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Comedy
A cunning nurse and con artist Belle Haimes (Valri Bromfield) lives with her simpleton of a husband Rex Haimes (Stephen E. Miller) in the Hart Mansion in British Columbia. There she takes care of the invalid, 103-year-old Slim Hart, called "Pappy", (Joe Austin) and his wife, Minnie (Enid Saunders) who has been in a coma for some time.
Comedy
The movie starts with a dedication to Aussie legend Ian Turpie. Two men drive women in hummers to Sunnyvale to shoot an ad campaign which is interrupted by Sharon "Shazza" Jones (Elle Dawe) after which Franky Falzoni (Paul Fenech) starts a riot. Shazza is mad at Darren "Dazza" Smith because he has no money to pay off the fines and bills.
Comedy drama, silent film
As described in a film publication, Huckleberry Finn has been adopted by the Widow Douglas who plans to "civilize" him. With Tom Sawyer he forms a robber gang, and in a cave, the local boys take an oath to stick together. In his bedroom he runs into his no-account father who steals Huck's small change and later kidnaps Huck, taking him in a small boat down the river, while Tom and the gang wait for their leader to appear.
romantic comedy
A wealthy woman marries a poor bohemian artist. When he becomes wealthy, she is not happy with the way their life changes.
beach party film, teen film
Fraternity brothers at Alpine College in the snow-covered mountains of Lake Tahoe recruit Ronnie Duke (Clarke), a surfer friend from California to seduce Susan Benchley (Noel), head of the school sorority and secretary to Dean Carlton (James Wellman), because Susan has brainwashed the other female students on campus to avoid dating the boys. Ronnie sets out a plan to become captain of the ski team and win over Susan, who is engaged to John Harris (Steve Franken), while he also attempts to save the school from its financial troubles.
buddy film, Comedy, silent film
Ollie and his wife are enjoying a quiet Sunday at home until Stan shows up, eager to play golf. After Stan breaks the chair, the blind, and almost sets fire to their house, and Oliver breaks the Hardys' Victrola, Mrs. Hardy chases the boys out.
Comedy
In the midst of the Great Depression, Stan and Ollie find themselves in dire circumstances, resorting to begging for food. Their plight takes a fortuitous turn when a benevolent elderly woman offers them sandwiches, providing a brief respite from their hunger. However, their relief is short-lived as they overhear news of the elderly woman facing eviction due to an alleged robbery and subsequent inability to pay her mortgage obligations.
Comedy
left|thumb|Lobby card for the film thumb|thumbtime=37|Hot Water (1924) The film opens with Lloyd and his best friend sprinting crazily along the sidewalk to get to the friend's wedding in time. Lloyd is impatient and resentful of all of that breathless running, he naively views being single as simpler and more desirable --- "I don't see why a man would want to run to his own wedding! You were born a bachelor, why not just let well enough alone?" He then snortingly opines that he himself would never give up his freedom "just for a pair of soft-boiled eyes," but then he accidentally knocks into the alluringly-lovely Jobyna Ralston, and…
Comedy
Comedy drama
An elderly woman named Victoria Brown discovers an escaped convict, Mooney Polaski, hiding in her attic. At first she is horrified, but gradually she becomes fascinated by the fast-talking fugitive and permits him to stay in her house while the local sheriff and his men hunt for him. A relationship develops between the unlikely pair: he finds the home he never had and she overcomes her loneliness.
Comedy
The Stooges are faced with the imminent deadline for filing their income taxes. During their preparations, Moe remarks on the potential ease of deceit in tax returns without detection. This prompts the three to devise a scheme involving falsifying deductions to secure a substantial refund.
LGBTQ-related film
Bobby Riley (Pete Jones) is a gay man in the closet, afraid to come out to his three older brothers even though he's over 30, makes his own money and lives on his own. He's being pressed by his more liberal sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell them. The death of his father and a fishing trip with his brothers provide occasions when he could tell them but he fails.
Comedy
Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
In Wilmington, Delaware, Anna Thompson sells beauty products to doctors but her company lets her go when her performance is not up to par. She is a chain smoker and bulimic and feels the need to run away from her life. When she narrowly misses being the victim of an armed robbery in a store, she gets on a bus and travels to where her family used to have a vacation cottage in Massachusetts.
Comedy drama
Joe (Martin Starr) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman) who has the perfect voice for the system.
comedy thriller
Michael Valentine is an American radio announcer who finds out he is the new king of "Barovia", although a secret society called the Mordia, which believes it has assassinated Valentine's father, King Hubertus II, has other ideas.
musical film, musical comedy
thumb|thumbtime=10|Big Boy (1930) Gus is a loyal stable boy and jockey for a rich family in the South that has been interested in horse racing and breeding horses for generations. (In a flashback to 1870, we see Gus's grandfather working for the same family.) The young heir of the family, Jack, loses a lot of money by gambling and is blackmailed by his creditors for forging a check. They persuade Jack to ask his mother to replace Gus with another jockey for the family's racehorse, Big Boy, but she refuses.
Comedy
Stationed in London, the Jewish American soldier Abie Levy falls in love with a young Irish Catholic woman, Rosemary Murphy, and they get married. Their families are not informed, and when the time comes for Rosemary to travel to the United States, the only thing Abie tells his father Solomon is that he has met a girl and is in love. Solomon takes a liking to Rosemary, but assumes she shares the same faith.
Comedy drama
Set in Cuba in 1958, the last year of Fulgencio Batista regime, the plot revolves around a boy who is torn between his friendship with a blonde American named Julia and the strife facing his family as a result of the revolution and turmoil in their nation.
Comedy, Comedy drama, romance film
thumb|alt=Marlene Dietrich|Marlene Dietrich as Maria de Crevecoeur Handsome middle-aged Count Della Fiabe has squandered his fortune on the gambling tables of Monte Carlo and has nothing left but his title, a yacht with no motor, and friends carrying him in the hopes his luck returns. The glamorous Marquess Maria de Crevecoeur was also once wealthy, but has likewise gambled away all her late husband’s fortune. She keeps trying to win it back, without success, and has pawned all her jewelry in the process.
Comedy
A couple who own a cheap hotel (Phyllis Diller and Slim Pickens, in his final role) must deal with the various eccentric people who rent their rooms.
Comedy
This movie is a comedic version of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps.
Drama
A nursing student falls in love with a young medical intern in 1910 Baltimore, but their lives start to fall apart when he catches a deadly disease.
Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy, screwball comedy film
Movie stuntman Tim Burke is offered $1000 for a couple of days of work by Denno Noonan. Noonan was the "social secretary" for the mentally incompetent orphan Schuyler Tatlock. Schuyler's wealthy relations shipped him off to Hawaii to get him out of the way and paid Noonan very well to watch over him.