Rhubarb (1951)
Comedy
Lonely, eccentric millionaire Thaddeus J. Banner, who owns the Brooklyn Loons baseball team, takes a dog-chasing stray cat into his home. He names the cat Rhubarb, which is baseball slang for an argument or fight.
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Comedy
Lonely, eccentric millionaire Thaddeus J. Banner, who owns the Brooklyn Loons baseball team, takes a dog-chasing stray cat into his home. He names the cat Rhubarb, which is baseball slang for an argument or fight.
Comedy, Silly Movie
French actress Didi has become more famous for bubble bath commercials than her acting. She runs away for a while to Oregon, where she encounters middle-aged married realtor Tom Meade who agrees to assist her, and becomes enmeshed in various complications when he and his wacky housekeeper try to hide her from his wife and the public. Everyone is convinced Meade and Didi are having an affair.
Comedy, musical film
Meek, aging, hypochondriac stage producer J.J. Hobart, who always thinks he is about to die, is going to mount a new show, but his partners Morty Wethered and Tom Hugo lost the money for the show in the stock market. On the advice of chorus girl Genevieve Larkin, they insure J.J.
Adventure, Comedy
A brother and sister named Kevin and Holly Ryan are kayaking with dolphins near St. Augustine, Florida and are filming on a nearby island and discover a real-estate mogul named Winston Mills, who has big plans for the cove. When they kayak back home, a boat causes them to fall into the water, and a dolphin saves Holly from drowning.
Drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer. Joe is a regular guy who runs a flower shop and has never had much in the way of good luck. Things seem to be grim for Joe when he's diagnosed with a brain tumor, but a bit of good fortune appears on the horizon when he wins a jackpot at the race track.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Vampire
Transylvania, 1979: Hard times have fallen upon the House of Dracula, and to help pay the taxes on the ancestral castle, it has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. The hotel manager is the beautiful and sensuous Nocturna, granddaughter of the original Count, who still resides in the crypt deep in the sub-basement of the establishment. Nocturna books the American disco group Moment of Truth to entertain in the hotel's cabaret, The Claret Room, to increase business and the supply of fresh blood at the hotel.
Comedy
Oliver Pease has deceived his bride Martha into believing he's an inquiring reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Banner when, in fact, he is employed there as a classified ads clerk. When Martha suggests Oliver ask people on the street, "What influence has a baby had on your life?," he submits the question to the real reporter, who dismisses it outright. Oliver approaches the editor and introduces himself as a representative of the publisher, who he claims wants to improve the feature by having Oliver roam the city and ask the question suggested by his wife.
Comedy, Drama
Morris Bliss (played by Michael C. Hall) is a 35-year-old man with poor job prospects who lives with his widowed father (Peter Fonda) in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Morris falls into a romantic relationship with Stephanie (Brie Larson), the daughter of Jetski, his former high-school classmate (Brad William Henke).
Comedy horror
Business has never been so bad for sexploitation filmmakers Sam Smith and Ernest Gray. After their premises are busted by the authorities for non-payment of rent, the hapless pair become prime suspects in a nearby cemetery murder. The mental pressure of near-destitution and criminal investigation becomes overwhelming for Ernest.
Comedy
The film centers on a German woman, Elaine Hines, living in New York City with aspirations of becoming a novelist. Reality settles in when Elaine loses her secretary job at a toilet seat company. Her agent calls her manuscript unsellable and not sexy enough before dropping her as a client.
Comedy, Drama, Satire
Comedy, Western
In 1886, Sergeant Bugs Bunny of the United States Cavalry receives orders to guard Fort Lariat while the cavalry goes on a special mission. Bugs patrols the fort, but a Native American army led by Renegade Sam wants to take over it. Sam orders an attack and the Indians charge, firing arrows.
Comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=15|Champagne (1928) Heiress Betty Balfour draws the ire of her father after using his aeroplane to fly to meet her boyfriend, who is aboard an ocean liner headed to France. Betty's boyfriend becomes seasick, so she must attend dinner alone, where she meets a mysterious man. She receives a telegram from her disapproving father, who warns that her boyfriend will not be admired by her friends.
