The Midnight Drives (2007)
Comedy drama
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Straight-Jacket (2004)
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Guy Stone (Matt Letscher) is blissfully closeted, picking up tricks for one-night-stands, while capturing the country's heart as "America's most eligible bachelor" (starring in such films as The Love Barrel and I Married the Ghost). However, Guy's carefully managed façade collapses when he comes up for the lead in S.R.O. studio's version of Ben-Hur.
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses. Lynn discovers that top designer Oscar Baroque gets his inspiration from old costume books, and she begins to create designs the same way, signing each one with the name of an established designer. Sherwood realizes Baroque's companion, the alleged Grand Duchess Alix, is really Mabel McGuire, his old friend from Hoboken, New Jersey, and threatens to reveal her identity unless she convinces Baroque to design the costumes of a musical revue…
Mickybo and Me (2004)
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
An eight and a nine-year-old boy living in Belfast during The Troubles, one Catholic, one Protestant, become friends. They are obsessed with the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and dream of robbing banks and emigrating to Australia. Although the boys are from completely different backgrounds, they bond quickly.
Mass Appeal (1984)
Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
For years, as pastor of an affluent, suburban Catholic parish, Father Tim Farley has maintained a close relationship with his congregation by delivering folksy homilies filled with practical advice and adhering to clerical policies without waver. One Sunday, his sermon is interrupted by seminarian Mark Dolson, who questions Farley's position on the ordination of women. The older priest charmingly sidesteps the young man but is annoyed that he was placed in an uncomfortable position.
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Comedy, romantic comedy
Civilian scientist Jason Eldridge runs the Magnetic Analyzer Computing Synchrotron (MACS), a vacuum tube computer aboard the United States Navy ship USS Elmira. He and his friend Lieutenant Ferguson Howard realize that by using MACS to record a roulette table's spins over time, the computer can predict future results. With Eldridge, Howard and Lieutenant Junior Grade Beauregard Gilliam check into a Venice casino's hotel dressed as civilians, defying Admiral Fitch's order that naval officers on shore avoid the casino and wear uniforms.
Kid Millions (1934)
musical film
In New York City, 1934, jazz singer Dot Clark and her shady gangster boyfriend, Louie The Lug ("An Earful of Music"), are introduced. After having an affair with the deceased Professor Edward Wilson, Dot is now technically his common-law wife and heiress to $77 million. She has to go to Egypt to claim the money, and sets off with Louie in hopes of getting the cash.
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
Comedy, Parody, Silly Movie, war film
Master Sergeant Dan O'Farrell is a G.I. on an island somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II, bemoaning the loss of a ship torpedoed while ferrying to the island a desperately needed cargo of beer. Among his problems are the Navy personnel making life difficult for him and his Army buddies, an officer trying to emulate John Paul Jones, a hoped-for delivery of morale-boosting nurses turning out to be six men, the ugliest woman (Diller) ever to wilt a bouquet of flowers, and a Japanese soldier who has been hiding from everyone else and hiding something else as well.
Broadway Bound (1992)
Comedy
The film is about Eugene and his older brother, Stanley, dealing with their parents' relationship falling apart as the brothers work together toward being comedy writers for the radio, and, eventually, television.
Rock, Pretty Baby (1956)
Comedy
Young musician Jimmy Daley (Saxon) needs to come up with $300 to purchase the electric guitar he wants. He pawns his law books, to the disappointment of his father (Platt), a doctor whose goal is for Jimmy to become a lawyer. Jimmy's jealous nature results in a ruckus at a party and $150 in damage to a neighbor, which Dr.
The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)
romantic comedy
Going Under (1991)
Comedy, Parody
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.
If the Shoe Fits (1990)
Comedy, romance film
In Paris, Kelly Carter (Jennifer Grey) is trying to develop her career as a shoe designer. Lost in Paris, Wanda the fairy (Andrea Ferreol) tries very hard to get directions on a crowded boulevard and nobody gives her attention but the sensible Kelly. Kelly goes to meet with famous fashion designer Francesco Salvitore (Rob Lowe), but is late for the appointment with him, and is turned away.
