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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 22,148 films · Page 438.

With or Without You (1999)

Comedy, romance film

Rosie (Dervla Kirwan) and Vincent Boyd (Christopher Eccleston) are a Northern Irish married couple living in Belfast. One evening they decide that they want to have a baby and start trying to conceive. Both make efforts individually and jointly to increase the chances of Rosie’s pregnancy, such as being precise about when to have sex during her period cycle.

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The Search for John Gissing (2001)

Comedy

Matthew Barnes arrives in London from Chicago with his wife, Linda, to oversee a high-profile merger between his employer, Compu-Corps, and a powerful German corporation. Although Barnes has corresponded with the company representative he was assigned to, John Gissing, the two have never met face-to-face. The Barneses’ first impression of London is immediately troubled when Gissing fails to meet them at Heathrow Airport to take them to a rented home, instead calling Barnes to meet him at the Compu-Corps London office.

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Never a Dull Moment (1950)

Comedy, romantic comedy

At a rodeo in New York, visiting cowboy Chris Heyward is charmed to make the acquaintance of Kay Kingsley, a songwriter. They marry and move out west to his ranch in Wyoming. Here, she meets Chris' two daughters from a previous marriage, Nan and Tina, and his old romantic interest, Jean Morrow.

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Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008)

Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, pornographic film, Zombie

A young gay man named Otto believes that he is a zombie and has hitched a ride to Berlin and begins to explore the city. Otto is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf. Medea is trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on and convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom.

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Roadside Prophets (1992)

Comedy, Motor-Bike Film, Road Movie

Joe, a Harley-riding factory worker, meets Dave, who tells him about a casino in the town of El Dorado before Dave is electrocuted in a video arcade. Following Dave's cremation, Joe decides to travel to Nevada to find Dave's beloved casino and spread his ashes in the desert to fulfill his last wish. While riding his motorcycle around Nevada, Joe meets Sam, who is traveling on his own motorcycle to find the Motel 9 in which his parents committed suicide.

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The Steal (1995)

Comedy

London human rights lawyer Jeremiah Harper recruits American computer technician and hacker Kim, hoping to get even with a property development company who have cheated some poor islanders out of their land in Golanda, southwestern Asia. He tasks her to drain their accounts so he can return the bulk of the money to the people there. Cliff, who is a planner for the town council, is recruited to act as Kim's fiancé to scout the targeted private bank, Watson Tyler.

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My Mother Frank (2000)

Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

David Kennedy (Matthew Newton) is preparing to go to university. His mother, Frank (Sinéad Cusack) is a widow and has very little social life. David tells her that she should get out more and much to his surprise, Frank enrolls at the same university.

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Hamlet A.D.D. (2014)

Comedy

Hamlet is an easily distracted prince who is not quite ready to do the task at hand. Challenged to kill his uncle Claudius by the ghost of his recently dead father, Hamlet enthusiastically proceeds to do everything but. From practicing stage acting in the 1800s to producing a television drama in the 1950s, from dancing at the discothèque in the 1970s to culinary prankery in the distant future, Hamlet always manages to find something to distract himself from taking revenge for his father's murder.

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Hairshirt (1998)

romantic comedy

Danny Reilly (Dean Paras) is a self-obsessed man who, after dumping Renee Weber (Neve Campbell), falls in love again with Corey Wells (Katie Wright). But Renee makes it her mission to see that Danny never falls in love again and sets out for attack when he falls for Corey.

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Gingerclown (2013)

Comedy horror

In 1983, a group of high school students led by Biff run into their nerdy classmate Sam (Ashley Lloyd), whom they instantly begin to bully. In order to prove himself to Biff and also win the affection of Biff's good natured girlfriend, Jenny (Erin Hayes) he agrees to sneak into an old abandoned amusement park to prove his courage. Tired of Biff's antics, Jenny follows Sam into the amusement park.

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April Showers (2009)

Biography, Coming-of-age, Destiny, Drama, Drama Documentary, Social Drama

In the aftermath of a school shooting, several survivors have evacuated to the elementary school to wait for more survivors to arrive. A senior named Sean Ryan calls his friend Vicki at a coffee shop, who tells him that the shooter is Ben Harris, a friend of Sean's. Sean is left speechless.

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A Breath of Scandal (1960)

Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

In 1907, the widowed Princess Olympia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has been banished from the imperial court to her late husband's country estate. The bored princess spends her time improving her rifle marksmanship by using flowers, statues and the postman as her targets. When she tires of that, as an expert equestrian as well as an expert markswoman, she rides a wild stallion to her hunting lodge.

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Death Racers (2008)

Action, Comedy horror, Dystopian, exploitation film, thriller film

In the year 2030, a civil war breaks out in the United States. In a final attempt to restore order, the president declares martial law. In 2033, a massive prison camp known as "the Red Zone" is built in a desolate city that soon holds over one million insane and violent felons.

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The Atomic Kid (1954)

science fiction comedy

While uranium prospector Barnaby "Blix" Waterberry is in the desert, eating a peanut butter sandwich, he wanders into an active atomic bomb test site and is accidentally exposed to radiation from a direct overhead A-bomb blast. He miraculously survives, becoming radioactive, and in the process gaining special powers. He is then recruited for his powers by the FBI to help break up a spy ring.

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Trading Christmas (2011)

Christmas film, romance film, romantic comedy

Three years after her husband's death, Emily Spengler, a 2nd grade teacher in the small Washington town of South Woodbourne, is preparing for the arrival of her daughter, Heather, who is a Boston College student. When Emily finds out that Heather wishes to do other things for Christmas, she calls her friend Faith Kerrigan, for advice. Faith is a divorced event planner based in San Francisco.

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The Great Garrick (1937)

Comedy, romantic comedy

In London in 1750, renowned English actor David Garrick announces at the end of a performance that he has been invited to Paris to appear with the prestigious Comédie-Française. A fop declares that the French want Garrick to teach them how to act, and the audience raises the chant, "Teach the French!" The playwright Beaumarchais, who was there, attributes the remark to Garrick himself, which outrages the Parisian theatre company. He devises a plot to cut Garrick down to size.

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Holiday Camp (1947)

Drama, Tragicomedy

Set in a Butlin's-style holiday camp on the English coast in contemporary post-war Britain, working class London family the Huggetts have their first visit to a summer holiday camp. The film is a kaleidoscope of events involving the Huggetts and others, including pregnant young girl Valerie Thompson and her boyfriend Michael Halliday, Jimmy Gardner, a sailor whose girlfriend has jilted him, Angela Kirby, a girl looking for a husband, spinster Esther Harman, Steve and Charlie, a pair of dishonest card sharps, and Jeffrey Baker, a murderer on the run. It captures the round of organised leisure activities at the crowded camp and the ever…

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Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966)

Crime, Superhero

After murdering an unnamed woman, the villainous "Chain Gang" targets Cee Bee Beaumont, the girlfriend of rock and roll star Lonnie Lord. The Chain Gang harasses, stalks, and eventually abducts Beaumont. In order to save his girlfriend, Lord takes on the identity of "Rat Pfink", and his friend, Titus Twimbly, assumes the role of Rat Pfink's sidekick, "Boo Boo".

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