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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 21,458 films · Page 416.

They Call Me Renegade (1987)

Action, Comedy

"Renegade" Luke (Hill), a drifter and petty con artist, lives a free and easy life with no responsibility travelling around the Southwestern United States in his Jeep CJ-5 Renegade with a chestnut colt named Joe Brown. The events take a sudden twist when his friend Moose (Norman Bowler), who has won a ranch in Arizona during a poker game, asks Luke to become the legal guardian of Moose's son Matt (Ross Hill) and to keep an eye on him and the property until either his son comes of age at 18, while he is serving time in jail for a crime he claims he didn't commit. Both Luke and Matt are less than enthusiastic about the idea but eventually…

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Heartless (2005)

Comedy drama, Drama

Miranda Wells is an attorney with a sideline in immigration fraud and murder. Miranda's assistant, Carla, is unaware of her criminal activities. David Lopez, a journalist setting out to expose Miranda, poses as Rick Benes, an illegal immigrant, and takes a job in the office.

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13 Frightened Girls! (1963)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, comedy thriller, Crime, crime thriller film, Horror, mystery film, spy film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film, war film

After a 16-year-old girl Candy Hull develops a crush on intelligence agent Wally Sanders in London, she helps him to uncover a communist plot against the United States.

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Daddy's Dyin' - Who's Got The Will (1990)

Comedy

Buford Turnover (Bert Remsen) is suffering from advanced dementia, and it's only a matter of time before he dies. Told by Buford's mother-in-law Lois (Molly McClure) ('Mama Wheelis' to her grandchildren) that their father is dying, his four adult children arrive at the family's homestead to spend time with their father during his last days. It's a mixed bag of personalities: Lurlene (Amy Wright), the eldest sister, a minister's wife who rarely visits the rest of the family; Sara Lee (Tess Harper), the spinsterish middle sister who cares for her father with the help of her grandmother; Orville (Beau Bridges), the greedy, abusive brother,…

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I'm Totally Fine (2022)

Comedy, Science fiction

After her best friend Jennifer's death, Vanessa goes on a vacation she was planning on taking with Jennifer to celebrate their natural soda company getting a distribution deal. On the first night, she gets drunk, takes Xanax, and passes out. The following morning, she finds Jennifer standing in her kitchen, claiming to be an alien who has been sent to Earth to study humans, and Vanessa is her test subject.

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Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)

Action, Comedy, exploitation film

The stock plot deals with Roscoe Wilton, a teenage joyriding car thief, evading Cyco County Sheriff Turner and his unintelligent deputies. Turner becomes even more obsessed with catching Roscoe after he kidnaps his overly-sheltered daughter, Peggy Sue, just as she is about to be crowned homecoming Queen during a football game at their high school. In so doing, Roscoe also makes himself a target of other characters, including his best friend Harold, Peggy Sue's friend Cindy, and Kenny, a sanctimonious quarterback who is deeply, but vainly, in love with Peggy Sue.

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No Stranger Than Love (2015)

romance film, romantic comedy

Lucy Sherrington (Alison Brie), a high school art teacher living in a small town, is romantically pursued by every male she knows including students and the high school principal. Lucy turns them down because she is contemplating having an affair with the married high school football coach, Clint Coburn (Colin Hanks). In order to reassure Lucy, who is having doubts about their relationship, Clint vows not to have sex with her until she tells him she loves him.

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Stark Raving Mad (2002)

Action, Caper-Movie, Drama

The plot follows a linear structure, encompassing the events of one night in a nightclub which has been hired for the night by protagonist Ben McGewan (Seann William Scott). The owner is unhappy with noise levels, fearing loss of his license, but noise levels is exactly what they want. The noise is specific cover for an illicit and complex bank heist orchestrated by the main character as a means of stealing a revered, ancient Chinese statuette and clearing his and his late brother's debt with a local Chinese crime lord.

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The Early Bird (1965)

Comedy, Silly Movie

Norman Pitkin works for Grimsdale's Dairy as a milkman, in competition with Consolidated Dairies, an ever-growing rival company under the management of Walter Hunter. Much of the humour centres on slapstick comedy, with Norman encountering various comedic escapades. These include being dragged around Mr Hunter's garden by an errant lawnmower and using the fire brigade's high pressure hosepipes to blast firemen off their ladders, after being called to a suspected fire at Consolidated Dairies' HQ.

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Jack of Diamonds (1967)

Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist

Jeff Hill, a master thief known as the Jack of Diamonds, skillfully uses his acrobatic ability and cleverness to perform a series of jewel heists that target glamorous film stars such as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Carroll Baker and Lilli Palmer. While executing a heist on a luxury liner, Jeff encounters and wrestles with an unknown competitor in the dark who is attempting to steal the jewels that Jeff is pursuing. Jeff abseils down the side of the ship to a waiting boat, and his rival soon follows, a beautiful woman named Olga who boards her own escape boat.

