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Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Dr. Maurice Lamar runs a highly successful business in Paris providing cosmetic surgery and other beauty treatments to women. Old friend Max Pascal visits him to try to borrow money to finish his research, but Maurice rejects him, instead offering him a job and later a partnership, but Max declines.
Comedy
The incarcerated Stooges receive a letter from their mother, detailing the sudden windfall of their father (portrayed by Curly Howard in a dual role). The letter describes the elder Curly's sudden affluence courtesy of an oil strike, his subsequent abandonment of their mother, and his impromptu engagement to a covetous, youthful blonde named Daisy. Prompted by filial duty and a desire to thwart the ill-fated union, the Stooges break out of prison and embark on a mission to disrupt the impending marriage.
musical film, romantic comedy
Determined to start the new year off right, dress designer Geraldine "Gerry" Trent sends her unfaithful boyfriend, Jim Woodward, packing. A short time later, her friend Buster Collins introduces her to author Tony Blake. Gerry loves Tony's book, Obey That Impulse, and finds him attractive as well.
Comedy
Diane Blaine has the face of a movie star. Unfortunately, fallen star/tabloid queen Jamie Stephens already made it famous. Hollywood's constant rejections of Diane due to what she refers to as "TJS" ("Too Jamie Stephens") have made her bitter, frustrated, and whiny.
Comedy
When Atticus Smith, an aging Oscar-winning actor, suffers a heart attack, he is forced to embark on a cross-country road trip with his estranged son en route to his daughter's wedding. Atticus and his son Adam could not be more different; while the former behaves lecherously around women, the latter teaches a feminist-themed university course and is repulsed by his father's attitudes. Part of Adam's resentment towards his father stems from Atticus’ unfaithfulness to his mother.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Peggy is a Follies dancer who forsakes her life of carefree attachments in order to meet her goal of marrying a millionaire. Alas, her elderly husband, broker C. Mortimer Gibson, is a well-meaning bore, and soon Peggy begins seeking entertainment elsewhere.
musical film, romantic comedy
Eddie Simpson is an assistant to a phony psychic, Dr. Yolando. Yolando tries to install one of his henchmen as an efficiency expert in a large bakery in order to swindle money out of its owner, Mr.
Comedy drama
mystery film
Government agent Charlie Chan and a police investigator are tracking down the theft of radar secrets. When the man they are tailing is murdered, a clue left behind is a footprint in blood. An automobile on the scene, reported stolen, leads Chan—accompanied by Number Three Son Tommy and chauffeur Birmingham Brown—to a radio station.
Comedy drama, Drama
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Running for President, Senator Hugh Hathaway must go up against scandal and controversy after the woman he loves comes under political attack.
romantic comedy
When widower Stephen Blake and bitter divorcée Edith Farnham meet at a ski resort during a Christmas vacation, Blake's son and Farnham's daughter conspire to keep their romance from the altar. After creating much mayhem, they succeed in breaking things up, only to reconsider for their parents' happiness.
Comedy
Police officer Edgar Kennedy finds himself under pressure from his police chief to address a surge in burglaries within his jurisdiction or face dismissal from his position for lack of effort and attentiveness. Seeking a solution to appease his superior, Kennedy encounters vagrants Laurel and Hardy and devises a scheme to stage a burglary at the chief's residence in a bid to curry favor and appear to be effective and vigilant at protecting his community. Initially hesitant due to the perceived risk, Laurel and Hardy are coerced into the plan by Kennedy's threats of severe punishment ("Ninety days in jail!") for their vagrancy.
Comedy
To celebrate their six-month anniversary, Long Island socialites Tony and Carlotta Milburn arrange a wild drinking party with friends, culminating in a stop at the restaurant owned by Faronea. They are unaware that Faronea is conspiring with Baptiste Bouclier, the chauffeur of party host Vic Huling, to kidnap Vic. The next morning the Milburns awake hung over to find Vic dead from a gunshot through the heart and his wife Bette missing.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
The plot follows three intersecting stories at a ski resort in Gstaad. Fabrizio Barbetti (Christian De Sica) and Lisa Pinzoni (Sabrina Ferilli) are two remarried doctors who have continuously fought with each other since their divorce. They hate one another to such an extent that they argue in public, even on live television.
Comedy
Comedy
An American business tycoon tries to choose a new vice president for his firm in a weekend gathering that soon descends into farce.
Science fiction, science fiction comedy
A humanoid alien (R. L. Ryan) lands on Earth and soon discovers he likes to eat Italian people.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, teen film
The film contains two stories that take place in Sedona, Arizona. One story involves a successful advertising executive named Tammy (Frances Fisher) who, on her birthday, is driving from Portland to Phoenix to land the biggest client of her career until a wrong turn gets her lost and takes her into Sedona by mistake, where she is run off the highway by a tour plane making an emergency landing right in the middle of town, and so she is forced to wait in Sedona while her damaged car is being repaired. Across town, a lawyer named Scott (Seth Peterson) is hiking in the woods with his partner Eddie (Matt Williamson) and their two young sons.
Daffy Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Banker Christopher Price from the humdrum town of Keetoosen, Ohio, is happily married to Mary, and the couple are just about to go to New York on their second honeymoon. However, Chris' old childhood friend Joe Parker, a known newspaper reporter who has been stationed abroad, sends him a message just before they begin their journey. Joe arrives in Keetoosen before the couple leaves, and explains that he has lied to his boss about being married to Mary, to get a longer vacation in the past.
stand-up comedy
Comedy
The plot revolves around a girl who lives with her shrewd aunts, goes on a trip, gets pregnant, and must lie to her aunts that the baby is not hers.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
Three friends, disillusioned with their romantic lives, plot to marry millionaires before Christmas Day. In the course, however, they find love each one in his own way.
Comedy
Michael Green (Richard Long) is the publisher of For the Man Who Has Everything, a successful men's magazine similar to Playboy. However, his focus on the publication has come at the expense of his unfinished novel. A wealthy and handsome Hugh Hefner type, he has had many girlfriends, but has not commited to any of them, including his ultracompetent secretary, Sylvia (Louise Sorel).