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Comedy horror, Dark Comedy, Parody, science fiction comedy
The film revolves around a vacationing atomic scientist who encounters mysterious carnivorous beings disguised as traveling salesmen who are feeding on the eccentric population of the small isolated town of Exceptional Vista.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=5|Boxing Gloves (1929) Best friends Joe and Chubby's friendship is tested when their affections for Jean cause them to fight. Farina and Harry have been unsuccessfully trying to become fight promoters and see the feud as the basis of a boxing match.
romantic comedy
Victor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski. When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis, he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money. Alexandra moves in as a third roommate and helps out with Victor's street photography.
Comedy, musical film
Comedy
Albert, a sailor, returns home to Britain to marry his fiancée. He is getting drunk at a bar rather than going to the ceremony. A drunk at the bar explains the horror of the mother-in-law syndrome.
Comedy
An American airman inherits from a distant cousin the title of Earl and a house and estate in an English village. Although he is initially reluctant, his fiancé encourages him to accept it, after she hears how much the estate is worth. When he arrives in England with his two buddies, he falls for the daughter of the owner of the neighbouring estate – but she is also engaged to be married.
Comedy
Deke Oliver and his wife Della host a weekly television show in New York, but their personal and professional relationships are strained. Della wants to adopt a child, but Deke does not. Their sponsor Seymour is threatening to discard their new five-year contract if they will not immediately sign it.
Comedy, Drama
Look Back in Anger is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter, and her snooty best friend Helena Charles. Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Comedy
A satirical reimagining of the life and dreams of the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. The film explores Hitler's unfulfilled animation career, involving creating a Disneyland-like place called Nazi-land.
Comedy
thumb|Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) A man is sitting in a box at a cinema theatre. The screening starts with the title The Edison Projecting Kinetoscope followed by the intertitle Parisian Danger showing a girl dancing the can-can. The man jumps out of his box and starts imitating her dance.
Comedy drama, trial film
Maxwell Webster is a Montana attorney whose career isn't going as well as wife Julie feels it should be. She gets tipsy at a country club dinner and praises her husband's work in front of colleagues, then urges him to ask boss Edmund Jethrow for a partnership. Instead, he loses his job.
Drama, independent film, Tragicomedy
Gregory (a.k.a. "Joe") (DJ Qualls) is a disturbed fast-food worker, who has reached the end of his mental tether after being tormented and humiliated by his cruel boss, Mr. Crolick (William Sadler).
Comedy
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who is determined to break up their marriage.
Comedy drama
Peter Middleton is an unemployed car salesman. He rescues hungry street urchin Billy, who has been caught stealing from a street vendor, and takes him under his wing. Peter rents a room.
Comedy
The opening credits initially say "a comedy" but this is changed to "a tragedy". The orchestra plays Molly Malone as credits roll on a background of shamrocks telling the viewer that the setting is Ireland. Gulliver Sheils has left his career with the Revenue Commissioners in Dublin due to receiving a small pension.
Comedy
thumb|So's Your Old Man (1926) Sam Bisbee is a small-town glazier who's always trying to get rich quick, and his schemes are driving his wife crazy. When he invents an unbreakable glass windshield, his attempt to demonstrate it at a convention of automobile manufacturers is ruined when his car gets switched with another, and instead of bouncing off, the brick he throws at it smashes the windshield to pieces. On the train ride home, Bisbee considers suicide, but instead rescues a young woman who he believes is trying to kill herself.
romantic comedy
The Frankenstein Brothers is a coming of age romantic comedy centered on the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery—the real-life Left Hand Brewing Company—and were left in the care of their uncle, a well-meaning but less than ideal paternal figure. When Luke meets a girl who introduces him to her warm, inviting family members, he turns away from Corey to focus on this budding romance.
Comedy
A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady returns to save it. Meanwhile, a young girl tries to reform him.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Comedy
The Stooges are entangled in a series of mishaps stemming from their roles as repairmen. Initially accused of stealing chickens but exonerated in court, their misfortune persists when a live chicken escapes Shemp's jacket, inadvertently striking Judge Henderson. Subsequently fleeing the courtroom, they encounter a customer seeking repair for her malfunctioning doorbell.
musical film, musical comedy
thumb|thumbtime=15|Safety in Numbers (1930) William Reynolds is set to inherit $350 million on his next birthday, but his uncle says he must learn the ways of the world beforehand. His uncle hires three "Follies girls" to guide William around New York.
Comedy
The Stooges are stagehands with minor roles in the production of The Bride Wore Spurs. They regularly incur the disfavor of their producer, B.K. Doaks, whose recent theatrical endeavors have been unfavorably reviewed by renowned critic Nick Barker.
Comedy, Coming-of-age
Tony (Tony Vespe) is conflicted. He loves Halloween, but this year all of his high school friends have decided that Halloween is too juvenile for him. What is Tony to do when nobody his age really understands what Halloween means to him?
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
In New York City, Bobby Lieber, host of the podcast and radio show The Eleventh Brick at Stonewall who prides himself on being single, attends an awards ceremony for the LGBTQ community, where he wins an award for "Best White Cis Gay Man". He announces that he has accepted a position as a curator for the upcoming national LGBTQ+ history museum in Manhattan. Bobby joins his friend Henry at a nightclub where a new gay dating app is being launched, and spots Aaron Shepard, whom Henry describes as hot but "boring".