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black comedy film, Dark Comedy, romance film, silent film
As described in film magazine reviews, Prince Danilo meets Sally the dancer and, when he proposes marriage, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco and Queen Milena object because she is a commoner. Sally marries Baron Sadoja, an old wealthy roue who later dies from a stroke. Prince Danilo’s parents now encourage the marriage.
romantic comedy, Western
Shy and naive mountain trapper Yancy travels through Wyoming with his uncle and his uncle's Indian wife. After Uncle Lije is injured by a bear, Yancy is sent to trade their beaver pelts for money and supplies. When he arrives at the trading post, he finds it has been burnt down by an Indian who was sold moonshine by a lazy sneak thief, Ben Stocker.
Comedy
During the Second World War, young undergraduate Stanley Windrush is conscripted into the British Army. Unlike his friend, Egan, Windrush is a most reluctant soldier and struggles through basic training at Gravestone Barracks under Sgt. Sutton.
Coming-of-age, romantic comedy
Reed Fish has followed in the footsteps of his late father, doing an early-morning radio show with the town's mayor, Maureen, through which the eccentric locals of Mud Meadows voice their complaints and have them addressed. Reed produces the show with his old high school buddy, Frank, and he's engaged to be married to another high school classmate, Kate Peterson, whose dad owns several businesses in town. Reed's plans are upended when his high school sweetheart, Jill, comes back to town.
Drama
The Majesty of the Law Police Inspector Dillon reluctantly sets out walking through the countryside to see an old friend, Dan O'Flaherty. Along the way, he encounters Mickey J., a poitín maker (bootlegger) who is not Dillon's target, but accompanies Dillon to O'Flaherty's stone cottage where Dillon serves O'Flaherty a warrant for striking Phelim O'Feeney. While they are all congenially drinking and socializing inside O'Flaherty's cottage, O'Flaherty refuses to pay the fine.
comedy television program
Pete, a struggling electronic music DJ, plays music accompanying his girlfriend Sheila while she performs a stripogram at a retirement party for 'Throat', an elderly vacuum salesman who dies during the party. Pete is offered a job as a replacement for 'Throat. Pete is paired with Tommy Rag, an aggressive high-performing salesman Sheila tells Pete that she will not have sex with him anymore until he makes his first sale.
Caper-Movie, Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
As he tries to access an ATM to retrieve his last twenty bucks, Jason “JINX” Taylor runs into a snag: the transaction fee will overdraw him, and he cannot get his money out of the bank. Jinx fumes about this and other hidden charges which complicate his life, as it is revealed he is locked in a bank vault, with the beautiful tied-up Jessica apparently his hostage. Jessica is kept gagged with tape on her mouth.
Comedy drama
John McCanless is a rip-snorting, 79-year-old western rancher, together with the prettiest granddaughter; ugliest horse; scrawniest herd; and puniest partner, a Mexican handyman, go on a cattle drive (of one cow) and do battle against a wealthy, land-grabbing industrialist. After an adventurous (and humorous) trek, à la Don Quixote, the rancher confronts the villain in a shootout that parallels the classic struggle of good and evil in the Old West.
buddy film, Comedy, musical film, Splatstick
A group of gypsy caravans set up on the edge of a wood. They realise they are camped on the estate of Count Arnheim who will not tolerate their presence. The gypsies sing and dance to entertain themselves.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Finding North tells the story of Rhonda (Makkena), a bank teller who's depressed upon turning 30, and Travis (Hickey), a gay man who's recently lost his lover to AIDS and grown suicidal. Travis receives an audio tape recorded by his lover, Bobby, before his death which sends him on a scavenger hunt of sorts to Bobby's home town in Texas. Through a series of mishaps, Rhonda ends up accompanying him on his journey.
Comedy, Groteske
The short consists of a series of surreal vignettes which transpire in the English countryside and involve a rotating array of protagonists. It begins with a man watching through a telescope how an old woman cleans a meadow with a rag and bucket. Other examples are a photographer who tries to develop a film in the water of a lake after wrapping a black piece of cloth around his head, or an athlete who is performing push-ups and is then used as the seat for the model of a portrait painter.
