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Comedy, Drama
The film tells the story of four young best friends who spend their last weekend together before graduating from college. Their girls' weekend is soon interrupted when the boys crash the party. The girls notice that a lot of things have changed since they were freshman roommates at college, and secrets start to come out.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy, Western
Flapping Eagle lives on an Indian reservation in the southwestern United States. He drinks too much, one of many sources of disagreement between Flap and his sweetheart, Dorothy Bluebell. He also has on-going trouble with Sgt.
Comedy
Janitor Sidney L. Pythias is mistaken for a gang member and arrested along with three juvenile delinquents, Artie, Monk and Harry. Police officer Mike Damon believes that he can help a wayward youth as a cop had once done for him.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
In the 1950s in rural Wisconsin, a trio of young friends, David, Tim and Joe, stage a prank murder in front of a local bank where a real life robbery, led by criminals and gay lovers, Leon and Florence, is going down. After the crime is botched, Florence forces Tim to rob the bank himself and take as a hostage the bank loan officer Patty, who is in on the robbery, but the plan goes wildly wrong and morphs into macabre bloodbath.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Secret Agent
Gerald Arthur "Gerry" Otley is a charming but feckless young drifter who scrapes a living from selling antiques in trendy 1960s London. Gerry's responsibility-free life suddenly takes a serious turn when he finds himself caught up in a round of murder, espionage and quadruple crossing. Mistaken for a spy, he is kidnapped and detained several times, and becomes romantically involved with a foreign agent working for British Intelligence.
Drama, romance film
Shy loner Evie (Taylor) hears musician Drumstrings Casey (Pearce) on the radio one night and becomes infatuated with him. She pursues him, carving his name (sadly, backwards) in her forehead with broken glass, and eventually they meet and then marry. They both still struggle to make something of their lives.
Comedy
Murdoch Troon is a proud Scot living and working for a local government authority somewhere in South London. A shy young man, his main excitement comes from cycling. After he is forced off the road by an impatient car driver, he tracks down the owner, and finds he is Commander Charles Chingford, the domineering and acerbic owner of a sports car distributorship.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Henry Harriston is a psychoanalyst whose patients are driving him crazy by constantly leaving him messages during his off hours. On a whim he places an ad offering up his apartment for a housing swap. Béatrice Saulnier (Juliette Binoche) a Parisian dancer responds to his ad and without meeting the two switch apartments.
black comedy film
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, Road Movie, Tragicomedy
Richie Flynn Parker is a seemingly successful man living in Los Angeles, California who has just broken up with his girlfriend Maggie. He has also just been fired from his job as a health inspector when he discovers his father Nat, a cheap con-man, has a terminal brain tumor and he wants to see Richie. Richie, believing it's another con, grudgingly goes to Atlantic City to see his father who explains he has been living on five dollars a day, going to extremes to do so, such as constantly calling various radio station contests with different aliases to win things, like concert tickets he can then scalp.
Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
The setting is a seaside hotel owned by a Mr McLeavy in the 1960s in England. The owner's son, Hal, and Hal's boyfriend, Dennis, rob a bank located next to the funeral parlour where Dennis works. They hide the money in the coffin of Hal's mother, who has just died and whose body has been returned to the hotel prior to its final burial.
Comedy
A man wakes up in a hotel room in Wales, suffering from amnesia. He has no recollection of who he is, why he is there, or where he comes from. With the help of psychologist Doctor Llewellyn, they trace a wife and home in London, but they go on to discover that she is just one of seven women whom he has bigamously married.
Comedy
Comedy drama
The plot follows Joanne Skye, a rock musician who once had a promising career as the lead singer of a popular indie band. However, her life takes a turn, and she finds herself struggling in her personal and professional life. Joanne decides to enroll in university, hoping to revitalize her music career and discover a new sense of purpose.
children's film, comedy television program
When Owen (Luke Benward) and his distracted older sister, Lilly (Brittany Curran), are alone and their parents are away, Owen delivers the paper while being bullied by a school bully named Dexter and his gang (who harass Owen by throwing his bike, newspapers and pants off a bridge), and spends afternoons in a forest hideaway making inventions and spinning tall tales about a "Mad Man of the Mountain" in which he claims to be a scary man who used to work in a circus freak show but later moved to live in the mountains to be free. He encounters three thugs named Blackie (French Stewart), Bud (Kevin Farley) and Arty (Kelly Perine) who have a…
Comedy, musical film, Western
In 1876, traveling salesman Johnny Jameson, is the only passenger on the inaugural run of the Tomahawk and Western Railroad's narrow gauge train through the Colorado Rockies. The train is pulled by the railroad's only locomotive, named Emma Sweeny. The conductor tells Johnny that certain people, such as stagecoach operators, would like to see the railroad fail.
Comedy, Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
The story concerns a hapless civil servant Shane (Michael Legge) who gets more than he bargained for when he moves into an apartment with Vincent (Alan Leech), a gay fashion student. The film sets out to explore the difficulties faced by young people in keeping their identities in a fast moving culture of drugs and clubs. Shane strikes up a friendship with Jerry (Frank Kelly) an elderly civil servant who implores Shane to do more with his life.
Comedy, sport film
Up 'n' Under follows the story of an inept pub team from the 'Wheatsheaf Arms' in a rugby league sevens competition in Kingston upon Hull in England. Ex-pro Arthur's only passions in life are his wife and rugby league. When he hears about the 'Cobblers Arms' pub team and their corrupt manager, Arthur bets his life savings with Reg Welch that he can train any team to beat them.
romantic comedy
Adventure, fantasy film
Vagabond singer Aladdin has his hands full keeping his pickpocket friend, Abdullah, out of trouble. Abdullah is thought insane as he claims to have been born 1,200 years too early, speaks in 1940s slang and knows about television. Princess Armina, the beautiful daughter of Sultan Kamar Al-Kir, is borne through the streets of Baghdad in a palanquin.
Crime Comedy, Heist, teen film
Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teenagers from Glasgow. One day, Ronnie comes up with the idea of stealing stainless steel sinks from a warehouse and selling them. Their plan involves dressing up as women and using a strong tranquiliser ('stop-motion potion') on the driver of a Morton's Rolls bread van.
Drama
Dancing In September tells the story of two hopeful and ambitious African-Americans attempting to make their mark in the television industry. One is a scriptwriter named Tomasina “Tommy” Crawford (Parker), who has grown weary of contributing to stereotypical characters and programming for African-Americans and dreams of creating a balanced, positive program for herself and the African-American public. The other is a newly appointed television producer named George Washington (Washington), who hopes to ascend to the highest levels of the television industry and carve out a special place for himself to help redefine African-American…
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Yale graduate Dan Brooks is expected to marry wealthy boss J.L. Higgins' daughter Margaret and join the family box-making business. He is far more interested in racing a horse that he owns named Broadway Bill.
stand-up comedy