Shaking the Tree (1990)
Comedy drama
Comedy movies
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The Big Blockade (1942)
Comedy drama, documentary film, Drama, propaganda film, war film
The film illustrates thr British strategy of the economic blockade of Nazi Germany through a series of scenes and sketches, combined with documentary footage.
Life 101 (1995)
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
A college freshman Ramsy experiences love for the first time in the 1960s when he asks out Joy.
Escapade (1935)
romantic comedy
Set somewhere in Vienna in the 1900s, a successful surgeon, Karl, feeing for the affection of his wife Gerta. As does his brother Paul, a concert conductor, for his flirtatious girl Anita. Both women have something in common: they are in love with Fritz, a philandering painter.
True to the Navy (1930)
romantic comedy
Sky Dragon (1949)
Crime, mystery film, thriller film
Charlie Chan and Number One Son, Lee, are passengers aboard a commercial airliner headed for San Francisco. Also on board are two insurance couriers who are carrying a shipment of $250,000. Minutes after drinking coffee that was served, everyone on board the plane falls asleep, including the crew.
Dopey Dicks (1950)
Comedy
The Stooges, employed as janitors, have just completed the task of relocating furniture and assorted items into the office of a detective. Amidst this mundane routine, Shemp indulges in a daydream about the adventurous life of a private investigator. Suddenly, a distressed young woman bursts into the scene, imploring their aid, alleging that she is being pursued.
Goin' to Town (1935)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Cleo Borden (West) is a saloon singer out west whose cattle rustling boyfriend (Fred Kohler) dies right before their wedding day (in which they signed a paper agreeing to marry) and leaves her a fortune. She sets her sights on a handsome Brit in Carrington (Paul Cavanaugh), employed surveying the oil wells on her property and spends the rest of the picture trying to win him over, having placed a bet on it. He considers her "Crude oil", which leads to West stating her desire to "become a lady if it kills me!" Part of her quest includes throwing an opera and singing the lead in a scene from Samson and Delilah.
Hello Pop! (1933)
Comedy, musical film
Papa is a theater producer who is trying to stage an elaborate musical revue. His efforts are constantly interrupted by demanding backstage personalities: a flaky Italian musician, a woman who keeps try to ask him something, Bonnie, and his raucous sons (the Stooges in children's costumes). Papa is able to get the show ready for presentation, but during the main number, the Three Stooges slip beneath the enormous hoopskirt costume worn by the leading vocalist.
Skylark (1941)
Comedy, romantic comedy
On their fifth wedding anniversary, Lydia Kenyon (Claudette Colbert) feels she is neglected and treated insensitively by her husband, Tony (Ray Milland). He is very committed to his job as an advertising executive, and not only does it take up his time, but it requires a lot of less than desirable socializing with his clients. When Lydia finds out that Tony has sent his friend, George Gorell (Walter Abel), to select a fifth wedding anniversary gift for her, Lydia treats Tony's lack of sensitivity with humor, but when Tony, at one of their parties, "gives" their cook to his client's wife, the snooty Mrs.
I'll Believe You (2006)
science fiction comedy
Dale Sweeney, the radio host of an immensely unpopular late-night talk program on the AM dial, only ever drums up listeners who are nutty, half-zonked small-town denizens who want to discuss UFO sightings on the airwaves. Just prior to the final broadcast, with the program in arm's length of cancellation, Sweeney receives a strange phone call from an individual who speaks anxiously in an unintelligible language. The next morning, two federal agents turn up to question Sweeney, demonstrating heightened interest in one of the latest UFO sightings.
The Knockout (1914)
Comedy
Two down-and-out hoboes pretend to be pugilists in order to make some money to eat. One of them claims to be Cyclone Flynn, the boxing champion. In the meantime Pug, a good-hearted local strongman, has fought and defeated several mashers who were bothering his girlfriend.
Nick Offerman: American Ham (2014)
Comedy
The film is a live taping of Offerman's one-man show at the Town Hall theater in New York, with a collection of anecdotes, songs and woodworking/oral-sex techniques.
Predicament (2010)
Comedy horror
Based on the novel of the same name, Predicament is a coming-of-age story and a crime comedy. It's an account of the powerful and disturbing psychological fantasy world of adolescence within the familiar small-town setting of novelist Morrieson's writing. Naïve teenager Cedric Williamson is involved with two older criminally inclined misfits in photographing and blackmailing amorous couples, and ends up an accomplice to murder.
Backroads (1997)
Comedy
Set in 1974, during the last rales of the Francoist dictatorship, the plot follows the journey of salesman Lozano and his son Felipe driving a Citroën DS along the Spanish coast.
Leading Lady (2014)
Tragicomedy
Leading Lady tells the story of an aspiring British actress, Jodi Rutherford (Katie McGrath), who persuades Kobus Willemse (Bok van Blerk), an Afrikaner farmer from Brandfort, to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans-speaking heroine of the Second Anglo-Boer War. In return, Jodi undertakes to arrange and direct the annual concert at the Willemse farm. Jodi's interaction with the quirky, small-town citizens of Brandfort and the stubborn Kobus teaches her that there is more to life than Hollywood's: lights, camera, and action...
Answer This! (2011)
Comedy, Drama
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
romantic comedy
Jeff (Tom Drake) arrives home to New York City after being away in the Army—and in a POW camp—for several years. When Jeff shipped out, he received an enthusiastic kiss from Jean. Leaping to conclusions, he sent her an engagement ring and for various reasons—which she babbles to her boss—she could never disabuse him.
Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)
Comedy
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the lead entertainer in a traveling medicine show. Muldoon, a member of the medicine show, is a fugitive wanted for murder. The medicine show gets stranded at the snowbound hunting lodge of a wealthy woman.
Midnight Masquerade (2014)
romantic comedy
In this modern-day reverse Cinderella story, a young and naive lawyer, exploited by his boss, gets his life turned around after meeting the beautiful Elyse Samford, CEO of a candy company. Their first date takes place at the annual Halloween masquerade ball.
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
comedy television program, romance film, romantic comedy
Margaret Delafield, a rich elderly lady and widow of Spaulding 'Spud' Delafield (an unseen character), is rushed to hospital. She is not expected to survive, and her two sons and daughter gathering at her bedside are more concerned with their expected inheritance. Her doctor, Dr Marvin Elias, encourages her to fight.
In Old Kentucky (1935)
Comedy
In Kentucky, amiable horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught up in the long-running feud between two families the Martingales and the Shattucks. It is decided to settle matter over a horse race.
She's Back (1989)
Comedy horror
During an assault on their house in Queens, Beatrix is murdered. To obtain vengeance, she comes back from the afterlife to visit her husband Paul.
College Humor (1933)
musical film, romantic comedy
Barney Shirrel starts his first semester at Mid West University and works his way up in the fraternity with the help of Tex Roust and Mondrake, an alcoholic college football star. Barney is passionate about engineering and the law, and between his varied studies, football, and the fraternity, he neglects his girlfriend Amber. In the next term, Mondrake gives his class sweater to Barney's sister Barbara.