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Comedy, Drama
An unusual courtship begins when a musician, who is still grieving the death of his lover, meets a quirky artist. The musician, Sam, grieves after the death of his wife in the hotel room where he first met her. Due to a mishandling of the hotel keys by the concierge, a distressed girl runs in and closes herself in the bathroom.
Comedy drama
A withdrawn music producer's life is disrupted when his son and his protege come to his house unannounced and unexpectedly.
Comedy, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
In the late 1700s, Charleston, South Carolina is a haven for pirates who sell their plunder there. Davey Crandall and his friend and coworker Tom Botts watch the ship Liverpool Queen enter the harbor. As soon as the cargo is unloaded and transferred to the shelves of Davey's employer, cranky shopkeeper Caleb Nicholas, Charleston territorial governor Gerald Elden brings his ward Lady Sylvia Copeland and British aristocrats Lord and Lady Montrose to view the new wares.
romantic comedy
It is about several love affairs at an international art fair in Miami. Lucia, an artist from Latin America, meets Benedict. Victor, a writer travels to Miami with his girlfriend Ana.
Adventure, Tragicomedy
Mischievous Tom Sawyer snacks on jam and is caught by his stern Aunt Polly. She threatens to punish him, but he tricks her and escapes. In town, Tom encounters Alfred Temple, a "model boy" in fancy clothes, who snubs him.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
While on vacation in Israel, Maria, a German biologist, meets the bar owner Shira and falls head over heels in love with her. Shortly after the end of the vacation, Maria has decided to stay in Israel and move in with Shira, when a misunderstanding happens and Shira believes she is being given a wedding proposal. Various complications arise, not only about the initial mistaken engagement but also the fact that some members of Shira's family (especially her grandmother Berta) are opposed to her marrying a German.
Comedy
The Stooges are defense workers at the Heedlock Airplane Corp. (a pun on the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation). Their late night feast begins with a mistaken attempt to crack open a refrigerator, believing it to be a safe, leading to a humble late-night meal of ham, egg, bread, and coffee.
Comedy
Caroline is delighted when her sister, Beth, brings her movie star daughter home to visit. Normal life implodes, however, when Beth is suddenly sent to rehab, and Honey has to move in.
romantic comedy
Dave Randall, a jaded, womanizing, reality dating TV producer, runs into his old college crush, Kelly, and soon realizes his bar-hopping, bed-hopping ways are leaving him unfulfilled. Dave has Kelly — the only woman he's ever loved — re-train him to become the nice guy he used to be.
Comedy, romantic comedy
In 8th grade, Melissa Rochester is a shy, geeky girl who has a huge crush on Drew Hesler, the most popular boy in her junior high school. When her missing notebook, with her doodles of hers and Drew's name together, is handed in to the school reception, it is passed around and falls in the hands of Drew and the popular group. They decide to play a prank on Melissa and leave a note in her locker from Drew who tells her to come up to him at lunch and wait to be asked out.
Comedy
During the era of "Ancient Erysipelas", the Stooges preside over Ye Olde Pottery shop, a quaint establishment nestled within the bustling streets. Amidst the backdrop of this setting, the formidable Emperor Octopus Grabus sets forth on a quest to secure a new consort, his preferences leaning towards red-haired maidens. Grabus then sets his sights on Diana, a fair maiden who seeks refuge within the protective confines of the Stooges' establishment, hoping to evade the unwanted advances of the emperor.
Comedy
The Stooges are vagrants who seek to earn money by mending pots and pans. After repairing a flat tire on their truck—a task that requires them first to extricate Curly from his sweater—they drive to a construction site, where they attract business by puncturing holes in the lunch boxes of workers and offering to repair the damage. However, their deceit is soon uncovered, leading to a pursuit onto the site where they blend into a crowd of job seekers.
Comedy
Struggling young actors (three males and three females) share an apartment to make ends meet. This scenario is pretty daring considering the conservative and censorious attitudes of that period. The landlady provides a play to the actors that turns out to have been left behind long ago by a destitute, evicted tenant (Robert Benchley).
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=5|Small Talk (1929) The gang are all orphans hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, is adopted by a wealthy couple, while his older sister Mary Ann is not. The gang visit Wheezer in his new home, triggering an alarm that summons the police and the fire department.
