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Comedy
With the Garnetts' Wapping home demolished, Alf and his family are installed in a high-rise council flat. Alf struggles with "living in the sky", using lifts (which frequently break down due to power cuts "caused by the striking miners") and walking long distances to the local pub. Alf also swallows LSD thinking it is a sugar cube and walks across his neighbours' balcony handrail
Comedy, teen film
Two teenage boys are growing up in a small Canadian town in the summer of 1955. While their parents go about with their own concerns, the two develop an interest in girls. One tries to impress his crush with his father's cars.
Comedy
Laurel and Hardy are seated at a dockside where Stan is fishing. A newspaper notice catches Ollie's attention; it says that one Ebenezer Laurel has died and left a large estate, and that parties interested in the estate should go to the Laurel mansion for the reading of the will. Despite Stan's uncertainty regarding his relation to Ebenezer, the duo resolves to attend the reading of the will at the Laurel mansion.
Comedy
College freshman Jack returns to his home in the New York suburbs, in the wake of news of his life-long dog Stella's imminent death. En route, he recognizes a girl on the subway he met at a party, whom he had been infatuated with. Jack reunites happily with his younger brother Oliver and mother Sally.
Comedy, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Satire, Science fiction
The film, set in 1972 (five years after it was made), was inspired by an actual incident which occurred on 17 January 1966: a USAF Boeing B-52G Stratofortress collided with a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker over Palomares, Spain, and four 1.1-megatonne hydrogen bombs aboard the B-52 were briefly lost. In a title sequence shot by Maurice Binder, a chorus of Spanish flamenco dancers explains why the film's location is Greece rather than Spain. Life on the remote fictional Greek island of Karos is changed for ever when atomic bombs are dropped there by a military plane which was rapidly losing power.
Comedy
In Ireland, the heavily indebted village of Ballywood is almost entirely owned by greedy real estate mogul Lord Hailstock, who inherited most of the town's land. Hailstock, an English Protestant, is bigoted against the village's Irish Catholic populace, and gloats to the residents that he will soon own every building there after he purchases Finnigan's Pub, which he has foreclosed on. The villagers, mostly employed by Hailstock and determined to stave off the foreclosure, plan to raise money by sponsoring an international poetry contest, with each entry costing $5 and the winner receiving the deed to the pub.
Comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy
Carefree vagabond Johnny Rutledge lives in a small town after his medicine show employer and friend Professor Mordecai Ford is arrested. He befriends a young girl named May Chalotte and her older brothers January ("Jan"), February ("Feb") and twins March and April. Jan received word six months before that their parents had died in a riverboat accident, but has not told anybody but Feb, and now Johnny, fearing they would be sent to an orphanage.
A young Glaswegian-Italian lounge singer, Toni Cocozza (Ian Hart), has a passion for Frank Sinatra and the dream of becoming a famous musician. He grows weary of playing to elderly crowds in third-rate bars and decides to accept career help from mob enforcer Chisholm (Brian Cox) and his boss Connolly (Iain Cuthbertson) whose wife (Una McLean) has taken a liking to Toni. In exchange for assisting the organization with its illegal activities, Chisholm pays for new clothes for Toni and pressures the producer of a talent show to allow Toni to compete in the contest.
romantic comedy
In the Bernese Oberland, Sonja works as sommelier at "L'Auberge du Cerf", the restaurant owned by her boyfriend Martin. She meets Rajah, an Indian cook, with whom she falls in love. Rajah's cooking is soon integrated in the menu of the restaurant and receives immense success.
musical film, teen film
Billie Carol is a 15-year-old girl who is not like every other teen. With her bobbed haircut, tomboyish behavior, and passion for track running, she distances herself from her fellow female classmates. Instead, she befriends Mike Benson, the newest school student who has recently joined the school athletic team.
Comedy, Crime, Erotic Film, Science fiction
Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production of Bad Girls from Mars. The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town.
