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Comedy, Parody, Pirate Film
A pirate captain known as the Hook (Victor McLaglen) buries his treasure on an island and kills the map maker so no one else will find it. He and his cut-throat crew go after the Mary Ann, a ship on which Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) is running away from her father, the King (Robert Warwick), in order to marry a commoner. The Hook plans to hold her for a large ransom.
Horror, Science fiction, Splatter Film
Jan Letterman, the personal assistant to wealthy, over-the-hill actress Laura Winters, hires pilot Grant Murdoch to fly her from New York to Provincetown, Massachusetts, but a storm forces them to land on a small island. They meet Prof. Peter Bartell, a marine biologist with a German accent who is living in seclusion on the isle.
Comedy, musical film
In turn-of-the-century Oakland, California, the teenaged Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is expected to follow high school by attending a San Francisco business college. Instead, she takes a job performing with a traveling vaudeville troupe, where she meets and falls in love with singer-dancer Frank Burt (Dan Dailey). Frank proposes that they marry and also entertain on stage together as an act, which proves very popular.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
Dylan, a high school student with an inoperable brain tumor, lives with his widowed mother Karen in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. He is invited on television by a wish-granting organization and stuns viewers with his wish: He wants to spend a weekend alone with supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Living in New York City, Nikki is watching television and hears about Dylan's wish; she is convinced by her agent to see Dylan, as part of a publicity stunt to improve Nikki's image, but her visit is very brief.
Comedy
After yet another failed relationship, 30-something Duncan (Brendan Patricks) decides to quiz his last five girlfriends to find out what went wrong in order to figure out how to find love. With advice from bizarre sources and intense flights of fancy, finally Duncan realises that love is a battleground where only the fittest can survive.
Comedy, war film
Brendan Byers III is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F. He really wants to fight, so he enlists other 4-Fs and some loyal volunteers from his own service staff and forms his own mercenary army, financing their training and equipment. Once completed, they travel to the front in Italy, with Byers impersonating a Nazi general named Eric Kesselring.
Drama, Tragicomedy
The film chronicles the production of Je vous présente Paméla (Meet Pamela, or literally I Introduce You to Pamela), a clichéd melodrama starring aging screen icon Alexandre, former Italian diva Séverine, young heartthrob Alphonse and British actress Julie Baker, who is recovering from both a nervous breakdown and the controversy over her marriage to her much older doctor. Several vignettes are woven throughout the film, highlighting the personal stories of the crew members and director Ferrand as he navigates the practical challenges of producing a movie. Behind the camera, the actors and crew experience several romances, affairs,…
Comedy, Crime
Four friends, Rooster, CJ, Jess and Chang, dream of making it as DJs but first they need cash – lots of it, and fast. Their lack of funds is compounded by problems ranging from small (cheating girlfriends, mothers in sleazy movies) to large (the towering presence of Tunde, the local porn king). They come up with various schemes, each more harebrained than the last—stealing library books, breaking and entering, dognapping—all with a spectacular lack of success.
Comedy, comedy television program
Always struggling in life and love, Hillary Burns constantly feels the pressure to marry from her demanding mother, Meredith. Finally, this holiday season, she thinks she finally has it right. Hillary assures her meddling mother that her handsome new fiancé is coming to the Burns' family home for Thanksgiving weekend to finally meet her crazy clan.
Drama
The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian over 20 years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism during the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s.
romantic comedy
At a convention in San Francisco, Steve Fisk, the mayor of the municipality of Puget City, mistakes Clarissa Standish, the mayor of Wenonah, Maine, for a "balloon dancer" whom he was expecting. As a former longshoreman, Steve feels that Clarissa might be too refined for him, but he is attracted to her. However, he must beware of crooked city councilman Les Taggart, who would happily exploit a scandal to politically damage Steve back in Puget City.
Comedy drama
A man hires a private detective, Jack, to look for his wife. He insists on coming along.
fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, musical film
Victorian adventurer and sexologist Sir Richard Francis Burton (John Robinson), following an "unfortunate encounter" with the Fountain of Youth in 1892, is 170 years old and living in Toronto, Canada. Burton, now living and working as the chief taxidermist at a museum of natural history, is searching for a centerpiece display for an exhibit in his Hall of Contagion. He comes up with the idea of featuring AIDS and the Patient Zero hypothesis.
Comedy
A retired radio disc jockey/actor is forced to enter a nursing home, where he unexpectedly finds the respect and acclaim that eluded him throughout his long career.
Comedy
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
High School Comedy Film, Silly Movie
Leo, Sean and Jack are three best friends who attend an all-boys Catholic school called Our Lady of the Crusades. The film begins with the boys training Jack for a fight with a deaf student at a rival school, St. Matthews.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Action, Comedy, Comedy horror, Science fiction, Splatter Film, Teen Comedy Film
Tromaville's nuclear reactor has been rebuilt and the Nukamama Corporation that funded it has incorporated a new college, the Tromaville Institute of Technology (T.I.T.), inside the design, as an effort to atone for the events of the first film. Located inside the nuclear plant, Professor Holt has perfected a race of 'Sub-humanoids'. They are living beings without emotions, who have been created and programmed to perform menial tasks.
romantic comedy
Jean, Polaire, and Schatzi are former showgirls who put their money together in order to rent a luxurious penthouse apartment. Jean is on her way back from France after a failed engagement which left her penniless. She manipulates a fellow male ship passenger into paying her dining bill, claiming that she can't find her checkbook.
Comedy, fantasy film, musical film
Bean Bunny wishes he could help with the preparations for the Bunny Picnic, but he is told by his older brother Lugsy that he is too small and will only get in the way. Feeling very disappointed, Bean wanders off alone into the lettuce patch, where he imagines himself as the king of the bunny picnic and community and then encounters a farmer's dog, who chases him around the patch. Bean runs away and escapes the dog and warns the village, but none of the other bunnies believe him.
Comedy, Historie, Raunchy comedy
The film follows the adventures of the sex-crazed inhabitants of the bankrupt Cockshute Castle in 1904, and the attempts of Lord and Lady Cockshute to find a rich wife for their uninterested inventor son Peregrine.
Comedy
Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past takes place in 1879, and the titular character is the great, great-grandfather of the Mr. Bones from the first film.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, sport film