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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 22,134 films · Page 433.

Funny Story (2018)

Comedy drama

Aging TV star Walter Campbell's attempts to break up with younger girlfriend Lucy are thwarted by the announcement of her pregnancy. Looking for space, Walter resolves to visit his estranged daughter Nic, currently residing in Big Sur, resentful of her father's neglectful parenting and womanizing ways. He agrees to give a lift to Nic's friend Kim, who having recently attended the funeral of her estranged mother, is dealing with her own emotional baggage.

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Sinful Davey (1969)

Adventure, Comedy, Crime Comedy

In a British prison in the early 1800s, Scottish rogue Davey Haggart is seen writing his memoirs while waiting to be hanged. Most of his story is told in flashback with voice-over narration by Davey. His story begins as he is seen marching and beating a drum for the British Army, but he quickly deserts by jumping off a bridge with his drum and floating away.

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Bad Eggs (2003)

Comedy

A magistrate named Poulgrain takes his own life in an exhaust fume-filled car but in his death-throes, he releases the handbrake whereupon his car rolls down the road all the way into the middle of a busy shopping centre where a pair of over-zealous detectives empty their firearms into his corpse. Disgraced, the two detectives, Ben Kinnear and his best mate Mike Paddock, both members of the much-hyped Zero Tolerance Unit (ZTU), are demoted back to uniform duties. Things get worse when they pay a visit to the Magistrate's widow Eleanor and accidentally burn her house down.

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Girl Shy (1924)

romance film, romantic comedy, silent film

thumb|left|Harold Lloyd as Harold Meadows thumb|thumbtime=2|Girl Shy (1924) Harold Meadows is a tailor's apprentice for his uncle in Little Bend, California. He is so shy around women that he can barely speak to them (to stop his stuttering, his uncle has to blow a whistle). Despite this, Harold writes a "how to" book for young men entitled The Secret of Making Love, detailing how to woo different types of young women, such as "the vampire" and "the flapper" (in scenes that parodied two other popular films of the time, Trifling Women and Flaming Youth), and takes a train to see a publisher in Los Angeles.

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Coming Home for Christmas (2013)

Christmas film, Comedy drama, family film, Family Drama

The story begins showing two sisters, Kate and Melanie (played by real life sisters Carly and Britt McKillip), growing up as very different girls in an otherwise close family. Their relationship is finally severed by Kate walking out on Melanie's wedding day due to her objection to the man that Melanie is marrying, whom Kate believes doesn't really care about her sister. Five years later we see Kate jaded about family and romantic relationships but working her "dream job" as an editor at a publishing house.

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The Big Bang (1987)

Dystopian, science fiction comedy

In 1995, World War III begins by accident when a hitman uses an miniature nuclear weapon in a hit which destroys Sicily; Italy mistakes the blast for nuclear terrorism and annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg bombs England.

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Jane Wants a Boyfriend (2015)

romantic comedy

Jane is a young woman diagnosed with Asperger syndrome who is living with her parents in Queens, New York. She works as a costume designer at the theatre that Bianca (her extremely protective older sister) is acting in, playing Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Now moving into Brooklyn with her fiancé, Rob (a field journalist), Bianca learns on Jane's birthday that their parents are now moving to New Jersey and they want Jane to move in with Bianca.

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UFOria (1985)

Comedy, Science fiction

Sheldon Bart is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud Sanders, a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. Bud has developed a real ability to heal, although he has no idea how this has happened.

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Sleeping Beauties (1999)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

A mother tells her daughter a real life fairy tale of a "Princess Charming" and her Sleeping Beauty. Heather (Lassez) is in love with her girlfriend Cindy (Mitchell) until one day Cindy "wakes up" and breaks up with Heather, saying she wants a "real prince". Heather works as a make up artist at Rolling Headstones Funeral Home in Los Angeles, "making dead rock-stars look good" for their next album covers.

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Speech & Debate (2017)

Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy

The film features three misfit students in a high school in Salem, Oregon: Solomon, Diwata, and Howie, who are frustrated with the hypocrisy they see in their parents and school staff. Together, they try to revive a school debate club to face the situation they are in. The first thing they have in common is they each have a parent on the school board.

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The Green Years (1946)

Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama

In 1900, Robert Shannon, a young orphan, is sent from Ireland to live with his grandparents in Scotland. His great-grandfather becomes the lad's mentor/father figure, helping him overcome the challenges of youth, and mollifying the cold stinginess of Robert's grandfather. The young Robert suffers life's trials, and the kind, old great-grandfather, despite being given to drink and telling tall tales, is always there to help him rebound.

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Big Fat Gypsy Gangster (2011)

Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime Comedy

The film begins with Bulla (Ricky Grover), a well known dangerous criminal, being released from prison after serving 16 years for burglary. However, as soon as he is released back into society, he finds himself being followed by a film crew. With the world at his fingertips, Bulla returns home to find that everything he was once part of has been taken over by corrupt police officer Conrad (Eddie Webber), the man who put Bulla behind bars.

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Pride (2004)

documentary film, Drama, Tragicomedy

Suki, her cowardly brother Linus, and their conceited cousin Fleck are all lion cubs. When two rogue lions, Dark and Harry or otherwise known as "The Wanderers", attack and while the lionesses help, they kill Fleck's mother Eve leaving him an orphan. Suki and Linus decide to go exploring and find out how the Wanderers got across the river.

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Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)

Comedy drama

The plot revolves around a family of theatre actors, directors, and playwrights spending their last summer together at their matriarch's (Viveca Lindfors as Helena Mora) home in the Hamptons. The summer house, named Proskurov (after Jaglom's father), is being sold as the family can no longer afford to keep it. Proskurov has been the site of an intimate outdoor theatrical performance for many summers, and the family (and Helena's interns) are preparing the final details of the show when successful Hollywood actress Oona Hart (Victoria Foyt) arrives.

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Wishful Thinking (1997)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Veterinarian Elizabeth questions the relationship, after her projectionist boyfriend Max declines the marriage. Max's beautiful co-worker, Lena who is in love with him, takes advantage of his romantic troubles and wants to have him for herself, playing on his fear that Elizabeth is having an affair with her friend Jack. Depressed by Max's increasing jealousy, Elizabeth considers breaking up with him after she meets Henry.

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George Lucas in Love (1999)

Comedy, Parody, romantic comedy

In the film, George Lucas (Martin Hynes) is a 1967 USC college student, suffering from writer's block as he attempts to write a movie about a young space farmer with a bad crop of "space wheat". Taking a break from his work, George goes on to encounter classmates and teachers who resemble and will influence the eventual creation of, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt, R2-D2, and C-3PO. Lucas is surrounded by inspiration, but he sees nothing.

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Dallas 362 (2003)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

Rusty, played by Shawn Hatosy, and Dallas, played by Caan, are best friends, in their mid-20s. Their main source of income is collecting small debts for a local crime boss, Bear (played by Heavy D). Rusty's mother, played by Kelly Lynch, is constantly bailing them out of jail, stitching their cuts, and trying desperately to get them to change their ways, but can't seem to break them out of this destructive pattern.

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