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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,273 films · Page 520.

Ladies in Love (1936)

romantic comedy

Three women move in together in Budapest: Martha, a necktie salesperson and part time bunny-feeder for Dr. Rudi Imre; Yoli, a callous denier of love; and Susie, a dancer and hopeless romantic. Martha suggests they perform a ritual she heard about in which they count the corners of a room, sit down, and make a wish.

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Crazy House (1943)

Comedy, musical film

Two Broadway stars return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.

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Bomber (1982)

Action, Comedy

Bud Graziano, the title's "Bomber" character, is a former heavyweight boxing champion who retired to private life on a ship. Jerry Calà, on the other hand, is a Lombard punter who always finds himself in trouble and one day gets into really big trouble. In fact, he unwittingly sets himself against a group of thugs who answer only to the orders of a new boxing champion who is making the rounds in the area with his victories.

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Work Is a Four-Letter Word (1968)

Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms. However, his bedroom is too small and his fiancée Betty Dorrick wants him to settle down. Accordingly, Brose seeks a job in DICE's boiler-room, a suitable environment to grow his mushrooms.

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French Immersion (2011)

Comedy

The film centres on several anglophones, mostly Canadians but including one American, who travel to the small village of Saint-Isidore-du-Cœur-de-Jésus in the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec for an intensive French immersion course. The language students include Bobby "JFGay" Sexton (Gavin Crawford), a federal Member of Parliament who aspires to become leader of his political party but is avoiding a debate against rival candidate Michael Pontifikator (Colm Feore) because of his poor French skills; Cathy (Martha Burns), his Royal Canadian Mounted Police bodyguard; Aretha Marley (Oluniké Adeliyi), a flight attendant who has taken…

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Little Treasure (1985)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, romance film

Margo, a stripper searching for her estranged, bank robber father in a remote part of Mexico. Along the way, Margo meets an American ex-pat drifter, and together they search for her missing father and eventually his lost, buried fortune.

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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)

Comedy horror

The front window of Louie's Sweet Shop is a frequent victim of the local neighborhood kids' baseball games. The Bowery Boys think that a nearby vacant lot would be perfect for the kids to play ball, and keep out of trouble. Slip and Sach travel during a heavy rainstorm to visit the owners of the lot -- oninously named Gravesend -- at their home on Long Island.

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Young Wives' Tale (1951)

Comedy

During the post-World War II housing shortage, Bruce and Mary are a married couple who both have professional jobs and own their own house, and they let out rooms, including to another married couple, Rodney and Sabina, because Sabina is a friend of Mary. Both couples have an infant child, and the presence of a nanny for the two children exacerbates the problems caused by the crowding. Another young female lodger and Sabina's persistent old beau intensify the tensions.

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Top o' the Morning (1949)

musical film, romantic comedy

The famous Blarney Stone vanishes from a small Irish town and Joe Mulqueen, a singing American insurance investigator, arrives to recover it. In town Mulqueen meets Conn McNaughton, a local policeman's daughter, who says that Mulqueen's arrivial is part of an old legend prophesying the Blarney Stone's theft. Mulqueen later finds out that the theft of the stone was not the only crime that was committed.

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Paris pieds nus (2016)

Comedy, Splatstick

When she is a little girl Fiona's (Fiona Gordon) aunt Martha moves from a little village in Canada to Paris. Years later, Fiona receives a letter from her aunt Martha which asks her to come to Paris to help her since she is about to be forced into an old age home since she is 88. Fiona arrives in Paris only to find her aunt missing.

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The Break-Up Artist (2009)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Britney (Crew) is a woman whose profession is to 'break up' with a significant other for people. One day she meets Rick (Benson), a charming gentleman who lures Britney into a relationship with his alluring looks and sly wit. She later discovers that he's the head of another break-up company and is stealing all her customers, which is putting her into debt.

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The Saphead (1920)

Comedy, Comedy drama, silent film, Silly Movie

Nicholas Van Alstyne is the richest man in New York, but he is very disappointed in the behavior of his son, Bertie, who stays out all night gambling and partying, and who seems to show no talent or interest in work. In fact, Bertie is feigning this behavior because he believes it will help to impress the girl of his dreams, his adopted sister Agnes. Unfortunately, it helps him to do nothing more than get disowned by his father.

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Chica de Río (2001)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Raymond Woods, a junior manager in a bank in the City, is becoming increasingly bored of his life as it takes a downhill tumble. First he finds out that he has missed the promotion opportunity at work by his bad tempered and disapproving boss, Strothers, and then he catches his wife a couple of days before Christmas having an affair with Strothers. (MISSING:) There is a plot detail left out here.

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