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Biography, Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Telling the story of the life of 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, based on his own twelve-volume memoirs, the one-hour episodes star Peter O'Toole as the older Casanova looking back on his life and David Tennant as the younger version. Rose Byrne, Rupert Penry-Jones, Matt Lucas, Shaun Parkes, Nina Sosanya and Laura Fraser are also featured.
Comedy, Dark Comedy
Sarah Jane McKinney has been working as a secretary at Judge Pharmaceuticals for years, and she's eager to earn better pay and more prestige. As a young girl, her alcoholic father was killed by a statue of Saint George that fell off a church. Ever since, she has looked to St.
Comedy drama
The film relates simultaneously the lives and romantic/sexual relationships of the Petunias: the parents, Felicia and Percy, and their three sons, Michael, Adrian and Charlie. The film also features the wife of Michael, Vivian, and her cousin George.
Comedy, Drama, Marital Tragedy
Kill the Poor begins with a fire in the apartment of tough guy Carlos DeJesus and his trouble-making son, Segundo. The screenplay then focuses on the other tenants of the rundown building in an attempt to determine who set the blaze. The other principals are: Joe Peltz, a young man who ignored his uncle's warnings to bring his wife Annabelle and their young child into the neighborhood where his Jewish grandparents had their start in America Spike, an aspiring found-object sculptor Delilah, a flamboyant gay man Butch, a presumptuous graduate student Scarlet, the tenement's resident floozy Negrito, a fixture in the neighborhood A shared…
Comedy, Family Comedy
Morris Applebaum, an eccentric, celebrated stage actor of Jewish origin summons by letters his three adult children to his Manhattan apartment for the celebration of his 90th birthday and a special event they'll never forget; when the party's over, Morris plans to take his "final exit". He is healthy and not unduly depressed although he's missing his wife, but he just wants to go out the way he's lived, on his own terms and as a performance. Now it's up to his hilarious offspring – Flo, Ted, Barry and his daughter-in-law and her teen son and daughter – to put aside their own excessive baggage from childhood and convince Morris that he…
Comedy
The comedy centers on Glen "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a young man, marijuana dealer, and former rock band drummer living in Los Angeles, California. His best friends dropped out of the band, Torigl, three months prior, causing the group to part and him to fall back on selling weed in his garage. He dates Monica, who works at a news company, and hangs out with his rebellious teen neighbor, Jimmy, who skips school.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Walter Gary Benjamin (Andrew J. West) works as a ticket-tearer at the local cineplex. When Walter was ten years old, he made a deal with God to judge the eternal fate of everyone he comes in contact with, in exchange for allowing his father to go to Heaven.
Comedy, musical film, Pirate Film
On their way to their jobs at the Death's Head Tavern, Oliver "Puddin' Head" Johnson and Rocky Stonebridge encounter Lady Jane, who asks them to bring a love note to the tavern singer, Bruce Martingale. At the tavern, the notorious Captain Kidd dines with Captain Anne Bonney, a female pirate. She complains that Kidd raided ships in her territory and demands her share of the treasure.
black comedy film, Comedy horror, Dark Comedy
The film begins as Archie Andrews, a kindergarten teacher and vegan, regularly buys products from Lorraine's vegetarian roadside stand. He is developing an engine powered by wheatgrass, but his experiments prove unsuccessful until he accidentally cuts his finger and blood drips into the wheatgrass. After the mixture reaches the engine, it begins to operate successfully.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
A punk hairdresser (Bruce LaBruce), known only as "The Hairdresser", becomes obsessed with a mute neo-Nazi skinhead (Klaus von Brücker). Jonesy (G. B.
Comedy drama
Riley (Aly Michalka) films her visit with her doctor (Sean Hood) so her absent mother will know Riley has stage 3 oral cancer with a 10% chance of survival. Riley meets Ogden (Dustin Milligan) on a bus and they both get off near Sequoia National Park. Since her connecting bus won’t arrive for a few hours, he offers to drop her off.
Comedy horror
Following a nuclear accident, a group of horseshoe crabs is transformed into deadly creatures. They invade a tranquil coastal town during Prom night, and it falls to a motley crew of misfits to rescue the day.
