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Crime, Drama
The titular character is a temperamental but lovable retired London barrister now living in the country with his granddaughter Virginia. Ernest Heron, Virginia's beau, returns from South Africa with a valuable diamond, and that night he is attacked and the gem is stolen. The only clue to the perpetrator's identity is a camellia Ernest is found clutching in his hand.
Comedy
Jerry Logan is a Las Vegas police officer who is visiting France to see his ex-wife, with whom he is still friendly. She is remarried to Laurent Martin, who is a police officer in France. The two men do not hit it off very well at first, but eventually they team up to solve the case of some art smugglers.
romantic comedy
Katie is a 25-year-old virgin living in Los Angeles who wants to save herself for the ideal man. As time passes, however, she becomes convinced the ideal man does not exist. Katie is good friends with Ben, who is crazy about her and wants to move their relationship from friendship to romance; she does not feel the same way about him, however.
Comedy, independent film, Science fiction
Comedy, silent film, Western
Comedy, thriller film
Comedy
After getting caught for stealing apples, Sammy starts to promote boxing matches to pay back the grocer. Mickey and Jack challenge each other in a match, with each hoping to gain the affection of Mary Kornman.
Comedy
When a battered video camera is sold to a Manchester pawnshop, a remarkable tape is found inside. The film details the mundane lives of two friends, Barry Tubbulb and Julian "Windows" Andrews, as they attempt to live in the "real world" after their all-consuming passion - the on-line video game, Wizard's Way – is closed down. The plight of the two gamers and the insular world of multiplayer online gaming, is documented by two young film-makers, Joe (Joe Stretch) and Chris (Chris Killen), who hope to make an award-winning film about the gamers' social failure and the demise of Wizard's Way, an antiquated online multiplayer game with a…
comedy thriller, Horror
To escape the heat of the city and a court sentence for malicious mischief, the East Side kids agree to visit a summer camp in the Adirondacks. En route, their car breaks down and they are reluctantly given accommodations in the home of Judge Malcolm Parker. The Judge, under indictment for bribery, has much to fear.
Comedy
Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor. The doctor agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then commit suicide.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film
Similola Smart-Cole is frustrated at her son Sunmi's sloth and apathy despite her repeated warnings. After he is arrested for supposedly breaking into his mother's property, Sunmi is stunned to discover that his family, friends, and acquaintances have denied him, and is banned from returning to the family home. Abandoned in the streets, he takes to begging until Todowede—a cynical bread hawker who had previously warded off the Smart-Cole's security guard Isky's advances—recognises him.
Comedy
Janice Beard is a Scottish woman who moves to London in hopes of making enough money to treat her mother's agoraphobia. She lands a job at Kendon Motors, which is working on a new automobile. The movie centers on her relationship with co-worker Sean who is actually an industrial saboteur intent on thwarting Kendon's new car.
musical film, romantic comedy
Film studio "Ultimate Pictures" plans on producing an animal picture in Africa. The studio gets the help of animal specialist Mrs. Johnson Martini.
musical film, romantic comedy
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.
Comedy
Writers Fletcher Marvin and Link Ferris must improve their scripts for a radio drama or face the wrath of their sponsor, a major soap company. Going in different directions, Fletcher heads to "bright lights and lovely ladies", while Link meets the Porter family and falls in love with their daughter, Bonnie. She mistakenly believes that he is unemployed and poor, and takes him back to lodge at her house while he seeks work.
Comedy
Ferdinand is a shy, introverted man in his forties who has spent his entire career working at Fish Land, a large aquarium within the globalized leisure complex "Worlds Apart." Devoted to his work with fish, he leads a largely solitary life. When Fish Land undergoes a six-month renovation, he is temporarily transferred to another section of the complex, the Finnish-Turkish Delight, a facility centered on saunas and hammams. There, he finds himself confronted with an unfamiliar environment marked by nudity, sensuality, and a culture of relaxation.
Mrs Baring, a businesswoman and patron of classical music, has arranged for celebrated Eastern Bloc musician Spolenski to play in a series of concerts in Britain. However, she is aware that she is on the brink of bankruptcy and the Spolenski tour offers a final chance to save her finances. Johnny Burns, an aspiring singer is hanging around a music shop he frequents when he spots Mrs.
Comedy
Kerris Bowles-Ottery is professor of science at the University of Ockham. To advance his career, he poisons inconvenient colleagues with an untraceable substance he has discovered that induces hysteria and manic behaviour followed by death. His research assistant, Delia, blackmails him into a promise of marriage, but he remains attached to his wife, and poisons Delia.
Comedy
Mild mannered Italian bank clerk Antonio, dominated by his English wife Dorothy, is the double of Leo L'Americano, a local gangster. The gangster kidnaps Antonio and takes his place as husband in the family, to give him cover for a big bank robbery, which he plans to pin on Antonio. Farcical confusions ensue.
Crime, Drama, romantic comedy
The scar-faced gangster Slade is on the loose. Lieutenant Bill Mason travels to a hotel in New York to try and track her down. In New York Lt.
Comedy drama, mockumentary
The film is a mockumentary which examines the possibility that Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide at the end of World War II in 1945. It centers around historian Skule Antonsen of Sweden (Jon Rekdal) who along with film director Idelfonso Elizalde of Spain (Julián Elizalde) investigates Adolf Munchenhauser (Dick Nilsson). Munchenhauser is an individual who bears a striking resemblance to Hitler, and he was taken captive in Berlin in 1945 by the Allies and was one of 13 men transported on board a U.S.
Comedy
The Bowery Boys' landlady Mrs. Kelly needs some money. Sach sustains an electric shock and gains the ability to predict numbers.
mockumentary, romantic comedy
Irish American, Tom Murphy, is the first in his family to go to Ireland. His family sees this as an opportunity to marry "his own kind" so he must choose between his family's expectations and what his heart really wants.
Comedy, Drama, Family Comedy
Margaret is a beautiful and successful businesswoman selling power plants to the Chinese. With an adoring English lover, she appears to have everything going for her. On her fortieth birthday, Margaret receives the first bundle of letters she wrote to herself when she was seven years old.