Bombshell (1933)
Comedy drama, Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Movie star Lola Burns is angry with her studio publicist E. J. "Space" Hanlon, who feeds the press with endless provocative stories about her.
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Comedy drama, Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Movie star Lola Burns is angry with her studio publicist E. J. "Space" Hanlon, who feeds the press with endless provocative stories about her.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, spy film, thriller film
On their way to see scientist Dr. Simon True, U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are attacked by members of the THRUSH organization.
Comedy
Out-of-work scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family (long-suffering wife Angie, accident-prone son Little Bob, and pregnant 14-year-old daughter Katie) in a shabby house in Hatfield, next door to the Galleria Shopping Centre above the A1, about 25 miles north of London. Competition addict Robert dreams of winning a holiday for his family to a dream island. It turns out to be the Isle of Man, but he fails to win the competition.
Cartoon
The plot is a parody of the Three Little Pigs, told from a Second World War anti-German propaganda perspective. In this cartoon, the danger is from Adolf Wolf (a caricature of Adolf Hitler), who is set on invading the pig's nation of Pigmania. The pig who built his house of stone, "Sergeant Pork" (an homage to Sergeant York, or the contemporary film about him), take his precautions and outfits his house with defense machinery, but the two pigs who built their houses of straw and sticks claim they don't have to take precautions against the wolf because they signed a non-aggression pact with him.
Comedy, fantasy film
In Savannah, Georgia, Hannah Kolinsky, a generally unmotivated, oft-intoxicated drug dealer, is mistaken for a sexual predator, arrested, and subsequently dumped by her boyfriend. Her luck appears to change when Tanner, the smarmy but cute heir of an aristocratic Southern family, hires her to take over the role of living history tour guide at his childhood home, an Antebellum mansion. His real reason for doing so is to lure Hannah into bed, having fired the previous guide for rejecting his advances.
Comedy, Tragicomedy
A depressed car salesman (Rob Schneider) is repeatedly interrupted in the act of suicide, by a coworker from the Nissan dealership, a beautiful woman translator (Carolina Gómez), three native American shamans of the Arhuaco people from the mountains of Colombia, and a phone call from his mother (Holland Taylor). He finally finds faith in himself after the rest of world puts its faith in him. The sole being on earth who can save mankind from its own destruction with trust - The Chosen One.
Comedy, sport film, Teen Comedy Film
Bill Greaves, a divorced and estranged father, is struggling to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Molly. His friend Terry, a high school principal, offers him a job as the coach of the girls' varsity basketball team. Initially reluctant, Bill regrets accepting the position after meeting the team, which includes Abbie Miller, Tamra Schemerhorn, Mindy, Wendy Webber, Lisa Robinson, and Kathy Reyes.
Comedy
Set in a rural environs outside the town of Raupo in New Zealand, the film centres on sheep and cattle farmer Wal Footrot (John Clarke) and his border collie sheepdog named Dog (Peter Rowley). Wal is assisted on his farm, Footrot Flats, by his nature-loving neighbour Cooch Windgrass (Peter Hayden), local boy Rangi Jones (Rawiri Paratene) and Wal's niece Pongo Footrot (Fiona Samuel). Wal and Cooch are menaced by their unpleasant neighbours, the Murphys, comprising patriarch Irish (Peter Hayden) and his two sons Spit (Brian Sergent) and Hunk (Marshall Napier), who attempt to steal Cooch's deer and stag.
Comedy, documentary film, Documentation, stand-up comedy
Action, Adventure, Comedy, family film, fantasy film
In the present, Amanda Beale arrives at a public park in Two Mills, Pennsylvania where she goes to watch some kids jumping rope together at a park. She serves as the narrator and goes to tell the story of Maniac Magee who changed the town of Two Mills forever. Two decades earlier, the parents of twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel Magee are killed by a drunk driver.
Comedy drama
Subway Stories is divided according to director into short films, each with their own title, but strung almost seamlessly together. "Subway Car From Hell" Directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Adam Brooks A man (Bill Irwin) tries to grab a bite to eat and get on a train during rush hour. He is unable to squeeze into packed cars.
