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Comedy
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so he agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Comedy, Family Comedy
Casey and Derek are back and continue their sibling rivalry during a family vacation to visit their grandmother, Felicia at her beautiful lakefront lodge. Things heat up with Casey when she meets Jesse, a young dancer who happens to be a waiter at the lodge. Meanwhile, as Derek is "chilling" on his vacation, he falls for Roxy, the rich girl who lives across the lake.
Comedy
Drama, silent film
Little Lord Fauntleroy, a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first appeared as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885 and was published as a book in 1886. It became a major literary success, shaping both children's fiction and late-Victorian fashion.
romantic comedy
Broadway talent agent and bachelor Jud Parker is summoned by a client to New Haven, Connecticut, where he settles a dispute and meets dance instructor Anastacia "Stacie" Macaboy, to whom he is immediately attracted. Stacie consults with Jud about featuring her dancing routine. A few days later, Stacie cancels next week's dancing class to attend a conference for dance instructors in New York.
Biography, Comedy, Coming-of-age, Drama, Tragicomedy
After leaving her abusive alcoholic husband, Lena lives in Vladivostok, Soviet Union, with her young son, nicknamed Potato. The boy often escapes into fantastical reality of his own imaginary film – for example, picturing his parents doing an acrobatic Apache dance when they are actually fighting. At school, Potato finds himself rebelling against waning communist ideology, where a living portrait of Vladimir Lenin literally watches the kids as they take a class photo.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Solo Harrington is a down-on-his-luck writer who has published an unsuccessful novel and accrued heavy debt on drugs and therapy. After being encouraged by his psychiatrist Dr. Nourmand to get a dog, Solo gets himself a scrawny little terrier, but the dog irritates him to the point that Solo doesn't give it a name.
Comedy drama, Crime, Detective
Newly married amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, mystery writer Harriet Vane, are looking forward to a quiet honeymoon at their new country cottage when they are reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a local murder.
Comedy, fantasy film
A famous movie actor (Peter O'Toole) claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.
Comedy
Bill Ferguson, a travel agent in Edinburgh, has an argument with his girlfriend Stella after he loses the key to his apartment. Unnoticed by Bill, Maggie, an American business associate of his, finds his key in his trouser cuff where he had dropped it, but, before returning it, she makes a copy of the key and gives Bill a gift of a case containing several copies of the key with his address on an attached metal tag. Subsequently travelling around Europe on a business trip, Bill has romantic encounters with three women, giving each one a standing invitation to visit him when in Edinburgh plus one of the keys to his flat.
Comedy
Buster joins a queue for free bread, but does not note that he is standing behind two unmoving mannequins. By the time he spots his mistake, there is no more bread left. Next, Buster peers into a police station where captured murderer "Dead Shot Dan" is about to have his picture taken for the "Rogue's Gallery".
Comedy
Daffy Comedy, screwball comedy film
Two screenwriters, Law and Benson (James Cagney and Pat O'Brien), are in need of a story for cowboy star Larry Toms (Dick Foran). When studio waitress Susie Seabrook (Marie Wilson) faints in the office of producer C.F. Friday (Ralph Bellamy) because she is pregnant, the writers get an idea for a story about a cowboy and a baby, and cast Susie's unborn baby Happy in the part.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The film follows the relationship between Bob and Brendan, roommates at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., five years after Bob made his romantic feelings toward Brendan known. When the two reconnect at the wedding of college friends, Bob is in a serious relationship with a soap opera star Sterling Scott, while Brendan is single and re-examining his own identity.
Comedy
At the little-known and extremely wealthy Abbey of Philadelphia, the Abbess, Sister Hildegard, is dying. She wishes her favorite, Sister Alexandra, to succeed her but dies moments before she can make her endorsement public. Alexandra conspires with Sisters Gertrude and Walburga to win the coming election against her rival, Sister Felicity, who is openly carrying on an affair with a Jesuit priest, Father Thomas.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, teen film
In an effort to curb her wild antics after a recent arrest, the parents of Daphne “Zig” (Tricia Leigh Fisher) send her to the Ogilvy Academy, an elite boarding school in Greece, along with her well-behaved fraternal twin sister Jennifer (Lisa Lörient). Determined to be expelled at the earliest opportunity, Zig will go to extreme lengths to have her way. Unbeknownst to the two sisters and the other students, the male headmaster, Richard Crawley, is involved in drug trafficking and recording surveillance videos of the students engaging in sexual acts.
Biography, Comedy, Cyberpunk, documentary film, historical film
romantic comedy
Comedy
Mrs. Cragg works as a charwoman for retired Colonel Whitforth and as a cleaner at an office block in London. It is whilst doing her office cleaning that she retrieves a cigar discarded by financier James Ryder as a gift for the Colonel, wrapping it in a scrap of paper.
Comedy
Nick (Niven) is the supposed grandfather of 10-year-old Bridget (Partridge), who stands to inherit a sizeable fortune. Charley (Carney) shows up and claims that he is the genuine grandpa. Both men once slept with Bridget's grandmother, and she was never certain which of the two produced her child.
Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, mystery film, romance film
Comedy, Drama, family film, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
The story is seen through the eyes of Leone, who is working on a school project about LGBT rights in Europe, based on none other than his own, personal experience. Whilst also in the throes of first love with his beautiful school friend Anna, Leone is forced to accept that his “beautiful family” isn’t quite as perfect as it seems. And so, caught between prejudiced views of homosexuality as hereditary, a raft of misunderstandings, civil battles, and various twists and turns, our young man – whose suffering is clear as day and is no different from that felt by any other youngster whose parents split up – finds himself thinking about the…
Comedy
In their roles as handymen at radio station KGBY, the Stooges engage in a series of mishaps while attempting to connect a pipe to a radiator. Their antics lead to a confrontation with their boss, resulting in further chaos as they inadvertently damage property and irritate an Italian baritone singer and pianist in a neighboring session. Seeking refuge, they stumble into the recording room of aspiring singer Alice Van Doren, where they serendipitously discover her record, "Voices of Spring." Impressed by Alice's operatic prowess, the Stooges, with Curly impersonating her voice while disguised as a woman, catch the attention of radio host Mrs.
comedy thriller, Crime, Gangster Film
Former basketball star Joe Mulligan's career ends due to a knee injury, so he sells drugs with his former coach Bobby Zan through his bar Bobby's. One fateful night, several events eventually lead him into a better life. Drug lord William Spinks is strangely obsessed with Sadie Hill and uses family friends Bobby and Frank to get to her.