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Comedy, Drama
Robert (Bob) Leslie, a Vietnam veteran goes to the remote homeland of a fallen comrade to deliver his personal effects to his father, a First Nations chief and shaman. He is taken with the beauty of the west and decides to stay a while to find himself. Bob finds three orphaned cubs and begins to raise them, with the intent of teaching them to be independent.
Three young nurses work in a psych ward at a hospital. Barbara comes under the influence of a charismatic sex therapist and is stalked by a mysterious nurse. Janis has an affair with a truck-driving patient who is addicted to drugs.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Today is Dolly's (Felicity Jones) wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and petty grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears with the arrival of Joseph (Luke Treadaway), Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. To her mother's (Elizabeth McGovern) exasperation, his presence threatens to upset the design she had for her daughter's future.
Comedy, romantic comedy
thumb|left|Thelma Todd, Roland Young and Lili Damita in This Is the Night When Claire Mathewson's husband Stephen comes back unexpectedly from the 1932 Summer Olympics, where he was supposed to compete in the javelin throw, he discovers the train tickets for a romantic Venice getaway she has planned with her lover Gerald. Gerald's friend, Bunny, lies and says that the tickets are actually for Gerald and his wife. With Stephen still suspicious, Gerald must find a fake wife to go to Venice with him.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Richie (Andrew Lawrence) is an arrogant guy whose only priority is a new girl every week, until he finds himself in a real relationship with Megan (Jillian Rose Reed). It causes him to confess his womanizing and how it was sparked by a scar caused years ago. His new best friend, Ginger, a transgender prostitute, helps bring these wounds to the surface.
Comedy
Henry Phillips (Phillips, in a semi-fictional version of himself) is trying to make it big as a comedian. He is lured to Los Angeles by a producer (Simmons) to join a reality show, where he finds himself the butt of jokes rather than telling them.
Comedy
The film stars Don McKellar as Pokey Jones, an orphaned barber in a small town near Thunder Bay, who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. One morning, Jones discovers a frozen corpse (Steve Fall) in his backyard, and soon meets Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar), a tough and mysterious roadie who claims the dead man is her brother. Jackie's real intention is to use the body, a vagrant unknown to anyone in town, to smuggle stolen drugs into the United States.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Raunchy comedy
A group of attractive women get together for a weekend of bonding, hoping to relax and get away from the anxiety of their boyfriends. The women travel out of town, which leads them to picking up men of questionable integrity. The next problem is what they will tell their boyfriends when they get back home.
Comedy
A school for striptease artists is in financial trouble. The students audition for the owner of the Chez Bob A Ree Bob, a renowned strip club, except for the glamorous newcomer, Allison, who cannot bring herself to take her clothes off in public. Veteran stripper Betty "Big Ones" suggests hypnotism, and although this helps Allison to shed her shyness, and her clothes, it has the unfortunate side-effect of making her strip whenever she hears the film's theme song, which gets played everywhere.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Owen Peadman is a Minnesota bartender who arrives in Los Angeles to try to help his father raise money to save his small restaurant. Owen moves in with his gay uncle, Earl, and tries to integrate himself into the high society of Hollywood, where he has a chance run-in with a wealthy socialite named Lisa Mancini and her uptight actor boyfriend Hayden Field. Owen, using a little influence and blackmail, gets a taste of the scandalous lifestyles of the Hollywood upper crust while dealing with his growing romantic feelings for Lisa.
musical film, romantic comedy
Millionaire hotel mogul Ray Hunter flies to Rome to buy another property, the Regent. He is picked up at the airport by lovely Maria Martelli, who works for the hotel's owner, the Countess Alzani. Ray is reproached by the Countess for the impersonal way he buys up hotels this way, piling up "ten thousand bedrooms" and replacing employees without a second thought.
Adventure, Family Comedy, Mysterie, mystery film
Danforth Academy is an upscale boarding school where extremely wealthy families send their children. Four students, Abby, Paige, Claire, and Taylor, make friends with one another despite some initial misgivings and band together to solve the mystery of why students are falling sick after eating the cafeteria food. They believe that it may be someone targeting various groups at school such as the cheerleaders and soccer players, but cannot come up with a reason as to why this is happening.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Comedy, Dark Comedy
Erotic Film, lesbian-related film, Raunchy comedy, Science fiction
In the distant future, astronaut Gaylor and her lesbian companions crash on an alien planet. They discard their spacesuits to indulge in lesbian pleasures. Gaylor and her crew discover that the planet is dominated by an intelligent and tyrannical race of apes who enslave humans.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Dag is a successful director of television commercials who lives with his girlfriend, Halley. Dag, however, has a serious case of wandering eye and is given to frequent flings with other women. Halley tries to turn a blind eye to Dag's infidelity, but when she discovers Dag had a one-night stand with Rebecca, a beautiful but troubled ballet dancer who is dating Dag's close friend Peter, she decides things have gone too far.
Comedy, family film, sport film
Comedy
At International House, a large hotel in metropolitan Wuhu, China Chinese inventor Dr. Wong is soliciting bids for the rights to his "radioscope", a kind of television. Unlike real television, his contraption does not need a camera; it can look in on events anywhere in the world as if it were a ground-penetrating electronic telescope, complete with audio.
Comedy
Lane Speer (Paris Warner) is a young girl who enjoys camping with her parents. A year after Lane's father dies of cancer, her mother remarries a Mormon. Before the wedding they inform Lane she will be staying with her new "step aunt" where she is encouraged to attend a week-long girls' Bible camp organized by the LDS Young Women.
musical film
The President of the United States decides that the true cause of the Great Depression (raging when the film was released) is a loss of "optimism" as a result of a plot by financiers and bankers who are getting rich from the Depression. The President then appoints Lawrence Cromwell as secretary for the newly created Department of Amusement. Cromwell creates an army of entertainers and sends them out across the country.
romantic comedy
Raj–an Indian-born investment banker based in Lagos–falls in love with Didi, a Nigerian pro bono lawyer who works for her friend Leila's NGO. The couple keep their relationship under wraps as Didi's father, Ernest, prefers his employee, Somto, as a suitor. He also disapproves of Didi's commitment to the NGO as opposed to dedication to his powerful law firm.
Comedy, female buddy film
Two young, unflappable street musicians are entrusted with a bag of drug money, and immediately set about spending it. Hijinks and shopping montages ensue.
Comedy drama
Promising tennis pro Franklin Cane lives in Los Angeles and is mentored by his coach, Jonathan "J.C." Carruthers, who warns him of the perils of success. J.C. advises him to concentrate on his game and not on outside interests, such as a lucrative offer to endorse a hair spray in a TV ad.
Comedy drama
The film concerns the residents of a large terraced house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Among them are the landlady, Mrs Vizzard (played by Joyce Carey), who is a widow and a believer in spiritualism; Mr and Mrs Josser (Wylie Watson and Fay Compton), and their teenage daughter Doris (Susan Shaw); the eccentric spiritualist medium Mr Squales (Sim); the colourful Connie Coke (Ivy St. Helier), the young motor mechanic Percy Boon (Attenborough) and his mother (Gladys Henson).