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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,194 films · Page 481.

Amazing Grace (1974)

Comedy

Grace (Moms Mabley) is a widow who influences the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland after discovering that her somewhat slow-witted neighbor, Welton J. Waters (Moses Gunn), is being used to run for mayor by shady politicians and the incumbent mayor to further his own self-serving reelection efforts. Grace understands that these politicians have no interest in the betterment of the neighborhood and are only focused on getting their hands on the money that comes into it.

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Kipps (1941)

Comedy drama, Tragicomedy

The day before the fourteen-year-old Arthur "Artie" Kipps leaves to begin a seven-year apprenticeship, he asks his friend's sister, Ann Pornick, to be his girl. She gladly agrees. They split a silver sixpence and each keeps half.

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The Midnight Man (2016)

comedy thriller

When Grady, an assassin with a genetic disorder that renders him unable to feel pain, is sent on a high-stakes assignment, his world is turned upside-down after an attack when he awakens to discover that he can feel pain for the first time in his life. With the clock ticking and his greatest asset gone, Grady will go head-to-head with his greatest fears and unspeakable enemies, while experiencing a tactile world he never could have imagined.

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Volta (2004)

Superhero

Perla, a dressmaker who works for her siblings Percy and Penny, discovers she has superpowers after being struck by lightning three times. These powers, which allow her to generate heat and electricity with her hands, lead her to become the superhero Volta. Despite her siblings' resentment, especially Percy and blaming her powers for past mishaps, Perla finds guidance and encouragement from Ama, a ball of light with a human face.

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Untamed (1929)

Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, silent film

thumb|thumbtime=20|Untamed (1929) An oil prospector, Henry "Hank" Dowling, has raised his free-spirited daughter, Alice "Bingo" Dowling, in the jungle of South America. He asks his friend, Ben Murchison, to come work with him on oil wells that have made him rich. Just as Ben arrives with his friend, Howard Presley, Hank is killed by a transient oil worker who has designs on Bingo.

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Picassos Äventyr (1978)

Comedy, Parody

The film is very loosely based on Pablo Picasso's life, narrated by Toivo Pawlo, who introduces himself as Elsa Beskow. It opens with a quote by Picasso himself: "Art is a lie that leads us closer to the truth." The story starts with Picasso's birth in Málaga, Spain. His father, Don Jose (Hans Alfredson), is an artist and discovers early his son's talent when the young boy makes a sculpture of Don Jose with his food.

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Two Men Went to War (2002)

war film

Sergeant Peter King and Private Leslie Cuthbertson of the Royal Army Dental Corps passionately desire to see active service, but are held back. Armed with two revolvers and a handful of grenades, they plan an unauthorised mission to occupied France. They write to the prime minister, Winston Churchill, explaining their intention to fight the Germans.

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And Then Came Lola (2009)

Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film

Lola is a photographer, who is ready to take things to the next level with her new girlfriend, Casey. Lola sets out to run an errand for Casey, involving delivering some crucial prints for a business meeting with Danielle, who is also Casey's ex. Lola runs out the door, and what follows is a series of high-speed encounters and obstacles that threaten to keep her from her destination.

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Crooks and Coronets (1969)

Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist

Two recently released convicts, Herbie Haseler and Marty Miller, go to work for New York mob boss Nick Marco. Marco sends them to England to set up the robbery of a large English mansion. The mansion is owned by the kindly and elderly eccentric, Lady Sophie Fitzmore, who plans to pass the mansion and its priceless treasures on to her loyal nephew, Freddie Fritzmore.

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Foreign Exchange (2008)

Comedy, independent film

Four high school friends decide to take all easy classes their last year of high school. One of their classes is a program for housing foreign exchange students. The four students are having troubles with grades, aspirations and love and are helped out by the foreign exchange students that they were supposed to be helping out.

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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)

documentary film, Documentation, Long Term Documentary

The film follows Joan Rivers for 14 months, mostly during the 76th year of her life. The film made an effort to "[peel] away the mask" and expose the "struggles, sacrifices and joy of living life as a ground breaking female performer." The New York Times reported that Stern and Sundberg "lucked out" with their timing, starting to film the year before Rivers won Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice in 2008.

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Blonde Cobra (1963)

Tragicomedy

The film captures Jack Smith wearing dresses and makeup, playing with dolls, and smoking marijuana. Paul Arthur writes that the film contains "dizzying quasi-autobiographical rants" which spin on sadism, and that like Jacobs' Little Stabs at Happiness, it contains "languid improvisations studded with the bare bones of narrative incident or, more accurately, its collapse". The film contains Smith droning and singing and wildly cooing and cackling in parts of the film.

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Hideous! (1997)

Comedy horror

Martin, a questionable water sanitation worker, finds a strange, fleshy organism in a water treatment tank and contacts Belinda Yost, seller of animal and human oddities at International Medical Specimens Inc. (IMSI). After speaking with Martin, Yost rushes out excitedly.

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The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)

Comedy, mondo film, Travel documentary

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield began production in 1964 and continued shooting sporadically through 1967 as the budget was limited. The film consists of Mansfield visiting various locations throughout Europe and the United States. The European footage, shot in Rome and Paris, features Mansfield observing Italian roadside prostitutes, running from the paparazzi and attending the Cannes Film Festival.

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Luxury Liner (1948)

musical film, romance film, romantic comedy

Jeremy Bradford, the captain of an ocean liner, visits his teenaged daughter named Polly, and takes her to see a performance of the opera Aida. Polly is entranced by the singing talents of Olaf Eriksen and Zita Romanka. Upon learning that Olaf and Zita will be passengers on her father's voyage to Rio de Janeiro, she begs her father to come along, but Captain Bradford says no.

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Hot Tamale (2007)

Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, thriller film

Harlan Woodruff (Randy Spelling) is a Salsa musician from Wyoming, on a road trip to Los Angeles to realise his dream of making it big as a percussionist. It is revealed that Harlan had a troubled childhood, having found his dead father frozen in a fishing hole. En route to Los Angeles, he runs into Jude (Jason Priestley), a career criminal on the run from two hit men, Al and Dwayne (Mike Starr and Sean Blakemore), who want to retrieve stolen merchandise from him.

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