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romantic comedy
Royal Navy sailor Albert Tufnell is to marry Shirley Hornett the next day. He and his best man, fellow sailor Carnoustie Bligh, travel to the Hornett household. However, Albert begins to have second thoughts when he spends the day with her family.
Comedy
Mutual Friends revolves around a birthday party for Christoph (Cheyenne Jackson), planned by Liv (Caitlin FitzGerald) — who is his fiancé — and the people attending the party. Nate (Peter Scanavino), Liv’s good friend who wants to be more than that pops up and wants to revisit an incident between the two of them she’d rather leave behind. Christoph’s ex-girlfriend, Annie (Jennifer LaFleur), is invited to the surprise party, but is not happy he never asked her to marry him.
musical film, romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=10|Reaching for the Moon (1930) Wall Street wizard Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet Roger. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion", work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Comedy
Kate Fields (Mamrie Hart) is a dentist assistant whose job is a bit middling, while her love life has resulted in either meeting people like Richard (Adam Lustick) on blind dates, or just staying at home alone most nights. Evie Jones (Grace Helbig) is married to Todd Jones (Andy Ridings), and both live with his parents (Betsy Randle, John Hayden), who do not respect her and recruit her into an endless succession of charitable causes that only suit their own interests. Charlie (Hannah Hart) is in a relationship with the girl of her dreams, Claire (Kelen Coleman), whom she wants to marry; but just can't seem to pull her business or her act…
Comedy
The Stooges are employed as pest exterminators. Driven by a lack of clientele, they implement a scheme wherein they both introduce the infestation and subsequently address it. They target and surreptitiously enter an affluent mansion hosting a high society dinner party, whereupon they orchestrate a calculated release of various vermin, including mice, moths, and ants.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Career-oriented Anna Colton learns that her Aunt Belle has agreed to marry a multiple divorcee, suave actor Sean Castleberry, following a whirlwind romance. Anna is determined to stop the wedding from proceeding. Joining in her effort is Sean's handsome son, successful surgeon Dr.
Comedy, Drama
The film depicts the attempts of an idealistic teacher, Miss MacMichael, to inspire her pupils in an inner-city London school. While trying to help the teens she works with, she also must fight the ultra authoritarian headmaster, Mr Sutton.
romance film, romantic comedy
Junior wedding planner Lauren Crandell's client is the wealthy Darla Tedanski. She will be promoted if it goes well. The next day, Lauren meets firefighter Nick Corina, who rescues a groom at a wedding.
Comedy
Small town veterinarian Edgar Mason (Charles Ruggles) discovers from a news-reporter that his just-graduated daughter, Chris (Lynn Bari), is set to marry much older and wealthy Freddie Browning (Alan Mowbray) under the guidance of his gold-digging wife, Martha (Charlotte Greenwood). Mason, disapproving of Browning, comes across young Mike Lord (Cornel Wilde) and bribes him to romance Chris in order to get her away from Browning. Although initially hesitant, Lord begins to genuinely pursue Chris and although she rebuffs him, his persistence manages to successfully break the engagement between Browning and Chris.
Comedy
Facing eviction from their London flat, newlyweds Jack and Peggy are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat by owner Alfred Harper and his put-upon wife. Mr Watson, who owns Jack and Peggy’s mooring, soon introduces them to his mooring tariffs and associated surcharges. Jack's used-car-salesman friend Sid helps him rebuild the engine, and the newlyweds take the boat down the River Thames to Ramsgate with Sid and his girlfriend Sandra as passengers.
Comedy
"An epic tale of romance, revenge, and cappuccino". An Italian couple tie the knot out of love and elope to London. Four children later, they are running a café in the Italian Quarter.
Comedy
Ma and Pa Kettle help lumberjack Brad Johnson turn his wealthy girlfriend Sally Flemming into a good farm wife. Worried that her father may oppose her marriage to a lumberjack, Sally hides out on the Kettle farm until Brad can convince her father that he'd be a suitable breadwinner. Ma Kettle decides Sally needs some heavy-duty lessons on how to be a good farm wife.
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy, war film
The plot is based on a true story: in 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a train containing American radar equipment required in Kosovo, guarded by a small troop of American and Romanian soldiers, went through Romania and was stopped for four days in a small village in Oltenia because some customs papers were missing, even though the train had been authorised to pass through Romania by its Prime Minister. In the movie, the train is stopped several days in the village of Căpâlnița by the chief of the train station, Doiaru, who is corrupt and routinely steals goods from the trains which go through his station. He forces the train…
Comedy
The story begins in medias res with Tucker being arrested while in costume, and then the bulk of the rest of the story is told as a buildup to that event. Tucker Ostrowski recently graduated from a college in central Florida with an Associate of Arts degree, and is accepted to California Institute of the Arts, as he wants to go into music creation, animation, or theme park design. However, his parents recently filed for personal bankruptcy, so he cannot count on their money to pay for tuition.
Comedy drama
Serial womanizer Jack settles down with Faith, but when the marriage falls apart due to Jack's desire for women, he has to share custody of their son, Sam. Living with Sam makes Jack slowly change his thinking and way of life.
Comedy
Lively and imaginative sisters Judy and Lois Graves, 13 and 16 years old, live in an apartment in New York City with their forgiving and patient mother Grace and father, Harry, a lawyer. Judy's equally energetic friend Fuffy Adams frequently visits, and the two girls have their own ideas about the relations of the adults surrounding them. They often use film plots to interpret the reality around them.
Tragicomedy
As described in a film magazine, Lulu Bett (Wilson) is a slave in the home of her married half-sister Ina Deacon (Van Buren). Her life of drudgery is interrupted when Ninian Deacon (Burton), the scapegoat brother of the head of the house Dwight Deacon (Roberts), "accidentally" marries her. After he confesses that he has another wife, LuLu leaves him and Dwight allows her to return.
Comedy
left|thumb|thumbtime=5|Full short Keaton plays a drifter who cons his way into working at an amusement park shooting gallery. Believing Keaton is an expert marksman, both the murderous gang the Blinking Buzzards and the man they want to kill end up hiring him. The film ends with a wild chase through a house filled with secret passages and trap doors.
comedy thriller, romantic comedy
Ricky is a lonely, 40-something restaurant manager and is best friends with Seth, an equally single accountant. Seth is constantly trying to get him to be his wingman. Tearing him away from his two black cats and hockey on TV, Ricky and Seth go to his restaurant, trying to pick up women by pretending to be looking for actresses for an upcoming film.
Comedy
Two underachieving cousins, Danny (Van Winkle) and Phil (Hansen) have to prove themselves when they are charged with managing the family pub, in a bid to save their wayward uncle from prison and financial ruin.
Comedy horror, Slasher
Catherine Anderson, the former star of a reality show similar to The Bachelor called Lover's Lane, is now married and living with her husband Daniel in the house where the show took place. The house still has several secret rooms and passages, as well as a host of cameras all over the estate. Philip Markham, who was a contestant on the show, comes to the home for a visit.
romantic comedy
Comedy drama
Roberta Morgan has wealthy parents who give her plenty of material possessions but who basically ignore her. She acts out and torments the family butler Jenkins. The only person to take notice of her thirteenth birthday is her father's secretary, Williams.
romantic comedy