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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,193 films · Page 476.

Jackpot (2001)

Comedy drama

Sunny Holiday, an aspiring singer, abandons his wife and young daughter to embark on a tour of karaoke bars in search of the elusive big break that will catapult him to country music stardom. Living out of a pink Chrysler for months, he and his manager meet various strangers along the way, all of whom they inevitably alienate by trying to sell a concentrated household cleaner or committing some other faux pas. Eventually, the frustrations fueled by their many disappointments nearly tear their friendship apart, and they are forced to return to the lives they had left behind.

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Oh Schucks...! Here Comes U.N.T.A.G. (1990)

Comedy

Kwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname "Urumbo" ("Lion Killer") from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the United Nations sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G.'s American leader, Major Braddock D.

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Miss Pinkerton (1932)

Comedy, Crime, mystery film

Elderly Juliet Mitchell suffers shock upon discovering her nephew's lifeless body. It is not clear if the young man, Herbert Wynn, was killed by accident while cleaning his gun or if he committed suicide or was murdered. Miss Adams is called in to serve as nurse for the bedridden Mitchell.

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Next Door (1994)

Comedy, Dark Comedy

Matt Coler, a sophisticated college professor, and Karen, his schoolteacher wife, have moved to a new neighborhood for Matt's teaching job. They refuse campus housing and decide to live in the suburbs in order to expose their son Bucky to blue-collar types. Their neighbors turn out to be loutish beer-swilling butcher Lenny Benedetti and his wife Marci, who are unruly and loud.

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Picture Snatcher (1933)

Crime, Drama, Tragicomedy

After leaving prison, gang lord Danny Kean shocks everyone by quitting crime. He cedes control of his gang to Jerry "the Mug". Having always dreamed of becoming a news reporter, Danny finds Al McLean, city editor of the sleazy Graphic News, who had offered Danny a future job while he was imprisoned.

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Wedding Daze (2004)

Comedy, comedy television program, romantic comedy

Jack and Audrey Landry are a middle-aged couple with three daughters: Nora, Teri, and Dahlia (or Dolly). The eldest, Nora, is a supermodel based in Italy, who rarely comes home. Teri is an independent businesswoman who lives with her boyfriend Bryan.

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The Names of Love (2010)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

The film portrays the life of a Parisien scatter-brained and free-spirited, young left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opposites in order to convert them to her politics, until she meets her match. It includes references to the Holocaust, the Algerian War and child sexual abuse.

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Nobody's Perfect (1990)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

Stephen is kicked off his college's tennis team when his crush on his fellow tennis player Shelly makes it difficult for him to focus on playing. His friends Andy and Jackie convince him to go along with their plan to help him get closer to Shelly by coaching him through cross-dressing as his new female persona, the transfer student Stephanie. After avoiding detection in the women's locker room, he tries out for and joins the women's tennis team.

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Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)

Coming-of-age, romance film, romantic comedy

In the early 1950s, a star-struck Ohio boy, Artie Shoemaker, skips school to work behind the scenes for a touring stock theatrical company. Inept at his job, Artie is nearly fired until the star of the show, Harry Crystal, takes a liking to him and takes the kid under his wing. Artie becomes smitten with one of the attractive chorus girls from the show, Ramona, a worldly young woman who provides his sexual initiation.

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Waikiki Wedding (1937)

Comedy, musical film

Crosby is cast in a romantic Hawaiian setting as Tony Marvin, a publicity agent for Imperial Pineapple Company. The atmosphere is captured from the start with a Hawaiian song over the opening credits with Tony and his friend Shad, with pet pig "Walford", present at a native wedding ceremony where Tony joins in the song. In the Imperial Pineapple Company boardroom, the President, J.

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Never Too Late (1965)

Comedy

Harry Lambert is a New England lumber company executive in a humdrum life with his wife Edith. He feels his life has grown stale since his recent defeat in an election for town mayor. Adding to his frustrations, the mayor who defeated him in the election is a neighbour.

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Out of the Blue (1947)

Comedy

Arthur Earthleigh (George Brent) lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village, where he is dominated by his wife Mae (Carole Landis) and annoyed by Rabelais, the German Shepherd owned by his neighbour, artist and swinging bachelor David (Turhan Bey). David has a constant parade of attractive women visiting his apartment to pose for him. He currently is being visited by Deborah (Virginia Mayo) who wants David's champion Rabelais to breed with her dog.

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Pin Up Girl (1944)

musical film, romantic comedy

Lorry Jones is working as a hostess at the local USO canteen in "Missoula, Missouri," where she performs as a singer and signs photographs of herself for adoring soldiers. It is her job to keep them happy and routinely accept every marriage proposal. One of her suitors, Marine Sergeant George Davis, does not realize she has no real intention of marrying him.

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Newlyweds (2011)

romantic comedy

The honeymoon period ends quickly for Buzzy and Katie when Buzzy's sister Linda arrives unannounced to the couples' apartment looking for a place to stay. Linda's arrival complicates Buzzy and Katie's marriage and forces both to re-evaluate their relationship. Linda has particularly come to New York to try to win back her ex-boyfriend, Miles.

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Devil's Den (2006)

Horror

A group of pleasure-seeking young adults enter a strip club and discover that it is a Satanic establishment that requires them to check their souls at the door. In order to make it through the night alive, they have to battle with a horde of blood-drinking she-demons whose power is drawn directly from the Lord of the Underworld.

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Four Frightened People (1934)

Adventure

The film tells the story of two men and two women, who leave from a plague-ridden ship and reach the Malayan jungle. The relationships between the four people before they enter the jungle are examined and are transformed as they interact with natural phenomena and the natives who populate the jungle. The film also relates how each of the four people carried on in life after they emerged from the jungle.

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