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independent film
Summer Pozzi, a Chicago-based flight attendant for an unnamed airline, is mentally preparing to quit her job and marry Jim, her soon-to-be airline pilot boyfriend. During a layover, she gets a phone call asking her to transfer to San Francisco. Then, Jim tells her he refused to take a final exam to be a pilot, unable to have the lives of many passengers on his shoulders.
Comedy
Comedy drama
Joseph, Rose, and Olive, three friends and residents of a retirement home, suspect Carl, the home's owner, of embezzling funds meant for their care. They band together to protect their ailing friend Woody from potential exploitation and ensure that Carl is held accountable for his actions.
musical film, romantic comedy
Three sisters believe life is going to be easy now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Comedy
The Stooges find themselves in a predicament when facing eviction from their landlady, Mrs. MacGruder, due to their inability to afford the rent. In an attempt to rectify the situation, they offer to repaint her apartment.
musical film, musical comedy
thumb|thumbtime=13|220px|left|Playboy of Paris (1930) Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now very rich.
Comedy
The tramp sits on a park bench. He decides to have a nap and lies down and starts to dream. Back in the Stone Age, King Low-Brow, King of Wakiki Beach, sits surrounded by his six favorite wives as they watch a man dancing to entertain them.
Comedy, musical film
In 1895, amateur inventor Joe Belden has created a sensation in his Indiana hometown over his new "horseless carriage". It runs on gasoline, but the townspeople aren't impressed and only Joe's mother and his sweetheart Liz Bullitt are supportive. Mechanical breakdowns cause Joe to become even more unpopular with some, including Liz's father, who prefers his daughter's other suitor, the educated and refined Cyrus Ransom, Jr.
Comedy
A dull and unsuccessful inventor begins to develop a second identity as a man about town with a completely different life.
Adventure, Comedy, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
When a fortune is discovered at the bottom of a lake, a diver is out to get it, even when he discovers that the loot is being guarded by an awful underwater beast.
romantic comedy
American journalist Jo Anne Benson travels with photographer Dan Jordan to a trip to Mexico, Cuba and Brazil for a magazine story encountering a variety of South American entertainers.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Curt Taylor (David Hasselhoff) is released from California State Prison and to settle a debt he becomes a secretary for Cartier Rand (Joan Collins) as a form of amusing punishment, so that he can steal her jewels. During the course of his employment for Cartier, He falls in love with her, which complicates his primary mission to steal from her, Cartier reciprocates his feelings and the two begin an affair.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=5|Love Nest (1923) by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton In order to escape from his life and his lost love, Keaton sets off on his small boat, Cupid, but runs into the whaling ship, The Love Nest. The whaler's merciless captain throws crew members overboard for even the slightest offense.
Comedy
Adman Timothy Westerby (Smothers) throws his daughter's wedding day into chaos when he repeatedly hallucinates that he is seeing his "dream girl" (Twiggy), and refuses to leave her side. On the rare occasions Westerby is coherent, the distraught bride (Fuller) has locked herself in her room, further delaying things. Since Westerby is the only one who can see his "dreamgirl", this creates confusion with his wife (Syms) and father-in-law-to-be (Balsam), the latter of whom is a hot-tempered Texan prone to gun-toting tantrums.
Comedy
Comedy
The opera season has opened in New York City, and building contractor Leonard Borland, who comes from a working-class background, is coping with the musical ambitions of his wife Doris, who is from a socially prominent family. Despite his misgivings that she has no talent, she is being trained for a career in singing by the voice teacher Hugo. Doris prepares for a recital that Leonard supports, hoping that will get singing "out of her system." The performance is witnessed by opera singer Cecil Carver, who is attracted to Leonard and believes that Doris lacks sufficient talent to become a pro.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
While delivering toys, Santa's son (Nick Stabile) is arrested for trespassing because another person impersonating Santa is burglarizing homes. Dispirited, he turns for help to a public defender (Lauren Holly).
buddy film, Comedy, musical film
Cecelia (Rosina Lawrence) enters a talent show in Waterloo, Kansas with the promise that the winner will be given a part in a movie. Cecilia wins but never receives her prize because the organizer (Russell Hicks) has run off with the cash. The emcee, Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), feels partly responsible for her disappointment and promises Cecilia that he will go to Hollywood to launch her career as a movie star.
Comedy drama
At an annual family reunion, the youngest of three siblings attempts to win a family athletic competition called the Gilbert Cup and beat his siblings for the first time.
Comedy
Ma and Pa Kettle are trying to raise money to send their daughter Rosie to college, although they are unemployed and in debt. Pa deliberately walks into street traffic, hoping to win a monetary injury settlement, but instead causes a collision. Ma wants to participate in contests at the county fair, and Pa buys an old tired horse named Emma on credit to compete in the harness race, promising to pay the owner later with Ma's prize money.
Comedy
musical film, Post-apocalyptic, science fiction comedy
A young aviator, Carlos Martin, is dumped by his girlfriend, and heads on a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. He has engine trouble and makes an emergency landing on an uninhabited island out in the Pacific. Shortly afterward, a pandemic of a new disease called "masculitis" kills every fertile male human on the planet.
spy film
During World War II, gangster Lucky Jordan is drafted and sent to a training base near his New York City office. He avoids the rigors of boot camp, hiding in the unit's canteen. One of the attendants, Jill Evans, reports him to the base colonel and he is sent to the stockade.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
A group of friends, lovers and relatives assemble for the funeral of Stuart. Devastated by Stuart's death, his brother-in-law, lover and best friend decide to take their lives in hand. Dan is a faithful and loving father and husband, until the day he meets Corinne.