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Comedy drama
The film opens with four college freshmen—Alec, Nolan, Patrick and Ryan—sneaking into an old classroom to retrieve an item confiscated by a freshman high school teacher. Their conversation is interrupted when campus security discovers them. The friends dart through the halls of the school and manage to avoid capture.
Comedy, Comedy drama
The film revolves around Victor Norman (Clark Gable), a World War II veteran and radio advertising executive. Victor is in search of a job in his field after returning from the war. In an attempt to appear uninterested in finding work, he throws a few dollars out of his hotel window, leaving himself with only $50.
Comedy, Parody, screwball comedy film, Western
Milford Farnsworth is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James. Farnsworth is sent out west to shield the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James. James has his own plan: to have Farnsworth killed while the insurance man is dressed as the outlaw so that James and his soon-to-be "widow", Cora Lee Collins, can collect on the $100,000 insurance policy.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Harry Leeds and Charles "Charlie" Dyer are queer hairdressers who have been a couple for twenty years. They both manage Chez Harry, a barbershop in London's East End, where Harry's bedridden invalid mother stays upstairs. Harry has alopecia and rather than wear a toupée, he wraps a bandage around his head.
Comedy, Science fiction
Hyde Pierce, acting out the role of an alien (credited as "infinity-cubed" in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late 20th-century American city, presenting findings and opinions as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy. Among other themes the film explores the possibility that, whenever describing their interpretations of other species' acts and feelings, humans may get everything wrong.
Comedy, Crime, romance film, romantic comedy
Beautiful, young, sexy Madeleine de Beaupre selects a string of perfect pearls worth millions of francs at a posh Parisian jeweler. She cons the owner Aristide Duvalle into believing she is married to an eminent and wealthy psychiatrist, Maurice Pauquet, and has him deliver the pearls to Pauquet's office in order for him to pay for them. Before the scheduled time she meets Pauquet there and tells him her husband has delusions of needing to collect debts and needs to be examined.
Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
At an airport, a dapper man, Casey (Walter Pidgeon), picks the pocket of a deaf man, relieving him of his wallet. Casey then meets his old friend Harry (James Coburn) at his arrival gate. Ray Houlihan (Michael Sarrazin) is an amateur pickpocket making various, obviously inept attempts to steal watches and wallets in Seattle's Union Station.
children's film
After rescuing the citizens of in the fictional city of Berkheiser, North Dakota, from an earthquake, the Rescue Heroes are sent to Ecuador to evacuate two reporters who are trapped in a crashed helicopter following an eruption of the Mount Sangay volcano. While climbing the volcano, Rocky Canyon, out of overconfidence, neglects to use the piton gloves, resulting in both him and Billy Blazes falling off the mountain. He brings Billy to safety and the two are able to rescue the reporters.
Comedy
A couple accidentally gains possession of a briefcase containing $5 million belonging to the Romanian Mafia.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
The film opens with Angela Arden kneeling in front of her twin sister Barbara's grave. Angela is a lounge singer who is attempting to resuscitate her floundering career, which became obsolete around the same time Barbara committed suicide. She is unhappily married to her film director husband Sol Sussman, with whom she has two children – Lance, who is gay and emotionally disturbed, and Edith, a "daddy's girl" who is openly contemptuous of her mother.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
Paul Prentice and Karl Foyle were close friends during their secondary school days. Paul used to defend Karl from the violent attacks of their classmates, who ridiculed Karl for being effeminate. Some years later they are reunited literally by accident, when Paul, on the motorcycle he rides as a courier, runs into the cab that Karl (who has undergone surgery and is named Kim) is riding in.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, teen film
In 1980s Europe, flamboyant and gay 16-year-old Chance Marquis shows up at an international high school in a top hat and tails, immediately attracting the attention of the "queer-hating" resident bully, among others. Through his involvement in the school newspaper, he meets an introverted photographer with a mysterious briefcase, and while practicing tennis, he befriends a catty fashionista, both of whom act as his wingmen in his new high school. He also meets the jock-next-door, with whom he forms a tentative friendship, despite the jock's cacophonous group of friends.
