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Comedy, sexploitation film, softcore pornography
A single eventful night in the lives of a crew of Los Angeles-based, trans-Pacific stewardesses. The leading character is killed in a 30-story suicide leap, and the others simply "party," using drugs and engaging in various sexual encounters. One of the girls befriends and beds a returning Vietnam combat soldier.
romantic comedy
The plot offers a comic spin on adultery. When Greg crashes his sports car, doctor Evelyn comes to his rescue, and the two soon are engaged in an affair. Evelyn's workaholic husband learns about it from Greg's live-in girlfriend, scatterbrained television weather girl Stephanie, and the two begin to engage in a dalliance of their own.
Comedy, intersex film, musical comedy
Set in Los Angeles, California, a 14-year-old teenage girl nicknamed "Spork" is unpopular, mistreated by her classmates, and very soft-spoken. Her next-door neighbor and best friend, known as "Tootsie Roll", is planning on entering the school Dance-Off to win $236 which she would use to visit her father in prison. During a hair-product-related dancing accident, Tootsie Roll injures her ankle and can no longer compete in the competition.
Comedy
Phileas Fogg III, the great-grandson of the renowned adventurer, undertakes a challenge to replicate his ancestor's iconic circumnavigation of the globe. The wager is initiated by Randolph Stuart III, purportedly a descendant of the elder Fogg's historical adversary. Unbeknownst to the participants, Stuart is revealed to be Vicker Cavendish, a notorious confidence trickster employing the bet as a ruse to conceal his embezzlement from the Bank of England, intending to frame Fogg for the crime.
romantic comedy
Wilson (Scoot McNairy), a 29-year-old man who has just endured the most miserable year of his life, newly arrived in the City of Angels, is alone and penniless as New Year's Eve approaches. He vows to lock his doors, pull his blinds, and climb into bed – until best friend Jacob (Brian McGuire) talks him into posting a Craigslist personal ad. In seemingly no time at all, Vivian (Sara Simmonds) responds, determined to be with the "right" man at the stroke of midnight.
Biography
In 2006, George W. Bush, President of the United States, visits India. In addition to the many diplomatic and political things on the agenda is a rather unusual event — a meeting with the young faces responsible for shaping "The New India".
Comedy drama
Colin is a mild mannered newsagent who plays on his local darts team in the evenings. One night, he discovers his wife, Sandra, has been unfaithful with the dart team's captain, Geoff. When Colin confronts his wife about the affair, they have an argument and she leaves him.
Comedy horror, romantic comedy
The Resurreccion family's ancestral mansion is believed to have a portal to the other world. Every quarter of a century, it must be opened by a chosen member of the clan, known as "The One", to enable stranded ghosts to cross over to the afterlife. With no surviving clan member opening the portal in the past 100 years, ghosts have overcrowded the now-abandoned mansion and are in danger of becoming cockroaches unless they pass over.
Tragicomedy
Carpenter Bruno (Aden Young) and his wife Lydia built their dream home on Lydia's father's property. When Lydia dies without leaving a will, Bruno is evicted and moves into his father's shed. Marie (Parker Posey) purchases Bruno's former home and hires Bruno to help her remodel it.
Comedy
Grace Santos is a producer for a New York City daytime talk show called The 24 Hour Woman. She is expecting a baby with her husband, Eddie, the show's co-host. When her pregnancy is leaked to Eddie on air, Grace's boss Joan turns it into the subject of the talk show in order to drum up ratings.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=15|Monte Carlo (1930)|left Countess Helene Mara is about to be married to Duke Otto Von Liebenheim but leaves him at the altar. She flees on a train to Monte Carlo with her maid Bertha and 10,000 francs, and checks into an expensive hotel, planning to win a fortune at roulette. When she arrives at the casino—where she wins spectacularly and then loses everything—Count Rudolph Farriere takes a liking to her.
musical film, romantic comedy
The household staff of millionaire piano manufacturer Cyrus Drake has not been paid for seven months when his bankruptcy and impending foreclosure is announced. With the wife and daughter of Cyrus on a long trip abroad, a scheme is formed to pass off the attractive young scullery maid Millie as the socialite daughter, Pamela Drake, and marry her off to a rich man so there will be money for all. The valet, Mike O'Brien, helps with the transformation, unaware that Millie is secretly in love with him.
romantic comedy
When a travel writer unexpectedly shows up at their family's bed and breakfast, the Ralston family pretends to be guests in hopes of a good review, Lucy falls for guest Jake.
Comedy horror, Zombie
Two high school opposites, stoner Jake Stephens and popular cheerleader Amanda Blake, become infected with a virus that turns them into zombie-like cannibals. They travel across the country looking for a cure. Cass, a teenage telepath, and her partner Tom work for a government agency charged with hunting and killing the infected.
musical film
Craig and Helen are teenagers who enjoy the latest trend of traditional jazz along with their friends. The local mayor and a group of adults dislike the trend and move to have the jukebox in the coffee shop silenced. With the help of an omniscient narrator, Craig and Helen try to find a disc jockey and organize a show to popularize the music.
Comedy
Comedy, documentary film
The authorities demand much control over the performance of the theatre troupe, and try to use it for propaganda purposes. The film crew plays along, but among themselves and in the voice-over they are critical of the regime.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, musical film
Stormy Tornado and Curly Flagg are two showgirls from a San Francisco cabaret who witness the murder of one of their fellow performers and can identify the killer. Not wanting to get mixed up in a murder rap, the girls flee the scene and hide out at Bristol College, disguising themselves as boys. However the need for attention makes the girls want to stand out in their stage costumes and then the trouble begins.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, teen film
Esther Blueburger is a 13-year-old Jewish outcast at her posh private school. Things are no better at home, where her twin brother is beginning to develop into a sociopath and her controlling mother pressures Esther to conform. She finds her only friend in a duck called Normal, and she frequently prays into a toilet asking God to "get me out of here".
Comedy
Hapless Walter Dinsmore undergoes his annual November breakdown at the 1964 New York World's Fair, has a love affair with his mother, recollects his mistaken "hysterectomy operation", impersonates a cop, is sold as a piece of living art, goes to heaven, and becomes the singer in a rock band, but not necessarily in that order.
Comedy, Comedy drama, fantasy film
On March 6, 1933, Joe Gimlet, a middle-aged proprietor of a cigar store, encounters his childhood friend, banker Ted Wright. During a dinner engagement with Joe and his wife Mary, Ted presents an investment opportunity, urging the couple to commit $4,000 to his company. Despite Joe's enthusiasm for the proposal, Mary hesitates to relinquish their savings, provoking Joe's inebriated frustration.
Comedy, Drama, mystery film
Harry Agensky is a one-time welterweight boxing champion who lives in Canada with his son Moses. Harry's other son, Lance, feels that his father never really cared about his dreams and ambitions and now Lance has little affection for Harry. However, Lance's relationship with his teenage son Michael is not faring much better.
Comedy, Horror, Parody
Johnny Wentworth wakes and prepares to go to his job at the Dandy Donuts donut shop, where he works with his childhood friend Michelle Kester. He first retrieves his tablet from his Uncle Luther, a mad scientist who has unwittingly created a serum to reanimate the dead. While at the shop, Johnny is confronted by his girlfriend Veronica and friend Bobby, who require money.
Action, Action Comedy
When Ray Chase, an agent so secret even his son doesn't know, brings home a high-powered laser gun he stole, the theft victim sends her henchmen to capture Ray and get the gun back. But Ray's son escapes with the gun and then devises a plan to rescue his dad.