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LGBTQ-related film, Parody, romantic comedy
England, 1908: Emily Ivory (Cates) is a wealthy young woman who lives with her Aunt Agnes (Scales) at Ivory's End, a large country house. At 22, as her aunt constantly reminds her, she is verging on spinsterhood. She meets her brother's best friend, Cedric Trilling (Portal), when the two come home from university.
comedy of remarriage, musical film, romantic comedy
Singing-and-dancing stage star Julie (Betty Grable) is told that husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is reported missing in action during the Korean War. After a long waiting period, she makes plans to marry Vernon (Gower Champion), who is Marty's best friend. After the marriage, Marty (who crashed but survived on an island) turns up at one of Julie's shows.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Bill and Petronilla are a young couple on a yachting holiday. They agree to give a lift to friendly Tony and his cargo, who unbeknownst to them is a brandy smuggler. Before they know it, the couple are fleeing cross-country, chased by customs men.
Comedy
Mrs Wilmot, Miss Baker and Miss Fife run away from the Sunset Home when they are notified that they will be split up, with two of them being sent off to different cities. They hide on a motorboat when they spot some policemen, but accidentally start the engine and reach the open sea before they run out of petrol. They are picked up by a Russian freighter, though none of the crew speak English.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
Maxim Sarafanov (Rade Šerbedžija) has just been fired from the orchestra he played clarinet in, his son Nikita (Reiley McClendon) is in love with his schoolteacher Susan (Regina Hall), and his daughter Lolita (Leelee Sobieski) is to marry pilot Greg (Brian Geraghty) and move to Texas. But things get worse when a small-time car thief Bo (Shane West) looking for a hideout from the police tells Maxim that he is his son from Maxim's old girlfriend towards whom he still has feelings.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.
Comedy, Drama, Dystopian, Groteske, Melodrama, Science fiction
The film is set in a darkly surreal and dystopian version of New York City that is mostly devoid of humans and populated only by rats and a few eccentrics. Lafayette is a young French electrician, living on his own in a basement. He works for Andreas Flaxman, the cynical owner of a waxwork museum.
Comedy
Dill Scallion, a school bus driver residing in a small Texan community, unexpectedly catapults into stardom within the country and western music scene. His sudden rise follows the success of his song, "I Discovered Love at a Relative Gathering," which becomes a chart-topper. Dill gains immense fame for his distinct dance routines, which are notably unconventional due to a serious foot injury.
Comedy, Crime
The film is set during the Christmas season in Camden Town, London. It follows incompetent private detective Tim Diamond and his sharp-witted teenage brother, Nick, who are completely out of money, until they are hired by a South American client named Johnny Naples to protect a seemingly ordinary box of Maltesers chocolate. After watching Farewell My Lovely at the cinema, they return to find the office smashed up.
Comedy, musical film
thumb|left|Buster Keaton, Thelma Todd, and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily (1932) Professor Timoleon Zanders Post is a shy Classics professor at Potts College, who has lived a sheltered life and has little experience of life outside of academia. Feeling that the professor should see more of the real world, his assistant Jenkins tricks the professor into thinking that he has inherited $750,000, allowing the professor to leave academia at last. Boarding a train bound for New York City, Prof.
romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=4|The Plastic Age (1925) Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. During a hazing initiation by his fraternity brothers, he meets Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party and have a good time. She introduces him to the pleasures of illicit drinking, dancing at illegal roadhouses, and making out in the back seats of cars.
Comedy
A vote in the United Nations is deadlocked. The deciding vote goes to the tiny, obscure European Republic of Concordia. Its president, known as the General (Peter Ustinov), abstains from voting.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Family Comedy, Teen Comedy Film
Teenage actress Morgan Carter is a Hollywood princess, until the day that her hard-partying ways get the best of her. After she collapses outside of a Hollywood nightclub, Morgan's mother sends her to live in the wilds of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her Aunt Trudy. Morgan is camouflaged into Claudia Miller and given a new hairstyle, and suddenly, Morgan, albeit unwillingly, blends in with her peers who do not own televisions or read magazines.
Comedy
A local Utah LDS Church holds the record as having the worst basketball team in the church ball league. The team has failed to make it into the church tournament in the past 20 years. Due to rumors of this being the last year of the league, former team coach, and now Bishop Linderman (Fred Willard) has called Dennis Buckstead (Andrew Wilson) to coach a team made of clumsy misfits to the championship.
Comedy, Coming-of-age
In Mount Airy, Maryland in 1985, Radford “Rad” Miracle (Conte) is a 14-year-old living with his gothic older teenage sister Michelle Ann Miracle (Seabrook), State Trooper Father Brennan Miracle (Hannah), and Mother Candle Miracle (Thompson), the family packs up for their annual summer beach vacation in Ocean City, Maryland, where on the way, the contentious relationship between the teen siblings is further exposed. Shortly after unpacking, Rad walks to the nearby convenience store Anthony’s for an Icee and notices local heartthrob Stacy Summers getting into her Volkswagen Cabriolet, but before entering the store he is accosted outside by…
Comedy
Journalist Simon Morris has trouble with his love life. He is separated from his wife Wendy and daughter Suzie and lives with his girlfriend Liz. He is assigned to cover a conference in Hong Kong and sleeps with a woman there.
Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
When a family of benevolent humanoid aliens is stranded in the Midwestern United States after their spaceship crashes, a kind innkeeper (Burl Ives) and his grandson (Todd Porter) take them in. Once word gets out that aliens have landed, Sheriff De Rita (John Schuck) and Deputy Sweeney (Stuart Pankin) prove unable to handle the crowds. A government agent (Joseph Campanella) arrives, who wants to assure that the aliens cannot intermingle with humankind.
musical film, romantic comedy
Nicky Nelson is a sidewalk entrepreneur who tries to lure passersby to see his friend Gene Krupa's band. As the strategy fails, he takes the musicians to a club, where he meets singer Lily Racquel. He takes advantage of her while pretending to help her, but love ultimately redeems him.
Comedy
Drama, romance film
Joan Gordon, a New York torch singer who has been performing since age 15, has left her wealthy criminal boyfriend Eddie Fields for upstanding citizen Don Leslie. However, when Don's father learns about her relationship with Eddie; she and Don cancel their engagement, and she leaves town rather than returning to Eddie. In Montreal, she changes her name and resumes performing, but one of Eddie's men soon recognizes her and informs his boss.
Comedy, Drama, Road Movie, romance film, romantic comedy
John Logue, a dedicated John Kerry campaigner in the 2004 election, makes a drunken campaign vow to move to Canada if George W. Bush is re-elected. When Bush indeed wins again, John finds his employer and his friends took his public vow seriously and he can not help but stay true to his word.
Comedy
The youth-oriented film chronicles the zany exploits of the employees at a record store, with Michael Callan as the girl-chasing manager and a host of popular TV comedians in supporting roles.
Comedy, prison film
Herbie Altman is framed by his business partner and sent to jail where he sets up "Con Inc." an investment company with the help of those around him. This is due to the fact that he helped a fellow inmate to invest his money. He runs the business under the nose of the police wardens.
romantic comedy
The film is about a Jewish man named Marty Shalom Weinstein (Fiore) who falls in love with a wrestling princess Sandy and it's a "no holds barred" quest for her love, the Jewish man finds he has to fight for his love as Sandy's dad is also a wrestler who only wants his daughter to marry a famous wrestler, and not a Jewish man with little money and no muscles. Robert also has to deal with Roxanne (Laurer) and Jennie (Marshall) along with others out to get him.