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Comedy
The story is told by a Native American elderly man to a Native American boy who wants to give up dancing and leave the reservation by bus. The story he tells is about a Native American man named Charlie Silvercloud III who thinks that he will be hit by a milk truck on his 25th birthday, like his father and grandfather before him due to a curse. His birthday is two weeks away.
Crime Comedy
Michael Stevenson, the famous English crime expert, travels to Hungary for an international crime conference, where he also takes his family. While he is at the conference, his family members visit cities along their route. In the meantime, the priceless golden head of St.
romantic comedy
Madeleine Ross (Susan Sarandon) is a journalist, and her boyfriend, Harris Sloane (David Steinberg), is the owner of an art theatre. Their relationship is on-again/off-again, and when Madeleine meets the French star Jean-Fidel Mileau (Jean-Pierre Aumont) it provokes changes in the way she and Harris feel about each other.
Comedy
A department store floorwalker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rented by pooling resources and pretending to be wealthy themselves
Comedy
A millionaire on his deathbed leaves $1 million to Jane Barker, a film addict who believes life is like the movies. Jane gets married without telling her new husband about the inheritance. The millionaire gets better, and he wants his $1 million back.
musical comedy
Three good-for-nothings overhear a movie producer and his partners offering a grand sum if someone will present him with a sure-fire movie idea. The leader of three dopes, Gus Parkyakarkus, barges into the meeting with his cohorts and proceeds to rattle off spiels for several inane prospective movies. The three are delighted to be told they have made a sale, but the producers turn out to be inmates from an insane asylum.
Comedy
Rusty Cammeron is a clumsy photographer in debt who owns a shop with his father and grandfather. After speaking with a customer, Rusty hatches a plan to try to take candid pictures of the rich and famous. While attempting to photograph heiress Lucia Corlane, Rusty loses his expensive camera.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Lou falls in love with her best friend Sassafras, who doesn't know. In order to bring their careers as performance artists forward, they move to San Francisco, where they get into the BDSM scene. Soon they start a princess/daddy role-play: Lou plays out a Sea Captain Daddy role and Sass takes on a brat princess.
Comedy, Drama
Richard Hatch stars as Nick Demec, a get-rich-quick schemer who stages a bodybuilding competition at Muscle Beach in Venice, California. The film included performances by several professional bodybuilders, including Franco Columbu and Frank Zane, and also co-starred Kay Lenz and Jeanette Nolan. The film was conceived as a pilot for a television series, but the concept never developed beyond this production.
Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Switchboard operator Anna Mirelle falls in love with businessman Julian De Lussac, whom she has come to know only over the phone. When she discovers that De Lussac's current girlfriend Marguerite is part of a scheme to swindle him out of an option on a nitrate mine concession in Chile that he had bought, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artist, Marguerite's husband Ramon Cintos. De Lussac's friend Paul Vernet, who is in love with Susie Flamberg, is in a jealous rage because Susie has fallen in love with De Lussac.
Comedy, musical film
Winnie is the head of a health clinic and has Jojo as one of her employees. Jojo is a wrestler forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent Olaf. Making matters worse, the masked marauder is convinced his wife has been fooling around with JoJo.
In 1933, a mischievous ten-year-old, Archie, is left in the care of his unattentive father, Charlie, a reluctant gangster indebted to mob boss Benny “The Bomb” Palladino. Benny gives Charlie a last chance to clear his ‘debt’ by collecting money from a rival, but when Archie follows his father into a rival gangster's speakeasy, a series of bizarre events take place culminating in them fleeing without the money. They head south to a dustbowl town where Charlie plans to repay his debt by stealing money from a bootlegging business run by Ugly Jim McCrae.
Comedy drama
sport film
Macarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city. The Club Chairman, Colonel Ball-Miller, gives Macarthy a job in one of his companies and makes him attend night school. He is seduced by his English teacher, Miss Russell, and has an affair with Ball-Miller's daughter, Andrea.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=5|Bouncing Babies (1929) Wheezer is jealous of his baby brother, who receives all of the attention from his family while Wheezer is ignored and expected to behave like a "big boy". After a failed attempt to prepare his own breakfast, for which he is spanked, Wheezer attempts to run away from home with Pete the Pup. After he meets Farina, they become the targets of Halloween pranks from the gang in their costumes.
Comedy, romance film
The film opens at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, with a phone conversation between Mr. Makinde Esho and his managing director. Makinde is reminded by his MD about how important it is for him to get an authorization from the Ministry of Land and return to Lagos with positive feedback.
romantic comedy
Young Cockney shop girl Gladys Wallis meets penniless Russian Prince Felix Lenieff in the Hampton Court Maze and, learning he has no place to stay, takes him home to live with her family. His presence creates chaos in her family's humble Fulham home. At first the others do not believe he is a prince, but he has a locket that Nicholas II, the last tsar, gave to his now-deceased mother.
Comedy, musical film, romance film
Band agent Wally Jones sends telegrams to members of a band he represents, which is presently "between engagements;" leader Earl Gordon is blowing bugle at a race track, singer Linda Farrell is selling tickets at a movie theater, harpist Michelle O'Toole is working as a hat-check girl and other band members are playing golf. They are all instructed to go to Centerville, where Wally has arranged for them to audition for the Titan Tire Company's president, Mr. Gillingwater, who wants new talent for his company's radio show.
Comedy
At the New York Bulletin newspaper, its owner, Robert Drexel Gow, receives a teletype story that the newspaper's thirty-nine-year-old editor, Max Wharton, is resigning to enlist in the army. Robert is livid, both at the news and the method that he found out about the news. There is a second story on the teletype: Max's wife, the famous novelist Paula Wharton (whom Max calls Paulie), is in Hollywood adapting her latest book into a movie screenplay.
romantic comedy
In Hollywood, press agent Robert Preston gets into trouble with his boss, Herman Cline, head of Superba Pictures, for neglecting his duties in order to publicize the 13 WAMPUS Baby Stars, June Dale in particular, at a banquet in their honor. However, he sweet talks Mrs. Cline and keeps his job.
Comedy
Mike is living an unsuccessful life, but lies to his parents about it. He meets Lola, a beautiful, Mexican dancer. When Mike's parents decide to visit him, he convinces Lola to pretend to be his girlfriend.
Comedy
Newspaper managing editor Dave Joslin (Wayne Morris) is demoted to the advice column of his newspaper due to his editorials criticizing the police for failing to safeguard a witness and investigate his murder. With the help of his girlfriend Kit Williams (Janis Paige), the previous advice columnist, Joslin manages to secure the cooperation of Marty Bremer (James Mitchell) and the conviction of crime boss Matthew Keever (Bruce Bennett). At the end, Joslin, reinstated as editor, offers Kit her old job back, but she accepts his marriage proposal instead.
Comedy
A widow exacts revenge on her wheelchair-using father-in-law for an affair they had in her youth.
Comedy
On the verge of his thirtieth birthday, Robert (Rossif Sutherland), a wealthy Wall Street broker, grieves his latest relationship gone awry and questions a loss of meaning and purpose to his career. Disenchanted with his life, he liquidates his assets and celebrates his newfound freedom that night in a Manhattan bar where he spots the mysterious, attractive Daphne (Karine Vanasse). Under the influence of alcohol and prodded on by his older mentor Phil (Don McKellar), Robert attempts to make a pass at Daphne only to be surprised by her responsiveness.