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Comedy drama, silent film
In 1895, champion horse racer and livery stable owner Hank Armstrong is greatly disturbed by the advent of the "horseless carriage" in Maple City. He mocks Elmer Hays, a car manufacturer, when he states in a public lecture that the days of the horse are numbered and that a car will one day go 30 miles an hour. However, Armstrong's efforts are in vain.
romantic comedy
Jack spends his summer doing a part-time job in an amusement park. Meanwhile, an expensive diamond is stolen by three thieves. In order to escape from the police, the thieves hide the diamond inside a fluffy toy at the park.
romantic comedy
Michael (Hill Harper) is a likable photographer turned security guard who spends his time hanging out with his buddies and keeping up with the latest releases at Pornocopia. His addiction to porn, however, threatens to get in the way of a budding romance with Jasmine (Marlyne Afflack), an upscale marketing researcher who's so wary of ‘playas’ she's declared herself celibate.
documentary film
The Naked Bunyip is a sex documentary and a blend of fact and fiction; "[it] incorporates the fictionalizing of the 'real' that had been a feature of tendencies in French 'new wave' and the American avant-garde narrative cinema." Graeme Blundell plays a shy young man whom an ad agency hires to conduct a survey about sex in Australia. The film consists of "unrehearsed and unscripted" interviews as Blundell's character investigates a variety of sexual experiences, all except for the "normal" heterosexual experience. Among the interviewed are Dame Edna Everage, Jacki Weaver, Aggy Read, Harry M.
Comedy drama
Rodney (Steve Olson), about to turn 30, has no job or ambition. This changes when he meets June (Katherine Cortez), a reclusive widow.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Bored socialite Kay Bentley travels to Greece on her wealthy father's yacht. While on land, she meets and begins a romance with idealistic archaeologist Terry O'Neill, who challenges her beliefs. However, Kay is not serious about him and tells him that she is Ann Morrison, secretary to the man who is actually her father.
Comedy
In 1917, lifeguards Wilkie and Mitchell, who cannot swim, are trying to keep out of the war. When a man is drowning, U.S. Army Air Corps Sergeant Hogan rescues the drowning man, but they are quick to claim credit.
Comedy
The Stooges work for Miracle Detective Agency, and are hired by a middle-aged millionaire named John Goodrich (Emil Sitka) to track down some racketeers who have threatened his life. Mr. Goodrich apprises them of the malevolent activities perpetrated by the Phantom Gang, an malevolent organization implicated in the murder of prominent socialites and affluent individuals, with Mr.
buddy film, Comedy, Splatstick
Dancing instructors Laurel and Hardy inadvertently entangle themselves in a fraudulent insurance scheme devised by two impostor gangsters posing as insurance agents. Concurrently, the narrative unfolds around Grant Lawrence, a young inventor working on a revolutionary invisible ray device designed for jungle warfare during World War II. Trudy Harlan, Grant's romantic interest and one of Stan's dance pupils, extends an invitation to Grant and the duo to her residence for tea in her parents' absence.
romantic comedy
thumb|left|260px|MacMurray and Colbert in still from film Stenographer Marilyn David and newspaper reporter Peter Dawes meet every Thursday on a bench outside the New York Public Library to eat popcorn and watch the world go by. They discuss love and she tells him she only considers him a friend—that someday she will find love when she meets the right man. Afterwards on the subway, Marilyn meets a wealthy English aristocrat, Lord Charles Gray Granton, who is visiting New York incognito as a commoner.
romantic comedy
A rich guy hires an orphaned poor girl to be his pretend girlfriend in order to escape his grandfather’s plan of marrying him off to another woman. In exchange of her service, he gives her a posh condo unit and a big weekly salary but there is a catch: she is not allowed to fall in love with him. Eventually, they start falling for each other and just when everything is going fine, his ex-girlfriend (and first love) resurfaces.
Comedy
left|thumb|thumbtime=17|Doughboys (1930) Elmer, a member of the idle rich, is smitten by working girl Mary, who will have nothing to do with him. When Elmer's chauffeur gets caught up in an army recruitment drive and quits, Elmer goes to an employment agency to find a new driver and accidentally enlists in the army. Elmer learns that Mary is on the base to entertain the troops and learns that his drill sergeant, Brophy, is also interested in Mary.
