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The cartoon opens to a railroad yard where "all the trains are fast asleep". The sun rises, and engineer Casey Jones wakes from his slumber in the cab of his engine, an American Standard 4-4-0 tender engine No. 2, that is hauling a small, yet valuable train known as the Western Mail.
Comedy horror, musical film
A pair of country singers and their band are headed to Nashville, Tennessee. Their car unfortunately breaks down and they stop overnight at an abandoned house, which turns out to be haunted. A ring of international spies who live in the haunted house are seeking a top-secret formula for rocket fuel.
children's film, Christmas film, Comedy drama
Sam Whipple, a broke lawyer who is nevertheless young at heart, meets Santa Claus and learns that he is upset because he has a new landlord named Phineas T. Prune, to whom Santa owes a great deal of rent. Prune has threatened to confiscate Santa's toys and have him, Mrs.
Comedy, Western
The movie opens with a train robbery in Texas, but a group of Texas Rangers are waiting for the robbers, and stop them. Twenty years later, the head of the outlaw gang, John Henry Lee, is paroled on good behavior, but the same day he gets out, he and his brother Charlie Lee rob a bank in Del Rio of $20,000 in gold. Captain Oren Hayes, the Texas Ranger who arrested John Henry and ensured his parole, goes after him once more, knowing that he will try to pull off the same robbery he bungled 20 years before for revenge.
Christmas film, Comedy drama
A few months after Ina resigns as President of the Philippines, she is back in the media limelight after releasing her memoir while living a simple life with her beloved children and grandchildren, together with her long-time best friend, Rowena. After collapsing at President Ren's wedding, Ina undergoes an X-ray and medical examination. Her doctor tells her that she has a brain tumor and only has 6 to 8 months to live.
Comedy, Dark Comedy
buddy film, Comedy
Malcolm Smith wins a brand new automobile (a 1956 Chrysler New Yorker convertible) at a movie theatre raffle. Steve Wiley, a gambler from New York, obtains a counterfeit of the winning ticket and also claims that the car is his. The theatre manager declares them both winners and that they can split the car any way that they want.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Sam is a writer working on a feature film. His girlfriend Sammy has been promised the lead role, but the producers want a famous actress. After some problems and the return of Sammy’s ex-boyfriend John, the relationship get complicated and they break up.
political film
The film involves the unexpected romance that develops between an Indian-American, Democratic campaign worker Aritha (formerly Rithika) Gupta (Mallika Sherawat) who falls for an African-American Republican Kyle Franklin (Brian White) in the month leading up to the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.
Drama, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is an openly gay student at a private boys' school. Although now in his senior year, he is still persecuted by the aggressive rugby team, on whose captain, Jonathon (Nathaniel David Becker), he has a crush. Timothy lives with his mother, Donna (Judy McLane), who is struggling with her son's sexuality and with getting a job, and his father who is not a part of his life.
Comedy drama, Drama, musical film
Aspiring young ballet student Meg Merlin lives with her aunt and idolizes Ariane Bouchet the prima ballerina of the ballet company of which the dance school forms a part. She often neglects her own studies just to watch Ariane practice. Only the intervention of her temporary guardian, the kindly clockmaker Mr Paneros (almost an uncle!), keeps her from being expelled.
Comedy, screwball comedy film, Secret Agent
Ann Wilson catches her strait-laced husband, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Wilson, kissing another woman. From David's perspective, it was an innocent kiss from a grateful transfer student. Ann, however, wants a divorce.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Morgan Delt is a failed working-class London artist, who was raised as a communist by his parents. His upper-class wife, Leonie, has given up on him and is in the process of getting a divorce in order to marry Charles Napier, an art gallery owner of her own social standing. Locked into a personal world of fantasy, Morgan performs a series of bizarre stunts in a campaign to win back Leonie, including putting a skeleton in her bed and blowing up the bed as her mother sits on it.
