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buddy film, Comedy, musical film
Stan and Ollie are musicians traveling across the U.S. as "The Original Zoot Suit Band". During their journey, they encounter Chester Wright who purports to possess a revolutionary pill capable of converting water into fuel.
Parody
Two Americans in Paris (Allen & Rossi) are reluctantly recruited by the Good Guys Institute (GGI) led by J. Frederick Duval (John Williams) to thwart the plans of the evil crime and espionage organisation THEM led by Zoltan Schubach (Theo Marcuse). Already with a cache of stolen priceless international art treasures, THEM plots to steal the Venus de Milo with the intention of reattaching its two arms of which they are in possession.
Comedy
The World Society of Sexual Arts and Sciences holds its annual meeting to select the year's winners of the World Sex awards. The selection committee views film clips of the various contestants (a series of sex-themed comedy sketches). At the final awards show, the golden "dildies" are presented to the winners and Keefe Brasselle sings and dances with showgirls.
Comedy horror
Members of the New York City East Side boys club—leader Muggs, Danny, Glimpy, Scruno, Skinny, and Peewee—reluctantly board a bus bound for summer camp. The bus stops in the town of Hillside, where Muggs and his pals flirt with Margie, a soda fountain waitress. While they are there, a radio broadcast announces that a maniacal "monster killer" is in the area.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Comedy
Upon their return to their humble abode in the city dump following six months of fruitless prospecting, the Stooges discover that an orphaned young woman and her incapacitated younger brother, Jimmy, have taken up residence in their shack. Despite initial reservations, the Stooges demonstrate compassion upon realizing Jimmy's physical challenges, with Curly even offering assistance with his studies. While rummaging around in the dump in search of a replacement for their deflated car tire, Curly finds a can brimming with coins.
Comedy
In 1972 Manchester, three girls are window shopping at the George Best Boutique. Three boys stand opposite them and decide which girl they want to take out. Geoffrey Scrimshaw unwittingly ends up with Beryl Battersby, as he gets the last choice.
Comedy
Ted Higgins and Tommy Hinchcliffe work for the Speedy Service Window Washing Company. They run into a bookie named Nick Craig, who, after mistaking them for employees of the Speedy Messenger Service, sends them to Mr. Stewart's office to collect $50,000 owed to him.
Comedy drama
Experienced thief Mario Forni arrives in the quiet Italian town of Toledo, hunting for a long-buried ancient treasure. Posing as a house painter, he soon falls in love with Madame Rinaldi, the charismatic owner of the local bordello. Mario eventually locates the treasure hidden beneath a statue of St.
musical film, romantic comedy
Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) is a vagabond American artist in Mexico who can't pay his hotel bill. Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) is an acclaimed classical singer recently expelled from the U.S. to Mexico on an expired visa, and desperate to get back in.
musical film
thumb|right| Publicity Still from Diamond Horseshoe featuring from left to right William Gaxton, Phil Silvers, and Dick Haymes|alt=three men in suits standing in from of a brick wall. Joe Davis Sr. performs in a big nightclub called Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in the Paramount Hotel in Manhattan.
boxing film, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Waitress-turned-Broadway star Mabel O'Dare and garage-mechanic-turned-prize fighter Larry Cain dislike each other intensely, but press agent Aloysius K. Reilly cooks up a phony romance between them for publicity. Inevitably, the two fall in love for real, and plan on getting married, with Mabel quitting show business to be a housewife and Cain quitting the fight racket to run garages in New Jersey.
Biography, Comedy drama
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Gross Out Film, LGBTQ-related film, Silly Movie
Two lads from Belfast stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of "gainful employment," the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidize their respective giros. However, when one of the lads accidentally shags a punter to death, they are forced to look for 'work' elsewhere. It is then that they discover the myth of 'The Bread in the Bed' - a huge bed full of money.
black comedy film
Going to America is about two romantic and ambitious lunatics, Fumnanya (Eddie Griffin) and Andy (Josh Meyers) who escape a mental institution with a video camera and set out to make a movie about their romantic quest to find a princess and be rewarded with a magical kiss. The duo encounters various obstacles, not the least of which is that their 'princess' turns out to be a burned-out prostitute (Najarra Townsend) who wants to commit suicide. She enlists Fumnanya and Andy to help her, only to have her suicide plans turn out to be a disaster and her pimp Rocco (Dave Vescio) emerge as a menacing threat.
Comedy, Horror, monster film, Splatter Film
The film opens with a couple drunk driving through the streets of New York. Upon arriving at their apartment, they make love in front of the kitchen. Afterwards, the wife walks into the kitchen whereupon the refrigerator opens up and sucks her in.
romantic comedy
Mike, a bartender at the Texas Golden Horse bar in Brooklyn, narrates the story of Eddie Tayloe to a new customer. Eddie was working as a reporter assigned to the Ft. Worth desk of a Dallas newspaper.
children's film, Comedy, fantasy film
Stella Blackstone (Elliot Page) and her best friend Albert (Michael Kanev) are twelve-year-olds with ambitious intentions of creating an extremely spooky Halloween house. While checking for hints online they open up a web link that opens a doorway through which an annoying ghost (Carlos Alazraqui) leaves his world and enters theirs. They find they must help this ghost resolve his problems or put up with him forever.
Drama
Linda Marsh is a housewife who seems to have a perfect life. Along with her husband, high school principal George and three loving children Drew, Mandy and Willie, she is living in a suburban house in a small and peaceful town. One day, Linda decides to surprise George at his office to celebrate their 16th anniversary, and finds him kissing one of the teachers, Ann Marie Scott.
Comedy
Russian Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Charles Boyer) and his wife, Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna (Claudette Colbert) flee from the Russian Revolution to Paris with the Czar's fortune, which he has entrusted to them for safekeeping. They keep the money in a bank, faithfully refusing to spend any of it for themselves. Then, destitute, they are forced to take jobs under false identities as butler and maid in the household of wealthy Charles Dupont (Melville Cooper), his wife Fermonde (Isabel Jeans), and their children, Helene (Anita Louise) and Georges (Maurice Murphy).
Comedy, Drama, musical film, romance film
The film takes place in several periods which at times interweave. In 1964, Madeleine is an assistant in a Parisian shoe-shop. As a result of a misunderstanding and to increase her income she becomes an occasional prostitute.
Comedy, thriller film
Comedy
Tony Warrin (Liberace) is a very successful pianist who can play practically any kind of music, from classical to Boogie-woogie. He has one ambition left, which is to play at Carnegie Hall. Although his manager, Sam Dunne (William Demarest), and secretary, Marion Moore (Joanne Dru)--who secretly loves him—feel Tony's playing has never been better, he decides to go see Zwolinski (Otto Waldis), the music teacher who made him the musician he is today.
Comedy
Factory worker Joe Huggett has a first-time telephone installed at home, for work purposes, but his daughters quickly find a lot more use for it. Diana Hopkins, a flighty cousin of his wife Ethel, arrives for a not-very-welcome visit and causes problems at home and at Joe's workplace when Ethel persuades Joe to get her a job there. Eldest daughter Jane must choose between Jimmy Gardner, her fiancé who has been away in the forces and a new local admirer Harold Hinchley.