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Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Desi (Desi del Valle) is a young Latina artist living in San Francisco, and is involved in the Latina lesbian scene there. She becomes depressed when her girlfriend leaves her. Efforts by her friends to set her up with various women fail, as each blind date is more comical than the last, and Desi finds each to be "Ms.
Comedy
"A wild team of misfits think that they can make it big. What's a coach to do with a chronic nose-picker, a flatulent fielder, an out of control pitcher, a juvenile delinquent and the prettiest girl in the state? Turn this bunch of losers into a winning team!
Comedy, musical film, romance film
Jimmy Sutton, the publicity agent of a major Hollywood studio, is taking part in the search to find an actress to star in an adaptation of a best-selling novel, Girl of the North. After over 400 actresses have been tested and rejected, he is sent to the small town of Bergen, Minnesota to meet Trudi Hovland, a schoolteacher whose photo and details were unknowingly submitted to the studio. She is doubtful, but with the entire town backing her, Jimmy persuades her to return to Hollywood with him.
Drama, romantic comedy
Mark, a Wall Street financial broker, falls in love with a French actress at first sight, due to her resembling a Vermeer painting, and then proceeds to follow her from room to room in a museum. The broker goes up to the actress, Anna, and introduces himself which spawns a romantic relationship. Anna lives with two roommates — a wealthy woman and a female opera singer.
Biography, musical film, romantic comedy
In New York, George Petty tries to convince auto manufacturer B. J. Manton to feature pretty women in advertisements for his dreary new car model.
Action, Adventure, buddy film, Comedy, war film
Laurel and Hardy, janitors at a detective agency, become embroiled in a caper involving a bomb dubbed "The Big Noise." Impersonating detectives, they befriend the bomb's inventor, navigating his idiosyncrasies alongside his quirky relatives. Meanwhile, neighboring criminals scheme to pilfer the explosive device. To safeguard the bomb, Laurel and Hardy ingeniously conceal it within a concertina.
Comedy, romantic comedy
In an unidentified country in 18th century Europe, a usurper's daughter, The Princess, has inherited the throne and feels guilty about her family's crimes. She learns that the Queen gave birth to a prince and the rightful heir, Agis, who was secretly sent to live with the great philosopher Hermocrates and his sister Leontine. After gaining information from one of Hermocrates' servants, she goes to see Agis for herself and finds him bathing in a lake in the forest.
Comedy
It is 1985. Thatcher is in power, Sade is on the radio, and the print workers have gone on strike. But nothing, not even a scale eight earthquake can put a dampener on a group of close friends that meet every Sunday in their regular South London pub for a pint and free flowing banter of the highest order.
Comedy
When a traveling vaudeville show becomes stranded in the Middle East, their singer, Hazel Moon, takes a job at a local cafe. Two of the show's prop men, Peter Johnson and Harvey Garvey, are hired as comedy relief, but their act unfortunately initiates a brawl. The two men, along with Hazel, wind up in jail (where Abbott and Costello perform the "Slowly I Turned" routine with a crazy derelict with Pokomoko as the trigger word).
Comedy horror, Horror
An alien ship approaches the Earth and launches a probe which enters the atmosphere and then splashes into the Pacific, where it is devoured by a great white shark. The shark convulses and in a few moments is transformed by the probe into a red-lined robotic simulacrum of the ocean predator. An American nuclear submarine in the area detects the robotic shark's movements and, considering it an unknown hostile entity, the captain decides to destroy it.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Comedy
In an English provincial town, Drossmouth, a second-rate repertory company assembles at the Theatre Royal on Monday morning to rehearse the following week's play, a melodrama titled Tarnished Gold. Harry, their irascible producer, is highly critical of the play, which has been foisted on him by the directors of the company and is unenthusiastic about its prospects. The cast includes Jerry, a young and sometimes keen actor, Maud, a widowed actress who was once famous on the West End stage, Sandra, who is waiting for (and receives) a call from a London producer, her philandering and semi-alcoholic husband, and Avis, a timid young girl who…
independent film, Tragicomedy
Dr. Cas Pepper is a 61-year-old doctor, a self-proclaimed loner, and terminally ill. Dylan Morgan is a 22-year-old woman, somewhat of a social misfit, and an aspiring writer.
Tragicomedy
Jeff is an anxious thirty-something who has worked for several years as the general manager of Winkys World, a dilapidated bowling alley in the suburbs of Chicago. He is a talented college dropout who left MIT to instead work at the bowling alley, which has caused him to go no-contact with his entire family out of fear for what they may think. Despite the repetitive environment, Jeff enjoys working at Winkys.
Tragicomedy
Coming-of-age, Tragicomedy
Christchurch 1979. A minor bicycle accident brings schoolboys, Angus and Jamie face-to-face with a daring young woman, Holly. Outside Middle Earth Records, too intimidated to enter the shop, the two boys are ridiculed by Malcolm, the lead singer of “original band” The Cursed.
Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Lois Ames is the editor of 400 Magazine, whose wealthy husband, Fred, pays her little attention. His interests are polo and partying. When her personal secretary can no longer take the long hours of work and quits, Lois hires Tom Sherman, a handsome man who happens to come by the office to demonstrate a rowing machine, as her new secretary.
As President Barack Obama prepares for bed he is too concerned about a problem with the banks and credit card companies in America. Michelle convinces him to retire for the evening, but as soon as he does, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush enter the room.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic Jewish humor. The town's rabbi dies, and a subplot develops in which Max's father and grandfather (synagogue leaders) are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl, with whom he later duets in a piano competition.
Comedy
Three stubborn teenagers place a bet over which one of them is the meanest.
romantic comedy
James Ellis (Kipp Marcus) meets and falls in love with Sarah (Alice Dylan) during time off for snow days while in high school. James, however, has commitment issues, and Sarah eventually winds up engaged to Peter (Peter Giles). His grandmother (Judith Malina) had warned him about the family curse, that the "men always leave and the women go crazy", which causes James to be reluctant to commit.
Comedy drama, Drama
Comedy
Johnny Jones is a penniless newspaper reporter assigned to interview Daisy Appleby, heiress to the Appleby Facial Creams fortune and the target of numerous titled but financially desperate suitors anxious to latch onto her wealth. She proposes a marriage of convenience that will free her from the cads pursuing her so she can find her ideal man and allow Johnny leisure time to finish his novel. He agrees, and after they wed the company's board of directors try to place him under their control, as well.
Comedy
Redmond is a young guy who can't seem to find what exactly he wants to do with his life. When his uncle, Sam, gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection, he fails to do so, and it gets them in trouble with Jack, a low-key criminal. After that, tough guy Stretch wants Redmond to take part in his illegal beer business, but before Redmond gets involved, the business ends in a bad way.