Comedy, Crime, mystery film
Out-of-work private detective Mike Shayne is hired by his friend, wealthy racing executive Hiram Brighton, to, while he is out of town, watch over his spirited daughter Phyllis, who gambles her money away and has begun dating underworld character Harry Grange, to the consternation of the father. The key plot involves wealthy but shady Elliott Thomas who owned a horse, Banjo Boy. The odds were 15 to 1 against that horse winning.
American football film, Comedy drama, Drama, silent film
Harvard University student Tom Brown is a handsome, athletic, and carefree young man who has a reputation as a Don Juan among the ladies. Although he is popular on campus, he finds himself at odds with Bob McAndrew, a studious, reserved boy who becomes his chief rival for the affections of beautiful Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter. Tom rooms with Jim Doolittle, an awkward weakling but goodhearted backwoods youth who idolizes him.
Comedy horror
Many years ago, 3 circus landowners are killed after they refused to sell their land and are buried on that same lot. In the present, the mother-reliant and weakling Ramon is forced to work as a landscape artist to pay off their family's debt. In his field, he meets the lovable femme fatale boss Anna, who he falls in love head over heels with.
romantic comedy
Marty is an amateur comic book artist who sees the world around him as a vivid picture book and also sees most people he dislikes or is indifferent to as monsters. When he was still a high school sophomore, Marty was often picked on by a bully until Sally, a gadget inventor intervenes and later helps Marty exact revenge by humiliating the bully in public. The two immediately become best friends, and as time passed, Marty develops an attraction for Sally, but such feelings remained unrequited.
musical film, romantic comedy
During the opening credits Robert Goulet and Andy Williams perform a duet "I'd Rather Be Rich". We first meet Cynthia Dulaine sitting at a nightclub table while Warren Palmer croons to her "It Had To Be You". Suddenly, Cynthia is called away to her dying grandfather's bedside.
Comedy drama, Drama
Joshua Shapiro, successful writer and pundit, in a hospital room, seems to have lost his wife and is in the middle of a sex scandal. Compelled to find meaning in his life, he reviews it from his youth to the present day. Joshua grew up as a Jew in the working class St.
Comedy horror
A priest (John Ventimiglia) successfully completes an exorcism on Ava (Louisa Krause), who was possessed by the demon Naphula for 28 days. During the possession, Ava caused serious emotional and physical damage, resulting in the loss of her job, friends, and boyfriend, as well as potential jail time. Her parents (William Sadler and Deborah Rush), sister Jillian (Whitney Able), and Jillian's fiancée Roger (Zachary Booth) are all concerned for her.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Songwriter Terry Trindale is attracted to Consuelo Croyden, a woman he sees nightly at a Palm Beach casino. He finally works up the courage to approach her and express his feelings, but she rebuffs his advances. When he later accrues a $3,200 gambling debt to her, Consuelo agrees to hire him as her secretary to work off what he owes her.
Comedy
The actor Josh Silver has great expectations before being auditioned for a film by Woody Allen.
Action, Comedy drama, Drama
thumb|left|Wendy Barrie and James Stewart Auto mechanic Terry Martin, the chief car tester for Emery Motors in Detroit, is working on his own time to perfect a revolutionary design for a new carburetor. Automotive engineer Frank Lawson is a rival for the attention of Jane Mitchell, who has just been hired to work in the publicity department. Terry has little formal education and resents inferences that his knowledge of cars is inferior to that of the trained Lawson.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy, Western
Hot-headed Winifred "Freddie" Jones is a saloon singer in the Old West who catches her boyfriend, gambler Blackie Jobero, flirting with another woman and takes a shot at him with the six-shooter she always carries. Unfortunately, she hits a judge in the rear end instead, so her friend Conchita and she take it on the lam. When they get to a tiny hole-in-the-wall town, Freddie and Conchita are mistaken for the new schoolmarm and her Indian maid.
Comedy drama, disaster film, Science fiction
Alan Gould, a neurotic, unkempt anthropology graduate student, is beginning to believe he may be the last living person on the planet. A mysterious catastrophe appears to have killed everyone but him. Buildings are left standing and goods are left untouched.