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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 21,458 films · Page 412.

Suburban Mayhem (2006)

Comedy, Comedy drama

Katrina is a 19-year-old single mother with sinister plans. She navigates a world rife with petty crime, fast cars, manicures, and casual relationships. A skilled manipulator of men, Katrina resides with her lethargic father in the suburban area of Golden Grove, Sydney.

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Foxfire (1955)

Comedy drama, Melodrama

After her car breaks down in the Arizona desert, New York socialite Amanda Lawrence accepts a ride from Jonathan Dartland, a mining engineer, and his friend Hugh Slater, a doctor with a penchant for liquor. Invited to a party hosted by her wealthy mother at the resort where they are staying, "Dart" claims to dislike mothers, especially those of spoiled beautiful daughters, but he and Amanda fall in love and quickly marry. Amanda's mother is not pleased to hear that Dart's mother is an Apache Indian princess, once married to a Boston college professor, who has taken back her Apache name and never sees her son.

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The Maggie (1954)

Comedy

The Maggie is an aged Clyde puffer, a small, coal fired cargo boat. Peter MacTaggart, her rascal of a captain, is in dire need of £300 to repair the boat's plates and renew its loading licence. At the offices of a shipping company in Glasgow, he overhears Mr Pusey, an Englishman complete with bowler hat and umbrella, trying to arrange transportation of some personal items of furniture for his boss, American Calvin B.

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Three Smart Girls (1936)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Three sisters living in Switzerland hear their father is going to marry a younger woman in New York City so they travel there to prevent it. Their plan involves getting a man to seduce her father's fiancée. They accidentally hire a genuinely rich man who falls for one of the sisters.

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Dracula's Widow (1988)

Comedy horror, Horror, Vampire

The film, situated in Hollywood, or Tinsel Town as the narrator (Lt. Lannon) calls it, opens with Raymond Everett (the owner of the Hollywood House of Wax) receiving delivery of some valuable antiques from Poenari, Romania. He anxiously takes delivery of a sixth crate even though he was only expecting five.

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Every Day (2010)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

Ned (Schrieber) is a man under pressure. As a scriptwriter, his boss (Izzard) is pushing him to add extra shocks into his latest project. As a husband, he is coping with his stressed out wife (Hunt) and her sick, alcoholic father (Dennehy).

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Happy New Year (1987)

Comedy, Crime Comedy, Heist, Horror, romantic comedy

Nick and Charlie, a couple of aging thieves looking for a last score before they retire, come to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, where they have an elaborate scheme to rob a Harry Winston jewelry store. The shop is well-guarded and has high-tech security. Its manager, Edward, welcomes an elderly customer seeking an expensive gift for a terminally ill wife.

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Dysfunctional Friends (2012)

Comedy drama

The unexpected death of a friend has reunited former friends at the funeral years after graduating college and going their separate ways. After the funeral they learn from Ms. Stevens that they are all eligible for a big inheritance if they can just spend five days together at his former estate in which she will oversee.

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The Hoober-Bloob Highway (1975)

children's film, Comedy, fantasy film

The titular highway is a long and winding road that leads to Earth from an area high up in space where newborn babies come from. The plot revolves around a newborn child, referred to as "Bub", as he tries to decide what he wants out of his life, or even if he wants to go at all, before being sent down the Hoober-Bloob Highway to be born. Mr.

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Spite Marriage (1929)

Comedy

thumb|Lobby card Elmer, always seen at the theater in imposing formal dress, is really a humble worker in a dry cleaning establishment. (Elmer's full name isn't mentioned in the narrative, but a newspaper story near the end identifies him as "Elmer Gantry.") He idolizes stage actress Trilby Drew and goes to see her performances all the time, pretending to be a wealthy admirer. Trilby is in love with fellow actor Lionel Benmore.

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The Boys in Blue (1982)

Comedy, family film

An elaborate theft of priceless paintings has taken place in Central London, and the police are at a loss to explain where they have disappeared to. In the seaside village of Little Botham (pronounced bottom), we encounter the local police force consisting of Constable Ball and Sergeant Cannon, who are concerned with breaking up a traffic jam. One of the delayed drivers is an attractive foreign woman, who Ball causes to collide with a parked car belonging to the Chief Constable.

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Meet the Khumalos (2025)

Comedy

Grace Khumalo, a successful and flamboyant businesswoman living in Durban with her husband, a doctor, and their son, Sizwe. Her seemingly stable life is disrupted when her former best friend and now rival, Bongi Sithole, moves into the neighborhood with her own family. The two women share a complicated past, marked by unresolved conflict, though the exact cause of their estrangement is not immediately revealed.

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Feuer, Eis & Dynamit (1990)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, sport film

The plot functions primarily as link between the stunt action scenes which mainly deal with skiing like in Fire and Ice. It also contains heavy product placement (for example, VW released a special edition of the Golf MK II named "Fire & Ice" which featured some special equipment details like the seat covers being said to be designed by Bogner himself). Roger Moore plays an entrepreneur who is in debt with many companies.

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Finding Amanda (2008)

Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy

Working as a television writer for a low-rated sitcom, Those McAllisters, Taylor Peters has developed a few vices, such as drinking, drug abuse and compulsive gambling, which have previously damaged his career to the extent that he takes sessions with an analyst only to prove to his wife Lorraine that he is seeking treatment. Adding to Taylor's stressful home life is the discovery that their 20-year-old niece Amanda has run away from home to Las Vegas to work as a prostitute. Although he writes a good comic scene for his lead actor Ed Begley Jr., Taylor still has the need to run off to the track to play the horses.

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The Gorilla (1939)

Comedy horror, Crime

When wealthy businessman Walter Stevens (Lionel Atwill) receives a death threat from a mysterious killer known as "the Gorilla", he hires the bumbling Ritz Brothers, a team of inept private detectives, to protect him. As a violent storm rolls in and power outages darken his mansion, a real escaped gorilla begins to terrorize the household. Amid the chaos, suspicious characters emerge — including the creepy butler Peters (Bela Lugosi) and a nervous maid (Patsy Kelly) — leaving everyone to wonder whether the threat is a human murderer or something far more beastly.

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