Horror, Parody
Dr. Mortimer Gangreen (John Astin) escapes from prison and has set up a base at his assistant Igor's 'Really Big Castle' located outside Paris, France, and he is still bent on global domination. Using his Killer Tomatoes, Gangreen plans to stage a second French revolution according to an old prophecy written by Nicodemus, in which the king of France (Louis XVII) will return to claim the throne.
documentary film, Drama, Political Thriller
Broadcast in the year 2008, the film is presented in a TV documentary style format, combining talking head interviews, news coverage clips and video surveillance footage surrounding the assassination of U.S. president George W. Bush in Chicago around a year earlier on 19 October 2007.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher, Splatter Film
In 1988, while filming a scene for the slasher movie Hot Blooded where Scarman slits a girl named Chloe in the throat, Scarman's actor Brad (Frank Roberts) accidentally stabs Chloe's actress Vanessa Turnbill (Molly Ringwald) non-fatally in the breasts, causing the movie's director Hilary Jacobs (Kylie Minogue) to yell at him. Later on, Brad, still in his costume, confronts Hilary in her office, who fires him. Enraged, Brad puts on the Scarman mask, cuts off his own pinky finger with his shears and murders Hilary by cutting off her tongue.
Comedy
On the last day of summer at Camp Big-Tee-Pee, all the teenage campers are hormonal and eager to go home. While on a nature walk with ditzy hippie camp counselor Michelle Farmer, four students - self-proclaimed stud Mitch, his girlfriend Annie, Henry, and Danny - break off from the rest of the group to indulge in some cannabis. They take refuge in a nearby cave, only to be caught in the act by Michelle some time later.
Comedy, Drama, sport film
Action, Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, thriller film
Cosmo works as a bookie for Mafioso Max. He lives a dull life, residing in the basement of a retirement home, never having had a girlfriend or a date, but regularly seeing prostitute Honey. When Max dies, new Boss Gordon "promotes" Cosmo to hitman, against his wishes.
Comedy
In a series of satirical live action and animated vignettes, the evolution of humanity is depicted and explored, primarily through the experiences of Cathy, a tour guide in a natural history museum describing the ages of mankind and its advancement, and Lee, a college student who meets Cathy in one of his classes and grows infatuated with her. Through them, rituals of courtship, sex, marriage, workplace manners, and military service are dramatized, suggesting that despite centuries of change, certain behaviors remain constant.
boxing film, Comedy, Splatstick
Moe, a struggling boxing manager, has a lunchtime confrontation with three of his fighters, who are angry that he has not paid them and threaten to abandon him. The disgruntled fighters begin physically bullying their timid waiter, Curly. A serendipitous turn of events unfolds when strolling violinist Larry plays the melody of "Pop Goes the Weasel".
Comedy, comedy porn film, pornographic film
Action, Secret Agent, spy film
Harry (Bill Pullman) is a seasoned CIA agent who is looking to forget his past and become his cover identity—a jazz club owner in Helsinki, Finland. Natasha (Irène Jacob) is a young, ambitious SVR (KGB) agent who is looking to secure a future for herself amidst the chaos of the new Russian Federation and her floundering intelligence agency. Originally assigned to spy on Harry, Natasha has fallen in love with the object of her spying, and her assignment has led to a torrid love affair between the two.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Marital Tragedy
A young woman named Elaine (Frances O'Connor) and her husband, David Walker (Simon Baker) meet a lonely fifteen-year-old, Chet Becker (Gregory Smith), in an ice-cream shop. Over time, the couple becomes friendly with Chet, who develops a crush on Elaine that culminates in a one-night stand. Elaine later confesses her infidelity to David, and their marriage is destroyed by the affair.
romantic comedy
Christmas film, Comedy drama, Drama, family film
Jonathan Toomey is a woodcarver known throughout the village for his skill but also for his solemn, joyless demeanor; bereaved by the past loss of his wife and child to illness, he is known to the village children as "Mr. Gloomy" and lives alone on the edge of town. In early December, a newly arrived widow named McDowell and her young son, Thomas, commission Jonathan for a Nativity Scene figurine set to replace a lost heirloom.