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Comedy, Western
Easygoing Melody Jones and his friend George Fury wander into a town. Jones is mistaken for a wanted bandit named Monte Jarrad, which causes him no end of trouble. Meanwhile, the real Jarrad is hiding out in the home of his girl, Cherry de Longpre.
children's film, Comedy, Computeranimation
In 1969, a Golden Retriever named Buddy is launched into space with a backpack in a space capsule by his owner, David. However, soon after leaving Earth, the capsule malfunctions and shocks Buddy, mutating his DNA and giving him superpowers before flying out of orbit, leaving Buddy frozen and floating in space. 50 years later, the capsule reenters Earth's atmosphere, causing Buddy to crash land back on Earth in the fictional town of Glenfield, where he awakes in a dumpster.
Comedy, Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction
Two cousins, Fred and Warren, live together in Hollywood. Fred, an aspiring horror-movie director with developed skills in SFX and animatronics, desperately tries to shoot his first movie in their house, but Warren, who plays the main male protagonist, keeps on flirting with Laurie, the main actress. When she can't stand it anymore, the project is over, and the bills are piling up.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Eccentric painter Gulley Jimson is released from a one-month jail sentence for telephone harassment of his sponsor, Mr. Hickson. Nosey Barbon, who wants to be Jimson's protégé, greets Jimson at HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, but Jimson tries to discourage Nosey from pursuing painting for a living.
Comedy, Drama
Joan is a young Australian communist who goes to the Soviet Union as part of a work study program in the 1950s. There she catches the eye of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the two sleep together just before Stalin dies. Returning to Australia, Joan discovers she is pregnant and gives birth to Stalin's love child, whom she names Joe.
romantic comedy
On the French Riviera, wealthy American businessman Michael Brandon wants to buy pajamas, but just the tops. When the store refuses to sell the pajamas without the pants, an attractive woman named Nicole offers to buy the bottoms. As the two engage in a flirtatious conversation about Michael's insomnia, Nicole recommends that he spell "Czechoslovakia" backwards when he goes to bed to help him fall asleep.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
Adam is a college senior and an aspiring singer/songwriter. He meets Eve, a beautiful, bright student and talented sports still photographer. They begin dating and Adam is surprised to learn that Eve is still a virgin because she does not wish to have sex until it feels right for her.
Comedy drama, Pirate Film
The story opens on Skeleton Island, an uncharted island somewhere in the Falkland Islands chain, where Long John Silver and Billy Bones have staged a successful mutiny against Captain Flint. The group is attacked by gigantic insects, and retreats back to the ship. In the chaos, Long John has one of his legs torn off by a giant beetle.
Christmas film, Comedy, Drama
Ten-year-old Jess Cameron is heartbroken after her friend Bobby Jackson moves out of town. Her mother's Aunt Millie comes to visit and tells her a story about ten-year-old Katie Andrews who has a passion for ice skating. Katie befriends Otto Brewer, a former Olympic skating champion, who offers to teach her "proper skating" after noticing that Katie is wearing hockey skates instead of ice skating skates.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Gabe, Karen, Tom, and Beth have been friends for years. Gabe and Karen, expecting the other couple for a dinner party, receive only Beth, who initially states Tom is away for business. As the dinner winds down, Beth tearfully admits Tom is leaving her for a flight attendant (actually a travel agent) as he is not happy in their marriage.
Comedy, Parody, romantic comedy, silent film
Three plots in three different historical periods — prehistoric times, ancient Rome, and the Roaring Twenties — are intercut to prove the point that man's love for woman has not significantly changed throughout history. In all three plots, characters played by the small and slight Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery compete for the attention of the same woman, played by Margaret Leahy. Each plot follows similar "arcs" in the story line in which Keaton's character works for his beloved's attention and eventually wins her over.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Eighteen-year-old Harry (Norman Reedus) is an innocent, bashful burger boy who lives with his overly attentive mother Kate. Harry's father left Kate for another man. They live in an old apartment, where Kate treats her son like a child, even going as far to draw his bath water and connect a wire to his reading lamp, shutting it off when Harry is busy to get his attention.
Comedy
Matt and Jean Spenser are a young married couple with dreams of travelling to exotic destinations such as Samarkand, though they cannot afford it. Their prospects seem to improve when Matt inherits a cinema from his great-uncle. Expecting to acquire the modern and prosperous "Grand" cinema, they are dismayed to learn from Robin, the solicitor, that the legacy is instead the decrepit "Bijou Kinema", known locally as "the Fleapit".
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, romance film
Polly is a worker for a temporary secretarial agency. Polly serves as the narrator for the film, and there are frequent sequences portraying her whimsical fantasies. Polly lives alone, seems to have no friends and enjoys solitary bicycle rides to undertake her hobby of photography.
Comedy horror
Frederico Olsen performs a voodoo ritual in front of a recliner, while Warren Lee cuts off his legs. A short time later his dismembered foot is found, and police inspectors Bob Gravy and Roseanne Grape, interview Francesca, his ex-girlfriend, and her friend, Maxi. Meanwhile the cursed recliner is accidentally sent to Maxi's grandfather, Jack, a disgraced Rabbi.
Comedy, romantic comedy
In 18th-century England, orphan girl Moll Flanders becomes a servant for the town's mayor, who has two grown sons. Moll has a romantic relationship with the eldest son, but after he abandons her, she marries the younger son, a drunken fool who dies, making her a young widow. Moll is employed by Lady Blystone as a servant.
Comedy, comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced after a tempestuous marriage, are dismayed to discover they both have opted to honeymoon with their new spouses at the same hotel on the French Riviera. Elyot finds his bride Sybil's questions about Amanda annoying, while Amanda wishes her new husband Victor would stop referring to Elyot every chance he gets. When Elyot discovers Amanda on the terrace their adjoining suites share, he insists he and Sybil immediately depart for Paris, the same plan Amanda proposes to Victor.
Comedy drama, Crime, Crime Comedy, silent film
The plot of the film is drawn from the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins which was in turn based on the true story of Beulah Annan, fictionalized as Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver), and her spectacular murder of her boyfriend. The silent film adds considerably to the material in Watkins' play, some additions based on the original murder, and some for Hollywood considerations. The murder, which occurs in a very brief vignette before the play begins, is fleshed out considerably.
Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
A clueless, aspiring criminal named John "Rugged" Rudgate spends his days forging rebate coupons and selling speakers out the back of his van. One day, Rugged runs into an old acquaintance, the dim-witted Jeff Lagrand, who recently returned home to help his cynical sister run the storage facility that they inherited from their father. When Rugged tries to force his way into the Lagrand family business, things go terribly wrong—and the situation gets even more complicated when an emotionally unstable cop begins investigating.
Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
In post-war London an aimless young married bisexual man, Johnny, is sent to prison. He is forced to entrust his beloved Alsatian dog, Evie, to the reluctant care of his down-trodden parents and older, middle-class ex-lover and best friend, Frank. After a series of visits to Johnny's parents' home, Frank bonds with the dog whose mischievous spirit reminds him of his incarcerated friend.
Comedy, stand-up comedy
The film features live stand-up performances filmed at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona on July 21, 2002. It also features behind-the-scenes segments highlighting the individual comedians.
romantic comedy
The film deals with the mid-life crises of its two main protagonists, Mark (Eric McCormack) and Robert (Rafer Weigel), fictionalized versions of the film's director and producer/writer. The two friends struggle with adult career and relationship problems, all the while defiantly clinging to the geeky science fiction popular culture of their youth and seeking advice from their greatest hero, William Shatner. Shatner plays a campy caricature of himself as he works on a one-man musical version of Julius Caesar in hopes of finally being taken seriously as a dramatist and musical performer.
Comedy drama
In the spring of 1941, Al Woods quits an Oklahoma college to join the armed forces after a quarrel with his co-ed sweetheart, Jo. He joins the Coast Guard, partly by chance due to the flip of a coin. After boot training, Al is assigned to a buoy tender in Boston, the Periwinkle, as a ship's cook, although he has no cooking experience.
Christmas film, Comedy, Drama, Heist, Tragicomedy
A twelve year-old witnesses a bank robbery committed by a man dressed as Santa Claus during a 'Santa Dash' and follows the robber only to also meet a man claiming to be the real Father Christmas.