Variety Girl (1947)
Comedy, musical film
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Comedy, musical film
Action, Comedy, thriller film
Set in Los Angeles, the film stars Joey Turks, a car thief who needs money to get out of town. It opens with Joey stealing a television set from the home of drug dealer Mort, who owes him cash, but is caught red-handed. After Joey drops the TV and breaks it, Mort angrily stabs him with a knife and chases him away.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Brooks Mason, a top movie star, is tired of being in the public eye. He discovers that Hawaii-based businessman George Smith looks enough like him to be his twin. He arranges to switch places with Smith temporarily.
Comedy, romantic comedy
New York magazine editor Margot Sherwood "Merrick" invents a husband (who is conveniently away in remote corners of the world) mainly to safeguard her job; the magazine publisher's jealous wife has had the last two women in her position fired after mere months. It also comes in handy keeping aggressive men at bay, as Margot is determined to succeed in her career. Magazine photographer August Winkel helps by writing letters supposedly from "Tony Merrick".
sexploitation film
The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a series of vignettes featuring the title character, Lucky Pierre, in a series of unrelated storylines involving scantly-clad or nude women. Pierre, named after a childhood rhyme Friedman and Lewis remembered, would end up in a short segment where he encounters various naked women – for instance, in "Drive-In Me Crazy", Pierre attends a drive-in movie where the ticket taker and concession workers are all nude women who also appear in the film he's seeing. In another, Pierre, as a painter, has three nude women posing for him in a park, and another vignette had Pierre come upon two sunbathing women while…
Family Comedy, Marital Tragedy, romantic comedy
Richard E. Grant plays Ben Bingham, a middle-aged ear, nose and throat doctor. Carrie-Anne Moss plays Amanda, his vibrant wife.
Drama, romantic comedy
Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, German stewardess, Greta, when a young French beauty, Cécile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle – and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancée, a French "wife", two Australian children who call him "Papa", and his life upside-down.
Drama, Tragicomedy
The film is set, with a few exceptions, entirely at Nick's 'Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace' in San Francisco, where a sign in the window announces "Come in and be yourself," signed "Nick". Joe sits at one of the saloon's tables much of the time, observing people coming and going. He is unemployed but apparently well-off, constantly ordering champagne and giving advice or money to others.
Comedy, Comedy drama
At Fallbrook Central School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award ceremony is held. Every year for the last 43 years, Norman Warner, fondly called Stormin' Norman, has won the award. During the ceremony, he collapses and dies, saying "Take your shot" and "It takes less than death to kill a man", greatly confusing his son, Matt Warner.
Comedy
In the fictional suburban commuter town of Putnam's Landing, Connecticut, public relations specialist Harry Bannerman is slowly going insane because his wife Grace insists on attending every local civic committee meeting. When the government selects the town for the site of a new missile base, Grace joins a committee to prevent it from being built. Harry is made the liaison for the military, and Grace's activities cause him no end of trouble.
Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, High School Comedy Film, Post-apocalyptic
After World War III, people are sterile and ruled by the artificial intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a fetus has to take it through the dangerous city of Charleston, South Carolina to the port where a ship is on its way to Europe. She is followed by an android assassin through all the dangers, and only one man tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.
Action, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror
Todd (Labine) wants everything to be perfect at his family cottage, where he plans to propose to Cammie (Åkerman). However, things go wrong when Todd's slacker brother, Salinger (Petronijevic), and his free-spirited girlfriend, Masha (Punch), show up. Todd accidentally kills his brother with an axe.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, teen film
Nelson Potter, now retired from bank robbing, runs an insurance business in Tucson, Arizona with his partner Patrice. Their job is to evaluate security measures at local banks by simulating armed robberies. After one such drill, Nelson is confronted and assaulted by a shady FBI agent named Rankin.
Animal horror, Comedy, Horror
When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners stumble upon a new, cheap source of meat—the local graveyard. Only one problem—the cats develop a taste for human flesh, and the pets have turned viciously against their owners all over town. Veterinary doctor Howard Glass (Sean Kenney) and his nurse Angie Robinson (Monika Kelly) become suspicious and begin to investigate.
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Horror
Film editor Rey Ciso, once a promising talent, now handicapped by a wooden prosthetic hand following a tragic accident, works on director Francesco Mancini's latest *giallo/poliziotteschi* film *Tarantola* alongside his assistant Bella. After hours, a mysterious killer infiltrates the studio, murdering lead actor Claudio Calvetti and his girlfriend Veronica, who is later discovered by actress Margarit Porfiry, resulting in Margarit's hysterical blindness. Police Inspector Peter Porfiry investigates, suspecting Rey due to the manner in which the victims' fingers were severed—mirroring Rey's own injury.
Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York’s American Museum of Natural History. Called the “Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th Century,” the robbers took 22 precious gems, including the Star of India (a 563.35-carat sapphire), the 100.32-carat de Long Ruby and the 16.25-carat Eagle Diamond (which was never recovered) ...
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Heist
Duffy is a cunning aristocrat of criminals who is hired by Stefane, a young playboy, to hijack a boat carrying several million dollars of his father's fortune. The plot succeeds, with a little help from Segolene, Stefane's girlfriend, but also with an unexpected, sudden turn of events.
Comedy
A rocket plant must be relocated after a deadly accident. Trucker Mitch Barton (Brian Keith) recruits a team for a suicidal job: to drive three trucks carrying extremely hazardous chemicals (nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide, and hydrazine) over a treacherous mountain road in just three days for $5,000 each. The rocket fuel developer, George Lawrence (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.), joins the group to ensure safety.
Comedy, sport film
Randy Rawlings is an Olympic-caliber athlete who is mistakenly hired as the head coach of the Fillmore High School boys' basketball team after Harold Mitchell, the school's assistant coach, sent a telegram hiring Randy. The phone was out of order, so Mitchell took the initiative and wired the job offer to Randy via telegram without confirming details or board approval. Despite the initial shock and skepticism from the school board and the players when they become aware of her gender, Randy decides to take the job.
romantic comedy
Harry Lewis grew up in the Bronx, New York with grand ambitions. He married the most beautiful girl in school, Sue, and planned to become an architect. Years later, Harry and Sue, unhappy now and nostalgic for their past, are living in Los Angeles and running a garment business.
Comedy horror, Horror, Parody
In a movie theater, a mysterious stranger sits next to two girls and starts to tell them a scary story that he claims is true: Alex moves into an old house at 3 Blood Street. He is excited about moving in, until his friend Thomas points out that the house is dripping blood onto him. Alex is nonchalant about this, saying that it is just the house's paint job, although Thomas observes that nothing is painted this color.
Comedy
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
thumb|thumbtime=18|The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) Resourceful and engaging Fay Cheyney, posing as a wealthy Australian widow at a Monte Carlo hotel, befriends Mrs. Webley with the intention of stealing her pearl necklace, a plot devised by Charles, her butler and partner-in-crime.