Comedy drama
Lazy fisherman Bill Johansen docks his small (and sinking) fishing boat in San Pedro harbor, aggravating ship chandler Pop Cavendish and Pop's spinster daughter Marge, who would like to marry Bill even though he has welched on paying his debts for years. Pop tries to have Bill's boat attached, but cannot because Bill has craftily listed the boat's ownership in the name of his daughter Virginia, whom he has not seen since she was a baby. Meanwhile, reefer ship-owner John Kelly has a monopoly and intimidates local fishermen into accepting less than market value for their fish.
Comedy, Drama
Elderly Jewish writer Max Kohn is an Austrian émigré whose overactive mind is causing a state of perpetual confusion. He's a successful author of short stories who lives in New York City and is so old-fashioned that he believes that the only proper way to write is by using a typewriter. Max has several women interested in seducing him, but he spends most of his time with fellow worrier Reisel.
Comedy
Four Navy recruits fresh from boot camp graduation in San Diego spend a weekend pass together out on the town in Los Angeles before shipping out for further training.
Comedy
Custer Firkinshaw, the owner of Bare Monthly magazine is up to his neck in dirty pictures and sexy secretaries. His hedonistic ways are however temporarily halted when his Uncle Charlie dies and Custer is pitted against his relatives. His uncle leaves Custer a fortune in the will, but only on the condition that he marries and has a child within 12 months, otherwise it all goes to his relatives.
Comedy
This film is a compilation of scenes from eighteen films that Abbott and Costello made for Universal Pictures between 1941 and 1955. Comedian Jack E. Leonard provides the narration for the film, which incorporates scenes from the following films: Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, directed by Charles Lamont Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, directed by Charles Lamont Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, directed by Charles Barton Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, directed by Charles Lamont Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, directed by Charles Lamont Buck Privates, directed by Arthur Lubin Buck Privates Come Home,…
Comedy, documentary film
The film opens with a montage of television and radio clips of comments from figures such as Frank Gaffney, Herman Cain, Ann Coulter, Bryan Fischer, Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Maher, and Donald Trump expressing fear of Islam, or mistrust of Muslims. Farsad and Obeidallah explain what motivated them to attempt to change the negative perception of Muslims in America: for Farsad it was claims that Obama was a secret Muslim (with its implication that being Muslim was in itself something negative); and for Obeidallah it was the virulence of the opposition to the "Ground Zero Mosque". In Columbus, Georgia, they visit a gun…
Comedy
Ken and Maria, a married couple who have not had sex in a year, decide to invite two other couples to an orgy to spice up their sex lives. However, Mark and Katherine arrive dealing with relationship baggage that complicates their ability to participate, with Mark spending much of the event outside on the deck, while Jason has actually broken up with the girlfriend who was formerly part of the group's circle of friends, and instead arrives with his new love interest Ginny, a bisexual woman the rest of the group have never met.
Comedy, Ghost
At the 1000th Annual dinner of the Old Ghosts Association General 'Jumbo' Burlap and Colonel 'Bulldog' Kelsoe present the story of their death and haunting to the general public after the inter-terrestrial hookup of radio and television allows communication between humans and spirits. In the 18th Century, Burlap and Kelsoe are officers in the army of Queen Anne who have recently retired and purchased a house on Berkeley Square. At a house-warming party the pair speculate how to win the war however they learn that the Duke of Marlborough has other plans that will lead to the Battle of Malplaquet.
Comedy, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Jessica has moved from her small Burgundian town of Mâcon to Paris to start a new life, inspired by her grandmother, Madame Roux, who "always loved luxury". In Paris, she initially has trouble finding work, and spends one evening without shelter. She eventually gets a job waitressing in a small café, the Bar des Théâtres, even though the café, following tradition, has never before hired female waiters.
American football film, Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=15|So This Is College (1929) Biff and Eddie, two college classmates at the University of Southern California, are life-long friends, fraternity brothers, and members of the football team. Although they make a vow at the beginning of their senior year that they will no longer allow their pursuit of girls to get into the way of their friendship, they soon break their vow when both fall for pretty Babs Baxter, a popular co-ed. Vying for her affections, Biff and Eddie play pranks on each other that soon causes a serious breach in their relationship.