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Comedy
"Five shapely women save a man's failing service station" June and her friends, who appear topless during their high school graduation, then appear topless in a locker room, agree to help out at the failing gas and service station run by June's uncle Joe. However, right across the street is another station, run by Mr. Friendly, a devious businessman.
comedy thriller, romantic comedy
Action, Action Comedy, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland known as the Thrice Burned Lands, celebrity bounty killers Drifter (Matthew Marsden) and Mary Death (Christian Pitre) hunt down corporate criminals responsible for the world’s collapse. After a Council-issued death warrant unexpectedly targets Drifter, he and an eager gun caddy named Jack LeMans (Barak Hardley) go on the run, pursued by yellow-tie mercenaries from the powerful corporation Second Sun. Mary, torn between duty and loyalty, also receives the warrant and sets out to confront Drifter.
Comedy, Drama
Greek immigrant Harry Papadopoulos has got it all: a mansion, awards and a lavish lifestyle as a successful entrepreneur reigning over a financial empire in the food industry. But when the banking crisis hits, Harry and his family - shy horticulturist James, snobby fashion victim Katie, and precocious child prodigy Theo - lose everything. Everything, except the dormant and forgotten Three Brothers Fish & Chip Shop half-owned by Harry's larger-than-life brother Spiros who's been estranged from the family for years.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Werewolf
In October of 2014, Lou Garou, an alcoholic cop in the small community of Woodhaven, spends most of his day either asleep at work or at Jessica's bar. When his friend Willie Higgins phones in a complaint of occult activity in the area of his gun store, the police chief sends Garou to investigate. After meeting with Higgins, Garou dismisses his concerns as the actions of heavy metal fans.
Drama, Satire, Tragicomedy
Christmas film, Comedy, comedy television program
In 1965 in Los Angeles, Lucy Cullins, her brother and her mother go to a shopping mall to see Santa Claus, who happens to be the real one and is nearing the end of his 200-year reign as St. Nick, and is seeking a replacement. When Lucy sits on his lap, he places the hat on her and it glows brightly, proving she would make a perfect Santa Claus replacement.
Comedy, musical film
The story is framed by testimony in the court of Judge Murdock, where Dixie Crane is seeking a divorce. He asks how the principals first met and the first flashback begins...Eddie Crane a young composer, is struggling with a tune he has just written. When his girlfriend, Dixie Donegan, provides words almost by accident, the song is published and is a great success.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
24 years earlier, in 1913, single spinster Miss Bentley enjoyed spending her summer holiday in Lake Como, Italy with her father before World War I started in 1914. The year is now 1937, and her father has recently died. To clear the air after the loss of her father, she's decided to return to Lake Como on her own to spend a month's summer holiday.
animated film, children's film, science fiction comedy
When intergalactic rock star named Sky Rocker plays a concert at the Cosmic Coliseum, Judy Jetson and her friends, Iona and Starr, go into orbit. Starry-eyed Judy meets her idol and gives him a song she has written just for him, "Rockin' Round the Galaxy". But also at the concert are Quark and Quasar, bumbling henchmen to the evil, music-hating Felonia Funk.
Comedy, Tragicomedy
Howard Holloway is a former child star and now a down-and-struggling agent who specializes in representing child actors. He has an ongoing feud with more successful agent Aldo Stankas who has poached several of Howard's clients who were on the verge of success. After losing a client, Howard encounters the highly talented thirteen-year-old Lydia who takes a liking to him.
Comedy drama
In Jakarta, 17-year-old Ali watches his dying father, Hasan, die of heart attack. Ali's mother Mia left them for New York City (NYC) when he was five. Initially believing that Mia had died, Ali finds letters, postcards, and flight tickets for Ali to visit Mia in New York, which Hasan hid from him.
Comedy, Crime, Drama, romance film
Set in 2004, the film revolves around three young anti-capitalist activists in Berlin's city centre: Jule (Julia Jentsch), her boyfriend Peter (Stipe Erceg) and his best friend Jan (Daniel Brühl). Jule is a waitress struggling to pay off a €100,000 debt she incurred a year ago when she crashed into a Mercedes-Benz S-Class belonging to a wealthy businessman named Hardenberg (Burghart Klaußner). After her eviction for non-payment of rent, she moves in with Peter and Jan, who are often out all night.
