Arthur's Missing Pal (2006)
Comedy
Comedy movies
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Sissy-Boy Slap-Party (2004)
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Doll Face (1945)
musical film, romantic comedy
"Doll Face" Carroll is an entertainer looking to expand her repertoire. After a failed audition, where she is recognized as a burlesque performer from the Gaiety Theatre, her manager and fiancé Mike Hannegan suggests she write an autobiography to project a more literate image and he hires Frederick Manly Gerard as a ghostwriter. Doll Face agrees on the condition she is allowed to dedicate the book to Mike with "For the love of Mike".
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Comedy
This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters, Estella and Sidonia, he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years.
Saps At Sea (1940)
buddy film, Comedy, Splatstick
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory, where the constant noise exacerbates Hardy's stress levels. Their predicament is underscored by the frequent mental breakdowns of their colleagues, a situation highlighted by a recent incident resulting in a worker's descent into madness. Ollie, succumbing to "hornophobia," is sent home from work due to his heightened aversion to horn sounds.
Quiet Days in Hollywood (1997)
Comedy, Drama
The plot features a series of interlocking stories. Each vignette is introduced with a character that had sex with someone in the previous segment. The movie opens with a seventeen-year-old prostitute, Lolita (Hilary Swank), who hangs around outside movie premiere with another teen prostitute in the hopes of getting a picture of her idol, movie star Peter Blaine (Peter Dobson).
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle (2015)
Adventure, Animation, children's film, Comedy
New York City Serenade (2007)
Comedy drama
Owen is an aspiring filmmaker who has been nominated for an award for one of his short films in which his friend Ray appears. Owen has a job developing photos in the film industry. Ray has an office job (this week) but still plays drums in a rock band, and he has a young daughter, Francie, as well as a drinking problem.
Strike It Rich (1990)
romantic comedy
In the 1950s, a young American woman living in London, Cary Porter (played by Ringwald), starts working at a large multinational firm where she meets accountant Ian Bertram (played by Lindsay). He falls head over heels in love with her and soon proposes. The head of the company, Herbert Dreuther (played by Gielgud), offers them a wedding and to pay for a honeymoon in Monte Carlo, as well as the use of his yacht.
It All Came True (1940)
Comedy, Crime Comedy, musical film
Aspiring songwriter Tommy Taylor pins his hopes on the promises of his employer, gambler and gangster "Chips" Maguire. However, Chips uses the gun he had registered under Tommy's name to kill Monks when he betrays Chips to the police. It turns out Chips had Tommy carry the gun for just such a situation, to provide him with a fall guy.
Jessica (1962)
romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
When her husband dies in Sicily while on their honeymoon, Jessica, a nurse, decides to remain there rather than return home and becomes a midwife in the village of Forza d'Agrò. Men of the town pay quite a bit of attention to the attractive Jessica, causing women to resent her presence. While she at times welcomes their attentions, she has a strict rule to never get involved with any man who has any standing attachment to another woman.
Tawny Pipit (1944)
Comedy, propaganda film
During the Second World War, Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot just released from hospital and his nurse (now his girlfriend) Hazel Broome are on a walking tour through the countryside. They arrive at the (fictional) village of Lipsbury Lea, being keen birdwatchers, discover that a pair of tawny pipits, which are rarely seen in England, are nesting nearby. News of the rare discovery spreads and groups of twitchers arrive from the cities to try to see the birds.
Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Comedy
In Los Angeles, Michael (Frank Whaley) meets Sarah (Christine Harnos) at the gym. She invites him to dinner at the apartment she shares with her mother (Sheree North) and their dog Jasper. While the three of them are at the table eating dinner, Jasper dies suddenly.
Mantrap (1926)
Comedy
Ralph Prescott is a New York divorce lawyer tired of his clientele. Woodbury, who runs a ladies hosiery business across the hall, suggests that they get away from the city and camp in Mantrap, Canada. Bachelor Joe Easter runs a dry-goods store in Mantrap.
The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker (1971)
Comedy
Three years after graduating from Princeton, disillusioned Jonathan is driving a Manhattan taxicab and expressing his disgust with the world by insulting his obnoxious passengers and kicking pigeons in Riverside Park. His circle of acquaintances includes Winslow Smith, a motorcycle-riding, leather-jacketed, self-styled rebel, whose image is undermined by the fact that at 24 he is still a virgin; Oliver, a homosexual interior decorator who stages elaborate parties and tries, unsuccessfully, to seduce his male guests; and Jennifer, a 21-year-old tenant in Jonathan's building, whose sojourn in New York City to "find herself" is being…
Francis Goes to the Races (1951)
Comedy, fantasy film
Francis the Talking Mule and his sidekick Peter Sterling visit Colonel Travers and his granddaughter on their family horse farm, where Peter becomes involved in the world of horse racing. A crime boss and his men trying to fix races involving the Travers' horses. Peter accepts an offer to have Francis boarded at the race track stables as a companion animal.
Monster High (1989)
Comedy horror, Science fiction
When aliens bring a stolen doomsday device to Earth, it is up to a group of high school students to save the world.
Our Girl Friday (1953)
Comedy, romantic comedy
A ship collision results in four survivors from an ocean liner winding up on a desert island: spoiled heiress Sadie, lecturer Professor Gibble, journalist Jimmy Carrol and ship's stoker Pat Plunket. Carrol falls in love with Sadie and she kisses him. Gibble falls in love with Sadie.
Battle on Buka Street (2022)
Comedy
Yejide runs the most patronized buka (stall) in Otanwa community's "Buka Street" with help from her mother Asake and her children. However, her step-sister and archenemy Awele buys the neighbouring shop one day and starts competing. Their rivalry dates back to before their childhood; their mothers, Asake and Ezinne, both married to their father Meduka, were jealous and conflicted with each other, and this carried on to their children.
Suzy (1936)
Drama, Melodrama
In 1914, American showgirl Suzanne Trent is in London, hoping to meet and marry a man with money. She tells her friend Maisie she can charm any man she chooses into marrying her, and then learn to love him. She sets her sights on Terry Moore, an Irishman she sees in a borrowed Rolls-Royce.
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)
black comedy film
Record-company owner Marty Starr concludes that Marla Dorland, aka Mavis Davis is a fading star. Meanwhile, he has to meet alimony payments to his ex, while he's forced to promote the untalented son of mobster, Rathbone. To get out from under, Marty decides that the death of Marla/Mavis could jolt record sales by turning her into a legend.
Give a Girl a Break (1953)
musical film, romantic comedy
When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknown for the role. When it is announced in the newspapers, throngs of hopefuls show up. They sing about their hopes in the song, "Give a Girl a Break." The revue's musical composer, Leo Belney, champions ballerina Joanna Moss, while gofer Bob Dowdy is enchanted by novice Suzy Doolittle (Debbie Reynolds).
Robot in the Family (1994)
Comedy
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Comedy, Parody
In a crowded New York tenement on the upper east side, Blondie and Lottie are neighbors and best friends. Lottie joins the Follies, a burlesque show, escaping their noisy, crowded, poverty-stricken life with a Mr. Kinskey.