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Comedy
The Reverend Samuel D. Whitehead, former Marine, bricklayer, and recent seminary graduate, is ecstatic to receive his first "calling," or assignment as Pastor of his own church. But the Church of the Redeemer in Wood Falls, Kansas, will prove a challenging assignment and nearly his undoing.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
A take-off on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot—the film follows two men who witness a murder, dress up like women to escape, and wind up hiding in the house of a drug dealer.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the small West Virginia mining town of Electric Park, a self-proclaimed teenage pacifist named Dick buys what he thinks is a toy gun. When he learns from a co-worker that it is not a replica, but a functioning antique gun, the two form a friendship based around recreational target shooting and studying firearms history. Other disaffected teens join them, and they begin to call themselves "the Dandies".
Action, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, independent film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, Zombie
At the Shining Sea Aquarium, Dr. Karen James and two workers attempt to tag the resident octopus. The octopus goes into cardiac arrest as the result of the procedure and seemingly dies, then reanimates, attacks Karen, kills the two workers, and escapes into the ducts.
Comedy
Australian heiress Alexandra Hobart's father has disapproved of every boyfriend she has brought home to meet him, including her burly, life-of-the-party fiancé, Bruce. After a disastrous birthday party, Alexandra decides to challenge her father with the worst boyfriend she can find. She hires a down-on-his luck waiter from a Mexican restaurant in Sydney, Australia, named Carlos to masquerade as her new boyfriend to persuade her father into allowing her to marry Bruce.
Comedy drama, Horror, Psychodrama, Psychological horror
Veronica Ghent, a former film star, goes to a healing retreat in Scotland with her nurse Desi Hatoum after a double mastectomy. The place where she stays is the site where women were burnt as witches centuries before. Their ashes fill the land and give her the power to exact revenge within her dreams.
romantic comedy, Romantic drama
In 2003 Italy, Attilio de Giovanni, a comical and impassioned poetry professor and the divorced father of two teenage girls, is hopelessly in love with Vittoria, a coworker and writer. Vittoria is the subject of Attilio's many dreams that center around a wedding between him and Vittoria. Attilio's strenuous courtship is unsuccessful, yet he does not lose hope, despite the fact that Vittoria obviously does not share the same feelings.
Comedy
In 1999, three friends—Cappo, Kidda and Two Tonne—embark on a mission to attend a New Year's party.
Comedy, teen film
It's the day of the senior prom at Herbert Hoover High School. The celebration has been organized by one of the popular girls at the school, the beautiful but spoiled Patrice Johnson (Christina Applegate). When Shelley Sheridan (Alyssa Milano) and her jock boyfriend Kevin McCrea (Brian Bloom) break up just before the prom because she refuses to sleep with him, they are both forced to try to find new dates on short notice.
Comedy, Drama, Western
In early America, David Harvey, a recent widower farming in the wilderness of the Northwest Territory, decides he needs a woman around to help raise his son, Davey, so he travels to the nearest settlement and consults with Parson Jackson and his wife about what to do. In view of the dearth of women in the settlement, it is decided that David will buy the contract of an indentured servant named Rachel, and she will keep house and care for Davey. David agrees to marry Rachel, but the marriage is in name only, as he is still grieving his dead wife, Susan.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
A yacht is found capsized, as well as a body nearby with three appendages bitten off. Dr. Stella Dickens's dolphins swim around fast, even after she tells them not to.
Comedy drama, Family Comedy, Family Drama, romantic comedy
Peter is an idealistic college student on Thanksgiving break, and his older brother Caleb is begrudgingly giving him a ride home. At school, Peter has found a new girlfriend, Emma Gainsborough, and Caleb immediately grills him for details. We find out that Emma and Peter met while Emma was dating another fraternity boy.
Comedy, Dance Film, Drama, war film
Virgie (Temple) lives with her mother (Morley) and father, Confederate Army captain Herbert Cary (Boles), on a slave plantation in the Antebellum South. During her sixth birthday party, Cary learns that the American Civil War has begun and that he must immediately report for duty, leaving Virgie at home. Worried about her father, Virgie asks the enslaved Uncle Billy (Robinson), about the war, and he tells her that he has heard that a man up North wants to free the slaves, but that he does not know what that will mean.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime
Harry Crown, a stylish professional hit man with a pair of Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistols with ivory grips, carried in a shoulder holster, is brought in by mob boss "Uncle Frank" Kelly when his operation is challenged by Big Eddie, a grinning, lisping rival. Crown is caught in the crossfire, as is his romantic interest, Buffy, a third-grade schoolteacher. In his attempt to take over the rackets, Big Eddie has hired Marvin "The Claw" Zuckerman, a sadistic one-armed killer with a prosthetic attachment that includes machine guns and knives.
Comedy
romantic comedy, teen film
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Lawyer Hugo Spencer returns home to Milwaukee with best friend Madelyn McKay over Christmas. His mother, Kate Spencer, immediately sets up a list of chores and Christmas activities for her sons, Hugo and Aiden, who returns later that week. While there, Hugo runs into Patrick Ryan, a boy he crushed on in high school.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Bearing similarities to Altman's 1975 film Nashville, along with a plotless structure, HealtH chronicles the progress of a health-food convention held at a luxury hotel in St Pete Beach, Florida. As the convention takes place, the members of an organization called HealtH hold a campaign to find out who will become its President. (Their name stands for "Happiness, Energy and Longevity through Health"; it also serves as their slogan.) The candidates are Esther Brill, an 83-year-old afflicted with narcolepsy who calls herself "the first lady of health"; Isabella Garnell, who is serious against commercialism and materialism; and Dr.
Comedy
The Ropers learn that Mr. Pluthero, an estate agent and developer, wants to buy their building. The room-mates circulate a petition to stop the development, which attracts the interest of MP Sir Edmund Weir, who keeps a mistress in another house in the same street.
Comedy
Teenager David Henderson wants to tag along with his girlfriend Gloria and a group of American students touring France. His mother Jenny hates the idea until she manages to get her professional photographer husband Grif to document the group's travels for his company. Jenny books passage for them all on an ocean liner, and a stay at a Riviera hotel, from Gilbert, a dishonest, shyster travel agent.
Comedy drama
children's film, Comedy, Drama
Ben (Reece Buttery), who is 11 years old and lives in Basildon, visits his paternal grandmother's (Julia McKenzie) house every Friday afternoon while his parents go out dancing. Granny has an obsession with meals made from cabbage. Ben initially finds her boring, until he comes across a large box of jewellery while looking for a biscuit.
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Political Satire
Red Monarch is a black comedy based on The Red Monarch: Scenes from the Life of Stalin, a collection of short critical essays by the Russian dissident and former KGB agent Yuri Krotkov. The film depicts Soviet politics and the interplay between Stalin and his lieutenants, particularly Beria, during the last years of Stalin's rule. The reading of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "The Heirs of Stalin" in the final scene supposedly warns that the threat of totalitarianism is constantly present.
Comedy
Bobby is a recent high school graduate who decides to spend his entire college savings on a highly customized Dodge Tradesman van, equipped with a waterbed, high-end stereo, and plush carpeting. His goal is to use the vehicle to improve his social life and success with women, reflecting the "custom van craze" of the late 1970s. While his best friend Jack is more naturally successful with women, Bobby struggles with his confidence.