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The Naked Monster (2005)

Comedy horror, monster film, science fiction comedy

A colossal series of disasters releases something monstrous from a glacier. Strange disappearances in a small California town attract the attention of a thick-headed sheriff, his transparently uninterested scientist girlfriend and a visiting government agent. They discover that a giant green monster is at large, the Creaturesaurus erectus.

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They Met in Bombay (1941)

Adventure, Crime Comedy, Drama, Heist

Gerald Meldrick (Clark Gable) and "Baroness" Anya von Duren (Rosalind Russell) are jewel thieves working separately in Bombay (now Mumbai) in British-ruled India. He's posing as a Lloyd's of London detective, while she's pretending to be an aristocrat. Both are after a priceless diamond, the Star of Asia, owned by the aging Duchess of Beltravers (Jessie Ralph) and set for public display at a social function.

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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)

Comedy

Robert Blossom is a brassiere manufacturer and workaholic who secretly longs to be a musician, conducting imaginary orchestras in his home during his spare time. His wife Harriet Blossom is an imaginative and romantic-minded painter who loves and supports her husband but often feels neglected by him. When Harriet's sewing machine breaks, Robert sends his bumbling employee Ambrose Tuttle to repair it.

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Pigskin Parade (1936)

American football film, Comedy, musical film

Due to a misunderstanding, Yale inadvertently invites the small Texas State University to come to Connecticut and play against its football team for a benefit game. Coincidentally, TSU has just hired a new coach, Slug Winters, who arrives at the college with his wife Bessie just in time to hear the announcement that the team is to play Yale. The coach digs in to whip the team into shape, with Bessie's help, she knowing more about football than Slug does, but just before the big game, Bessie causes an accident and the team's quarterback Biff Bentley breaks his leg.

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Law and Disorder (1974)

Comedy drama, Crime

In the crime-infested New York City of the 1970s, two residents and friends, Willie and Cy, decide to join the Auxiliary wing of the New York City Police Department to help take back their neighborhood from criminals. Willie is a taxi driver who aspires to buy a diner, while Cy is the owner of a struggling beauty salon. They are joined on the volunteer police force by their friends Bobby, Elliot, Ken and Pete.

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Accidents Happen (2010)

Comedy, Coming-of-age, Drama, Family Drama, Tragicomedy

In 1974, the Conway family is at a drive-in theater in Connecticut watching The Three Stooges. The parents are Gloria (Geena Davis), a foul-mouthed and strict mother who will always take responsibility over the family, Ray (Joel Tobeck), an easy-going father, and siblings Linda, Gene, Larry (Harry Cook), and Billy (Harrison Gilbertson), who is an accident-prone child. In the meantime, the Conways' neighbor, Douglas "Doug" Post (Sebastian Gregory), whom Gloria hates, drives by on his bike.

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How to Frame a Figg (1971)

Hollis Figg is an earnest if not too bright man whose devoted friend is a local sanitation worker, and whose girlfriend is the equally earnest Ema Letha, a pretty waitress at the diner across the street from City Hall, where Figg works as an accountant. When the Mayor, his staff, and Mr. Spaulding, the richest man in town, decide they need more cover for their shameless skimming from the city's coffers, they fire three of the four accountants in the basement and replace them with a giant computer named LEO (Large-Capacity Enumerating Officiator), keeping Figg whom they deem the dimmest of the four to run the computer that he barely…

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Nora's Hair Salon (2004)

Comedy drama

Nora Harper (Jenifer Lewis) is an African-American businesswoman who owns a hair salon in Los Angeles, California. She keeps a watchful eye over her employees, friends, relatives, and regular customers. Lilleana (Tatyana Ali) is a new employee from the Dominican Republic who is in an abusive relationship with Bennie (Bobby Brown).

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Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model aircraft with his cameraman José Estanza. Outraged when he finds out, Chris' main competitor, Atlas Newsreel's Bill Dennis decides to do the same, having his aviator friend Alma Harding fly in "serum" for an imaginary cholera outbreak.

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Comic Book Villains (2002)

Comedy, Dark Comedy

Archie (DJ Qualls) hangs out at a local comic book store and watches and narrates the film. There are two comic book shops in town; one is owned by Raymond (Donal Logue) and the other owned by Norman and Judy Link (Michael Rapaport and Natasha Lyonne), a husband and wife. Mrs.

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Ratko: The Dictator's Son (2009)

Comedy

Ratko Volvic (Efren Ramirez), the son of an affluent Eastern European dictator (Adam West), enrolls for the freshman semester at an American university. His exotic accent and hedonistic lifestyle soon establish him as the most colorful character on campus. But when Ratko falls hard for student activist Holly (Katrina Bowden), he begins to question his father's true character and where all his wealth actually came from.

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