Comedy drama
A man pursues his old dream of becoming a singer by performing karaoke.
Christmas film, Tragicomedy
Danny is a middle school student who lives in the town of Norpole, Maine with his mother Elizabeth and his sister Jennifer. Sadly, Danny's father has died, and this will be the family's first Christmas without him. When Jennifer says that she does not believe in Santa Claus any more, Danny decides to prove that Santa is real.
Drama
The story is set in Glasgow, Scotland near the banks of the River Clyde. After completing the construction of the ship RFA Mounts Bay, Frank Redmond (played by Peter Mullan) and a few of his co-workers are laid off from the shipyards after 36 years service. This, along with his grief still suffered over the drowning of one of his sons many years ago, plummets Frank into a deep depression.
Comedy drama, Drama, Fake Documentary, musical film
In the early 1970s, the twins are essentially purchased by a sleazy talent manager with plans to turn them into rock stars. The brothers form a pub rock band called the Bang Bang. As the band's success grows, a music journalist, Laura (Tania Emery), follows the band writing an article.
Comedy, Satire
An advertising man is assigned by his boss to come up with a sexy new image for Mrs McLaughlin's Frozen Porridge. While his wife runs a clean-up-TV campaign organized by the local vicar, he has an affair with the au-pair girl. The various porridge advertising campaigns get more and more extreme: the most relevant being the Goldilocks and the Three Bears campaign.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Not long after she celebrates her 80th birthday, the sophisticated and still attractive Lady Lendale (widely known as "Lady L") sojourns to her summerhouse with her biographer, Sir Percy, to recount the story of her life. Fleeing her humble origins in Corsica, Louise travels to Paris, where she finds works in a brothel—as a laundress. There she falls in love with Armand, a thief and somewhat inept anarchist, and she eventually becomes pregnant by him.
Comedy
The Toronto International Film Festival described the film, "An acerbic comedian (Sasheer Zamata) becomes romantically entangled with her ex (Tone Bell), his new girlfriend (DeWanda Wise), and another guest (Y’Lan Noel) during a weekend getaway."
animated film, Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, Science fiction
As the film begins, a brown bird in flight becomes infatuated with a blue bird, and they begin mating in midair. After passing through a cloud they fall into a nosedive, eventually striking a satellite dish on top of a house belonging to Mr. Grant Boyer- Grant is then struck by a beam of mysterious energy.
Comedy
An out-of-work method actor is hired by a stripper, a male model, and a car salesman to listen to their problems and go see a psychiatrist on their behalf; the three "nuts" lack the funds to see the psychiatrist on their own, hence the request. The actor has to pretend that he alone has all the problems of the three who hired him. The psychiatrist is naturally intrigued and begins secretly recording her sessions with him.
Adventure, buddy film, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
The film starts with con-artist Chuck Reardon singing "You Lucky People, You" as a side-show caller at an African circus advertising an act featuring his friend Hubert "Fearless" Frazier. "Fearless" poses as a human cannonball, but quickly substitutes a dummy at the last minute and hides in a secret compartment. The flaming dummy sets the big tent on fire and the two of them flee through Africa.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Set in 1884, the story focuses on Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widow who supports herself by a variety of means, with matchmaking as her primary source of income. Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy but miserly merchant from Yonkers, New York, has hired her to find him a wife, but unbeknownst to him, Dolly is determined to fill the position herself. When he expresses his intent to travel to New York City to woo milliner Irene Molloy, Dolly shows him the photograph of a woman she calls Miss Ernestina Simple and tells him the buxom beauty would be a far better choice for him.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Susan, a flighty society matron, returns from Europe earlier than expected waxing enthusiastic about a new religious movement. She is estranged from her intelligent and sensitive husband Barrie, who has been driven to drink by his wife's insensitivity, and she has neglected her introverted and maladjusted daughter Blossom. Barrie tries to meet her ship (SS Normandie) as it arrives in New York City, but she avoids him and absconds to the country home of her friend Irene Burroughs.