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Comedy
17-year-old Aaron Milton comes from an engineering family and begins studying engineering as a freshman at Yale University, but is more interested in art. He clashes with his roommate William, but befriends fellow students Darcy and Linda, a single mother in her 30s. Aaron has dinner with Linda and meets her 14-year-old daughter, Beth, and Linda's boyfriend Wes, a police officer.
Christmas film, Comedy, musical film
Holly is excited to audition for the Snow Belles, a Christmas-themed pop group founded by her late mother. However, lead Belles singer Marci denies Holly a chance to audition when she shows up late. Nevertheless, Holly takes to the stage and delivers a sensational audition and is upset when Marci passes her over in favor of Staci.
Comedy
Struggling Hollywood film producer Charlie Berns is actively trying to commit suicide when his aspiring screenwriter nephew Lionel arrives from New Jersey interrupts him. He gives him a script about 19th-century British statesman Benjamin Disraeli. After he sees an article about powerful action-star African American Bobby Mason, a recent convert to Judaism, is seeking a role, Charlie agrees to make the film.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Ben and Alan are great friends who have known each other since high school, and they haven't grown up. For a living, they pose as valets at funerals and then steal their customers' cars and sell them to a pessimistic car dealer. Melanie, Alan's sister, encourages them to find respectable occupations, but Ben and Alan don't take Mel's advice.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Adam, a small-town auto-mechanic, celebrates his 24th birthday with his childhood friends Chris, Nick and Ortu. At the bar, Chris meets a girl who he believes to be named Tracy and tries to pair her friend with Adam, but he declines. The following morning, Adam comes out as gay to his friends.
Comedy, Comedy drama
The Ratcliffes, a leftist family in the UK, decide to emigrate to communist East Germany because they want to live in a country where everyone is equal and there is social and economic justice for all. Frank Ratcliffe is the father / husband and an English teacher. Dorothy is the mother / wife.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Shirin, a young bisexual woman and the daughter of wealthy Persian immigrants, moves out of the Park Slope apartment she shared with her girlfriend Maxine after they break up. Flashbacks reveal that Maxine, who is a lesbian and estranged from her family, resented Shirin's reluctance to come out to her traditional parents, while Shirin felt pressured to live up to Maxine's expectations. After a birthday party for Maxine, the two women broke up following a heated argument over their contrasting worldviews, with Maxine accusing Shirin of having a codependent relationship with her parents, calling her a "closet case", and dismissing her…
Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, Tragicomedy, war film
Several guests convene on the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Among them are Irene Malvern, a disillusioned Hollywood actress in town to attend a wedding and film premiere; Chip Collyer, a war correspondent; Air Force captain James Hollis, recently injured and facing an upcoming surgery; and Martin Edley, a shyster oil stock promoter attempting to defraud the visiting Bey of Aribajan. To impress the bey, Edley schemes to present himself as an associate of Mr.
Christmas film, Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
Suave convict J. Chalmers "Pressure" Maxwell decides to go straight. Just before he is released from Sing Sing prison along with his none-too-bright accomplice Jug Martin, he rejects a proposal by fellow inmate Leo Dexter to rob a bank.
Comedy
Roger Crumpkin is an accident-prone young man who works as a maintenance fitter at the Big Egg Factory, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Sydney Opera House. One day, Roger and his friend Lyndon go to a club, where the bartender offers Roger a cigarette, which he smokes, triggering a massive nicotine addiction. Crumpkin lives in an upper apartment in a high rise building, "The Future", overlooking the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
black comedy film
Gunfighter Paradise follows a camouflaged hunter (Cubas) as he returns home to North Carolina with a mysterious green case. Following the death of his mother (Hecht), he moves into the old family home where he is haunted by the voices of God, hallucinogenic visions, and many strange visitors, including Civil War Reenactors, a cable man, zealous Christian neighbors, and an assassin.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) is a British writer who doesn't use or understand anything modern. One day, he forgets his keys and locks himself out of his flat. It begins to rain, so he goes to see an E.
Agastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Miles Davis and rock and reads Marcus Aurelius. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India.
Action, comedy thriller, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=26|The Navigator (1924) Wealthy Rollo Treadway suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien, and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer, however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father has just sold to a small country at war.
Action Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Vampire
A group of vampire lords — Henry, The Duke, Peter Boniface, Thomas, Angel, Chen and Alice — gather at a small rural farmhouse for a summit which they have every 50 years to discuss quotas. Thomas is executed for going over quota and for taking children. Vanessa arrives late and has brought Sebastian as her guest and proposes him as a replacement, but Peter objects.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Raunchy comedy, romance film, teen film
The Rosedale High School “pom pom girls,” Sue Ann, Sally, Roxanne, Laurie and Judy, are courted by the school's star football teammates Johnnie Chrystal and Jesse Davis, and Duane, a longtime rival of Johnnie's. Jesse and Roxanne make a connection, but Laurie, her closest friend, dislikes him, while Johnnie and Duane compete for Sally's attention. The players and cheerleaders engage in prank escalation with their main rivals, Hardin High.
romantic comedy
10-year-old orphan shoeshine boy Lester lives in a locker in Chicago Union Station. Lester is friendly with most of the station staff and street performers, the only exception being a station official who does not like that Lester works without a permit. Sam, the owner of the station's pizzeria, makes sure he is fed while Robert, in charge of the stations health club, ensures he is properly bathed.
comedy thriller, Erotic Thriller, Parody
Matt Welsh, a socially awkward hotel clerk and a pathological liar, falls in love with a supermodel who happens to be visiting the hotel in which he works, unaware that she is also a pathological liar and a psychotic murderer.
Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film
Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz) are a couple of low-level petty criminals, who are working out their parole in a New York diner. Enter British lawyer Katherine (Phoebe Fox), who offers them ready cash to come to London and intercept a valuable package in transit. The duo arrives in London, team up with their British confederate Tommy Tresham (Al Weaver) and snatch the bag in the main hall of the Natural History Museum.
Comedy, Drama
Idealistic screenwriter Mike Klein (Duchovny) tries to navigate his TV pilot through the mine-laden path of casting, production, and the madness of prime-time scheduling—all while trying to stay true to his vision. Along the way, he has to juggle the agendas of headstrong network president Lenny (Weaver), volatile young stars, his pregnant wife Natalie (Bateman), and an ever-optimistic personal manager Alice (Greer), while suffering serious back pain.
romantic comedy
After fleeing from her abusive stepfather in Kansas, Nola travels to NYC searching for her biological father. She sleeps her first night in Central Park, but her luck changes when she is hired by the owner of a small diner. Nola ends up staying with the frycook/law school student Ben until the real owner of the diner, Ben's landlady Margaret, offers her a job as her assistant for an escort service.
Comedy horror
A secret government lab run by Dr. Stravinsky has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. However, the two escape, and go on a killing spree across the United States.
Comedy
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg.
romantic comedy
After being fired from her job, a former real estate agent tries her hand at being a Dolly Parton impersonator.