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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,285 films · Page 531.

The Projectionist (1971)

fantasy film

Chuck McCann, the projectionist, is seen operating projection booth equipment followed by The Projectionist opening credits. The Midtown Theater, located in Midtown Manhattan, is managed by Renaldi who continually insults and berates his employees. Spending hours in the projection booth, Chuck imagines himself as the superhero Captain Flash.

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Earthworm Tractors (1936)

Comedy

Alexander Botts is a bumbling, but perpetually optimistic "natural-born salesman". He is egged on by his sweetheart Sally to do great things, so he writes a letter to the Earthworm Tractor Company, and is hired as a salesman despite the fact that he knows nothing about tractors. He gets fired more than once for all the destruction he causes, but is rehired by getting orders.

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Envelope (2012)

Biography, Drama, Tragicomedy

Yevgeny Petrov, the Soviet Union writer and journalist has an unusual hobby: since the age of six, he writes fake letters to other countries. Every time, he chooses different fake names for his addresses. The envelopes come back, but beautified with colorful foreign stamps and postmarks.

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Nothing But Trouble (1944)

buddy film, Comedy

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, descendants of illustrious ancestry as a butler and chef, find themselves unemployed in the year 1932. Their attempts to secure employment abroad prove futile, prompting their return to the U.S. in 1944, where they are suddenly besieged by eager employers in dire need of domestic assistance.

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Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (2004)

Comedy, comedy television program, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

In Inniston, Marc Hall is popular and his sexuality relatively well-accepted by his classmates and later his parents. But when he decides to take his boyfriend to the prom as his date, he finds he has stepped over the line straight into the fight of his young life and sends ripples through Canada's media. From just an ordinary teenager, he becomes an icon for LGBT rights across the nation when he discovers he is battling discrimination to date whomever he wants within the spotlight of the nation's media.

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One A.M. (1916)

Comedy

The film opens with a scene of a wealthy young man arriving at his house in a taxi in the morning after a night of heavy drinking. He tries in vain to grasp the handle on the outside. He thinks, "They really need to place the handles near the door." When he finally does find it after some searching, he gets out, with his hand on the open taxi window.

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The Yoke's on Me (1944)

Comedy, propaganda film

The Stooges try to join the army but are labeled 4-F by the draft board due to Curly having water on the knee. After they decide to go on vacation until a job comes along, their father (Robert McKenzie) insists they aid the war effort instead by becoming farmers. Inspired, the trio sell their dilapidated car and buy an equally dilapidated farm.

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Bikini a Go Go (2004)

Erotic Film, Raunchy comedy

Brad runs a surf shop on the beach and is in a relationship with Janet. Brad gives his girlfriend an anniversary gift: a tiki amulet that causes seemingly sexual desires for the wearer. Unknown to them, however, the amulet actually belongs to the evil sorceress, Darvella, who does everything she can to steal it back for herself.

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Wee Wee Monsieur (1938)

Comedy

The Stooges, Moe, a sculptor, Larry, a music composer, and Curly, a painter, find themselves ensnared in a sequence of events in Paris, France. Threatened with incarceration due to overdue rent, they inadvertently enlist in the French Foreign Legion, misconstruing it for the American Legion. Deployed to a desert outpost, their mission involves safeguarding Captain Gorgonzola from local threats.

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Loving Jezebel (1999)

Comedy

Theodorus Melville feels he is unlucky in love because he is drawn to other men’s girlfriends. It is revealed that he doesn’t seek out other men's women so much as they are drawn to him because of qualities they can’t find in their boyfriends, such as sensitivity, tenderness, and a willing ear. Theodorus recounts his lifelong dilemma to find love, detailing his many relationships.

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Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)

Crime, mystery film

Late one night, Charlie Chan is shot at a San Francisco bus station. While on a missing-persons case, he investigates a series of sensational slayings—publicized as "the torso murders," in which only the victim's torso remains at the crime scene. Chan is assisted officially by detective Jeff Hay and police captain Allen, and unofficially by his Number Two Son Jimmy and chauffeur Birmingham Brown.

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Movie Maniacs (1936)

Comedy

The Stooges are stowaways aboard a boxcar bound for Hollywood, envisioning themselves as future movie stars although they lack any qualifications. They trespass into a movie studio, where the studio boss, who is awaiting the arrival of three New York executives poised to assume control, mistakes the Stooges for the executives and grants them complete authority over film production. The trio's tenure begins on a tumultuous note when they arrive noisily onto a set where a romantic drama is being filmed, destroying the scene and angering the director.

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