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Comedy
When top Broadway bookmaker Odds Owen loses $50,000 on a horse owned by Everett Markham, he investigates and finds out that the horse was doped. Owen visits Everett and lets him know that Everett will be selling his horses and paying back the $50,000. Owen is inspired by hearing about Lloyd's of London.
The Lovedolls return from their untimely demise in this sequel to the Super-8 film Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984). Patch Kelley (Janet Housden) becomes Patch Christ, the leader of an acid-damaged religious cult who rescues has-been Kitty Karryall (Jennifer Schwartz) from a boozy, wasted life. Once reunited, they recruit Sunset Boulevard hooker Alexandria "Cheetah" Axethrasher (Kim Pilkington) to replace the recently murdered Bunny Tremelo (Hilary Rubens).
musical film, romantic comedy
Impoverished roommates Rix Martin and Chuck Hadley have dreams of being the first to operate a coast-to-coast radio broadcast. They invest what little profit their small station makes into advanced equipment and finally get their wish when they bootleg the Jack Dempsey—Jess Willard 1919 heavyweight title fight from ringside. Meanwhile, the station's band singer is surrounded by suitors—Payne, Oakie, and Chadwick, without whose money the station could not operate.
Comedy, Comedy drama
A teenage ski bum and his friend tries to turn the lodge he's inherited into a music club.
Comedy, Horror
Ministry of Propaganda staff member Edward (Ernest Seah) discovers that his colleague has become a zombie. Without much struggle, he bashes the zombie with a mop and escapes the government building. Outside, he discovers that almost all of Singapore has been infected with a zombie virus.
Comedy drama
After prosecutor David Rolfe (Douglas) has racketeer Benny Morgan arrested, mobster Harry Evans (Boyd) gives orders to his chauffeur (Dumbrille) to kill David, but the chauffeur fails. The next day, David's fiancée, Margaret Hughes (Colbert), leaves on a cruise with Jimmy O'Neill (Alexander), her friendly suitor, warning David she will not marry a man for whom work is more important than she. David cannot give Margaret a proper bon voyage because he is trying to save his naïve young cousin, Phil Long (Tone), from the clutches of gold-digging moll Claire Foster (Tashman), with whom David used to be involved.
Comedy
On the Italian front, lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe are good soldiers in combat but reply to the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus with a barrage of wry comments. On a three-day pass that Willie and Joe enjoy in Naples, Joe's penchant for wine and women involves them with luscious Emi Rosso and her moonshiner father, whose tangled affairs land them in ever deeper trouble.
Comedy, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Frances Wadsworth (Gish) is a very superstitious young woman who implicitly believes in fortunes told by cards. She discovers through the cards that her friend Mollie Rourke (McGinnis) is doomed to marry. Although Mollie's father objects, Frances aids Mollie in her elopement, and at the ceremony meets a blonde young man.
Comedy
While drunk, groom-to-be Robert 'accidentally' shoots the maid of honor of his fiancé in the face during a skeet-shooting event. His scheming mother does whatever is needed to ensure the wedding will occur, even conspiring with her ex-husband or kidnapping the maid of honor.
Comedy horror, Zombie
High school senior Ethan has a crush on his childhood friend, Kahlah. Ethan believes that Kahlah's boyfriend, Shane, is dangerous, but he does not know how to tell her without seeming to be crazy. Annoyed by her reluctance to have sex with him, Shane drugs and accidentally kills Kahlah.
Comedy drama
Comedy, Drama
A young couple, Malcolm and Lily, fail in their attempt to start their adult lives in New York City and end up moving in with Malcolm's grandparents in their New Jersey "active adult" community, where the grandparents' golden years are not as golden as Malcolm expected.
Comedy
Well-to-do couple Dora and Charles Randolph are celebrating their golden wedding, and three generations meet at the Randolph country home. As the relatives gather, each reveals his or her personal quirks and shortcomings. Caught in the middle is family secretary Penny Fenton, who has the unenviable task of sorting and smoothing out the family's deep-set hostilities and jealousies so that a good time can be had by all.
