A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012)
Animation, Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
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Animation, Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Comedy horror, Horror
Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) is the press secretary for the White House and for the President of the United States. While on assignment in Hungary, he is bitten by a wolf who actually turns out to be a man. When Jack tries to report it, he believes it is the work of Communists.
Comedy, Dark Comedy
The film begins with Heinrich Grigoris explaining to his new employee Tommy Hudler how to sell home security systems. Tommy starts selling the systems and makes a sale to Gale Anconca, a widow, during which he meets her teenage son, Howard. Tommy has dinner with Heinrich and Sally to celebrate his first sale.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, black comedy film, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, fantasy film, Horror, independent film, mockbuster, romance film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
The film focuses on the Orinoco River in Venezuela, where a strain of genetically modified piranha have escaped into an isolated tributary of the river. Through human interference of the local environment, the megapiranha manage to escape from their isolated spot and swim downstream, killing all that cross their path. The megapiranha gradually make their way towards Florida at the height of the tourist season.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Frankie, Amanda, MJ, and Banks are housemates fresh out of college. Frankie is a social worker who is dating Taylor, a lawyer. Amanda, an artist, meets and falls in love with Alexander Midnight, a performance artist.
Comedy, stand-up comedy
Comedy drama
In 1959, an American teenager travels from the Contiguous United States to Hawaii with his parents for a vacation and meets five other teenagers. The film follows the teenagers as they learn about surfing, drinking, sex, and friendship.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Comedy, Comedy drama, trial film
The death of Stanley Moorehead, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, has created a vacancy on the high court. The President's appointee turns out to be Ruth Loomis, a staunch conservative from Orange County, California, who is confirmed as the first female Associate Justice. She and Associate Justice Daniel Snow, a committed liberal who is many years older than Loomis and with many years on the Supreme Court, clash intellectually on just about every judicial issue that is before them.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Sylwia Zając, a fitness motivator influencer surrounded by admirers and loyal employees, searches for true intimacy.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Couples Joel and Sophie, Sam and Sammie and Isaac and Claudia are dining with writer Art Witz. The latter talks about his new book, in which he argues that monogamy is a lie and that people are by nature alienated. The three couples react furiously.
Adventure
Minkey, a super-spy primate, rescues his partner Mike Muggins from Middle Eastern terrorists. Their secretary, Edith, commends them on being the two best spies in the business, but Mike informs her that he is going to retire to be with his wife and daughter. The movie flashes forward 10 years.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
Three couples meet by chance at a private school fundraiser and come together to organize a school pageant while becoming friends. Claire and Leo LaRonde are two fast-talking yuppies. Leo runs a doll-making company.
Comedy
A young pop-star, Tom Pickle (Michael York), travels to India to learn to play the sitar with the musician Ustad Zafar Khan (as George Harrison did when he studied under Ravi Shankar). Khan (Utpal Dutt) is not happy with his disciple but still takes him to Benares to meet his own guru. Throughout, Pickle struggles with the humility and meekness needed to study Indian music under a guru.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Parisian doctor Andre Bertier is faithful to his loving wife Colette, much to the surprise of his lovely female patients. But when Colette's best friend Mitzi Olivier insists upon being treated by Dr. Bertier, his devotion is put to the test.
Aliens, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Parody, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, thriller film
The story begins in 1957 in the star-filled skies above California's Mojave Desert. It is a special night for noted astronomer Ted Lewis, who is preparing a special anniversary dinner with steaks for his beautiful, adoring wife Lana while observing the annual meteor shower of the Perseids. In another part of town, Tammy, a waitress at a small local diner with big plans for the future, looks out her window and is excited to see a shooting star, which she takes as a good sign for her dreams.
Comedy
Mark is an actor living in a basement flat below his writer friend Pierce. Residing with his girlfriend Sally, Mark struggles to find work whilst caring for his paralysed brother, David. Desperate to avoid paying overdue rent, Mark continually eludes landlord Jack, meaning he is also unable to inform Jack of the flat's dilapidated state.
Drama
Cyril (McKern) and Waldo (Randolph), who are British and American, respectively, have both returned to France in search of the same woman (Moreau) with whom they each had a rendezvous in 1944 (unknown to the other). Cyril is accompanied by fellow veteran Amos (Guinness), while Waldo has his petty daughter Beverly (Chaplin) and her henpecked husband (Herrmann) in tow. Amos is childlike and carries an empty jam jar as if it is a favored toy.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Raunchy comedy, romantic comedy
Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the United States. Angelo shocks his parents – and his sister, Anna – by moving out on his own without getting married, and, shortly after that, shocks them further still when he reveals he is gay. But his boyfriend (and childhood best friend), policeman Nino Paventi, isn't as ready to come out of the closet – especially not to his busybody Sicilian mother, Lina.
romantic comedy
Derrick, an aspiring lawyer who is studying for the bar exam, struggles to keep his head above water financially. His best friend and roommate E.J. suggests Derrick join him at his job as a seat filler at awards shows.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
The Great New Wonderful is a series of vignettes of incidents taking place concurrently around Manhattan. The only other thing linking the incidents is the month in which they occur: September 2002. Recurring themes include frustration and sugar.
Comedy, Slasher
Television reporter April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to find her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the director, Able Whitman, is not only the culprit, but that he has rendered her sister's body into props. Whitman requires more "props" for his film, meaning more body parts, which in turn requires a killing spree.
Comedy drama, Crime, mystery film
Trixie Zurbo is an eccentric woman who longs to quit her job as a security guard in a department store and become a private detective. She finally gets her wish when she takes a job in security at a casino. She accidentally becomes involved in a murderous plot and Trixie takes her first case; however, her unschooled command of the English language (malapropism) and comedy intervenes and the mess begins.
Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
The Institute for Advanced Concepts is a think tank composed of five scientists with an unlimited budget and a propensity for fabricating national hysterias. The five hatch a plan to trick a man into thinking he is of extraterrestrial origin through brainwashing and, using their talking computer "Doris" to conduct a national search, settle on a psychology professor named Simon Mendelssohn, who was abandoned at birth and is trying to perform an experiment with an isolation tank. At the institute, Simon is submerged in an isolation tank of their own and, after an extended time, emerges in a weakened mental state that causes him to reenact…