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Comedy, romantic comedy
Concert pianist Eric Phillips, who has been on the road touring for 21 years, returns home. He is served a warrant to perform repairs on the building that he owns and learns that his financial advisor Peter Danilo bought the building with Eric's money some time ago as an investment. Eric visits the building and meets some of its tenants, including the young and beautiful model Polly Haines, and Eric is attracted to her.
Comedy
Percy Pointer, a construction worker and amateur dramatist, writes a drama Oh My Lord and hopes to have it professionally produced. A dishonest producer agrees to back the play, hoping that it will be a disaster, so that he can claim insurance on its failure. To Percy's distress, the first audience see the play as a slapstick comedy, not the drama he intended it to be.
Comedy
In San Francisco in the 1910s, the clownish musical band that runs Firehouse 12 often drowns out alarms with their loud music. Smokey Hinkle (Buddy Hackett), a bumbling inventor and scion of a renowned firefighting family, buys retired firehouse horse Emma to pull his buggy, but when Emma hears an alarm, she follows the fire trucks at top speed. Smokey arrives at the fire at the same time as his pal, fireman Smitty (Hugh O'Brian), who points out that the blaze is in Smokey's own house.
Comedy
Comedy
Three thousand years after ancient Egyptian Neferus's death, Professor Dean Lambert (who looks like Neferus) is translating his history tablet by tablet. Dean is convinced that falling in love will ruin him as it did Neferus, whose love to the Pharaoh's daughter led to his downfall. He meets aspiring actress and heiress Jane Van Buren and exchanges clothes with her drunk audition partner, Snoop Donlan.
Comedy
Lulu (Michelle Chong) is a woman from Shanghai, China, who came to Singapore with the intent of meeting her online date, "Brad Pit" (Chen Tianwen). Expecting him to be a tall, rich and handsome man, upon realizing that he was the complete opposite and that he has displayed a photograph of his twin brother, Leon (Leon Jay Williams) online, she instantly fell in love with Leon. In order not to lose face back at her hometown, Lulu decided to stay in Singapore and make a living for herself.
romantic comedy
A struggling painter (Fred MacMurray) takes a job as private secretary to a tough female advertising executive (Rosalind Russell). While working together to win the account of a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
Ollie, poised to marry the daughter of a wealthy oil magnate named Peter Cucumber, finds himself embroiled in a series of comedic misadventures alongside his friend, Stan, who serves as the best man. Stan's wedding present, a jigsaw puzzle, inadvertently becomes the focal point of their morning, captivating the attention of various individuals including a taxi driver, Ollie's butler, and a telegram delivery boy. As the completion of the puzzle eludes them, tensions rise, culminating in Cucumber's ire at the delay of his daughter's nuptials.
Comedy
Larry exhibits promiscuous behavior, engaging in an extramarital affair with Moe's spouse, Belle, while simultaneously displaying romantic interest in Joe's betrothed, Millie. Upon discovering Larry's deceitful conduct, Moe confronts him at his place of employment, a pet shop, expressing his displeasure before Larry manages to placate him. Sensing the need to deflect blame, Larry orchestrates a scheme implicating Joe as the perpetrator.
romantic comedy
Tim Kelly (James Ellison) is a Texan in the oil business who travels to Argentina to bid for some land. When his bid is unsuccessful, he teams up with colleague Duke Ferrell (Buddy Ebsen) to buy their employer a successful racehorse, Lucero, in the hope that this will compensate for the failed bid. Tim falls in love with Lolita O'Shea (Maureen O'Hara), the daughter of the racehorse's owner, Don Enrique (Robert Barrat).
Comedy
Sam (Mark Duplass) is a washed-up rocker in his mid-30s. Jobless and apartment-less, he crashes with his aunt (Melissa Leo) as a last resort and becomes reluctant camping-trip chaperone to her teenage son and a friend. On the trip, the three males turn out to be on par, maturity-wise.
Comedy
Deranged scientist Professor Noodle is engrossed in developing a rejuvenation elixir for over two decades, purportedly capable of reversing the aging process. Stan and Ollie, employed as chimney sweeps, enter the scene, assigned to cleanse the estate's chimney. As Oliver ascends to the rooftop, Stan, stationed below, inadvertently propels the sweep upwards, causing Oliver to tumble through the skylight.
romantic comedy
Jenny Swanson, a waitress in a small college town, dreams of going to Paris by any means necessary. She confides her plan for a little gold-digging and blackmail to Ronald "Ronnie" Brooke, a professor on exchange from England. Brooke tries to dissuade her, telling her that "good girls go to Paris, too." Her first attempt ends badly.