Comedy, musical film
Seaman "Bake" Baker and Sherry are former dance partners, now separated, with Baker in the Navy and Sherry working as a dance hostess in a San Francisco ballroom, Paradise. Bake visits the ballroom with his Navy buddy "Bilge" during a period of liberty, reuniting with Sherry (but costing her job), while Bilge is initially attracted to Sherry's sister Connie. When Connie begins to talk about marriage, Bilge quickly diverts his attention towards a friend of Sherry's, Iris, a divorced socialite.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Due to the 2008 financial crisis, James "Jimmy" Adams (James Lafferty) gets laid off from his Wall Street hedge fund manager job. Feeling a sense of guilt for his role in the 2008 financial crisis, Adams decides to find a more honest and gratifying job than his previous profession. After several unsuccessful efforts applying to a variety of blue-collar jobs, Adams is hired as a graveyard shift server at Papa’s Chicken and Waffles, a local 24-hour diner chain (the restaurant was renamed in new versions of the book and in the film).
Comedy, Comedy horror, musical film
Mary Carroll inherits her family's ancestral home, located on a small Caribbean island off Cuba. Despite warnings and death threats, she decides to sail to Havana and take possession of the reputedly haunted castle. She is joined by nightclub entertainer Larry Todd who, believing he has killed a mobster, flees New York with a friend, Myron.
Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Artie Pinsetter is a junk collector and amateur inventor who lives in the desert town of Candy Rock. Artie's fiancée, Emmy Lou Raven, is exposed to radiation in a cave and is thereby transformed into a thirty-foot giant. When Artie nervously explains to his betrothed's rich uncle that she has gotten "big", the uncle misunderstands "big" as "pregnant", and insists that Artie marry her immediately.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy
After retiring, Detective Dooley and Jerry Lee have a retirement party with all of their friends. After the party, Dooley and Jerry Lee are both drunk. They enter LA Micro Labs and find a dead security guard apparently shot by criminals who have stolen a chip.
Splatstick
The film begins aboard a steamship crossing the Atlantic Ocean and initially showcases the misadventures of an unnamed immigrant, the Little Tramp (Chaplin), who finds himself in assorted mischief. The scene opens with Charlie bent double over the side of the ship, appearing to be seasick. Then it is revealed he is only fishing.
Comedy drama, Dark Comedy
Grocery delivery boy Oliver Whynacht and his brother Jackie go on for what they expect to be a quick in-and-out return visit to their hometown in Nova Scotia for their estranged father's funeral. So, Oliver is surprised to find out when the will is executed that he has inherited his father's whole estate, which includes a funeral home. His widow and the embalmer Roberta Knickel are also taken aback by the news.
animated film, Comedy, fantasy film, musical film
Three kittens, denied milk as punishment for losing their mittens after playing out in the snow, sail up into the Milky Way in a basket lifted by three helium balloons. Their space flight takes them past the Moon, the planet Mars, the Big Dipper, and the Little Dipper, until they reach their destination: the Milky Way. Once in the Milky Way, they find it a land of natural milk springs and geysers.
Biography
In 1960, moments before filming the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz send scathing messages to each other through a pageboy. Co-stars Vivian Vance and William Frawley comment on the tense situation, but everyone puts on their best front as Desi introduces them for the final time and Lucy emerges to a warm welcome from the studio audience. In 1925, a young Lucille lives with her family in Celoron, New York.
Comedy drama
An ailing movie director begins to shoot what he believes to be his final work of art. What starts out as a normal movie, ends up being an exploration of mortality and one's profound effect on the world.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
When Arvilla Holden's considerably older husband Joe dies while the two are vacationing in Borneo, she has his remains cremated and returns with them to their home in Pocatello, Idaho with plans to scatter them as he wished. Joe's resentful daughter from his first marriage, Francine, demands Arvilla relinquish the ashes so they can be buried in the family crypt in Montecito, California and threatens to sell Arvilla's home, which was left to Francine in her father's original will, unless she cooperates. Arvilla grudgingly agrees and invites her best friends, single and lonely Margene, a former teacher who lost her job because she advocated…