Another WolfCop (2017)
Comedy horror, Horror
A few months after the events of the first film, alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou, aka "WolfCop", continues to fight crime in the small town of Woodhaven. Garou's partner, Tina Walsh, has become the new police chief—however, Garou's tendencies to violently dispatch criminals in his wolf form has left her frustrated, especially since she is trying to keep Garou's WolfCop identity a secret from the rest of the town. Meanwhile, Sydney Swallows, an immensely wealthy businessman and author of self-help books, has helped reinvigorate Woodhaven's economy by re-opening the old brewery under the new name "Darkstar", under which he creates a…
Hypnosen (2023)
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
A young couple, André and Vera, prepares to pitch a business idea of women's reproductive health mobile application. When Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking, she loses her social inhibition.
Tenure (2009)
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Tragicomedy
Charlie Thurber (Luke Wilson) is a beleaguered English professor at fictional Grey College (a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania) who competes for tenure against an impressive new hire from Yale, Elaine Grasso (Gretchen Mol). Jay Hadley (David Koechner) is an anthropology professor at Grey who tries to convince Thurber to sabotage Grasso's career – while being simultaneously obsessed with trying to prove the authenticity of Bigfoot. Thurber's articles are rejected by a series of academic journals and he worries about becoming a victim of the "publish or perish" pressures of professorship.
Bending All the Rules (2002)
Comedy drama, romance film
An ambitious woman with an odd upbringing struggles to find herself amidst juggling two guys she's dating. Even though both guys know about each other and are complete opposites, jealousy begins to boil over as convivial antics break out between the two. Tough decisions will be made when growing up the hard way.
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
musical film, romantic comedy
Randy and the Mob (2007)
Comedy, Crime
Good ol' boy Randy Pearson, a can't-win entrepreneur, finds himself in debt to mobsters when his latest scheme to keep his businesses afloat goes awry. With the IRS after him as well, he seeks a helping hand from his carpal-tunneled, baton-teaching wife, Charlotte; his estranged, gay twin brother, Cecil, and Tino Armani, a mysterious self-styled prophet with a knack for high fashion, Italian cooking and clog dancing.
Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002)
stand-up comedy
Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988)
Comedy horror, fantasy film, monster film
Eddie Baxter is on the beach telling the story about what happened when his family inherited a spooky old house through his mother's family. After moving in, he discovers a strange crack running through the length of the basement with smoke coming up through it. The smoke soon starts resulting in strange activity through the house.
American High School (2009)
Coming-of-age, High School Comedy Film, romantic comedy, sex comedy, teen film
It is the final week of senior year at American High School and Gwen Adams considers divorcing her new husband Holden Adams, whom she married because her rival Hilary Weiss is also trying to be his girlfriend. She faces the problems created by Hilary's plot to become prom queen and decides to run for prom queen herself. The married couple are caught having sex by Principal Mann.
Dancing Queen (1993)
romantic comedy
Neil is taken to his stag party by his friends Nigel and Donald. After spiking his drink, Nigel calls out for the stripper he paid, 'Pandora.' As she strips to Gary Glitter's "Do You Wanna Touch Me", Neil is feeling the immediate aftereffects of his spiked drink. After Pandora's dance, Nigel and Donald carry Neil out.
Sweethearts (1938)
musical film, romantic comedy
thumb|Lobby card Married Broadway stars Gwen Marlowe and Ernest Lane are appearing in a 6-year run of Victor Herbert's operetta Sweethearts. Norman Trumpett, a Hollywood talent scout, is under pressure to recruit Marlowe and Lane for his studio, which their Broadway producer Felix Lehman is equally determined to prevent. The couple's attempts to rest and be together are repeatedly thwarted by professional and personal demands made on their time, talents and money by Lehman and their own theatrical families - who also live with them.