Elephant Parts (1981)
independent film, sketch comedy
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independent film, sketch comedy
Comedy, sexploitation film
The film follows an aspiring actress working as a waitress, as she deals with a variety of crazy customers, drunken chefs, and other zany hurdles.
romantic comedy
A romantic comedy, set on Cape Cod in 1905, about three 70-year-old retired sea captains who try to lure an attractive, middle-aged woman into marriage.
Comedy drama
Comedy, Computeranimation
Bolt and Penny have been kidnapped by Dr. Calico, muffled and suspended above a pool of lava, inside a heavily guarded warehouse on an island in the middle of nowhere – a base which is impenetrable to both people and dogs. Penny's father watches the events from his lab through a secret camera embedded in Bolt's collar and worries that he cannot save her.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Drama
Elizabeth lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1976. She is nearly 12, which Marion, her mother, points out "makes you still 11". Elizabeth and her friend Annabelle are looking forward to their bodies maturing, including the possibility that they might get "big boobs" like Dolly Parton.
fantasy film
Ella Muggins is a Camberwell charwoman who is the widow of a regimental sergeant major. One day during the London Blitz, she relates to her friends a story about a "magic eye" charm that her husband obtained during his Army service in India that protected him from all harm. Whilst cleaning her attic, she goes through her husband's effects and finds the charm that she absent-mindedly puts in the pocket of her skirt.
musical film, romantic comedy
Melinda Howard is an entertainer traveling by ocean liner from England to surprise mother, Broadway singer Jessica Howard, in New York City. Melinda believes that her mother lives in a mansion, but Jessica's alcoholism has reduced her to singing in a Greenwich Village saloon, and the mansion actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell and his wife. Jessica's friends, the Hubbells' butler Lefty Mack and his fiancée Gloria Davis, the maid, are an unsuccessful vaudeville team who have been forwarding her letters to Melinda.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy drama, mystery film
In Athens, Greece, a secret agent named Stelios goes to an outdoor café, where the waiter gives him newspapers and a package. The newspapers reveal that a German scientist has been declared missing in Greece, and the package contains a photo of the dog Benji with his human family, the Chapmans. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Chapmans arrive at an airport, en route to the island of Crete in Greece.
Comedy drama, Satire
Carl Vandermeer is a former Deadhead turned evangelical. He, his wife Gwen and his stepdaughter Angie attend a megachurch, the Church of the Third Millennium, run by the charismatic Pastor Dan Day, who is planning to expand his church into a large Christian community, "City on a Hill". At the start of the film, the Vandermeers attend a debate between Pastor Dan and Professor Paul Blaylock, an outspoken atheist.
Comedy
Comedy drama
The film covers the four days before Halloween as Kenny and his best friend Doug (both 12 years old) and awkward 11-year-old Sherman prepare for the holiday. They spend time playing flag football and skateboarding. The three boys must deal with a local bully, and Kenny gets his first crush on a girl.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The story revolves around University of Melbourne film studies students and roommates Mia and Alice, each of whom is experiencing various upheavals. Mia and Alice have just moved into a trendy apartment but are in desperate need of a housemate. Mia's girlfriend Danni is keen to move in, but Mia fears commitment.
Comedy horror, Horror, sexploitation film, Slasher, Splatter Film, Teen Horror Film
High school students Kelly and Gary are camping out at night, when an unseen assailant stabs Gary to death and impales Kelly with a hiking stick. The next day, the Bridgemont High cheerleading squad (Parker, Angela, Tammy, Shelley, and Dina) practice before leaving for an event in another town. In the locker room, Shelley mourns for their former teammate, Marissa, who died exactly one year ago.
children's film, Comedy, Computeranimation, sport film
Crime, Drama
In 1931, outside Kansas City, Missouri, wealthy heiress Barbara Blandish is robbed by three small-time criminals. The trio panic after murdering her boyfriend and kidnap her. At their hideout, the trio are ambushed and killed by mobster Eddie Hagan, who happened to witness the crime, and the rest of the notorious Grissom Gang.
Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
Forty-something schoolmistress Kate and her two best friends, police superintendent Janine and doctor Molly, live in rural Britain and share their single lives and dating exploits in weekly chats. Kate has recovered from ovarian cyst disease and fears a relapse; she hasn't been dating much. By chance, she meets Jed, a former student of hers, now a handsome twenty-something church organist.
Comedy
Todd Barrett is an aspiring businessman. He has got what it takes, but what he does not have is enough money to stay in college. So, he cooks up a plan to make the first-ever all-male sports calendar.
Comedy, Road Movie
Luke is chased by several people in a car dump yard in Kaikohe. He jumps into a working yellow Mini Cooper S and drives away. Meanwhile Jon, an Auckland-based writer who cannot finish his book, decides to visit a wedding in Wellington that Suzie, his ex-fiancée, is invited to.
Comedy, musical film
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Drama, musical film, romance film
Sally, a filmmaker and screenwriter suffering from writer's block, is dissatisfied with her film project, a murder mystery called Rage, which features the fashion industry. Taking a break, she travels to Paris, where she sees the dancer Pablo (Pablo Verón) performing tango. She becomes obsessed with the dance and offers Pablo a part in her film in exchange for dance lessons.
Comedy, Parody, Western
Phoebe Ann Naylor is about to be wed to Don Andrea Baldazar, El Duce de la Casala, in Louisiana in 1845. The festivities are broken up by the arrival of Yancey Cottle and his relatives, who form a U.S. Dragoons troop under the command of Cottle's cousin, Captain Rodney Stimpson.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
While driving to work one day, the manager of a public records office (never addressed by name and hereafter referred to as the Boss) sees a man standing on an overpass. The Boss's office is in a building on top of a large hill completely inaccessible by foot, and he employs three people: Ernest, an overweight and neurotic klutz; Rocky, who dresses and acts like a mobster; and Vivian, his verbose, flirtatious, and bluntly honest receptionist. To help with an upcoming increase in workload, the Boss posts a job opening for a fourth employee, but the only person who applies is the man from the overpass, the titular Bartleby.