Comedy, Crime
Wealthy Mary Eldredge (Helena Phillips Evans) decides to donate $250,000 (in 2020 purchase-power that would be $4.5 million) to her alma mater, where teenager Nancy Drew (Bonita Granville) is a student. When Mary doesn't deliver the check to the lawyer Carson Drew (John Litel), Nancy's father, and disappears, it seems as if she has backed out of her original intention. Nancy's classmates turn on her, annoyed that she had gotten their hopes up about getting a swimming pool for the school.
Comedy
Comedy, romantic comedy
A.J. Niles is a provocative best-selling author who discovers he was ripped off by his accountant, Herman Wapinger, and owes a large tax debt. Under the alias, Jack Adams, Niles goes undercover in a California suburban community called Paradise Village to research a new book about the wives and lives there.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, teen film
School is over and summer has begun in the dead-end seaside town of Rainmouth. While Jamie's friends seem to be happy working in the local pie factory by day and looking for sex by night, Jamie is bored out of his mind, running his pot-head mother's B&B. He's desperate to get out of there.
Comedy
Successful shoe manufacturer John Reeves is annoyed with his staff, particularly his conceited nephew and company general manager Benjamin Burnett (who considers himself the driving force behind the firm), because they are losing ground to their longtime chief rival, headed by former best friend Tom Hartland. The two men had had a falling out after falling in love with the same woman; she married Hartland, and Reeves remained a bachelor. Nevertheless, Reeves is saddened to learn of Hartland's death.
teen film
Terri Venessi (Mary Kate Schellhardt), a local straight-A student and ‘deli girl’, always seems to be at odds with the cheerleading captain, Karen Ridgeway (Hillary Tuck). Terri is the daughter of Grace (Valerie Harper) who is a widow and Karen is the daughter of Millie (Shelley Fabares) who have been known rivals since the day their friendship was strained. One day, their pranks on each other go too far when a revenge-fueled stink bomb in Karen's locker gets out of hand and the school has to be evacuated for two days as a result.
Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Molly Thatcher is a stockbroker languishing in a New York company run by male chauvinist Bullard Bear. When the company does poorly, he decides that he has to fire somebody. As the only female broker, Molly is the obvious choice since dismissing a male broker would make people think the company is in trouble.
Comedy horror, Horror, Science fiction
On a snow-covered mountain, a bus, truck, and a few cars arrive at a remote camp area to film a porno film. The group is made up of professional porn actors Ron Jeremy and Veronica Hart, novice porn stars Rock, Angel, Wanda, and Lance, as well as the director and producer Jim, cameraman Jonah, gaffer-electrician and sound guy T.J., and makeup and script girl Laura. While the cast and crew are shooting the movie, Ron is apparently possessed by a strange glowing light from the sky, leading to changes in his behavior, and then his death and the disappearance of his legendary penis.
Comedy, Western
Corset company owner and supporter of women's suffrage Rose Gillray has her wagon struck by a 'horseless carriage' in 1897 New York. This early automobile is driven by Charlie Masters, who tells her it is the transportation of the future. At work, Rose is helping singer Molly Wade into a boldly designed new corset when she gets the idea that using it for Molly's costume on stage would help to promote sales, but instead the show is shut down by the police.
teen film
Best friends Max Mendelsson and Perry Barnett are a pair of misfit high school teenagers who always cause trouble at school. After starting the first day with a large amount of destructive pranks, the duo are suspended from school. They later get themselves into more trouble when they intentionally misdirect several construction workers into drilling on the wrong area, ultimately causing roadside damage and getting themselves arrested by the police.
Gross Out Film, romantic comedy, Sex Film
After a long humbling year temping as a traffic cop on a studio lot, Jody is faced with the hard decision of taking the only well-paying industry job she has yet been offered — editing porn at Grind Productions, a profitable adult film company run by former porn star Irene Fox (Kristen Johnston). At first horrified by the prospect of exposing herself to the cockroaches of the film industry, not to mention the effect it would have on her strict Jewish parents, Jody has a remarkable change of heart when she realizes that Grind has all the facilities she needs to make her own low budget movie — on the sly of course — but things get…