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Comedy
Dimity and Vicki-Ann are a pair of siblings living in the town of Sunray. The shy and unsmiling Dimity works at a local Chinese restaurant owned by Albert, while the brash Vicki-Ann works as a hair stylist. The two are immediately taken with a Ken Sherry, a thrice divorced Brisbane DJ personality who has moved next door in order to work at the local radio station.
Comedy
The Stooges are inept electricians whose misadventures lead to their dismissal by their employer, Mr. Jordan, after inadvertently electrocuting themselves and their client, "Smilin'" Sam McGann and messing up the wiring. Prompted by Curly's suggestion for a respite, the trio embark on a retreat to Mallard's Rest Home, enticed by an advertisement promising relaxation.
Comedy horror, Vampire
Three nerds, Kyle, Brock and Russell want to make a film, so they take their script to Brock's uncle Aaron Pendleton, a "famous" film director in Hollywood. While Uncle Aaron is reading the script, the boys do a little sightseeing. First stop is a call girl service in Beverly Hills where they meet Madame Cassandra and her girls; Jessica, Claudia and Kristina, all of whom are vampires.
romantic comedy
Beautiful young Mary Audrey cannot stand gambling. Her grandfather, William, whom she calls "Gramps," is a compulsive gambler, descended from a line of compulsive gamblers who have always ended up losing all. Including him.
Christmas film, comedy television program, Drama
Businesswoman Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge never appreciated Christmas. Rude and disrespectful, she doesn't give to the needy, nor does she care about her employees at Dobson's, the department store she owns. She also works on Christmas and advises her employees to do the same.
Comedy, Family Comedy, fantasy film
Because of the repercussions left from his last adventure, Munchie must appear before a celestial court presided over by Kronus. The tribunal proceeds to blame Munchie for a number of historical calamities, including the sinking of Atlantis, the crash of the Hindenburg, the cataclysm of Vesuvius and the meltdown of Chernobyl. As punishment, he is sentenced to help single mother Linda McClelland.
Comedy
Doctor Island has invented a computer microchip he plans to use to train dogs instantly. However, his former colleague, Doctor Wagner, has other plans for the microchip: he wants to implant copies in every child in order to brainwash them to come work for him after they turn 18, and be exceedingly loyal. In the fight between Doctor Island and Doctor Wagner's henchmen, Hanky, Panky, and Doctor Island get injured and his dog Lenny is injected with the computer microchip.
screwball comedy film
Laurel and Hardy are in Florida where they meet archeologist Henry Covington, whose daughter they try to protect from the wrath of a mummy.
Comedy drama, Drama
Eli Bloom is a young piano prodigy and supermarket clerk who gets wasted the night before his audition for a prestigious music conservatory, embarrassing himself at a party in front of his longtime crush Chloe. In the morning, he has to take his mother, Penny, to rehab for her drug abuse, and his younger sister, Nicole, to school, where her teacher, Lisa, tells Eli that Nicole's sock-puppet friend has been insulting her classmates. Promising to take care of it, Eli takes off to drop Penny off, but she does not qualify for rehab due to lack of insurance.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Satire
World-renowned American film director Don Tyler (played by Donald Sutherland) is shooting a remake of The Last Emperor in the Forbidden City, Beijing. The director's assistant Lucy, a Chinese American (Rosamund Kwan), hires a Beijing cameraman named YoYo (Ge You) to shoot a "making of" documentary. The director discovers he has ailing health and is booted by the film's producer from the shoot.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Successful novelist and playboy Owen Waterbury hires aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord as his secretary; a dream come true for Steve who admires Owen and his work, and is herself an aspiring author. Steve soon finds out that the egomaniacal Owen has gone through a series of secretaries who have left when they are fed up with his behaviour. He is constantly in debt and cannot begin to write a contracted novel that will pay his bills including a lucrative advance by his publisher.
Comedy drama, trial film
Terry Scott, who is separated from her husband, and unhappily married David Campbell, the father of two children, meet when they are selected to serve on the jury of the Los Angeles trial of Ernest Craig. The defendant is charged with having murdered his wife when she refused to grant him a divorce. David wishes to avoid jury duty, but Terry tries to persuade the rest of the jury that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, suspense film, thriller film
Persistent exposure of ocean wildlife to a toxic goo used in oil drilling leads to a shark growing in size and becoming bulletproof, and even attaining the ability to move around on land. It destroys the oil rig that caused it, and then moves to Los Angeles where it eats several divers and threatens to disrupt a bikini contest. Marine biologist Dr.
