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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,273 films · Page 495.

Navy Blues (1941)

musical film, romantic comedy

"Honolulu ...where "Aloha" means goodbye, and "Shore Leave" means trouble..."Margie Jordan and her friend Lilibelle Bolton arrive in Honolulu, much to the surprise of Lillibelle's former husband, Powerhouse Bolton, a sailor who is behind on the alimony he owes her. In need of money, Powerhouse and his shipmate Cake O'Hara come up with a scheme. Learning that the crew is about to include Homer Matthews, a marksman, they make bets with practically everybody aboard on how a shooting competition will turn out.

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Feet First (1930)

Comedy, Splatstick

left|thumb|thumbtime=67|Feet First (1930) Harold Horne, an ambitious shoe salesman in Honolulu, meets his boss's secretary Barbara, thinking that she is the boss's daughter, and tells her that he is a millionaire leather tycoon. Horne spends much of his time around Barbara hiding his true circumstances, in both the shoe store and later as an accidental stowaway aboard a ship. Trying to evade the ship's crew, he becomes trapped in a mailbag, which is taken off the ship and falls off a delivery cart onto a window cleaner's cradle, which is hoisted upwards.

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The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)

Comedy

Young peer and junior member of the Foreign Office, Mark St. Neots, is obsessed with the memory of Sylvia, a 16-year-old redhead he met at a party as a boy, and vowed he would love forever. Now older and respectably married, Mark still retains his image of the beautiful young girl with the red hair, and spends the rest of his life searching for her through a string of casual affairs.

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Here Come the Co-eds (1945)

Comedy

Oliver Quackenbush, Molly McCarthy and her brother Slats who acts as her publicity agent work for the Miramar Ballroom as taxi dancers. Slats plants a phony article in the local newspaper that declares Molly's ambition is to attend Bixby College. The dean of Bixby reads the article and offers her a scholarship.

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The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick (1988)

romantic comedy

A modern-day Cinderella tale about a grocery-store cashier named Kathy McCormick (Barbara Eden) who becomes a member of local high society through a series of misunderstandings and when she tells her society peers she works at The Market, they believe she's talking about the stock market. While attending a charity luncheon, she meets and falls in love with Grant Sherwood (Josh Taylor), a wealthy playboy who is unaware of her true identity.

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Luster (2002)

LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama

Luster takes place over a weekend in Los Angeles. Friday Jackson wakes up in the aftermath of an orgy and heads to his job at his friend Sam's alternative record store. At the store he gets a call from Sonny Spike.

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Fat Pizza vs. Housos (2014)

Comedy

After serving 15 years in jail for assaulting a health inspector with a chainsaw, pizza chef Bobo Gigliotti is released. Upon his release, he and his Mama attempt to reopen Fat Pizza, their former business in the fictional Sydney suburb of Hashfield. They soon find that due to rent increases since the time they were last in business, the only place that they can afford to reopen their pizzeria is in the infamous housing commission suburb of Sunnyvale.

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Count Your Blessings (1959)

Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

While visiting Grace Allingham in wartime London at the behest of Hugh "Hughie" Palgrave, his friend, Charles is charmed by her and abruptly proposes marriage. They marry, but before their honeymoon, Charles reports back for military duty. He reportedly is shot and taken prisoner.

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All the Wrong Reasons (2013)

Comedy drama, Drama

The film is set in the Fairfax Department store, a big-box outlet in which Kate Ascher (Vanasse) works as a security guard while her husband James (Monteith) is the store's manager. Kate is unable to touch other people - including her husband - or even have them near her due to the traumatic stress of seeing her sister commit suicide. After James tries unsuccessfully to bring Kate out of her isolation, he pursues intimacy from one of the store's cashiers, Nicole (Hampshire).

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Thin Ice (1937)

musical film, romantic comedy

The plot follows Lili Heiser (Henie), a skate instructor who works at a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. She falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning (Power), thinking he is an ordinary tourist, unaware that he is a prince seeking to escape the demands of royal life. The movie showcased Sonja Henie's skating talents.

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Little Bigfoot (1995)

Adventure, Comedy, Family Comedy, Science fiction

While on summer vacation in Cedar Lake, California with their older brother, Peter; their dog, Max; and their widowed mother, Carolyn; Payton Shoemaker and his little sister Maggie engage in an adventure to save (and secretly befriend) a young male bigfoot which they name him Bilbo (after Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit) and his injured mother (who gets shot in her kneecap prior to the opening of the film by the hunters) from a logging company who is illegally hunting them down.

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Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

Comedy, Drama

Frumpy wife Beth devotes herself to bettering her husband's mind and expanding his appreciation for the finer things in life, such as classical music. When he goes shopping at a lingerie store to buy some sexier clothes for her, he meets Sally, the shop girl. Rejected by his wife for a night out in town, he takes Sally, who douses him with her perfume.

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Rain or Shine (1930)

Comedy, romance film

thumb|thumbtime=20|Rain or Shine (1930) The opening credits roll over a peppy instrumental rendition of “Singing in the Rain.” The “Greater John T. Rainey Shows” traveling circus was successful when Mary Rainey inherited it from her father, but by the end of the first season they are struggling. Drenching rains make things worse.

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Dark Rising (2007)

Comedy horror, Science fiction

There are two Earths: our Earth and Dark Earth. Dark Earth is a world of demons and magic. It is in a dimension created at the height of the Roman Empire by a powerful sorcerer, in an attempt to banish demons from our Earth, forever.

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Love on the Run (1936)

romantic comedy

Rival London-based American newspaper correspondents Michael "Mike" Anthony and Barnabas "Barney" Pells flip a coin to determine who will cover which of two boring assignments. Mike gets to cover the wedding of millionairess Sally Parker to fortune-seeking Prince Igor, while Barney has to interview aviator Baron Otto Spandermann and his wife, Baroness Hilda. When Mike sees Sally running out of the church, he follows her, hoping to get a story.

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How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998)

Comedy

Bell is a neurotic young woman living in a small college town who addresses the camera to explain her problems—her parents are splitting up, older sister Sarah is happily married with a baby on the way, and her younger sister Dot is involved with Bell's ex-boyfriend, Leonard. Noting that people rarely stick to their New Year's resolutions, Bell decides she wants to accomplish the goals of quitting smoking and finding love before the year's end. One night, Bell lures Leonard to a remote area, and in the middle of sex with him, she abandons him, leaving him without his clothes.

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