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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,285 films · Page 538.

Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)

Crime, Drama, mystery film

While Charlie Chan and his number one son, Lee, are aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner returning from Germany in their previous adventure (Charlie Chan at the Olympics), they have a run-in with a mysterious woman, named Billie Bronson, who secretes a package in the trunk of the Chans. After the liner docks, Chan and Lee are met at the pier by Inspector Nelson and two rival reporters, Joan Wendall and Speed Patton. Billie, who left the country hurriedly a year ago when sought as a material witness in a political scandal, has returned to "blow the lid off the town".

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The Moon and the Stars (2007)

romantic comedy

A wealthy Jewish homosexual film producer (Molina) is making a film based on Puccini's opera Tosca and a famous German diva (McCormack) is cast opposite a difficult English actor (Pryce). As filming gets under way on a sound stage in Rome, World War II in 1939 escalates around them threatening the film's completion.

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Two Thousand Women (1944)

Comedy drama, Drama, prison film, Tragicomedy, war film

During the 1940 Battle of France, Rosemary Brown (Patricia Roc), an English novice nun, is apprehended by French soldiers who have mistaken her for a fifth columnist. She is sentenced to face a firing squad, but the Germans arrive and she is sent (without her habit, which is being cleaned) to an internment camp in a grand hotel at the spa town of Marneville. She journeys there in the back of a lorry with journalist Freda (Phyllis Calvert), stripper Bridie (Jean Kent), and posh Muriel (Flora Robson) and her travelling companion, Miss Meredith (Muriel Aked).

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Don't Just Stand There! (1968)

Comedy

A famous author, Sabine Manning, has yet to finish her latest sex-themed novel and is on a European cruise with Merriman Dudley, her manager and lover. Her exasperated publisher Martine Randall, in an exchange of favors, asks adventurer Lawrence Colby to pursue her. Colby discovers that Kendall Flanagan, mistaken for Sabine, has been kidnapped.

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Geek Maggot Bingo (1983)

Comedy horror

The film follows the insane Dr. Frankenberry (Robert Andrews), who repeatedly attempts to reanimate the dead with the assistance of his hunchbacked assistant Geeko (Robert Zeus). Other characters include the professor's daughter Buffy (Brenda Bergman), who performs most of the film semi-nude, and falls victim to the vampire, and Flavian (Gumby Spangler), son of the professor at Frankenberry's university, Dean Quagmire (Jim Giacama) who had rejected Frankenberry's original experiments.

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The High Cost of Loving (1958)

Comedy

Around the same time that Jim Fry learns that his place of work is merging with another company, his wife of nine years Ginny reveals she might be pregnant with their first child. Jim celebrates with friend Steve Hayward, but when invitations are extended to a company luncheon to meet the new executives, Jim is excluded. The word goes around quickly that new president Eli Cave is planning a few changes.

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3 Days in Havana (2013)

Comedy drama, Crime

In a warehouse, Anders questions a former associate, Benny, whom he accuses of selling out their boss, an international arms dealer named Libby. Benny confesses that he revealed Libby would be in Havana to a woman known as the Broker, and Anders kills him. A day later, Jack Petty meets Rita at an airport bar after their flight to Cuba is delayed.

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Royal Hearts (2018)

romance film, romantic comedy

Hank Pavlik (James Brolin) is the head of a ranch in Montana while his daughter Kelly (Cindy Busby) is an assistant professor at Montana State University who is a hopeless romantic. One day, a solicitor named Mr. Grimsby (Howard Crossley) arrives to deliver Hank the news that involves them having to go to Merania.

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Sock-a-Bye Baby (1942)

Comedy

The Stooges are awakened in the middle of the night by the crying of an abandoned infant left on their doorstep. They bring the baby indoors and discover a poignant letter from the distressed mother, asking the trio to provide a good home for the child, identified as baby Jimmy. The Stooges undertake the task of nurturing the infant, providing sustenance and tender care in their makeshift role as surrogate fathers.

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The Rake's Progress (1945)

Comedy drama, Melodrama

The plot follows the career of upper-class cad Vivian Kenway. He is sent down from Oxford University for placing a chamber pot on the Martyrs' Memorial. Sent to South America after his father pulls a favour from a friend, he is fired for heckling the managing director while drunk.

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12 Storeys (1997)

Drama

The film follows a day in the lives of several households living within the same HDB block. A soup vendor called Ah Gu is having a hard time dealing with his Mainland Chinese wife, Lily. San San, an overweight loner, is haunted by her feelings of isolation and the memory of her deceased mother.

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Hysterical Psycho (2009)

Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher

A theater troupe from New York City visit a secluded area known as Moon Lake. Unknown to them, the cabin in which they stay is located on a Native American burial ground among other sites. In addition, it is the location of a lunar meteorite that has bathed the area in radiation that causes people to go violently insane.

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Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)

romantic comedy

Gloria Fay and Mae O'Brien are two former showgirls working in an amusement park. Sailor Kewpie Wiggins is in love with Gloria, when he wins all their prizes with his skill at tossing rings, he learns that Gloria and Mae are broke. Kewpie suggests that Gloria enters the Miss Pacific Fleet contest to win the cash prize.

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Convict 13 (1920)

Comedy

thumb|thumbtime=5|Convict 13 Buster plays golf one morning with a group of friends and after a disastrous start, drives his ball into a river but retrieves it after it is swallowed by a fish. Meanwhile a convict escapes from a nearby prison and makes his way to the golf course, as the prison guards give chase. Buster's ball is stolen by a dog and while he is retrieving it, he accidentally knocks himself out after the ball ricochets off of a shed.

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You to Me Are Everything (2010)

romantic comedy

Iska (Marian Rivera) is a simple, contented girl from the Cordillera mountains who suddenly inherits millions after the death of her real father. Raphael (Dingdong Dantes) is from a rich family who suddenly finds himself penniless after his father Frank is convicted of corruption in congress. The two meet when Iska ends up in the mansion where Raphael used to live.

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A Day’s Pleasure (1919)

Comedy

After an initial scene featuring a Ford which is extremely reluctant to start, most of the action takes place on an excursion ferry. Gags revolve around seasickness, which Charlie, a fat couple, and even the boat's all-black ragtime band succumb to, deckchairs, and Charlie's comic pugnacity. This is followed by a scene of the family returning home, and encountering trouble at an intersection, which involves a traffic cop, and hot tar.

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Love on the Side (2004)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama

Nothing is the same in the quaint seaside town of Squamish, British Columbia, following the arrival of the glamorous, chain-smoking Linda (Monika Schnarre), who represents a developer seeking to build a casino, but is hiding two secrets. She complicates the relationship between waitress Eve (Marla Sokoloff), who had nearly worked up the nerve to ask ex-jock Jeff (Barry Watson) to an upcoming dance. Jeff and Eve's brother Chuck (Jonathan Cherry) decide to compete to see who can win Linda's affections.

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