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Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama
John "Son" Martin owns and operates a profitable still, making moonshine whiskey in Prohibition-era Kentucky. One day, he gets a visit from an old Army acquaintance, Frank Long, who is now an Internal Revenue agent. When Frank is unable to persuade Son to cut him in on the profits, or even reveal where the moonshine is hidden, in exchange for Frank looking the other way, Frank calls in the dangerous Dr.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, thriller film
In a coffeehouse, Officer Joe Vickers, a serial killer empowered by Satan, overhears Brian and Larry, a pair of white-collar workers, discussing a bachelor party that they are planning to throw in their workplace for their friend Gary. Vickers follows the two to their office, and stakes it out in his car (which is full of body parts and demonic imagery) until after hours, which is when Larry bribes the security guard into letting in three strippers. Vickers tricks the guard into letting him in, then stabs him in the eye with a pencil.
Cartoon
This short depicts a series of sketches showing popular Hollywood stars of the day acting out traditional nursery rhymes. Old King Cole is Hugh Herbert, his jester is Ned Sparks and his three fiddlers are The Marx Brothers. Joe Penner brings in a bowl containing special guest Donald Duck.
Comedy
Sol Rubins (Harry Morgan), a dying millionaire, owns a children's summer camp in Arizona, "Camp Sedona". Saul has already planned to leave the camp to his niece Julie (Emily Proctor) after he dies. Julie's fiancé Jeffrey (Judge Reinhold), upset at Sol not leaving them any dowry, wants to sell the camp to rich investors, so he transforms the camp into a prototype adult resort, "Chez Sedona", without telling Julie and invites investors for a weekend getaway, which he hopes will lead to one of them financing a permanent version of the resort.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
Eileen is a devout Catholic and the current front runner for her parish's "Catholic Woman of the Year" award. To win the award and beat her rival, she must prove that she has the perfect Catholic family. However, her recovering alcoholic husband, her lesbian daughter who is having a child with her partner Angela, and her son who has left his wife and kids for an older woman stand in the way of Eileen getting her award.
Comedy, fantasy film
The farming community of Watertown is struggling to survive a severe drought. Harvey Potter arrives in the community by renting a farm, which neighbors think is foolish. However, one day young Willow Johnson passes by Potter's field to find his crop is full of magical, colorful balloons.
Comedy, Crime, musical film
Hair-Do Lempke snatches actress Eleanor Collier, believing her to be a witness to the murder of his gangster boss. Eleanor tells him her story. While rooming with girlfriends Sandra and No-No and desperately trying to become a star, Eleanor resists the marriage proposals of theater director Danny James, her boyfriend.
Comedy, Drama, mockumentary
L. M. Kit Carson plays David, a young white man living alone in his modest studio apartment on Manhattan's West 71st Street during July 1967.
Comedy horror, Horror
An old man, while driving, is attacked by a man wearing a metal mask, "Surgeon General" (Kurt Carley). Surgeon General runs the man off the road and kills him, before destroying the man's car. The sheriff and his men keep and investigate this crime scene.
independent film
Henry Wilt is a demoralised and professionally under-rated assistant lecturer at a technical college in Mid Anglia who is dominated by his psychologically immature wife Eva and thus fantasises about murdering her. During a night walk to relieve his frustrations, he accidentally busts an undercover operation by local police Inspector Flint, earning him the latter's undivided attention. Three weeks afterwards, something that looks like a body is found in a construction foundation on the college grounds.
Comedy, propaganda film
In the Kingdom of Moronika, deposed monarch King Herman the 6+7⁄8 is visited by the war profiteers Ixnay, Amscray, and Umpchay, engineers of the coup that led to his ouster. They regret their treason, and now seek to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the dictator they once supported, Moe Hailstone. To this end, they seek the assistance of the king's daughter, the princess Gilda.
Drama, romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Easy Virtue (1928) In 1926, Larita Filton testifies at her divorce. In a flashback, her husband, a drunken brute named Aubrey Filton, is getting drunk in an artist's studio, as Mrs. Filton's portrait is being painted.
Comedy, Drama
Nick and Meg Burrows are a married academic couple from Moseley, Birmingham on holiday in Paris to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Meg finds the lodging selected by Nick to be unsuitable and they book a room at much more expensive hotel. Their relationship vacillates, with conflict more often in evidence than affection.
Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
thumb|left|Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table Brought up in poverty, New York City hotel manicurist Regi Allen is determined to marry a rich husband. Her new client, wheelchair-using hotel guest Allen Macklyn, is immediately attracted to her and becomes her confidant. Despite his obvious wealth, Regi does not view him as a potential husband, and has no qualms about telling him about her goal in life.
American football film, Comedy
The Stooges are hired by a college to promote the college football team by masquerading as football players. Meanwhile, the owner of a professional football team, Joe Stacks, is in need of three new players for the next game. Joe's girlfriend meets the Stooges and confuses them for the famed "The Three Horsemen" (a parody of the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame fame).
Action, Comedy, Crime, Erotic Film
In 1934, Wilma McClatchie's husband is shot down by police attempting to evict the McClatchies from their farm. Wilma's entry into a bank-robbing career occurs from a need for righteous revenge against Morgan Crawford, the banker who foreclosed on her home and is now running for governor of Texas. She tells her two daughters, Polly and Billie Jean: "The best way to kill a man is to destroy his dreams." So, among other things, she abducts Crawford's son, Jordan, and turns him into a willing gang member with her daughters' help.
Comedy
Manfred Link is the president of the United States. He and the usually tipsy First Lady have a 28-year-old, sex-starved daughter named Gloria. The president is surrounded by a number of eccentric staffers and allies, including Vice President Shockley, Ambassador Spender, Press Secretary Bunthorne and a presidential aide named Feebleman.
romantic comedy
Ed Malloy, a tough bouncer from Portland, Oregon, is dragged into a twisted web of lies, magic, and kung fu. Samantha Crain is a glamorous supermodel who has everything—except for true love. Her sister Cammy is an "Indiana Jones" styled botanist in search of a very rare lotus flower.
Comedy
Comedy, Crime
The film is set in Los Angeles in 1947. A criminal on the run from hired killers comes to the office of a private detective named Tucker and asks Tucker to find a daughter he left at an orphanage in 1918. The man has a substantial amount of money that he wants to give the girl.
Comedy, Raunchy comedy
Cattle Call follows the three male protagonists as they hold a fake casting call in Hollywood for a fictional independent film entitled Perfect for Me with the hope of meeting women. Richie is looking for a relationship, while Sherman and Glenn are more interested in sex. After going on dates with the girls, they eventually chose three women to be in their "film": Marina, Laurel and Nikita.
Comedy horror
The action in Haunted Spooks centres around Harold's romantic problems. It is set in the South ("[go] down the Mississippi and turn to the right"). The opening sequence has an uncle reading a telegram regarding a will.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
The world's most notorious bad guys are invited to the island fortress of super-villain Tan-Gu (Lloyd Floyd) to compete in an Olympic-style tournament of evil, called the Evilympics. Mr. Quincy Magoo (Jim Conroy) and his 12-year-old nephew Justin (Dylan Sprouse) fight giant robot spiders, ninjas on jet skis, and Tan-Gu's "Beasteen" mutants, as representatives of the anti-evil task force.
Comedy, Drama, slice of life, Tragicomedy
The film follows an unnamed taxi driver (played by Paul Dillon) over one day in Chicago, shortly before Christmas. More than 30 passengers enter his taxi throughout the course of the film, providing brief looks into their personal lives. Among the actors giving cameo appearances are Gillian Anderson, John Cusack, Laurie Metcalf, Julianne Moore, John C.