Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,976 films · Page 372.
Coming-of-age, romantic comedy
Jackie is a troubled, nineteen-year-old wild child, much to the dismay of her separated parents. Her only interest lies within photography, and she hopes that she can one day move to New York to study and escape her complicated life. One night, Jackie is thrown in jail after crashing her car while drag racing with some other teenagers.
musical comedy
Herman Tulley inherits a prize greyhound called Mrs. Brown and aims to race the dog and win the derby in London. Herman and his group, The Hermits, play gigs to raise money for the race entry fees.
Comedy drama, romance film
Four former prisoners of war, members of an elite squad "the Chainbreakers", who broke out of their prison in Vietnam, are now residents of Hogan Hills, a retirement home for returned veterans. Each has some unfinished business "outside", but they are not allowed to leave as they are under the Mental Health Act. Bronson, an American, was their leader and has feigned symptoms to be near Norma, once an Army nurse with whom he fell in love, but is now a widow suffering Alzheimer's disease.
Comedy, comedy television program
Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style occurred during the continuity of the original series, during a summer holiday. In the movie, Kelly's grandfather, played by Dean Jones, invites the kids to stay at his hotel in Hawaii. However, someone else is out to buy his land and build a hotel/resort complex, and the group has to save it.
Horror, Science fiction, teen film
Professor Frankenstein, a guest lecturer from England, talks Dr. Karlton into becoming an unwilling accomplice in his secret plan to actually assemble a human being from the parts of different cadavers. After recovering a body from a catastrophic automobile wreck, Professor Frankenstein takes the body to his laboratory/morgue, where he keeps spare parts of human beings in various drawers.
romantic comedy
Leo, a failed writer and recent divorcee, now works as a dishwasher in the restaurant of his friend, Mandeep. His former wife, Julie, has written a blog about Leo entitled "Why You Suck", which has gone on to be published and become a top selling book. Leo also has a crippling fear of heights.
teen film
The blue-collar working world of 1950s Indiana, with period-style footage and clips from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, is accompanied by Shepherd's voiceover narration as the adult Ralph. The fourteen-year-old Ralph and friends, Flick and Schwartz, endure bureaucratic "terminal official boredom", to get their "working papers", to be able to apply for their first summer jobs. The next day at breakfast, Ralph announces that he, Flick, and Schwartz have job interviews, and Mom notices that the family dog, Fuzzhead (Shepherd's dog Daphne) seems to be missing.
Comedy
After his third marriage ends in divorce, wealthy Los Angeles land developer Monte Peterson travels to Utah hoping to open a ski resort. He competes against an "evil" banker, Preston Gates, hoping to snatch land from the defaulting farmers to gain control for mob investors, who want to build a casino. After winning a land auction, Monte's friend explains the polygamous traditions of the area.
Action, Adventure, Comedy horror, disaster film, Horror, independent film, katastrophe, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
A tugboat pulling a huge iceberg arrives at a port in Alexandria, Egypt, when suddenly, the iceberg shatters and releases a megalodon from suspended animation. The Mega Shark begins its reign of terror by flipping the tugboat to the air until it crashes and decapitates the Sphinx hundreds of miles away in Giza. Following the incident, several countries around the world place their ports on lockdown and impose a ban on fishing, adversely affecting the world's economy as the megalodon terrorizes the seas.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The film is told mostly in flashback; with Eli (Dan Bucatinsky) recounting his side to Esther (Doris Roberts), an HIV clinic worker as he waits for test results and Tom (Richard Ruccolo) telling his side to a man he meets at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Tom is the son of emotionally distant alcoholic WASP parents who never quite accepted his sexual orientation and as a result is a heavy drinker himself and has a penchant for random hookups with different men. Eli's parents are both Jewish psychiatrists who raised him to be emotionally open but ended up making him neurotic.
Action, Comedy horror, fantasy film, science fiction comedy
Frank Abernathy is the curator of the natural history museum in Blackwater, Louisiana. He is a widower who doesn't seem to have time for his daughter, Jack. Frank's father, Simon; is a B-movie enthusiast who believes in extraterrestrials and shows his favorite movies at the local theater.