Drama, romantic comedy
Douglas "Dawg" Munford (Denis Leary) is the ultimate womanizer: he is selfish, rude, and uncaring about what a woman thinks after they have sex. He arrives too late for his grandmother's funeral but finds that she has left him a million dollars, subject to one condition. As explained by estate executor Anna Lockhart (Elizabeth Hurley), Douglas must contact at least a dozen of the scores of women he has seduced and left during his lifetime and beg for their forgiveness.
Comedy drama, Criminal Comedy Film
A compulsive gambler attempts to cure his addiction by moving from Las Vegas to Albuquerque and working at an auto insurance company, only to find old temptations cropping up once again when he's sent out to investigate a dubious car accident just outside Sin City. After a string of bad luck at the tables, John (Steve Buscemi) decides to give up gambling and take a shot at a "normal" life. Arriving in Albuquerque and landing a job at an auto insurance company, John goes to work for Mr.
Comedy
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success, but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of 10 mysterious photographs that could save his career. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz, and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
Comedy drama
Christmas is fast approaching, and British schoolteacher Bri is bitter and vexed upon seeing his classroom of schoolboys loudly talking and interrupting him. He forces them to put their hands on their heads and sit there in silence well after the dismissal bell has sounded, whereupon he has a fantasy of a nude blonde woman, makes a Freudian slip comment about breasts, and mischievously flees the school in his ageing vehicle (while still leaving the schoolboys sitting there, never dismissing them), returning home to spend the holiday with his family. He plays a playful prank on Sheila, his wife, taping a fake rubber spider to his face.
Comedy, Drama
Inventor Frederick Smith's wife dies during the birth of their fourth baby, Ronnie, leaving the family in the care of their faithful housekeeper Emma. Twenty years later, after Smith's inventions have made the family rich, the affable Ronnie, who is Emma's favorite, arrives home from college, announcing that he wants to quit school and become a pilot. The other Smith children, Bill, Gypsy and Isabelle, have all grown into spoiled adults, but Emma lovingly indulges them all, making excuses for their bad behavior to their father and everyone else.
Comedy
The Stooges are vaudevillians rehearsing a comedy sketch in their apartment. Faced with the obstacle of noisy neighbors upstairs disrupting their rehearsals, the trio go to confront them but unexpectedly encounter three talented dancers, Flo, Mary, and Shirley (played by acrobatic dancers Lindsay Bourquin, Laverne Thompson, and Betty Phares, who are billed simply as "Lindsay, Laverne, Betty"). A fortuitous friendship ensues, leading the group to seek representation from talent agent Manny Weeks.
Comedy horror, High School Comedy Film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, Splatter Film
Moments after the end of the second film, the mutant squirrel Tromie is subdued and life in Tromaville returns to normal. Roger Smith, now mayor of Tromaville, is overjoyed at the birth of his twin sons, Dick and Adlai. Unfortunately for all concerned parties, Dick is kidnapped at the hospital and subsequently raised to be evil by the thugs who took him.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film
Cassandra, an expatriate American book translator (Judy Davis) living in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, who is hired by a mysterious woman, Frankie (Marcia Gay Harden), to locate her missing husband so he can sign some important papers. Nothing Frankie says is true: the husband turns out to be a woman, the issue isn't legal papers but a child's custody, and even Frankie's most obvious identity, in red cape and red pumps, is a false front. But Cassandra keeps at it, at first to earn her promised fee, and then to help Frankie, then Frankie's ex, then the child.
buddy film, Comedy, musical film, Splatstick
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen who venture to Switzerland with the expectation of thriving business, grounded in Stan's hypothesis that the country's abundance of cheese would naturally attract a proliferation of mice. However, upon arriving at a village, they encounter a disinterested populace and fall victim to a deceitful cheese shop owner who absconds with their merchandise using counterfeit currency. Left penniless, the duo resorts to seeking sustenance at a local inn, where their inability to settle the bill compels them into dishwashing duties under the scornful eye of the chef, whose ire is further stoked by their clumsiness.
Family Comedy, fantasy film, Vampire
In Transylvania, a woman in her kitchen cooks a jelly pudding. A dog suddenly appears from nowhere and eats the pudding when she leaves the kitchen. The woman witnesses the dog suddenly disappear.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Science fiction, Splatter Film
The film begins with the alien abduction on Scalleum, a remote island off the coast of Wales, of Cat Williams and her boyfriend. Cat's boyfriend is gorily killed through brutal anal probing, and Cat is (also gorily) implanted with an alien fetus. Cat's story attracts the attention of Michelle "Foxy" Fox, the bosomy host of the cable TV show Weird Worlde, who brings a film crew to the island — her cameraman boyfriend Ricky; Jack the sound man; nerdy UFO expert Gavin Gorman; and actors Bruce Barton and Candy Vixen (the latter, Foxy's producer assures her, "because she's good, not because she's my girlfriend").