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Drama
The film follows the experiences of a promising athlete named Steve and his friends who live in a small southern California town. Steve's three friends, Duff, Seb, and T, all come from wealthy families and spend most of their time getting high, drinking at parties, and harassing Ahkmed, a convenience store clerk. After finding a gun in a girl's house, Duff starts violently pursuing a life of crime with T, the loudmouthed instigator with a Napoleon complex, at his side.
Comedy
Newly retired United States Army Colonel William Seaborn Effingham returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia, in 1940. He meets his second cousin, once removed, Albert Marbury, a reporter for the Leader newspaper. The next day, Confederate Memorial Day, Mayor Bill Silk announces he intends to rename the town Confederate Monument Square after an undistinguished deceased politician named Pud Toolen.
romantic comedy
A peanut vendor witnesses a man named Sam Sawyer attempting suicide by jumping from a cliff into the water below. The vendor offers Sam a free bag of peanuts in exchange for his story. Through flashback, Sam relates that he and his wife Emily visited Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.
Documentation
Comedy
Family father Martin Taylor is out of touch with the members of his family. To better reconnect with them, he comes up with a plan that includes no use of technology, no electricity, and cut off from the outside. Not the winter vacation they were expecting, now the Taylors have to work together to show Dad they can endure his "3 Day Test".
Comedy
Comedy
The Stooges are marginally employed pest exterminators who devise a scheme to develop their business by surreptitiously introducing mice, moths, and ants into an affluent household hosting a dinner party. Their objective is to subsequently offer their services to remediate the pest infestation they themselves created, thereby capitalizing on the situation. The party's hostess instructs her butler to dress the exterminators in formal attire so they may work discreetly.
Drama
The film opens with a prologue set during the Irish War of Independence. Mick Devereaux and Commandant Jack Carberry of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are meeting a British officer to negotiate a cease-fire. Carberry walks down a deserted road and is suddenly fired upon by hidden Black and Tan soldiers.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, LGBTQ-related film
Andrea Dowd (Carrie Preston) is a single parentstruggling to raise her ten-year-old son, Joshua (Lurie Poston). Andrea's concerned about Joshua's interests. Instead of wanting to be on the school wrestling team, Joshua strives to be on the cheerleading squad.
Comedy
In Mammoth Mountain, a group of misfit slackers battle a group of egotistical snobs for snowboarding rights to a ski mountain.
romantic comedy
Peter Brooks is a hard-working but struggling college boy who resents girls being allowed to attend college. A wealthy young spoiled socialite named Joan Madison changes his mind when she uses her feminine wiles to entrap him. Later in the film, Brooks's men's basketball team goes up against the college's all-girl team.
Comedy drama
The Young Girl and the Monsoon centers around a fraught relationship between father and daughter. Hank, a 39-year-old photo-journalist (Kinney), has agreed to look after his 13-year-old daughter, Constance (Muth), for several weeks while his ex-wife goes on a holiday with her new husband. Hank has compartmentalized his life in such a way that his daughter doesn't know anything about his 26-year-old girlfriend, Erin (Avital).
Comedy horror
Comedy
After a conflict with an officer, Loren Collins got fired from the US Navy, where he was learning to be a chef. Too poor to pay for cooking studies, he went to Dijon and got hired by Louis Boyer, the bad tempered owner of a prestigious restaurant.
Comedy, documentary film, romance film
The film features extracts from hundreds of films, including The Holiday, When Harry Met Sally, While You Were Sleeping, The Big Sick, Kissing Jessica Stein and The Broken Hearts Club. The production made use of Fair Use guidelines to legally include these clips. Other contributors to the film include actor Jessica Barden, director Charlie Lyne, writers Laura Snapes, Anne T Donahue, Simran Hans, Cameron Cook, Brodie Lancaster and radio producer Eleanor McDowall.
Comedy
The movie starts with three dogs in a storm. The father sends his children to a lifeboat while he stays on his ship. In the morning, Salty the Seagull and Echo the Dolphin notice the pups and bring them aboard the deck.
romantic comedy
A chorus girl, Gloria Winters (Joan Bennett), is overjoyed that wealthy young Randy Bradford (John Hubbard) is so eager to marry her, he's asked her to elope. Before they can leave, Randy is contacted by Mark Willows (Franchot Tone), a partner with the Wall Street financial organization that Randy's father founded, as well as Randy's financial advisor. Willows stipulates that Randy will be disinherited should he elope with this girl.
Comedy
George Potts, a plumber in a top secret government research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George leaves for his annual holiday, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless 'sanitary engineer'. Meanwhile, the Russians get wind of the incident and intercept George, plying him with liquor and employment promises so that he'll hand over the plans to them.
Comedy
The film tells the story of the wealthy family Van Dyke: a frustrated patriarch Dan (Walter Connolly); his self-centered wife (Billie Burke); and his spoiled children Tony (James Blakeley) and Carol (Joan Bennett). They have constant run-ins for outrageous behavior. Dan Van Dyke is sent to prison for tax evasion.
Comedy, Tragicomedy
Cola runs from her adult responsibilities and instead spends her time and talent helping the Purgatory Comics store stay in business. She befriends Evan, the store owner, and Berner, an offbeat customer and comic book fan. The three launch a local marketing effort for an upcoming sale in hopes of drumming up business for the small comic book store.
Comedy
Auto mechanic Max Rutgers is spinning his wheels, going nowhere. He has been promising sweetheart Margie Solitaire for five years that they will marry, but wishes he had more money to support her. His best pal, Gus Harris, knows a lot about racehorses, but keeps flunking his exam to become a licensed trainer.
Comedy
As described in a film magazine, young Dr. Jackson, or Dr. Jack, has plenty of practice but scant fees.
Comedy, Western
In the besieged environs of Peaceful Gulch, threatened by a marauding contingent of bandits and brigands, the town's mayor, formulates a stratagem to deter the encroaching menace. This plan entails the dissemination of a fabricated report heralding the imminent arrival of three resolute marshals (the Stooges), their identities appropriated from a wanted poster portraying vagrants, valued at a nominal price. Despite this intricate scheme, the Stooges nearly face expulsion from the township subsequent to a misguided endeavor to administer a purported panacea to the ailing sheriff, afflicted with lumbago, which imperils his well-being.
Comedy
Hugo and his best friend Goof have a special hobby, they bed foreign female backpackers in Amsterdam, and then run off with their backpacks. One of the friends finds it more fun to photograph their victims as a souvenir. When Goof falls in love with a foreign girl their hobby is in danger.