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Comedy
Terry is a teenage girl whose Uncle Willie, a horse trainer, dreams of winning the Derby. He bets everything on his horse Sunset, then collapses and dies after it loses. Now living with wealthy Aunt Martha, the girl is convinced that Uncle Willie has been reincarnated as a horse named October.
romantic comedy
When Stephen Dexter (Brian Aherne), boss of Dexter Cement, competes with the giants in his industry, they strike back by threatening to get an injunction against him the next day and tie up his business if he will not cooperate. Facing bankruptcy, he still refuses to give in. Van Horn (Robert Benchley), his lawyer and longtime friend, suggests he get married that day and transfer all his assets to his new wife to get around the injunction.
Comedy
When a composer comes up with a hit, his ex-wife sets out to break up his romance with another woman and get him back.
Comedy, Comedy drama
A pizza delivery boy finds himself framed for a series of murders.
Comedy, Erotic Film
Comedy, musical film
Oliver Courtney is an arrogant composer who lets other people write songs he takes credit for. Bob Sommers writes his tunes with Billy Starbuck. At the night of a social Christmas party, Oliver introduces Bob's song "What Would Shakespeare Have Said?" as his own.
Comedy
Comedy
Following the events of Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd and Phua Chu Kang Sdn Bhd, Phua Ah Ma pays a visit to her eldest son and daughter-in-law being white-collar worker and general contractor Phua Chu Kang and his secretary wife Rosie Phua Chin Huay, who are currently based in Malaysia. Almost as soon as she arrives, she disappears, only to resurface mysteriously tending to an elderly man at a nursing home run by Lim Lau Pek, a crime boss and drug lord with his own gang who disguised himself as the owner of the nursing home, where the residents have been dying one by one, including an old man named Zaihan, one of the elderly man's good friend.…
Comedy
Bill Ward wants to marry wealthy Angela Forbes and goes to the pier to meet her parents' cruise ship when it arrives. Bill's sister Dulcy goes along, but rather than greet the Forbeses, she becomes distracted by arriving passenger Gordon Daly. Dulcy has a habit of doing the wrong thing.
romantic comedy
On a rainy April afternoon in New York City, the head of a major department store, Gail Allen, meets her second cousin and best friend Lorna for afternoon tea. Her cousin, an author of love stories set in the South Seas, invites a resident fortune teller to predict Gail's future. At first the reading sounds like a hundred others, until she foresees her having a child and meeting a man whose arm was cut by a native's rice knife.
Adventure
Evolution films described the film thus: 'In the tradition of James Bond and Austin Powers, comes a "Girl Power" action comedy "Never Say…Never Mind" featuring the Swedish Bikini Team (SBT). The SBT is composed of five stunningly beautiful, highly intelligent and adventurous women, although one of them meets an unfortunate death early in the film. On land, on the high seas and high in the sky, the SBT members do their best to repel the forces of evil.
Comedy, slapstick
After Curly wins $50,000 by crafting a memorable jingle for a radio competition, the Stooges resolve to adopt an affluent lifestyle. They relocate to the Hotel Costa Plente, where their accommodation, replete with opulent furnishings, becomes the unwitting canvas for their characteristic clumsiness, resulting in the systematic destruction of numerous expensive items. Concurrently, three cunning young women in arrears for their rent formulate a plan to gain possession of the Stooges' fortune by masquerading as affluent widows seeking remarriage to wealthy suitors.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
Jennifer Walker, PR manager for an aging shopping mall, runs a contest to replace the traditional mall Santa Claus with a "hunky Santa". But complications ensue when she falls in love with contest winner (and struggling restaurateur) David Moretti.
musical film, musical comedy
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over. His first plan involves impersonating an officer in order to get invited to a society party.
Comedy
Gordon Slide and Blythe Holloway are two platonic best friends at a college, both from single-parent families. They are so devoted to each other that the headmaster of the school is considering banning them from seeing each other. Gordon then decides to spend the Easter holiday at his mother's beach pad.
Comedy
musical film, propaganda film, spy film
At the beginning of the Second World War, before Germany invaded Norway, a ukulele player in a British dance band playing at a Bergen hotel, is found shot dead during a radio broadcast of the band's show. It turns out he was a British agent keeping an eye on the band leader, Mark Mendes, who is suspected of being a German agent passing on information about British shipping to German U-boats, using a code concealed in the radio broadcasts. When Mendes calls a musician's agent in London for a replacement, British Intelligence tries to send another agent in his place.
romantic comedy
Rae Ann Carter is an artist turned social worker who is looking for the right man to marry. Just as she thinks she has one in Adam, both she and Adam break up. Unsure, she tries again with Luke, who wants to be the right one: then another man, Harry, takes an interest in her followed by Adam's return.
Comedy
Jimmy Fox-Upton is an accident prone and less than brilliant veterinary student in his final year of college having already failed his finals 4 times. He unexpectedly passes and his good heart outweighs any academic shortcomings. He takes over an old practice, keeping a chimpanzee in the surgery, and becomes rivals with fellow student Skeffington who opens a swanky practice around the corner.
Comedy
Joe Zany (Joe Penner) a hapless young socialite attempts to overcome an embarrassing romantic problem. It seems every time he kisses a girl, he gets a horrible case of hiccups. Anxious to cure him, his father spends a small fortune to take his son to a special psychologist who in turn sends Joe to a beautiful spa, owned by Lois Marlowe (Linda Hayes), filled with gorgeous young women.
Comedy drama
After discovering that her deceased husband lost the family's bar and home to a gambling debt, a woman takes on the mobsters who threaten all she holds dear.
black comedy film
The film follows a young aspiring DJ, Phil, played by Princess Frank, who takes on a day job at a telemarketing company to make ends meet but has to fight for his life and his girlfriend Christine, played by Debra Haden, while keeping up with his co-workers who consist of crazy people, ex-prisoners, drug addicts and murderers. The action of the movie takes place in the 1990s.
Parody, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, spy film
romantic comedy
thumb|left|thumbtime=3|The Naughty Flirt (1931) Attorney Alan Ward is fed up with the reckless behavior of spoiled heiress Kay Elliott – the daughter of the head of his law firm – who is in love with him. Stung by his rejection, she eventually tells him to "Go jump in the lake." Seeing a chance to make up the money they lost in the stock market crash, a fortune-hunting brother and sister, Jack and Linda Gregory, get Kay to agree to marry Jack. At the altar, she announces that she still loves Alan, and he comes to his senses and realizes he loves her too.