Comedy, comedy television program
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
A trip to Palm Springs, meant to be refreshing for Henry and his girlfriend Penny, escalates to cackling shenanigans when his bombastic friend Paul tags along. Armed with laced cigarettes and a passion for taking things too far, Paul tests the bonds of everyone involved.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, spy film, thriller film
During the Allies' occupation of Paris late in World War II, bumbling tank corps Sergeant "Boysie" Oakes stumbles when responding to a fellow Englishman's call for help, and unwittingly shoots and kills two men attempting to assassinate British Intelligence Major Mostyn. A grateful Mostyn mistakenly believes Oakes is a born killer. Twenty-one years later, Mostyn (then a colonel in British Intelligence) and his boss are in trouble due to a series of embarrassing security leaks.
Comedy
Steve Victor is a spy and scientific investigator for the group Organization for the Rational Guidance of Youth (O.R.G.Y.). Victor is given a mission to determine the location of three prostitutes who are due $15 million from their deceased female manager. Victor starts on the trail knowing only that the three women each has a tattoo on her buttocks of a gopher grinning.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Comedy
When Fraser Sweeney takes a picture of Ginny Grafton (Ami Dolenz), she is kidnapped, and Daniel and Fraser go after the kidnappers. The kidnappers hold her hostage inside the house until she climbs out the bathroom window and escapes the kidnappers, After she escapes the kidnappers, She finds a new boyfriend leaving Fraser unhappy.
black comedy film, Psychological horror, slapstick
Living with his grandmother, Saul attempts to end his life if he can't lose his virginity by his 27th birthday.
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy
Crime boss Little John Sarto retires suddenly, giving leadership of his gang to Jack Buck, while he leaves for a tour of Europe to acquire "class." However, Sarto is repeatedly swindled and finally loses all his money. He decides to return home and take back his gang, as if nothing has changed after five years, but Buck has him thrown out of his office. The only ones who remain loyal to Sarto are his girlfriend Flo Addams and Willie "the Knife" Corson.
Comedy, musical film
Fred Miller must prove that his new design for an underwater home is viable by convincing his family to live in it for 30 days. His son and daughter are members of an emerging rock band, and they invite the two other band members to live with them during the experiment. Their temporary home, which Miller dubs the "Green Onion," is 90 feet below the surface of the ocean and is filled with modern appliances and amenities for housewife Vivian, all designed by Miller.
Comedy
Alexander York, known as The Great Zamboni, is a famous illusionist who works with his wife and assistant, Dawn Starr. During a recording session of one of his shows, something goes wrong during the act, and Dawn Starr disappears. Eleven and a half years later, Zamboni lives alone in an old manor house, with his pet jaguar Shadow.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Scrawny Harry Berlin is a barely functional human being, about to tentatively jump off a bridge. As he contemplates his suicide attempt, he is distracted by Milt Manville, an old friend from fifteen years ago. Harry doesn't really recognize him at first, but Milt's force of personality steers Harry away from the bridge and into his company.
Comedy drama, Drama
The film begins with Bernie, a known alcoholic, walking through the rain on his way to pick up his six-year-old daughter Winnie, who has polio, from his ex-wife Melissa. She has remarried to Carl, who Bernie sees getting in his car to go to work, and not missing a beat, asks to borrow some money from him. While he waits for Melissa to get Winnie ready, he sneaks into their liquor, and downs a couple of large shots of vodka.
romantic comedy
Businessman Clemson Reade breaks off his engagement with workaholic fiance Effie, and becomes engaged to the adoring Princess Tarji from the fictional country of Bukistan, who he sees as an "old-fashioned" girl. As Bukistan is in the midst of making an oil trade agreement with the United States, the State Department assigns a handler to Princess Tarji. Surprisingly, the person given the assignment is Effie.
stand-up comedy
Illustrated with old photos and peppered with Hindi and Urdu phrases, Homecoming King features a central theme of the immigrant experience in the United States, inspired by Minhaj's life as the California-born son of Indian Muslim immigrant parents. In the first half of the show, he discusses his childhood growing up in mostly white Davis, California, where he lived alone with his dad for eight years while his mother was finishing medical school in India. He talks about the pressures of being the child of demanding immigrant parents while at the same time experiencing racism, bullying, and rejection from the outside world.