Comedy
thumb|left|The full short Harold works in an office on a tall building next to his girlfriend Mildred. Mildred learns she will be let go by her employer, osteopathic specialist Dr. Frank Gary, because "business is slow." To prevent Mildred from losing her job, Harold takes to the streets.
Comedy
The film is set in an information technology firm just before the year 2000. Lead programmer Lewis Henderson is in charge of solving various Y2K bugs, but finds himself increasingly distracted by his computer-mediated sexual yearnings. At first, Lewis is simply attracted to Internet pornography, but, after he is abandoned by his girlfriend, he takes an interest in having sex with the computer itself.
Comedy, musical film
Previously infallible actuary Milton Haskins is mortified when he misplaces a decimal point which would have cost the Nutmeg Insurance Company money if it had not been caught. He also loses a brand new promotion. Depressed, he lets wisecracking carny Goldie McGoldrick talk him into getting "with it" and joining Acres of Fun, a traveling carnival.
Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Kaspar (Ele Grigsby) is partnered with Detective Sam Trowel (Hugh Smith). He locates the hideout of a kidnapping and drug ring that Trowel has been unable to find because he is too focused on procedures. Trowel hires safecracker Frederick Fenzer (David Roster) and his bodyguard, Noname (Harlo Cayse), as phoney suppliers to set up Ruthie (Carla Rueckert) to be kidnapped by the ring.
romantic comedy
Robert Brent, a shy rookie private in the Marine Corps from Arkansas, is discovered to have a wonderful singing voice and wins a talent contest in New York City (based on Major Bowes Amateur Hour). The prospect of radio stardom causes him to develop a swollen head; he finds a manager, Aeneas Phinney, starts touring as "the Singing Marine", and hesitates to sail to Shanghai with his unit. Eventually he follows his duty.
Comedy
The Stooges engage in household chores with joyful anticipation of their impending marriages, oblivious to the fact that they are all betrothed to the same woman, Mabel. Amidst their cleaning endeavors, comedic mishaps abound. Shemp, in an attempt to utilize a pistol handle as a makeshift hammer, inadvertently triggers the firearm, resulting in Moe's distinctive sugarbowl hairstyle being split down the middle.
Comedy
Looking to feature authentic Egyptians in his exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, Cyrus Graydon visit Cairo, where he is joined by a pasha and by an American con artist named Wayne Cravat. The pasha falls in love with the exotic dancer Izora. Although Graydon tries to discourage her, she travels to Chicago, where she identifies herself as a genuine Egyptian princess.
Comedy
P-A-X-497/341 (aka Pax), a curious human from a well-ordered but loveless year 3127, travels back in time to the year 2011 to satisfy his curiosity about such archaic concepts as love, passion and sex, after finding a book by newly published romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett, who also works at a newspaper that deals in primarily made up stories. He is told that love caused people to act strangely and was one of the root causes for suffering in the world. He decided to go back to the year 2011 to figure what love is.
Comedy
After serving in the RAF during the Second World War, Nat Hearn returns to his pre-war job as a reporter on the Tormouth Clarion. He meets and is attracted to Sally Thorpe, who had replaced him when he enlisted and has been given notice now that he has returned. He arranges for her to be kept on, and they spend time together and become engaged to be married.
Comedy
Sach convinces Louie to rent the back room of the sweet shop to a professor. Meanwhile, Slip is preoccupied with entering their car in an auto race to raise enough money to help Louie pay his bills. They don't have any luck with the car until Sach invents a formula that makes the car go faster.
A ditzy New Yorker (Julie Hagerty) is devastated to learn that her husband has been unfaithful and impulsively decides to go to Paris to escape. When she consumes too many sedatives and oversleeps on the plane, missing her connection, she winds up in Tel Aviv, penniless and with no luggage or friends. After connecting with a cabdriver and part-time soldier (Amos Kollek), she finds herself stranded on a kibbutz near the Golan Heights where she must learn to cope with a series of misadventures and a very unfamiliar lifestyle.