Drama, romantic comedy
Wishing to pursue a career as a jazz saxophonist, Pete Hammond Jr. takes a bus from his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to New York City and optimistically begins looking for work. However, jobs are extremely hard to find.
Comedy horror, Zombie
In a world where humans peacefully coexist with docile zombies, who are treated as second-class citizens due to their "living-impaired" handicap, small-time thief Maggie Neard intercepts a call to collect an unwanted zombie via the Coleman Corporation's Retirement Services for the Living-Impaired. Posing as the collectors, Maggie's half-brother Karl and his best friend Freddy Mercks pick up the zombie from the McKenna residence, although they accidentally decapitate the zombie and it bites a family member. Due to the damage, the crew's black market contact Don only pays the trio half-price for the zombie.
Comedy drama
In October 2008, young nun-in-training Colleen avoids all contact with her family, until an email from her mother announces that her brother has returned from the war in Iraq. Temporarily abandoning her studies, Colleen arrives at her childhood home in Asheville, North Carolina, where she finds her old room exactly how she left it – painted black and covered in goth and heavy metal posters. Although her parents are happy to see her, unease and awkwardness abound, and her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse.
Comedy, thriller film
Comedy
After leaving the military for so many years, which is set many years later after the events of Ah Boys to Men and Ah Boys to Men 2, 2SG Alex Ong, CFC Lobang, CFC Aloysius Jin and CFC Ken Chow are all busy with their respective career as civilians until they are called back to serve the nation again under the Singapore Armed Forces' Armoured Formation. Now they must juggle between work and their reservist duties.
Comedy, Parody, Splatstick
The film is presented as two parts of a double feature, the titles being Tonya: The Battle of Wounded Knee and He Never Gave Me Orgasm: The Lenora Babbitt Story. Tonya: The Battle of Wounded Knee Figure skater Tonya Hardly (Brown), desperate to win the gold medal in the Olympics, tries to eliminate competitor Nancy Cardigan (Khrystyne Haje) by hiring someone to injure her; although she only suffers a small bruise. The news story is so tragic and heart-rending that all of Tonya's co-conspirators turn themselves in and implicate her.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, Splatter Film
Ashley, a spoiled brat, gets a new present and discards her old teddy bear. That night, the teddy bear pulls her into a closet and rips her eyes out, Ashley's mother discovers her corpse and screams in horror at the sight. Jack, a failed toy designer, constantly depends on his parents, until they are killed in a freak accident on his 35th birthday.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Bonnie visits various ports-of-call in hopes of a rendezvous with her sailor husband, who is summoned to active duty from their honeymoon. She arrives at his departure point, in Nice, a few minutes after his ship leaves, so follows the ship to Italy in a somewhat rickety and battered pink 2 CV. Bonnie is accompanied by veteran navy wife Liz and two other officers' girlfriends, Toni and Michele, who are likewise intent on romantic reunions.
Comedy, Crime
Within one hour, a businessman must choose between his finances or murder to keep his family safe.
Crime, Drama, satanic film
thumb|left|Says Ted: "After I've cleared up a couple murders, you and I could have lots of fun." Private detective Ted Shane returns to work with his former partner Ames, who is not particularly happy about the situation because his wife Astrid dated Ted before they were wed. Valerie Purvis hires the detectives to locate a man called Farrow, and when both Ames and Farrow are found dead, Shane is suspected of both murders. Shane finds his office and apartment have been ransacked and his secretary Miss Murgatroyd has been locked in a closet by Anthony Travers, who is in search of an 8th-century ram's horn rumored to be filled with jewels.
Adventure, crossover fiction, fantasy film
Enteng Kabisote wants to retire as the perennial hero of Engkantasya and have a normal life with his family without the magical elements. Ina Montecillo longs to have the right partner to be with her for the rest of her life. One day, Enteng is placed under a powerful evil spell by The Queen of Darkness, Satana to fall in love with another woman.
Comedy
A Chicago salesman (Charles Grodin) takes his wife (Robin Pearson Rose) and children to Club Sand, a hot spot surrounded by barbed wire.
Comedy
Mike Scott, an impotent British fashion designer, heads out to Spain for a photo shoot and encounters an old school rival, Sir Percy de Courcy, who has inadvertently added an aphrodisiac to the local wine.