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Comedy, Drama
Middle-aged Martin Mirkhein (Griffin Dunne) is a complete failure. He has run a successful business into debt, his marriage is falling apart, and now he owes the IRS $147,956 in back taxes. Martin may not have much going for him but he has read "Daniel Strong," a best-selling, self-help novel by the popular TV guru Dr.
When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Guy Carter (Jason Biggs) is an unemployed architect struggling to make ends meet. With bills piling up, his wife Anne (Jenny Mollen) finds a job posting on Craigslist for a driver and sends Guy, against his will, for the job. Guy then goes for the interview expecting to be a pizza driver but finds himself as a chauffeur for a prostitute named Nikki (Janet Montgomery).
Comedy, Family Comedy
Hank Dussard (Jones), the new owner of an olive grove in Provence, France, brings in trained chimpanzee labor, which upsets other workers. Hank eventually gains the town's confidence with the kind aid of Father Sylvain (Chevalier) and his neighbor Maria Riserau (Mimieux).
Comedy, musical film
Cynthia Glenn (Esther Williams) is a swimming instructor in Los Angeles, where she lives with her scatterbrained aunt and uncle Nona and Hobart (Spring Byington and Henry Travers). While demonstrating a dive, she catches the eye of an interested stranger, Bob Delbar (Carleton G. Young).
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Brett Eisenberg is an ambitious yet unconfident New York City assistant book editor living in the literary hotbed of Manhattan's Upper East Side. Struggling to become a full-fledged editor, she is shocked when she learns that her mentor and boss is fired and replaced by the glamorous Faye Falkner. At a book signing, Brett meets the notorious and much older publishing playboy Archie Knox.
anthology film, Horror, independent film, Parody, zombie comedy
Comedy
Timothy Bartlett is a fifty-something assistant bank manager whose working life and marriage in London have become lacklustre. When his superior is taken ill, he tells Bartlett to take his place at a bankers' conference in Southport. On his way, two young, fun-loving female students, Meg and Nikki, invite themselves for a lift in his car and he grudgingly agrees.
Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
Set in a working class town in the North of England, Jackie Simpson and Dawn Wilkinson have been life-long best friends and in-laws, as Dawn is married to Jackie's brother Steve. The two women work together side-by-side in a factory, and have a girls’ night every Friday. One Friday night, in the bingo hall while Jackie is having a dalliance with the manager, Paul, Dawn wins the Bingo jackpot, £100,000.
Comedy, Western
In Arizona, a shipment of gold bullion is stolen in an inside job by a group of men consisting of U.S. Army Sgt. Henry Foggers, assigned to guard the gold, Doc Quinlen, the mastermind of the caper, and Hilb, a billy-goat-bearded ruffian.
Comedy drama, mystery film
Comedy horror
In 1958, the Laemle family—father Nick, mother Lily, and their 10-year-old son Michael—move from Massachusetts to a Californian suburban neighborhood. As young boy Michael is very socially awkward and also has an overly-active imagination, he has trouble making friends at school. He is also prone to strange and disturbing dreams, such as dreaming that he has jumped into bed, only for it to collapse into a pool of blood.
Comedy, Comedy drama, experimental film, Mysterie, mystery film
The film's frame story, and the narrative it returns to the most, concerns a submarine crew transporting a volatile substance that will explode if they ever resurface. As the crew struggle to survive with low oxygen levels, a woodsman (Roy Dupuis) mysteriously forces his way onto the vessel; the crew believe his sudden appearance may lead to an escape from their predicament. The men navigate a labyrinth of rooms and passageways while trying to access the captain's chamber.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Jane Hoskins is a handmaiden employed by Lord Minden and his haughty wife Lady Sybil Minden. Lord Minden's younger twin brother Nigel Duxbury received only a small fraction of his brother's share of the family fortune because his brother was born just five minutes earlier than he. Having squandered his money, Nigel sneaks into his brother's home and steals Lady Minden's earrings.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher
In 1977, attorney Mitch Hansen and his fiancée Judy LaRue have an automobile accident in which Judy is killed and Hansen is apparently killed. Hansen wakes up during his autopsy, which leaves his face disfigured, and kills the medical examiners. Ten years later, a group of friends, including Judy's daughter Kiki, goes to the asylum where a rock band trio, Tina and the Tots (Godiva and Rapunzel), practice their music loudly.
Comedy, Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
The film focuses on three eleven year-old children in New Plymouth. Sam is mixed-Māori and European New Zealander/Pakeha girl undergoing chemotherapy at a hospital. She and her Pakeha mother Wendy have no contact with her Māori birth father.
romantic comedy
Jim (Brendan Cowell) is a thirty-three-year-old, emotionally stunted man who works at a miniature railway, and refuses to grow up. He lives in the granny flat at the back of his sister's house. Jim's pregnant sister Marie (Bridie Carter) struggles with her oafish brute of a husband, Owen (Travis McMahon).
Comedy
A redheaded, freckled, little nine-year-old white boy (whose name is not mentioned during the movie, but is revealed in the very end of the movie, as well as in the credits, to be "Lil' Pimp") is unable to convert to suburban life, as his only pet sidekick is a foul-mouthed gerbil, and faces constant rejection by his peers. He accidentally meets a prostitute under the name of Sweet Chiffon, who takes him to her working company, an evening bar called "The Playground", where he befriends the pimp "Fruit Juice", who gives him a small amount of "pimp glitter". He decides he wants to become a pimp.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy
Milo is a dissatisfied professional assassin. Cornering his latest target at his home, Milo has a change of heart and offers the man the chance to escape and assume a new identity, only for Bjorn, a rival assassin working for the same organization, to arrive and kill the man anyway. Bjorn makes it clear that he plans to use Milo's lapse in protocol to have his bosses order Milo's termination; they do so, assigning the kill to Bjorn.
Action Comedy
A fallen henchman named Hank leads a team of Lester and two others, called the "Union of Evil", who must prevent Baron Blackout from dominating the world. The crew are assigned to the Vault of Villainy, where Lester accidentally steals the ultimate weapon.
animated film, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Melodrama, romance film
In the 1950s, a bickering teenage couple, Wally and Buttercup, stop at a diner before their prom. To settle their argument about romance, the diner owner, Jojo, tells them the "tale of the prom, of love, of Cherri and Spud." Cherri is the popular, spoiled head cheerleader at Echo Lake High, and her boyfriend, Rod, is the school’s aggressive football star. When Spud, a new student, inadvertently offends both of them on his first day, Rod forces Spud to become Cherri's personal servant as punishment.
Comedy, Road Movie, Tragicomedy
Darly Peters is a brassy waitress and former stripper who used to use the stage name Pillow Talk. Darly is on her way to Alaska to claim a home being built for her and return to the family she abandoned eighteen years earlier. She meets Marianne Johnson, a quiet waif who just walked out on her abusive husband.
Adventure, Comedy, musical film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), an astronaut from Earth who deals in rare goods, living or otherwise. His mission begins with the unlikely delivery of a cat to a small outer-belt asteroid saloon where he meets his former dance partner, and renowned interplanetary fruit thief, the Blueberry Pirate (Joshua Taylor). As payment for his delivery of the cat, Curtis receives a homemade cloning device already in the process of creating a creature most rare in this space quadrant – a Real Live Girl.