Kill the Man (1999)
Comedy

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Comedy
Comedy
Child bride Claudia Naughton (Dorothy McGuire) has made life difficult for her husband David (Robert Young) because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she plans to sell their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The film presents life of a number of individuals who live in London's Soho area in their quest for their "Mr. Right". One of the highlights of the film is when all the characters gather for an excruciatingly awkward and hilarious dinner party at which wine and secrets are spilled.
romantic comedy
Karel Novak, a naive Czechoslovak immigrant, arrives at Ellis Island with $58, thinking he only needed $50 to enter the United States, only to discover that the immigration fee has since been raised to $200. Unable to pay, Karel is placed on a steamship for deportation, but jumps out of a porthole and is fished out of the East River by a group of dock workers, losing his wallet in the process. He wanders the streets of Manhattan and into a theatre where he eats a doughnut left by chorus girls.
Comedy, Crime
Following their military service, the Stooges opt to pursue tertiary education, specializing in the field of criminology. Despite completing their studies with the attainment of the lowest academic honors, the trio subsequently integrate into law enforcement ranks, entrusted with the task of apprehending a notorious bandit known as the Eel, poised to perpetrate a robbery at the esteemed Biltless Hotel. Their endeavors, however, prove futile, as they fail to apprehend the criminal or recover the pilfered funds, resulting in their expulsion from the police force.
Comedy, Silly Movie, Splatstick
Adventure, Comedy
Comedy
A would-be artist is working in a dead-end job as a bank teller. At the urging of his movie-obsessed slacker roommate, he agrees to be the inside man for a bank heist. While the heist plans are coordinated, the artist's girlfriend arranges for him to have his first gallery exhibition.
Comedy
King Louis XV of France is invited by his rival King Philip V of Spain to choose a suitable husband for Philip's daughter, Princess Maria, as a gesture of unity between their two nations. Louis's choice is the Duc le Chandre, but the duke fancies Madame Pompadour, as does the king. Louis' bumbling barber, Beaucaire, becomes tangled in a web of deceit along with Mimi, a chambermaid he loves.
romantic comedy
Comedy
Norman lives at Greenwood children's home, south of London, where he grew up. He has stayed on and serves as carer and general dogsbody. He regards the staff and children there as his family, and when Jimmy, one of the boys, sets his heart on a model car which he has seen in a shop window, Norman is determined to raise the money to buy it.
Comedy
Somewhere in London a refined gent in a bowler hat walks along the road with flowers and chocolates, seemingly on his way to a date. He stops at a jeweller's window and looks at the rings. Suddenly he throws the box (containing a brick) through the window, and grabs the jewels.
Crime, Drama, Tragicomedy
Élisabeth (Danièle Gégauff) sends telegrams to her ex-boyfriend Ben (Dallesandro) in New York City and to her younger sister Léo (Schneider) in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. On the day of their respective arrivals, Élisabeth fails to show up at the airport. Ben is initially lost, being barely able to speak any French; he meets Léo, who happens to be fluent in English.
Comedy
A frustrated Dagwood resigns his office job, but Blondie is fortunately able to take over his position. Dagwood leaves their toddler unattended at home to go on a short fishing trip with a friend at a cabin, and is uneasy and skittish when he finds his friend has brought along two attractive young women. Adding to the chaos, after Dagwood returns home, Blondie's sister and her boyfriend come to stay with them in order to enter a jitterbug championship at the nightclub Mr.
Comedy horror
After losing his job, girlfriend, and home in a single day, Eli, a desperate twenty-something accepts a delivery job in a remote upstate backwater. There he meets Anya, a beguiling young woman with whom he shares a strange habit. Eli's skin picking is reminiscent of excoriation disorder and trichotillomania, while Anya's hair picking is reminiscent of trichotillomania and trichophagia, leading to a climactic case of Rapunzel syndrome.
Comedy drama
A young entertainer is conflicted over the chance of a big break. He has to decide whether to remain with his family's music hall act or to go solo.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
English Shakespearean actor now RASC Private Fred Wimbush is in the British army during the Battle of France. His skills result in his being asked to entertain the troops, but he is ordered to perform in drag. When the Germans capture his audience, he continues his disguise in women's clothes.
Comedy
Widower J.T. O'Neil and his daughter, Chandler, move from Toledo, Ohio, to Chicago so he can pursue his dream of becoming a master chef. The O'Neils, who have their faithful dog, Shakey, accompany them, arrive at their big city high-rise only to discover that dogs are strictly forbidden on the premises.
Fake Documentary, LGBTQ-related film, Raunchy comedy
bushranging film, romance film, Western
In 1874 Australia, newly installed Police Inspector Radford boasts to wealthy Hugh Clarkson that he will capture the famous outlaw Stingaree, who has returned to the area. Hilda Bouverie is an impoverished servant working for the Clarksons. Mr.
The wraparound story "World famous photographer of nudes" Harrison Marks visits an Indian psycho-analyst on Harley Street. While most male viewers imagine that Marks seems to have a dream job, his life taking pictures of naked ladies isn't without its downside, as depicted in the slapstick opening credits in which clumsy models knock over Marks' cameras, he gets a pie in the face for trying to touch up one of his subjects, and accidentally snapping a girl in a park causes him to be chased by her boyfriend Burt. Worried that his ancestors' bad luck is rubbing off on him, Marks tells the psychiatrist stories about how his ancestors have…
musical film, romantic comedy
A beautiful young violinist named Amelia Cornell is a student at the prestigious Brissac Academy of Music in New York City. Unable to support her mother on her meager scholarship stipend, she is forced to provide music lessons in her spare time—something strictly forbidden by the school and enforced zealously by the dean of the school, Dr. Kobbe.
Comedy
Three boys are expelled from military school and get jobs working at a hotel.
LGBTQ-related film
After years of saving a small town, its population is angered that the Mask Man never stays long enough to receive gratitude for his deeds. After being pressed on the issue, he explains why with a hypothetical situation: a little boy tells him "Thank you, mask man". The simple phrase resonates with the Mask Man, who soon demands to hear the phrase every time he performs a deed.