Comedy, Western
The Dillon family holds sway over a diminutive Western enclave, prompting Nell to dispatch her partner, Elmer, in pursuit of aid. Concurrently, within the confines of the United States Cavalry, the trio of Stooges persistently vex their superior, Sergeant Major Mullins. Despite Mullins' exertions to instill discipline, his efforts yield unforeseen repercussions, culminating in a confrontation with Captain Daley, his superior officer.
musical film, romance film, romantic comedy
Song plugger Bill Spencer is fired and starts his own music-publishing business. He hires secretary Miss Murphy and gains a partner in Freddy Lee, a young man from Texas, with whom he peddles a song that piano player Chester Dooley has written. When they hear that singer Terry Martin is performing with trumpeter Harry James at a club, they visit the club to pitch the song to her.
Comedy drama
In Minneapolis just before Christmas, fortysomething Billy persuades his old friend Eddie, who he has not seen for six months, to listen to his story. While working on barges between the Twin Cities and La Crosse, Wisconsin, Billy met and slept with Patti, who now says she is pregnant. As she refuses to talk on the phone with him, Billy wants a friend to accompany him on a visit to her La Crosse home to explain that as a married man and a father of two, he would prefer she not have the child.
Comedy
Margo is a woman from New Jersey who marries a fellow New Jersey native, Jake. After it becomes evident that their marriage will not last, the two are divorced and Margo is remarried, this time to Rock, a California surfer. However, this marriage does not last long either and they are quickly divorced.
Comedy drama
A woman has a hard time embracing reality after a personal tragedy. Molly (Vinessa Shaw) is a young widow having a hard time putting her life back together after her husband's death. Molly obsesses over the leftover artifacts of his life, and she believes that his spirit walks the house they used to share, though her attempts to photograph the ghost are a failure.
Comedy
Employed as paperhangers, the Stooges wreck a circus poster they were affixing to a billboard, leading to their dismissal by their boss, circus owner Herman. Having been paid off in tickets to the circus, they profit by selling the tickets at a discounted rate. However, they attract the attention of authorities, who chase them through the circus grounds.
Comedy
Nouveau riche housewife Mrs. Smirch (Bess Flowers) has intentions to hire the in-demand interior decorator Omay (Jean De Briac) to redecorate her house in a bid for admittance to the "who's who" of the local rich elite. Omay accepts her offer.
Comedy, musical film, Vampire
The movie begins with a Bloodstone cover of "As Time Goes By" over the opening titles. Bloodstone - Harry Williams, Charles Love, Charles McCormick, and Willis Draffen, Jr. - are about to go onstage for a concert at a theater while their opening act, a vocal group called the Sinceres, perform the Coasters' 1958 hit song "Yakety Yak." In fact, the Sinceres are played by Bloodstone themselves, as "the Sinceres" was the name they performed under before getting a record deal.
Comedy, Family Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Leni (Marian Aguilera) is a television reporter hailing from a Jewish family in Spain. During one weekend, Leni pays a visit to her family's residence, accompanied by her new boyfriend, college professor Rafi (Guillermo Toledo). Rafi is feeling rather anxious about meeting Leni's family, which includes her perpetually nervous mother, Gloria (Norma Aleandro); her boisterous father, Ernesto (Mario Martin); her sister, Tania, who is studying dance (María Botto); her conservative brother, David (Fernando Ramallo); and her forgetful grandfather, Dudu (Max Berliner).
Comedy, Superhero
Gavin Lucas, a corporate attorney and comic book fan, gains superhuman abilities after a sabotaged laboratory experiment involving scientist Ronald Richards and Richards’ former partner Hector Harris. With Richards’ reluctant assistance, Gavin designs a battle suit and becomes the superhero Surge of Power, defending Big City. Harris, transformed by the same accident, develops the ability to control metal and becomes the villain Metal Master.
Comedy
left|thumb|Full movie Harry Shelby has been kept in knee-pants for years by his mother. One day, however, Harry finally gets his first pair of long pants. Immediately, his family expects him to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla.