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musical film, romantic comedy
left|275px|thumb|Jeanne Crain and Jane Russell in scene from film's trailer. Bonnie and Connie Jones, played by Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain, are two sisters that live in New York working on Broadway. They are known as the second generation of the Jones sisters, taking the name after their mother, Mitzi Jones, who also performed popularly with her sister, Mimi Jones.
Comedy
Henry Shand goes to Alaska to search for gold and find his fortune. While there, his spoiled brat of a son, Reggie, gets mad that he has to work for money. What further angers him is that he has to share the dogsled with his 2-year-old brother Robert, nicknamed "Bobo".
Comedy, Horror, Parody, Science fiction
Police assistant Lance Boyle is a childish detective who is lumbered with worthless police cases. However, after several murders in a nearby wood that concern Killer Tomatoes, Lance finds himself working alongside Kennedy Johnson, a Tomatologist, to solve the murders. Nearby, Professor Mortimer Gangreen has begun using subliminal mind control on his talk show, disguised as talk show host Jeronahew.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Twenty-five year old real estate agent Nelson Hirsch is having problems telling his overbearing Jewish parents—Martin and Shirley Hirsch—that he is gay, let alone in a loving relationship, not only with a man, Angelo Ferraro, but a non-Jewish one. However, he and Angelo have made a time sensitive pact to tell their respective parents about their relationship. It becomes even more complicated as, out of circumstance, Nelson discovers that his mother—and thus by association his father—believe the new significant other in his life is not Angelo, who they assume is solely his decorator, but rather Nelson and Angelo's neighbor, Playpen…
Comedy, Drama, Science fiction
The film is about the scientist Rosetta Stone (Swinton) who injects her DNA into three Self Replicating Automatons (S.R.A.s). These cyborg clones must habitually venture into the real world in order to obtain a supply of Y chromosome in the form of semen to keep them alive. Unfortunately, their periodic treks into the outside world seem to leave the males from whom they obtain the chromosome with a strange virus that overtakes both their bodies and their computers.
Comedy
The plot centers on Grace, an elderly widow who lives alone in a dreary New York City apartment. She has twice survived her own suicide attempts, so she decides to hire Seymour, a hit man, to kill her and then do in others like her who are old, alone and tired of living. To her way of thinking, this professional killer will be committing acts of mercy, not murder.
Comedy, comedy television program, Western
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up raised by buzzards—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West", so he is thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolmarm Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). Nelson L.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
Somers Town follows several days in the lives of two teenage boys, Tomo and Marek, who develop a mutual trust and form an unlikely friendship. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks too much. The film begins with Tomo running away to London from a lonely, difficult life in Nottingham.
athletics film, Comedy drama
The story begins in a small Highland school classroom. Geordie MacTaggart is a "wee" (small) Scottish schoolboy, and the son of a gamekeeper. Although his best friend Jean does not mind his height, after he sees a newspaper advertisement for a bodybuilding correspondence course offered by Henry Samson, he sends for the course and embarks diligently on Samson's fitness programme.
Comedy, romantic comedy
American couple Mike and Janet Harper move to England for Mike's work with a company that deals in textiles and fashions. Mike wants to live in a flat in the heart of London, but Janet instead finds a rural estate 30 miles outside London in Kent, and Mike must commute into the city by train. For convenience, Mike often stays in a company's flat in London rather than returning to Kent, but his absence causes Janet to feel lonely and neglected.
Crime, Daffy Comedy, screwball comedy film
Betty Lou Perkins is a meek librarian in New Orleans who is ignored by everyone, including her uninspiring police detective husband Alex. A criminal kingpin is killed in cold blood, and Betty Lou finds the murder gun. She goes to the police station to tell them about the gun, but no one listens to her until she actually fires the weapon at a trash can in the bathroom.
buddy film, Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
Adam and Paul are childhood friends from Dublin who as adults have become heroin addicts. The film is a stylised, downbeat comedy, following the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is devoted to scrounging and robbing money to buy heroin. Adam and Paul wake up in the middle of a field with Adam and make their way into town via a run-in with a belligerent drug dealer named Martin living in Ballymun.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film
American Charlie Salt and British Chris Pepper own a Soho nightclub, operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Inspector Crabbe. One night, Pepper finds a Chinese woman on the floor of the club. Assuming she's intoxicated, he makes a date with her and thinks she responds.
Adventure
After capturing an important Rif prisoner in an undercover operation, American sergeant Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion is imprisoned for striking a rival lieutenant who beats a French woman with his riding crop for preferring Kincaid to him. He is imprisoned alongside seven military prisoners and the captured Rif who has refused to talk. The lieutenant refuses to feed Kincaid and the Rif, but Kincaid's two comrades, Luis Delgado and Pierre Molier, sneak food and water to him, which he shares them with the Rif.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
In Ireland, Jerry Kelly marries his sweetheart Nellie Noonan over the objections of her ne'er-do-well father Michael Noonan, who swears never to speak to Jerry again, even though he reluctantly accompanies the newlyweds to the U.S., where Jerry becomes a policeman and all three become citizens. Michael continues to hold his grudge against Jerry even when Nellie dies shortly after giving birth to her daughter, also named Nellie. Years later, Jerry is now a captain on the police force, and Nellie has grown up as the spitting image of her mother.
Adventure, Comedy
Nancy Drew begins college with her two best friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, at River Heights University. After the star football player goes into a coma, Nancy investigates, finding a campus-wide conspiracy and a fraternity's drug use.
Comedy, fantasy film, sex comedy
Penelope, a young hairdresser, discovers her vagina can talk when it criticizes a lover's performance, who leaves in a huff. At the salon where she works, her talking vagina insults a lesbian client, who mistakes it for Penelope flirting with her, which leads to her being fired. Penelope goes to a psychiatrist, Dr.
Comedy
Maddalena Ciarrapico arrives in New York City from Italy to get married and brings her fiancé a gift of mortadella (large Italian pork sausage) from her co-workers at the sausage factory where she used to work.She is refused permission to bring the mortadella into the country, though, because of the ban on meat which may contain food-borne diseases. An indignant Maddalena refuses to hand the sausage over, staying in the customs office at the airport, sparking a diplomatic incident in which she attracts widespread sympathy and support.
Comedy, Tragicomedy
Comedy, Computeranimation, stoner film
The movie opens with an interview with a crab louse named Buster living on a bikini-clad woman. The body crab sees Man (Tommy Chong) passing by and jumps on his beard. Man quickly pulls him out and throws him away.
Comedy, Western
In 1871 in the frontier town of Casper, Wyoming, the nefarious Rance Roden devises a scheme to eradicate the buffalo population, which will incite unrest among the Indians. His ulterior motive is to eliminate the U.S. Cavalry, his true adversary, allowing him and his cohorts to seize control of the Western territories.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Quackser Fortune earns a living in Dublin by collecting horse manure and selling it to locals for garden fertilizer. Quackser has an affair with Betsy Bourke, a housewife who is one of his customers. thumb|left|upright|Gene Wilder and Margot Kidder in a scene from the film One day, Quackser is almost run over by Zazel Pierce, a wealthy American exchange student from Connecticut studying abroad at Trinity College.
Comedy horror, mystery film
Henrietta Winslow, a cat lady, calls her family to her estate. Seeing their arrival, realtor Gil Smith and antiques dealer Mr. Penny sneak onto the estate.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Some Girl(s) follows a successful writer, simply referred to as "Man," who embarks on a cross-country trip to visit a series of ex-girlfriends before his upcoming wedding. The film opens with Man visiting Sam, his high school girlfriend, in Seattle. Sam is now married with children but is still deeply hurt by how Man abruptly ended their relationship without explanation.