Comedy
Bertie Wooster is a frivolous fop, whose insistence on planning a holiday in the French seaside resort of Deauville prompts his erudite manservant Jeeves to give his notice, declaring he will leave in the morning as he is tired of extricating Bertie from disastrous holiday romances. That night, as heavy rain falls, a mysterious young woman enters Bertie's London flat, carrying half of some secret plans. Bertie immediately has amorous intentions, but Jeeves locks him out of the living room, where the woman is resting.
Comedy
Comedy
At the conclusion of Ma and Pa Kettle, Pa receives a telegram stating that he has won another jingle-writing contest, this one from the Bubble-Ola Company. The prize is an all-expenses paid trip to New York City. Ma tells Pa that they can't go because they have no one to look out for the kids.
Comedy
Harry Jones is a clerk in Mr Crab's general mercantile store and an amateur actor in community theatre, where he is currently playing a Scotland Yard inspector, "Batts of the Yard". When the absentminded Professor Osrick Pureheart leaves a secret military formula in the store, mayhem ensues as two suspicious secret agents (actually enemy spies), who have been shadowing the professor, question Harry regarding the professor, none of them realising that Harry now has the formula in his possession. Convinced by the two spies to follow the professor, Harry goes to an Army post, Camp Warwell, where he is mistakenly enlisted in the Z Men,…
romantic comedy
Lindsay is a successful producer of commercials, but, as it often happens in big cities, her personal life is not well. Gentlemen chase her and even propose to marry, but she feels that all of them are not her type. Only psychoanalysis sessions do help her, and she can barely live without them.
Comedy, comedy thriller, mystery film
The Stooges are private investigators at the Alert Detective Agency, responding to a summons from the affluent Mr. Goodrich. Mr.
Comedy drama
Clifford Southey is a clerk at a brokerage firm who is promoted to lieutenant colonel during the war. His subordinate officer, Captain Brett Aimsley, was a partner at Southey's firm. Popular and charismatic, Capt.
Comedy, musical film, Western
Jack Benny resists the entreaties of bandleader Phil Harris to journey to Nevada, where Phil's sweetheart, Brenda Tracy, is waiting for her divorce, until Jack meets Joan Cameron, one of a trio of singing sisters. Believing that the only real men hail from the West, Joan spurns Jack's advances even though her sisters encourage the courtship. Realizing that Jack's infatuation presents the bait to lure him West, Phil tells Joan that Jack owns a ranch in Nevada, and when Fred Allen's press agent broadcasts the story, all of New York starts talking about Jack's ranch.
Comedy
Walter's daughter, Chloe, gets engaged at a family dinner. After Chloe's fiancé says that he hopes to be half as good a man as Walter, Walter feels guilty and admits to everyone that he had an affair with his secretary. Walter subsequently loses everything—his wife kicks him out of the house, his daughters want nothing to do with him, HR fires him after finding out about the affair with his secretary, and all but his Sears credit card are denied.
Comedy
Comedy
Nige and Deano are childhood friends who live in Invercargill in the South Island of New Zealand. However, estrangement has since resulted, because Nige has stopped flatting with Deano over concerns about Nige's self-perceived emotional dependence on his friend, and moved in with a third friend, Gav. However, Nige inadvertently runs over and kills a person from Norway engaging in backpacker tourism with his unreliable Ford Laser, and enlists the assistance of Deano to conceal the body, although not without reservations from Deano due to his "abandonment issues" after Nige terminated their earlier flatting cohabitation.
Comedy, propaganda film
The Stooges find themselves inadvertently embroiled in a series of comedic misadventures while donning yellowface attire for a photo shoot depicting Japanese soldiers. Directed by their boss to maintain their costumes during their lunch break to expedite the shoot, the trio unwittingly becomes entangled in a case of mistaken identity. Upon arriving at a restaurant, the Stooges are mistaken for Japanese soldiers by the apprehensive owner, triggered by a newspaper headline reporting the escape of three Japanese individuals.