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Comedy
A young French woman, Madaleine Lafarge, is unintentionally appointed as the French teacher at an English public school for boys, which is not used to having women teachers. She causes a stir with pupils and other school staff, and complications ensue. A romance develops between Lafarge and the headmaster's son who is also a teacher at the school.
black comedy film
Ma and Pa Kettle return home from a New York City pleasure trip and learn that their son Tom and his wife Kim are expecting a child. The Kettles receive a telegram from Kim's parents Jonathan and Elizabeth Parker, refined Bostonians, declaring that they will soon arrive to see the baby, a boy also named Jonathan. The Parkers arrive and are astounded upon their first impression of the Kettles.
Comedy
The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from The London Airport for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a British European Airways Airspeed Ambassador. An English diplomat is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart; a Royal Marine bandsman has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman finds romance with an older Frenchman who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist searches out fellow painters on the Left Bank and in the Louvre; a hearty Englishman spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; and a…
Comedy
Mr. Sterling is incredibly wealthy, but to his dismay not an aristocrat. He believes his social status will rise if he marries off his daughter Betsy to an aristocrat.
Comedy, musical film
romantic comedy
Jay Brooks (Montgomery), a black man, vows to give up dating white women in favor of dating black women, only to fall in love with a biracial woman.
Comedy, fantasy film
Drama, romantic comedy
Lorry and Minnie are prostitutes who occasionally get hapless male admirers drunk before robbing them. After being released from a Louisiana jail, they head down the Mississippi River on a steamboat. Lorry steals $60 from a "Mr.
Comedy
The story of a playwright and screenwriter named Paul whose story is told by enemies. Paul is shy about returning to the theater since his last play bombed and would rather devote time to romancing his girlfriend Carla.
Comedy
The film begins with "The Boss" by Henry Mancini playing as a thief (Jim Labrioza) steals items in a store; the clerk (Laura Kightlinger) doesn't interfere. A man (Craig Anton) walks into the store and asks her out on a date at a restaurant called Tony's, which she accepts. At the date, he asks whether she has any siblings; she tells him she has a sibling, but doesn't answer his question if he is her elder or younger brother.
Comedy drama
Publicity-loving heiress Jill Baxter (Ann Sheridan) returns to Dartmouth College for its Winter Carnival. Years earlier, she had been named Queen of the Carnival. Now, after a divorce from her exotic husband, she revisits Hanover, New Hampshire and reunites with the boyfriend (Richard Carlson), now a tweedy professor, that she had dumped for the husband.
Splatstick
Stan and Oliver, members of a municipal band, find themselves perpetually at odds with their conductor's direction, leading to their dismissal from both the band and their lodgings. In an attempt to earn a living, they resort to street performance as musicians. However, their discord spills over into their interactions with passersby, resulting in chaotic altercations that escalate into a broader conflict among the crowd, ultimately devolving into a chaotic scene where individuals engage in disruptive behavior, including the removal of each other's clothing.
Comedy drama
The film follows the lives of staff and guests in a holiday island resort named Pleasure Cove. Raymond Gordon (Tom Jones) is a suave conman hiding in disguise at the resort run by manager Kim Parker (Constance Forslund) with whom he falls in love.
romantic comedy
Judge James Hardy is informed by Jonas Bronell, a lawyer from Detroit, that Hardy will inherit $2 million if he proves to be the great-great-grandson of Colonel James Standish Leeds, a hero of the War of 1812. This is due to the most recent Mr. Leeds dying without a clear heir.
Comedy
Following a night of revelry, a wealthy oil magnate awakens to the surprising revelation of his recent marriage, accompanied by a gold-digging stepdaughter and brother-in-law intent on his demise for financial gain. Upon encountering a blackmail scheme, the tycoon seeks refuge in a hotel with his butler and legal counsel. Employing a disguise involving his lawyer and the assistance of his butler, the tycoon navigates a series of frantic escapades, including pursuits through a dance hall and amusement park, to evade his pursuers and safeguard his assets.
Comedy horror
Three men, clad in face-obscuring motorcycle gear, pick a woman's name out of the phonebook. They travel to her apartment, break in, and murder her with knives. They then sever her legs from her body, and take her dismembered limbs with them.
Comedy
Arthur Prohack, a Treasury civil servant who is extremely frugal with the government's money, suddenly inherits £250,000 and is convinced to go on six months' sick leave. His children Charles and Mary tap him for money for an investment scheme and a theatrical production respectively, whilst his wife Eve buys the family a far larger house, which she fills with an aviary and then aquariums. Charles also buys his father a new car, which on its first drive is involved in an accident with Mimi Warburton.
romantic comedy
Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal, and Phil, elope to Mexico City. Barbara discovers that her boyfriend, stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, not only has his flight been delayed but the two become trapped in bureaucratic red tape, including the need for a doctor's certificate, and may not have their wedding before he has to return to his military base. The US Embassy Vice Consul goes to great lengths to intervene and help the young lovers, but frequent misunderstandings jeopardise his own upcoming marriage, including when Barbara's diving accident in a pool makes her want to pursue him instead.
romantic comedy
Ewan McEwan, an easy-going sheep and corn farmer on Beigg, a (fictional) Scottish island, is unable to marry his childhood sweetheart Katie as his hell-raising preacher uncle is opposed to consanguinity – all the islanders are related to each other. When Katie leaves for Glasgow to train as a nurse, he is persuaded to find a wife on the mainland (which he has never visited). Withdrawing £400 from the £800 he has saved in a bank in Oban, he sets out to meet the local girls.
Action Comedy
Three draft age boys are caught with marijuana during the Vietnam War era. The judge hates "Hippies" so sentences them to prison. The driver of the bus taking them to prison must go to the bathroom, so he stops at a remote and poorly maintained wayside to use its outhouse.
Comedy, romance film
Celeste Blodgett is a somewhat unkempt young woman who moves from her small hometown to Manhattan with aspirations of becoming a journalist. Her romantic ideas about New York are quickly shattered when she discovers her new apartment is small, dirty and rat-infested. Luckily, her neighbor Kyle is an interior designer and helps her fix up the place.
Comedy
As described in a film magazine review, Jennie Hagan, a waitress in a river town restaurant is in love with Orme Wilson, the hot cake artist, who is fond of actresses. She struggles hard to win him, even studying acting, and dreaming about the stage, and after many trials is successful.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama
Along the Welsh coast lies a village called Llareggub – or "bugger all" backwards – which is peopled with eccentrics like Captain Cat, a seafaring man who is losing his sight; the sexy Rosie Probert and Mr. Waldo, a jack-of-all-trades who is full of regret. The story is told by Richard Burton's character.