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Comedy, independent film
A sweet-natured guy enlists his best friend, and an engineer who lost his job and has an attitude problem, to help him create and market his idea for a rocket-powered belt. The entrepreneur never loses his confidence the idea will work even though he runs into problems that include finding investors and disagreements with his engineer.
Comedy
The film kicks off with Rhyme and TK on a date in Paris, actually a movie scene directed by TK and Flash. Later, Rhyme, Ellie, Kayla, and Quinn discuss Spring Fling and dance date plans. Rhyme wishes to go with TK.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
A small Norfolk village is outraged when it is discovered that the Ministry of Land Acquisition proposes to take over the nearby Island of Children, a bird sanctuary, for the RAF to use as a ground attack firing range. A struggle of wills begins between the authorities and the villagers, who resort to a variety of ways to prevent damage to the historic island. Harry Tilney is all for taking on the government, but his compatriot, Sally has a boyfriend stationed at the nearby Royal Air Force base, Corporal Bill Morris, so she goes to see him first.
Action, Comedy, Comedy horror, exploitation film, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, war film
Alan Jones is a recently unemployed grocery store worker. One night he decides to go back to find his coworker Ashley and propose to her, but when he sees her kissing his former boss, he leaves. While heading home, Alan’s kidnapped by a child genius named Igor and taken to a warehouse of Dr.
Comedy, sport film
Edward 'Teddy' Brown lives for his suburban cricket club and his two best friends, Rick and Stavros. But when he realises that his beloved teammates are moving on and growing up, he's forced to take matters into his own hands and remind them of just how good cricket can be. Rallying a boyhood dream and his own teenage obsession, 35-year-old Teddy leads his very ordinary cricket team into the extraordinary heart of India, on an audacious three match tour and a mission to meet cricketing legend, Sachin Tendulkar.
Comedy
The Stooges are inept professional carpenters who assume temporary stewardship of a drugstore when its proprietor departs to negotiate a large purchase of alcohol consequent to the end of Prohibition. In his absence, the trio attend to a customer who requests an alcoholic "pick-me-up". The Stooges try to concoct a suitable libation using an eclectic array of medicines and chemicals, blended in a Wellington boot.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
After celebrating his 29th and - as everyone including himself knows - last birthday, James, a young man terminally ill with cancer, sets out on a last hiking trip with his three best friends, Davy, Bill and Miles. Their destination is James's favourite beach at Barafundle Bay, on the Pembrokeshire coast. Davy is a kind, loyal and responsible soul who has been unemployed and helping James's family take care of him for quite a while already.
romantic comedy
A charming Englishman changes the lives of three generations of women who run a near-bankrupt bed and breakfast. Three women find him out cold on a beach and offer him free board in return for fixing the place up and being the handy man. Claire, widow of Senator Blake Wellesly, is initially unwilling to let him in the house, partly due to the mystery around him caused by amnesia.
Comedy
Marsha Robinson is a famous TV personality and has her own lifestyle and cooking show. She lives in Beverly Hills, California with her dentist husband Doug, her daughter Jane and her son Roger. The show takes her and her family to Hawaii.
Comedy, Family Comedy
Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, the neighbourhood nice guys are led by Fatty (real name Hubert Finn), an ambitious ten-year-old with an eye for making a quid. From shady frog jumping contests to a fixed goat race, Fatty uses his enterprise to raise enough money to buy a crystal set (radio without a separate power supply) that is worth seventeen shillings & sixpence (17/6), more than his Dad is able to save up in a year. Bruiser Murphy the bully and his gang try to stop him.
romantic comedy
Claire resents the fact that she has never been in love. She soon falls for somebody but is left heartbroken and disturbed, largely thanks to her emotionally unstable friends.
black comedy film
Thanks to his mother's help, Arthur Tate somehow makes a remarkable rise from a lowly constable to the ruler of a South American country. His story begins with Inspector Hobart's investigation into dressmaker Violet Lawson's missing husband. Hobart suspects foul play and digs up Violet's cellar, looking for the body.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Theatrical producer Gordon Miller is mounting a new play, but is chronically short of cash. Miller, his assistants, and his entire company have been living at a posh Broadway hotel on credit, thanks to the indulgence of the hotel manager, Joe Gribble, who is Miller's brother-in-law. Playwright Glenn Russell arrives from out of town, expecting royalty payments for his work, and Miller convinces him to invest in the play.
