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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 21,458 films · Page 429.

The Saturday Night Kid (1929)

romantic comedy

left|thumb|thumbtime=16|The Saturday Night Kid (1929) In May 1929, two sisters – Mayme and Janie – share an apartment in New York City. In the daytime, they work as salesgirls at the Ginsberg's department store, at which Mayme is named to be the star of an upcoming pageant about the "Rise of Ginsberg's" written and directed by supervisor Miss Streete. The latter is unhappy with Mayme who is always late for work and often goofing off.

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The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)

Comedy, Ghost, war film

Towards the end of World War II four United States Navy sailors—the accountant Lieutenant Krim, the cook Oglethorpe, the gunner's mate Toole, and the Cheyenne seaman Lightfoot—are separated from their ship and are marooned on an island in the Philippines. They discover the British Royal Navy officer, Commander Finchhaven, aboard the wreck of the gunboat HMS Curmudgeon. Finchhaven persuades them to launch an attack on Japanese positions, hoping to redeem the family honor and his own tattered record from the First World War.

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This Can't Be Love (1994)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Hepburn and Quinn star as two aging actors who had a brief but intense marriage in the 1940s, and are reunited decades later to find that issues between them are not resolved. The film makes references to Hepburn's real career and personality, for instance starring in a Western with John Wayne. Hepburn was 86 and Quinn was 78 when they made the film.

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Getting Away with Murder (1996)

Comedy, Dark Comedy

Ethics professor Jack Lambert's neighbor Max Mueller is revealed on the TV news to be escaped Nazi war criminal Karl Luger, whom the courts sentenced to death. Pressured by the news media's allegations, Mueller plans escape to South America. Angered that Mueller might never pay for his crimes, Lambert takes the drastic step of poisoning him by injecting cyanide into some of the fruit in Mueller's apple tree, from which he regularly makes freshly juiced apple juice.

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Pacific Banana (1981)

Comedy, Raunchy comedy, Sex Film

Martin is a pilot who sneezes whenever he is aroused and loses an erection. He works for an airline owned by Sir Harry Blandings, whose wife tries to seduce Martin but then claims he made a move on her. Blandings sacks him but gets him a job at broken down Banana Airlines, where he flies with handsome Paul, who sleeps around despite being engaged to two sexy airline hostesses, Sally and Mandy.

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The Con Artist (2011)

Criminal Comedy Film, romantic comedy

When Vince is paroled after five years in prison for a heist gone wrong, his dangerous and controlling former boss, Kranski, forces him back into a life of crime. Working for Kranski as a car thief, Vince finds solace in welding sculptures out of metal and old car parts in Kranski’s chop shop. When Vince’s raw and evocative sculptures are discovered by calculating art dealer Belinda, his chance for a new life as an artist emerges.

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Gas (1981)

Comedy

A small Midwestern town is thrown into chaos when the local oil tycoon Duke Stuyvesant orchestrates a phony oil shortage in order to increase profits. News reporter Jane Beardsley tries to uncover the plot. Radio DJ Nick the Noz, observing from his station's news helicopter, reports on the craziness caused by the gasoline shortage.

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Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League - Cosmic Clash (2016)

Comedy, Computeranimation, Superhero

The cyborg alien Brainiac goes to Earth, intending to shrink it and add it to his collection of miniature planets. However, when he arrives, the Justice League easily drives him away from the planet. Brainiac then formulates a new plan to obtain Earth, which he puts into action shortly thereafter: when the Justice League members Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Superman attempt to stop him again, he sends each of them to a different time period.

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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

The story of eight gay male friends who spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer (Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day) together at a lakeside house in Dutchess County, New York in the mid 1990s. The house belongs to Gregory, a successful Broadway choreographer now approaching middle age, who fears he is losing his creativity, and his twenty-something lover Bobby, a legal assistant who is blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregory's work in one way or another.

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Love Hurts (1990)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Father of two Paul Weaver is accustomed to playing around on his wife Nancy from his baseball-playing days. Shortly after divorce papers are filed against him, Paul's workmate convinces him to travel to Pennsylvania to attend his sister Karen's wedding to Doug Whipkey. Unbeknownst to Paul, Nancy and their two children Sarah and David have had to temporarily move into his parents' house while some much needed repairs are done on their Pennsylvania house before they can properly move in.

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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)

Comedy, musical film

At the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898, grumpy and overprotective Irish widower Dennis O'Grady has three daughters. The oldest, Katie, welcomes her husband James Moore, whom she has married in secret, home from the army. The youngest two, Patricia and Maureen, pass a vaudeville theater owned by Tony Pastor.

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Natural Selection (2011)

Comedy

Linda White, a barren Christian housewife, leads a sheltered existence in suburban Texas. Her world is turned upside-down when she discovers that her dying husband, Abe, has a 23-year-old son through a sperm bank named Raymond living in Florida. Somewhere on the edge of guilt and loneliness, Linda grants Abe's final wish and sets off on a quixotic journey to find Raymond and bring him back before her husband passes away.

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Caffeine (2006)

romantic comedy

The staff and customers of the cafe get an extra jolt with their coffee when a commitment-shy man has a public fight with his angry ex-girlfriend, instigating a series of revelations about the eavesdropping couples nearby and their own unusual relationships; filled with eccentric personal conversations, confrontational arguments, imaginary visions, and connections between various characters.

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The Opposite Sex (2014)

Comedy

Vince (Geoff Stults) is a successful, driven divorce attorney who is a notorious womanizer, having affairs with his clients. He is intrigued, however, when he meets the competitive Jane (Mena Suvari), a young divorcee who resents men. The two agree to a series of bets where the winner decides the fate of the loser.

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Best of Times (1981)

comedy television program

A variety show about life as a teenager as seen through the eyes of eight actual teenagers (Crispin, Julie, Jill, Nicolas, Kevin, Lisa, David and Janet) who perform skits, songs and dances that relate their views between childhood and adulthood.

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Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)

Comedy drama, Drama

Floyd owns a bar called the Blue Water Grill in a town of that name on an island off the gulf coast of Texas. He has lost interest in almost everything in the year since the mysterious disappearance of his wife, neglecting his business and staying home to watch old home movies of their life. Floyd's father-in-law, known to all as the General, uses a wheelchair and is trapped in the throes of dementia.

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Strange Bedfellows (1965)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Carter, a wealthy American and Toni, a bohemian Italian woman meet in London, and impulsively marry. After finding they have virtually nothing in common, they separate. Seven years later, just days before they are to take steps to move forward on their divorce, they meet again and begin to rekindle the romance.

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Dance with Me, Henry (1956)

Comedy

Lou Henry is the owner of Kiddyland, an amusement park, and Bud Flick is his friend and partner. Together they share a home with two orphan children, Duffer and Shelly. Welfare worker Miss Mayberry does not think that their home is a suitable environment for the children and attempts to remove them.

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Murder of a Cat (2014)

Comedy, Comedy drama, thriller film

When someone murders his beloved cat, Clinton demands justice. Taking it upon himself to solve the case, he teams up with an unlikely ally, Greta, and the two set out to find the culprit lurking in their small suburban town. However, as Clinton searches for the truth, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that goes far deeper than he anticipated.

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