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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,285 films · Page 534.

2000 Years Later (1969)

Comedy

A satire on American pop culture and its obsession with fads, 2000 Years Later imagines what might happen if the latest craze sweeping the U.S. was a return to Ancient Roman values. The idea reaches the public as a tongue-in-cheek gimmick on a late-night television program, The International Culture Hour, and quickly spirals into a full-blown cultural phenomenon.

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Time Out for Rhythm (1941)

Comedy, musical film

Harvard-educated Danny Collins (Rudy Vallée) and street-wise Mike Armstrong (Richard Lane) team up after a chance meeting to form the most successful talent agency in New York City. Mike is in love with nightclub and Broadway singer Frances Lewis (Rosemary Lane), determined to make her nationally famous with his and Danny's help. Danny sees her, correctly, as a self-centered opportunist willing to capitalize on Mike's affections to further her career.

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Encore (1951)

Comedy drama, Tragicomedy

"The Ant and the Grasshopper" Idle Tom Ramsay continually borrows from his hard-working brother George. George later puts up the Ramsay estate for sale so he can buy out his business partner, despite Tom's protests. Shortly afterwards, George is approached by car dealer Philip Cronshaw, who notifies him that Tom has stolen one of his automobiles.

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Havana Widows (1933)

Comedy

Mae Knight and Sadie Appleby, chorus line dancers in a New York City burlesque show, are visited by a former showgirl acquaintance who received a rich settlement for breach of promise from a married man she met in Havana. Sadie decides they will follow her example. Pretending that Mae's mother in Kansas is sick, they get Herman Brody to promise to lend them $1500.

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The Big Bad Swim (2006)

Comedy, Comedy drama

The film is an ensemble comedy-drama that focuses on the group of people, each of whom is afraid of the water, that join an adult swim class. Amy Pierson (Paget Brewster) is a calculus teacher going through a divorce with her husband, Paul (Grant Aleksander). Noah Owens (Jeff Branson) is the teacher of the swim class who is battling depression until he meets Jordan (Jess Weixler), a beautiful casino dealer/exotic dancer who wants to learn how to swim.

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Eye of the Dolphin (2006)

Comedy, Drama, family film

A troubled fourteen-year-old girl named Alyssa (Carly Schroeder) has been living with her grandmother Lucy (Katharine Ross) since the death of her mother a year before. After being suspended from school for smoking, Alyssa is brought to the Bahamas to live with Hawk (Adrian Dunbar), the father she never knew she had. Alyssa's arrival on the island comes at a decisively inconvenient time for Hawk, a dolphin researcher, whose prickly personality puts him at odds with local politicians, who feel that the local economy needs good relations with tourists.

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Watch It (1993)

Comedy

Perpetual man-child Mike (Jon Tenney) breaks up with his mature, pretty girlfriend, Anne (Suzy Amis), but doesn't have to dwell on it, thanks to Danny (Tom Sizemore) and Rick (John C. McGinley), both of whom share his immaturity and fear of emotional intimacy. Roommates in a Chicago house, they play an ongoing game called "Watch It!" involving pranks.

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Bridesmaids (1989)

comedy television program

Four women who were best friends in high school rejoin after a 20-years estrangement for the wedding of their fifth friend. They share secrets and stories about their old school days and learn not everything was always as it seemed. As they explore the town, their secrets, and their lives they become stronger and happier friends.

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Slightly Dangerous (1943)

romantic comedy

thumb|left|upright=1|Turner in the film's opening scene Peggy Evans, a bored and unhappy soda jerk in Hotchkiss Falls, New York, bets her co-worker, Mitzi that she can serve ice cream sundaes while blindfolded. She is reprimanded by the store's new general manager, Bob Stuart. An agitated Peggy leaves what appears to be a suicide note at her boardinghouse and disappears, leading locals to suspect Bob drove her to end her life.

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We're Not Dressing (1934)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Spoiled socialite Doris Worthington (Lombard) is sailing the Pacific with her friend Edith (Merman) and her Uncle Hubert (Errol), while being courted by Prince Michael (Milland) and Prince Alexander (Henry). She is bored, however, and finds entertainment in verbal sparring with one of the sailors, Stephen Jones (Crosby). During one of their battles, Doris slaps Stephen, who retaliates by kissing her and gets fired.

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Dr. Minx (1975)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Crime, sexploitation film

Dr. Carol Evans, a physician who recently conspired with her lover Gus to kill her rich husband for his inheritance, finds herself being blackmailed by him for a share of the money. Carol seduces Brian, a young motorcycle-accident patient of hers, in the hope that he’ll help her kill Gus.

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Thirst Street (2017)

comedy thriller, romantic comedy

Gina (Lindsay Burdge) is an American flight attendant in her mid-30s who is still coming to terms with the suicide of her boyfriend (played in flashbacks by Damien Bonnard). During a layover in Paris, she and two of her co-workers head toward a recommended cabaret but find it to be a strip club. There she meets the manager, Jérôme (Bonnard); she is drawn to him in part because of his resemblance to her late boyfriend.

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Joe Butterfly (1957)

Comedy

The film follows the staff of the Army weekly magazine Yank, who are among the first American troops in Tokyo after Japan's surrender. They are given the difficult task of producing an issue of the magazine in three days. Short on ideas and having to meet the deadline, they enter Japan's black market and come across con artist Joe Butterfly.

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Undercover Christmas (2003)

Christmas film, Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy

Jake Cunningham (Shawn Christian) is an uptight FBI agent assigned to protect Brandi O'Neill (Jami Gertz), a lower-class cocktail waitress who recently helped with the tax fraud investigation of her billionaire boyfriend. When Jake's wealthy parents (Tyne Daly and Winston Rekert) unexpectedly call him home for the holidays, Jake must bring Brandi with him in order to keep her safe prior to the trial. They pose as a couple in order to keep the proceedings a secret until the court date.

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Palooka (1934)

boxing film

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. When a shady boxing manager discovers Joe's natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father's path of debauchery, much of it including the glamorous cabaret singer and fortune hunter Nina Madero.

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Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive (2013)

stand-up comedy

Topics include Ansari's views on the institution of marriage, parenting, and love. The set has the theme of a wedding, with Ansari wearing a formal suit with a white boutonnière. When discussing Buried Alive in comparison to his first two specials, Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening (2010) and Dangerously Delicious (2012), Ansari said:

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