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Adventure, animated film, Comedy, Computeranimation, family film
Ratso, a success-starved city rat impresario, dreams of becoming a famous showman, despite his terrible shows. His assistant is a worm named Wesley, whom he passes off as the "longest worm in the world" by sticking him through a straw. Ratso plans to drag Wesley, despite his protests, to a “carnival” where his pen-pal cousin Ernie boasts of hosting the most celebrated shows in the animal world.
Comedy, musical film
Broadway producers Al Marsh, Tony Naylor and Jerry Ralby are desperately searching for investors to finance their new show, but the potential investors lack startup funds. Al learns that his aunt Roberta has died and has left him half of her dress salon business. With their own funds, the producers travel to Paris to sell Al's share of the shop.
comedy television program, Drama, fantasy film, Ghost, High School Comedy Film
Amber Pollock, a mean, snobbish, shallow, popular high school senior, dies after being named Prom Queen; she was picking up a crown that was electrified, after an accident with her boyfriend's car. While in Limbo, an angel tasks her with returning to her high school as a ghost in order to transform the school's least popular student, Lisa Sommers, into the next Prom Queen at the makeup prom. If she succeeds, she will be sent to Heaven, and if not, she will be on the next shuttle bus to Hell.
Comedy
Harry Plotnick, a small-time Jewish mobster, is released from a two decades prison stint, his cold heart as mean and callous as ever. His chauffeur tells him that his numbers racket has been largely absorbed by other parties. He tries to regain control, but his time controlling his neighborhood streets appears to be over.
Comedy
An evil businessman is secretly setting fires to some of the old buildings of a dilapidated neighborhood, while at the same time three women become the new recruits at a local fire station. Life is not smooth at the new firehouse, as the women are teased and harassed by their male coworkers. But they learn to stand up for themselves against the torment while also solving the mystery of who is starting the fires.
Comedy
Playwright Monsieur Feydeau is staying in the Parisian Hotel Paradiso. He needs to write a new play, but has writer's block. He takes the opportunity to observe his fellow guests: Monsieur Boniface, henpecked by his domineering wife, and Marcelle, the beautiful but neglected wife of Henri, a building inspector.
Biography, Comedy, musical film
In the 1890s, Sergeant Major John Philip Sousa, director of the United States Marine Band, leaves the Marine Corps after his enlistment expires to form his own band. He must do so because he is not paid enough by the Corps to provide for his wife Jennie and their three children. As a favor for his splendid service, he can take along Private Willie Little, who has invented and played a new instrument, the "Sousaphone." Willie persuades Sousa to go to a "concert" where some of Sousa's songs will be performed.
Comedy, Drama, Sex Film
Young couple Joe and Carol leave the sticks behind and journey to Swinging London in search of fame and fortune. Joe fails to find employment in the big city, but Carol rapidly becomes a model. As the naïve couple begin to enjoy the London night life they are drawn ever deeper into the sleazy but lucrative world of pornography and prostitution, with Joe acting as Carol's manager/pimp.
Action, Crime, thriller film
The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are being commended by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets. After a credits sequence, the narrative begins at the New York City Police Academy, where Greenberg and Hantz graduate as probationary officers.
Comedy, family film
The story is about Alec McCall (Matthew Modine), a spy, who teams up with Clements, a chimp, to save the day. He has a change of heart when his boss, Flick, turns out to be bad and wants to perform experiments on the chimp. These experiments are to create chimp soldiers for the highest bidder.
Comedy
Brian is a television writer-producer who is working on creating a 22-episode show, but has writer's block and needs inspiration. He teams up with a group of writer friends to write about a sexual encounter he watches on a balcony. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter between two figures on the balcony of a hotel near his flat and decides to write scripts with his writer friends based on what he saw.
Comedy
During the weekend of her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Gladys Ann Brooks, a meek wife (played by Clarice Taylor) and her three children—Gideon Brooks (Glynn Turman), Booker T. Washington-Brooks (D'Urville Martin), and Gail Brooks (Bonnie Banfield)—finally decide to stand up to their overbearing husband and father Mr.
comedy television program
Ambitious businesswoman Angela Marks works for a cosmetics company while her husband Curtis Marks is a cut-throat divorce attorney. The recently married couple's close friends Sylvia and Danny Chambers have two kids and a strained marriage. Angela observes Sylvia's stress and struggle with their kids, while Curtis regularly sees his law partner Danny's wandering eye.
Comedy horror, Horror, Vampire
Dublin supermarket worker Matt is too nice for his own good. When his older, estranged brother Deco is turned into a vampire, he’s faced with a dilemma.
children's film, Comedy, teen film
The movie begins at a grocery store where a box of free puppies is outside . There are 6 puppies in the box, five black puppies and the golden puppy. Soon children come and four black puppies are taken to a home.
Comedy, Drama
Lonely Patrick McCardle (Zac Efron) is a fifteen-year-old who is forced to play baseball by his former baseball player dad (William R. Moses). Patrick doesn't know what to do with his life.
Tony Fiala (played by Vincent Winter) is a working-class boy whose greatest desire is to become a member of Vienna's most famous choir. His father, however, wants his son to follow in his own footsteps as an engine driver. Unlike his loving and supportive mother, he sees no future for the boy in music.
Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
Danny Parilla is a young student in middle school. He starts to develop feelings for his best friend Julie Ziff. However a new student by the name of Archie Larocca comes in and sweeps Julie off her feet.
Cartoon
thumb|left|Full short Foxy drives a trolley while singing the titular song. A rock disrupts the track as the trolley is launched and falls but miraculously is able to be fixed upon landing. A female hippo turned out to be too obese to board the trolley, flattening Foxy as a result.
Comedy, Road Movie
While 60-year-old truck driver Elegant John Howard is in a Los Angeles hospital, his truck is repossessed by a finance company. Deciding that it is time to make one last perfect cross-country run, he escapes from the hospital and steals back his truck. His first stop is a diner where he is well remembered.
Tragicomedy
Kidlat, a jeepney driver in a village in the Philippines, dreams of becoming an astronaut and making it big in the United States. His dreams take him as far as Europe and to a series of events that will show him that his idealisation of what Western and European culture has to offer is far from real.
romantic comedy
Singing matador Juan Bautista is offered a break by a theater manager if he will seduce the beautiful Olimpia. He does so, in part by singing her a beautiful song about the "girl from Barcelona". Once she has succumbed to his advances, she finds out his deception.
Comedy, Crime, Detective, Parody
When San Francisco private detective Sam Spade dies, his son, Sam, Jr., inherits his father's agency, including the sarcastic secretary, Effie Perine (also known as "Godzilla"). He must also continue his father's tradition of "serving minorities" (with "spade" double-entendres). When Caspar Gutman is killed outside Spade's building, his dying words are, "It's black and as long as your arm." Spade is given an offer by a member of the Order of St.
romantic comedy
The marriage of Les and Katie Bingham is in big trouble. They've already split up once, and now they're giving it one more try, but the bedroom of their New York apartment is not a happy place. Les finds her too cold.