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Heist
thumb|thumbtime=10|Raffles (1930) Famed cricketer A.J. Raffles by day is the notorious gentleman jewel thief the "Amateur Cracksman" at night. After falling in love with lovely aristocratic Gwen, getting engaged to be married-—and gifting her his latest theft, a diamond bracelet-—he decides to give up his criminal ways.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Act I Oxford University, 1890. Lord Fancourt Babberley (Babbs) is pending expulsion for unintentionally “disgraceful conduct” at a cricket match, having hit Professor Redcliffe with a cricket ball and spilt tea on him. Worse, in pursuit of the mischievous friend who tripped him, Babbs stumbled down steps—clutching at a rope to steady himself—and inadvertently rang a fire bell.
Christmas film, Tragicomedy
Bertram "Bert" O'Riley is a retired Hollywood actor who has been estranged from his former wife, Brenda, and only daughter Marie for decades. Despite this, Bert keeps busy with his many friends from show business and his days are mostly spent playing chess with his former agent and best friend, Karl Sugarman, and getting coffee with Karl, Adam, Jack, and Roxie. Bert is considering selling his home and moving into a retirement home, but little does he know, Marie has moved to Los Angeles with her ten year-old daughter, Rebecca, whom Bert has never met.
Comedy drama, silent film, Tragicomedy
thumb|thumbtime=20|Our Modern Maidens (1929) Heiress Billie Brown is engaged to marry her longtime sweetheart, budding diplomat Gil Jordan. When Billie goes to see senior diplomat Glenn Abbott about ensuring that Gil get a favorable assignment, Billie and Glenn are undeniably attracted to one another. Gil is likewise attracted to Kentucky Strafford, Billie's houseguest, who becomes pregnant by Gil.
Comedy, Drama
Queensland sugarcane cutters Roo and Barney spend the off season in Sydney each year, seeing their girlfriends. For sixteen years Roo has spent the summer with barmaid Olive, bringing her a kewpie doll, while Barney romances Nancy. In the seventeenth year, Barney arrives to find that Nancy has married; however Olive has arranged a replacement, manicurist Pearl.
Comedy, Dance Film, Drama, musical film, romance film
Comedy
Fred Amidon is a Manhattan bank teller whose wife Rachel is divorcing him. Fred already has a new fiancée, bank colleague Pamela Anders, with whom he is about to embark on a vacation. While on a picnic in the park, Fred is stung on the chin by a bee.
Comedy
Circus proprietor Larsen E. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (Bergen's ventriloquist's dummy/alter-ego, whom Whipsnade hates). Whipsnade's co-ed daughter pays a visit and falls in love with Bergen, but after she sees the financial mess that her father is in, she decides to marry Roger, a tiresome young millionaire.
romantic comedy
Anthony is caught between dreams of being a musician and pleasing his father and fiancé. Encouraged by his great uncle, Anthony finds inspiration from a mysterious older woman in an other worldly night club, who teaches him to find happiness through swing dancing.
romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=10|Loose Ankles (1930) Ann Harper Berry, a young socialite, receives an inheritance of $70,000 per year (approximately $1 million today) from her deceased grandmother. The will stipulates, however, that she will only receive the money after she has been married to someone who meets with the approval of her two prudish aunts Sarah and Katherine Harper. The will also stipulates that everyone will lose their inheritance if a scandal involving Ann occurs before she is married.
Adventure, Comedy
Bud Jones and Lou Hotchkiss are wrestling promoters in Brooklyn. Their star, the proud Abdullah, no longer wishes to follow the script for their prearranged bouts, especially as he is supposed to lose his next match. Abdullah leaves America to return to his homeland of Algeria.