Comedy
Nick is a former Broadway actor who now works as a production manager for the stage musical "One Hit Wonderland", a musical journey through one-hit wonders of the past. His ex-girlfriend Chloe happens to be an understudy, making run-ins backstage between them awkward. As part of the show’s opening night on Broadway, Nick must deal with a seemingly never-ending list of dilemmas and crises, including helping his anxious assistant Alex, consoling a dancer who has a meltdown over a deceased pet, and keeping watch on Brooke, a quirky, unstable former Broadway star.
Comedy, war film
Upon the United States entry into World War I, the first American units to arrive at the front in France are veteran Marine companies, one of which is commanded by Captain Flagg, along with his lieutenants, Moore and Aldrich. Flagg developed a romantic relationship with the daughter of the local innkeeper, Charmaine, and resumes their relationship after returning from the front. However, he lies to her, saying that he is married when she wants to accompany him on his leave to Paris.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Charles Staggers is a London street performer, or busker, with his partners, Arthur Smith and Gentry. He protects Liberty, known as Libby, a runaway and pickpocket, when she steals a gold cigarette case from successful song writer Harley Prentiss. He takes her into their troupe, making their trio into a quartet.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, teen film
Madison Penrose, a wealthy and selfish high school student, is preparing for her Sweet 16. Madison decides to have her party at the Roller Dome, a once popular roller skating rink with a violent history. Despite her father's objections towards having the party there, Madison convinces him otherwise.
Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
thumb|Original trailer Orville, the oldest orphan at the Hideaway Orphans Home, accidentally hides inside a truck headed to a top-secret laboratory. There he is placed under the supervision of lab worker Lester to help load supplies onto an experimental rocket ship. While on board with Lester, Orville flips the ignition switch and the rocket ship blasts off, flying across the country and eventually landing outside of New Orleans, where Mardi Gras is in progress.
Comedy
Film buff Brad McBain, a frustrated employee of Australia's largest cinema chain, The Kent Corporation, quits his job and decides to set up and re-open the Picture Palace, a palatial disused cinema in St Kilda, Melbourne, to show classic old films in the old-fashioned style. As a gimmick he chooses the last picture that the cinema featured, Samson and His Mighty Challenge (an Italian film, originally released in 1964 as Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus: gli invincibili). When the print arrives at the grand gala opening they discover that it is in unsubtitled Italian, and Brad suspects that his old boss, Sir Michael Kent, has in some way…
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, B movie, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
The film begins in 1986, when a young Les Daniels, who is terrified of snakes, is forced to go to a snake-handling ceremony. When he is supposed to give one of the snakes to his father, he hesitates, giving the snake enough time to bite his father's artery. His father dies in a matter of minutes.
Comedy, Western
The sheriff of a small western town dies of a 'heart attack' and the crooked mayor, The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, and leading crook Phil Decker appoint the town drunk, Reginald T. "Rags" Barnaby, as the new sheriff, believing that he will be easily controlled by them.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher
Lester Bacon is an old farmer living with his simple-minded, obese son Buddy. Lester's old hog farming ways have been replaced with modern factory-type slaughterhouses. Buddy kills two teenagers, Kevin Matthews and Michelle Mitchell, at Lovers Lane.
Comedy drama, musical film
Sydney teenager Jackie Mullens works as a barmaid in her mother's pub and dreams of becoming a singing star, though she jokingly worries her dreams may be cut short by a nuclear holocaust. Her scheming 14-year-old cousin Angus aspires to be her manager. At a local club talent night, Jackie's performance impresses pop band The Wombats, who become her backing band.
Comedy
In 1980, an annual gathering of teams of idiosyncratic nerds compete in an undistinguished California hotel to see which of their computer programs can best the others at computer chess. A grandmaster (Gerald Peary) presides as master of ceremonies with a videographer and microphone in tow. Clunky, primitive personal computers are carted from room to room.