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Comedy drama
Judge James K. Hardy hopes to be reelected, but his campaign is placed in jeopardy by his opposition to a wasteful public-works program. Hardy and his family—wife Emily, adult daughters Joan and Marion and teenage son Andy—live in Carvel, a small Midwestern American town.
Comedy
This is a "slice-of-life" film set primarily around a Puerto Rican luxury hotel frequented by young East Coast weekenders.
Comedy, Drama
In a post-World War II London auction house, an elderly woman is trying to acquire an attractive fan she claims was once hers. A flashback to the Victorian era reveals she is the scandalous Mrs. Erlynne, who in middle age becomes associated with Lord Arthur Windermere, whose young and beautiful but socially conservative wife Margaret tends to judge others harshly.
Drama, romantic comedy
Sisters Sarah and Beth are in relationships with bandmates Andrew and Kevin. Beth is making plans for her wedding with Andrew. Sarah, an artist, moves in with Kevin but struggles to overcome her ambivalence.
Comedy
Friends Irma Peterson and Jane Stacey room together in New York. Irma is a somewhat dimwitted blonde with good intentions. Jane is an ambitious woman who dreams of marrying a rich man.
Comedy, musical film, Western
Confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to seek his fortune, but is short ten dollars for a train ticket. In the railroad station, he encounters brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello and attempts to swindle them, but the Panellos are also con men and swindle Quale instead.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Family Drama
An editor for a publisher in NYC, single mother Jackie Durning has been on top of her son Angelo his whole life. From a very young age, she has been grooming him to become a writer. He gets into NYU to major in writing, but he lacks self-confidence as she's always been his biggest critic and editor.
Comedy horror
At a Los Angeles coffee house called the Jabberjaw, several performance artists vie for the attention of Generation X hipsters, including Maxwell, a poet who declares that "life is nothing but a homeless traveler on the RTD of art", Mayolia, who performs monologues holding a toy monkey, Cuff and Link, a pair of sarcastic photographers who intentionally run over animals and photograph the road kill, and "Stupid Girl", who strips nude on stage while playing cello. Other regular attendants at the cafe include an older rich couple looking for art by new talent, and Lou, an undercover cop trying to bust heroin dealers operating in the cafe.…
Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, musical film, Parody
Act I Lucius Malfoy and Yaxley meet to discuss Lord Voldemort's defeat at the hands of Harry Potter. Lucius describes that if it were not for Harry Potter, they would be reigning supreme. Lucius then explains his plan to use a Time Turner to go back in time to Harry's first year at Hogwarts to destroy him before he can become a threat for the Death Eaters ("Not Over Yet").
Comedy
In 1995, the Jacobs family is a tight-knit Italian-Jewish family. Parents Pat and Alan have a marriage that seems to be struggling because of Pat's disinterest in her husband. Elder daughter Dana is in a long-term relationship with her fiancé Ben that has hit a rut.
Comedy
The film tells the story of Phil Campbell (Jason Biggs), a journalist who has just lost his job and gets roped into leading Grant Cogswell's political campaign. Grant, played by Joel David Moore, is Phil's enthusiastic and eccentric friend whose passion for the Seattle Monorail Project inspires him to run for Seattle City Council. Grant is running against the incumbent, Richard McIver, played by Cedric the Entertainer.
Comedy
Jewish estate agent Leon Geller, who lives in London, discovers his father is not actually local businessman Sidney Geller but Yorkshire Dales pig farmer Brian Chadwick.
Crime Comedy, thriller film
Phillip is a naive nobody with an uncanny knack for winning in a casino. Not much caring if he wins or loses, Phillip goes on a weeks-long hot streak in Las Vegas that ultimately comes to the attention of a lot of people who want his money. Lusting after it most is Louise, a lounge singer and con artist who seduces Phillip in the Liberace museum, then lies to him that she is $150,000 in debt from medical and funeral expenses for her parents.
Secret Agent, spy film
In the mid-1960s height of the Cold War, U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are assigned to meet and bring the "most wanted" former Nazi, missile expert Dr. Heinrich von Kronen, in to the agency.
Biography, Comedy, Fake Documentary, LGBTQ-related film, musical film
The film looks at buff and muscular men of the 1950s in magazines and the repetitive industry that was popular in the health and fitness magazines but were primarily being purchased by homosexual men and underground homosexual communities. The person behind the literature was Bob Mizer, who "maintained a magazine and developed sexually explicit men's films for over 40 years." By the end of the film, a courtroom drama scene is shot as Mizer attempting to run a male-prostitute ring in the early '60s. Clips of Mizer's actual films are included in Beefcake.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Jack Hopkins is an aircraft designer and hands-on engineer with a passion for traction engines and he owns one called The Iron Maiden. His boss, Sir Giles Thompson, is eager to sell a new supersonic jet aircraft (which Jack has designed) to American millionaire airline owner, Paul Fisher, who has come to England with his wife and daughter Kathy. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, as (without knowing their connection) the traction engine crashes into the front of Fisher's car on a narrow lane.
Comedy
Teddy Bears' Picnic covers an annual encampment of prominent male leaders at the Zambezi Glen. The film starts out with the first ever women's day at the glen, where wives and girlfriends of Zambezi members are invited to visit the glen ahead of the annual encampment, which also serves to introduce the glen and the characters to the audience. The actual retreat itself begins after the members have returned without any women and kicks off with the "Assassination of Time", based on the real Cremation of Care at the Bohemian Grove, with a pelican replacing the latter's owl.
children's film, Christmas film, crossover fiction
At the school called P.S. 5, a teacher named Miss Walker tells some children a version of E. T.
Christmas film, Family Drama, fantasy film
After Santa Claus has noticed how many children have become naughty, he decides that he will not deliver presents to any children this year. But his daughter, Kristin Claus, takes on the challenge of trying to deliver presents to children around the world. She makes a deal with people in the North Pole that she would change a family on "Santa's Naughty List" to be on the "Nice List".
Action, Action Comedy, buddy film
Former race car driver and American expatriate Peter Roberts has retired at the urging of his lawyer wife, though he resists getting an office job. Instead, he becomes an instructor at a driving school, while waiting for an investment opportunity to open a racing school. After he drops his daughter off to school and learns that he can no longer afford her private school tuition, he takes a fellow American as his first client.
Comedy horror, Dark Comedy, Horror
Donald is an overweight, middle-aged construction worker with a big problem: his shrew of a wife May has started to only cook gourmet foods in a Hyacinth Bucket–style misguided effort to make themselves seem classier than they are. While his friends Roosevelt and Phillip dine on simple bologna-and-cheese sandwiches for lunch, Donald is saddled with crab sandwiches and other cooking atrocities. To his horror, he discovers his wife has bought an unusually large Major Electric microwave oven, which makes the meals worse in half the time.
Comedy
Danny Stein, a socially awkward high school senior, is facing the pressures of attending prom. With his parents embroiled in a messy divorce, Danny is left to navigate the complexities of high school life on his own. His main concern is finding a date for prom, but his attempts to impress girls and secure a date are consistently unsuccessful.
Comedy drama
The abusive owner of a noodle shop in the desert in China plans the murder of his adulterous wife and her lover but it goes awry after various characters' intertwined stories lead to double crosses and fatalities.
Comedy horror, Horror, Parody
Dick Harbinger is a police officer. Thirteen years ago, on Halloween, a man wearing a pumpkin head and driving a lawnmower murdered several children. Everyone is a suspect.