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Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Evan Merck, an odd but gifted poet, makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. At the funeral for a client, he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of the deceased. When Charlotte asks how Evan knew her brother, he lies and says he was an old college friend.
romantic comedy
Katya Livingston is an ad exec living in San Francisco. Her accountant goes to prison and advises her to keep a journal of all of her expenses as she is sure to be audited. Katya is vain and selfish, trying to keep up with society by wearing designer knock offs and trying to get into all of the hottest clubs.
Comedy
romantic comedy
Georgina Lorenzana, an ambitious, driven, and bossy business woman, attends a meeting in which the President of the company says that he will be taking a two month leave, leaving Georgina to run the marketing department in the meantime. The President introduces Pong Dalupan to Georgina, who is the Chief Commercial Officer. Upon leaving, the President gives Georgina the task of getting Nipudu Air as a partner for the company in order to reach the Japanese market and connect their airline with the rest of the Japanese network.
romantic comedy
Comedy
The film continues directly where The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ended with Barry McKenzie and his aunt Edna returning home to Australia from England. During the flight two henchmen of Count Plasma (a Dracula-type Minister of Culture from the People's Republic of Transylvania) mistake Edna for the Queen of the United Kingdom and kidnap her during their brief stopover in Paris, believing that she will draw tourists to their country. It is then up to Barry, his identical twin brother the Reverend Kevin McKenzie, his Parisian expatriate Aussie friend "Col the Frog" and his other expatriate mates in France and England to head a team of…
Comedy
In 1987, a young boy named Ralph receives a VHS camcorder from his parents as a Christmas gift. Ralph quickly sets about filming his own explorations of the neighborhood, ersatz music videos with his best friend, and in particular recording late-night television to see what sort of programming comes on after he goes to bed. Unbeknownst to Ralph, the blank VHS he has chosen to use is, in fact, his parents' wedding video.
Comedy
In 1672, the Stooges are mariners aboard a refuse barge, marooned on the desolate Dead Man's Island. Their arrival attracts the attention of the island's governor, initially skeptical of their claims until their unmistakable sailor-like behavior confirms their profession. However, their fortunes quickly sour when Curly's harmless flirtation with the governor's betrothed, Rita, earns them the governor's ire.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Janie is a telephone operator and a daydreamer whose fondest wish is to land a rich husband. Her boyfriend Tom, a car salesman, also wants to marry, and Janie dreams about married life with him. Listening to a long-distance phone call between the wealthiest eligible bachelor in town, Dick Hamilton, and the girl whom Dick has been dating, Janie makes a wish that she could meet him.
Comedy, Drama, Mysterie, romance film
Comedy, documentary film, Documentation
Part documentary, part narrative, part instructional format, the film aims to teach young inexperienced youth about all things involved with "getting down", while also pointing out some of the pitfalls associated with the party lifestyle.
Drama, romantic comedy
New York private Coventry school English teacher Jake Singer tries rekindling a relationship, but Julia invites him to her engagement "going-away" party, asking, "are you seeing anybody? ...I mean therapy." Psychoanalyst Dr. Ernesto Morales criticizes Jake's "apologizing" with "constructing passive sentences" such as "I suppose, maybe, I guess." Jake resists discussing "manners" and his dead mother, wanting to discuss his "almost non-existent sex life," after a year without Julia.
romantic comedy
Recently widowed Michele O'Brien moves into a Greenwich Village brownstone with her infant son John Thomas. Her neighbor, Harley Rummel, a bohemian who earns a living by making nudie films in his apartment, becomes interested in her, but Michele believes her boss, wealthy psychologist Philip Brock, is a better prospect as a new mate. Although he is an authority on children, Philip actually despises them, so Michele decides to keep John Thomas a secret for the time being.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
Chekov's 'Uncle Vanya', transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquillity of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner and his American wife.
Comedy
Pediatrician Jane Bowers is a women's lib advocate who meets Officer Jerry Frazer when they both show up to view an apartment in San Francisco. They immediately butt heads as her militant demand for equal treatment conflicts with his traditional "ladies first" attitude. Due to the shortage of affordable housing and a misunderstanding with the landlord, they agree to pose as a married couple to share the apartment since their work schedules don't overlap, an arrangement she openly shares with Wyatt, her understanding, liberal lawyer fiancé and Mother's boy, but not with her father.
Adventure, Comedy
Dolphin Boy narrates the tale of an infant who was nurtured by a dolphin in the ocean. Following a plane crash into the water, a young dolphin named Sefid and his mother discover a human baby and decide to care for him. The boy grows up and after realizing that he is a human, he goes to land to find his mother.
Comedy, Drama
Three varsity baseball players, who have been best friends since childhood, enter their final year of high school and must make difficult choices on and off the baseball field. They have to decide between what they want and what their parents want.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
A personal Christmas shopper from New York City is hired by a busy marketing executive for buying gifts for his friends and family.
Drama, romance film
Ruth Brock, a pretty young bank clerk, attracts the young men in the small town of Marysville. Rich playboy Romer Sheffield is no exception, although he has Camille staying openly at his mansion, scandalizing the locals. Jealous, Camille soon leaves.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=20|Free and Easy (1930) When small-town resident Elvira Plunkett wins a contest that sends her to Hollywood for a screen test at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), she is accompanied by her overbearing mother and Elmer J. Butts, a gas-station attendant who goes along as Elvira's manager. Elmer is secretly in love with Elvira, but on the train they meet MGM contract actor Larry Mitchell, who falls for her as well, and he has the connections to make her a star.
Comedy drama, Drama, musical film, romantic comedy
Tony West performs in vaudeville in a group with his father Nick and sister Kitty, The decline of vaudeville forces the group to split up and Tony goes to Hollywood to try to make it in movies. He works at Universal Pictures, where he becomes screen partners with, and then the husband of, star Gloria Vance. When World War II breaks out, Tony tries to enlist but is refused because of his knee.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Like many southern Europeans of the period (1960s to early 1970s), Nino Garofalo is a migrant "guest worker" from Italy, working as a waiter in Switzerland. He loses his work permit when he is caught urinating in public, so he begins to lead a clandestine life in Switzerland. At first he is supported by Elena, a Greek woman and political refugee.
Comedy, Stop motion
Tiny, a dog trainer, hides with his dogs in a wicker basket on the stage of an abandoned vaudeville theater. He emerges to have them practice a trick, attacking a tattered straw boater hat on command. When a second man, Arnold Hugh, emerges menacingly onto the stage, Tiny fearfully backs away from him and falls into the orchestra pit, getting his clothes snagged on a broken plank.
Comedy drama