining the mayor's cheese festival, they visit Delivery Debbie to fix her feet, which have turned into snails. While they are working on a solution, they are interrupted by a new rival, Weird Tom, who boasts that he is a doer instead of a thinker and "fixes" Debbie's feet using a hologram gadget.
Rhinoceros (1974)
Comedy, Drama, fantasy film
In a large town, residents are inexplicably transforming into rhinoceroses. Stanley (Gene Wilder), a mild-mannered office clerk, observes these bizarre transformations from a distance. However, the strange occurrences soon affect him personally, as his neighbor and best friend John (Zero Mostel) and his girlfriend Daisy (Karen Black) undergo the metamorphosis.
S*P*Y*S (1974)
Comedy, spy film
Following an accident where two KGB agents are mistakenly killed during a failed attempt to help a Russian athlete's defection to the West, the head of the CIA in Paris stipulates an agreement with his Russian counterpart to have two American agents killed in order to avoid retaliation. The choice falls on Bruland, an uptight agent passionate about his job and on the promotion ladder, and Griff, a somehow cynical and disillusioned courier. When the two men discover the plot, they form an uneasy alliance to try to escape, eventually getting involved with a French anarchist group and an independent French agent.
Christmas in July (1940)
Christmas film, romantic comedy
Maxford House Coffee company owner Dr. Maxford is thoroughly exasperated; he is supposed to announce on national radio the winners of a $25,000 slogan contest for his flagship brew, but stubborn Mr. Bildocker has the jury deadlocked.
Rich and Strange (1931)
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy, thriller film
A London couple, Fred and Emily ("Em") Hill, live a mundane middle-class existence, but Fred is dissatisfied. They have a black cat. They receive a letter informing them a wealthy uncle will advance them as much money as they need to travel the world now rather than after his death.
Beware! Children at Play (1989)
Horror
A young boy plays with his father in the woods when his father is caught in a bear trap; he tells his son that eventually people will come and free him. After several days, he dies of the injury and orders the son to cannibalize his corpse after death, which the little boy proceeds to do. Ten years later, parents John and Julia DeWolfe drive with their daughter Kara to visit their friends, the Carr family (Sheriff Ross, Cleo, and their daughter Mary-Rose) in New Jersey.
Freaky Deaky (2012)
Crime, Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, thriller film
Chris Mankowski worked in the bomb squad, but when he transferred out, he got caught up in an elaborate plot by former hippies, who have turned bomb making into a business.
We Not Naughty (2012)
Chen Weijie (Shawn Lee) and Damien Liu Jianren (Joshua Ang) are two ITP (Abbreviation for International Technological Polytechnic) students who are constantly put down for being "dumb" despite the fact that they display a talent for designing and creating gadgets, which placed the both of them in the Design and Technology, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics and Electrical and Electronics Engineering course. Damien comes from a wealthy single-parent home and is estranged from his mother Cynthia Phua (Dawn Gan) and younger brother Amos Liu (Amos Yee), a fluent English speaker. He joins the local street gang of loan sharks and…
Too Much Sun (1990)
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
A multimillionaire, O.M. Rivers, has two grown children, Sonny who is gay, and Bitsy who is a lesbian. The father knows that Bitsy is a lesbian, but is unaware that Sonny is gay, until he catches him with his lover.
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Comedy, Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy
In the days leading up to World War II, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an American burlesque performer masquerading as American socialite "Katherine Butt-Smith", pronounced byüt-smith, is about to marry Austrian Baron Von Luber (Walter Slezak). Foreign correspondent Pat O'Toole (Cary Grant) suspects Von Luber of being a Nazi sympathizer and tries unsuccessfully to get information from Katie by deceit, but is warned off by Von Luber. Undaunted, O'Toole follows the couple to Prague, where O'Hara and Von Luber marry.
Phat Beach (1996)
Comedy
Benny King, an overweight, self-conscious teen in Bakersfield, California, faces the prospect of a dismal summer when his father Carl pushes him to get a job at a hamburger joint. Carl wants Benny to develop a work ethic instead of sitting around the house all summer, writing and dreaming. Benny begrudgingly takes on the job, but continues to daydream about Candace, the girl of his dreams, and gets sidetracked by his hormonal friend Durrel Jackson.
The Stolen Princess: Ruslan and Ludmila (2018)
Adventure, Comedy, Fairy tale, fantasy film
Two sorcerers, Finn and Chornomor, have an intense magical duel in favor of saving Finn's beloved wife, Princess Nina. Finn gains the upper hand at first but is defeated by Chornomor, who deceives him by stepping on a "force field", and loses all of his magic powers and youth, which then transfers to Chornomor. Nina is transformed into a stone statue in exchange for her power of love as a source of his magic.
Never a Dull Moment (1968)
Comedy, Heist, mystery film, neo-noir
Second-rate actor Jack Albany finds himself mistaken for fiendish killer Ace Williams and whisked off to master gangster Leo Smooth's fortified mansion. He is forced to continue with the charade, even when he finds he is to play a deadly role in the theft of the painting Field of Sunflowers, a 40 foot long masterpiece. Sally, an art teacher, is a potential ally for Jack.
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975)
Comedy
Sweeney is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty. One of his few highlights is weekly sex with his ex-wife Georgina.
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
In Vienna, Lieutenant Nikolaus "Niki" von Preyn meets Franzi, the leader of an all-female-orchestra. They soon fall in love. While standing in formation at a parade honouring the visiting royal family of Flausenthurm, Niki winks at Franzi in the crowd.
Boyz in the Wood (2019)
black comedy film, Dark Comedy
Three problematic students—Dean, Duncan, and DJ Beatroot—are taken to the Scottish Highlands by teacher Mr. Carlyle to try to achieve the Duke of Edinburgh Award, which requires participants to navigate the Highlands as a team relying only on a paper map. The three are joined by the bookish student Ian, who wants to receive the award to improve his college application.
Miranda (1948)
Comedy, fantasy film, romantic comedy
As his wife Clare is uninterested in fishing, Dr. Paul Martin goes on a holiday on the Cornwall coast without her. There, Miranda Trewella, a mermaid, catches him by pulling on his fishing line and making him fall in the water.
Creator (1985)
Comedy, romantic comedy, Science fiction
Dr. Harry Wolper is an eccentric medical professor teaching at a small Southern California college who is obsessed with making a clone of his wife Lucy who died in childbirth 30 years earlier. Harry hires Boris Lafkin, a struggling pre-med student as his personal assistant to help him with his experiments by obtaining lab equipment and working in his backyard shed in exchange for which Harry gives Boris love life advice in courting an attractive student named Barbara who slowly becomes smitten with Boris.