Comedy, musical film
In the middle of New York's theater district sits Father Conroy's parish, where entertainers often attend his services. His parishioners include Holly LeMaise, whose dad Harry was an old vaudevillian. Holly takes a job as a showgirl in a nightclub to pay the medical bills when her father falls ill.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Harry Flowers is routinely humiliated both at home and at work (the German offices of an American credit card company). Fed up, he hires prostitute Corinne to help him gain revenge on his quirky wife Sarah and her father/his boss, the overbearing Mr. Elliott—all while enriching himself financially.
romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=15|Fast and Loose (1930) The Lenox family of Long Island, headed by Bronson and Carrie, is wealthy and respectful of tradition, but their children Bertie and Marion are more irreverent. When Bertie gets involved with a chorus girl, Alice O'Neil, and Marion falls in love with Henry Morgan, an auto mechanic, the family tries to intervene to prevent their children from marrying beneath themselves.
Adventure, Drama, family film
Robin McAllister (Devon Sawa) and his family win the lottery and they end up moving from Kansas City to Seattle where Robin attends Locksley Academy, a wealthy private school. While there Robin comes up with a plan to help one of his friends who was hurt and needs money for an operation by robbing from John Prince Sr., the head of a very wealthy corporation. Robin becomes friends with a couple of misfits at school named Will Scarlett (Billy O'Sullivan) and Little John (Tyler Labine) and also falls for a girl named Marian (Sarah Chalke) who helps train the horses that Robin's family has.
Comedy, romantic comedy, silent film
Millionaire J. Harold Manners finds himself in the poor part of town. When he accidentally sets fire to a charity pushcart dispensing free coffee owned by do-gooder Brother Paul, he pulls out his checkbook to cover the damage.
black comedy film, Comedy
The film begins with a flashback to a household in Las Moscas, New Mexico, in the year 1959. The mother, Mrs. Pearly, is completely overwhelmed managing her household chores, her children Enid and June, and their visiting friend Harry.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
A successful fashion photographer has planned a Christmas wedding in Aspen, however it is interrupted by a snow storm. With no flights or rental cars available, she accepts a ride from a widowed school teacher and his 13-year-old daughter, who open up their home to her until the roads clear.
Comedy, High School Comedy Film, mystery film, teen film
One year after the events of Dorm Daze, the Billingsley University sophomores join a Semester-at-Sea Caribbean cruise, where they will perform a murder-mystery play written by Robin for a competition. Booker breaks up with Rachel to pursue other women, only to discover she has already signed up for the trip. Rusty is determined to lose his virginity, while Marla and Lynn have embraced "born-again virgin" status following court-ordered rehab.
Jon Arbuckle and Garfield take their third class airline trip to Paradise World, a cheapskate's version of Hawaii. When they arrive on the island, Jon and Garfield check in at a deserted motel and are soon disappointed to find out that there is no beach within sight, and only an empty swimming pool in the back instead. When Jon and Garfield enter their room, they find Odie hiding in their luggage.
Comedy
After Eric Simpson nearly gives The Queen a parking ticket in London, he and Ernest Clark decide to take a holiday in the south of France. However, when they arrive there, they become unwittingly involved in a jewel theft when the thief Le Pirate decides to use them to smuggle some precious jewels out of the country. He sends the two Britons to a sinister villa and sends the beautiful Claudette, a member of his criminal gang, to keep Eric and Ernie occupied while he carries out the various stages of his plan.
Comedy
Aged General O'Leary is fatally injured while trying to jump a wall with his horse. On his deathbed, the beloved old Irishman bequeaths £1,000 each to his faithful longtime servant Thady O'Heggarty, his neighbor and fellow landowner Major Monty McGluskey for care and feeding of the General's horse and dog, and to Doctor Michael Flynn for keeping him alive longer than he probably would have lived otherwise. The General also cancels all debts owed to him.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=15|upright=1.5|College In Southern California, Ronald graduates high school as its "most brilliant scholar." At his graduation, Ronald speaks on "the Curse of the Athlete," arguing that books are more important than athletics. His speech offends most of the student body, especially the popular athlete Jeff, and causes Ronald's sweetheart Mary to reject him. Ronald decides to follow Mary to Clayton, which the dean describes as an "athlete-infested college." Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald tries out for the baseball and track and field teams, but proves to be totally inept.
children's film, Christmas film, Comedy, musical film
The film centres around a barn that is used by a group of children as a meeting place for singing practice. When the owner of the property experiences financial difficulties and considers selling the barn, one of the children comes up with an idea to raise money. The children dye sheep on his property and market the coloured wool as a naturally occurring phenomenon.