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Comedy
In 1906, the Congo Square Building in New Orleans, which was previously used as a slave market, is transformed into an African-American unemployment bureau. Close by there is also an African-American musical college, where little Reggie Tearbone, seven years old, is learning to play Bach on his cornet. He has trouble following the sheet and starts improvising.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=0|Moonshine (1918) The setting is the Virginia Hills. Two revenue agents are tasked with hunting down bootleggers and bringing them to justice. The duo, aided by dozens of volunteers (all of whom somehow manage to fit inside Buster's small car), set off to track down the bootleggers.
Comedy
Comedy drama
The Golden Boat is inspired by American police series, mixed with Mexican soap operas, and immersed in the artistic context of the Underground Art scene of the early 1990s of New York. In the street, a young student of philosophy and criticism at The Village Voice, Israel Williams, meets Austin, an old man hurt and desperately in love with a soap opera star. Although he was stabbed several times, Austin does not seem to be affected by his injuries and refuses to go to see a doctor.
Mr. Bhalla (Anupam Kher) is a Punjabi living in United States with his wife, daughter and nephew Aman (Anubhav Anand). Aman is in love with Neha (Nandana Sen), daughter of Mr.
Comedy
Dagwood is under the threat of a lawsuit by a rival firm. But their choice as a process server is the terminally nearsighted Shemp Howard, who repeatedly fails to serve the summons.
Comedy drama
Maisie Ravier, a fast-talking showgirl with a heart of gold, is stranded in an African village when she slips out of her hotel window to beat her bill, and stows away on a Congo riverboat in hopes of reaching another town where a job awaits her. On board, she meets the boat's only other passenger, Dr. Michael Shane, a doctor-turned-rubber planter, and the ship's captain Finch, who offers her the dubious privilege of sharing his cabin.
Comedy, Drama, romance film, war film
Comedy drama
Comedy
Willie Higginbotham is a soldier who returns home after the Second World War only to find a spiv lodger has established himself in his place.
Comedy
Laurie Harding (Paulo Costanzo) is a small shop clerk in the local Calgary mall. His world is full of tragic accidents - crosswalks, elevators, escalators and virtually anything associated with commercialism or technology is parodied as objects of fear and tragedy. An elevator plunges 30 stories.
Comedy
Two New York City couples decide to leave their hectic urban lifestyles and retreat to the country, pursuing imagined bliss by buying and moving to a small, rustic island near Maine. They soon learn that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=10|Little Daddy (1931) Farina and Stymie are orphans and staying in a small flat near a Black community church. The authorities want to put Stymie into an orphanage. Farina is sad about this but attempts to have a goodbye for Stymie with help from the gang.
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy drama
Scattergood Baines chooses the small New England town of Cold River to settle down in. Twenty years later, he has outmaneuvered the townspeople both when it comes to large matters (ownership of the local railroad) and small (the pretty new schoolteacher's hair).
Comedy, comedy television program, romantic comedy
When Ben Martin e-mails Chloe Andersen, a beautiful mystery girl who keeps crossing his path, he sends a message to single mother Charley Anderson by mistake.
Comedy
Carol Maldon leaves New York to run her recently deceased father's stable. Rick Grayton is the trainer and jockey of her horse Gay Fleet. It is an exceptional horse, but no one yet knows Gay Fleet because it is still young.
Comedy
Torchy Blane is handed a telegram, which she reads before realizing that it was intended for Theresa Gray, the woman sitting next to her on the train. Torchy's own telegram is from her boyfriend detective Steve McBride announcing that he will have a minister waiting to marry them when she arrives at the station. Rival reporters Mat, Dud, Mugsy and Pete, who are jealous of Torchy's success and fear that her marriage to Steve will prevent them from acquiring news tips from the police department, play a practical joke on her.
Comedy
Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, Housewives of America, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household. Blondie's husband, Dagwood, isn't happy with coming home every night finding a note saying that his wife is at a meeting with the housewives.
musical film, romantic comedy
Chevalier plays a Parisian playboy who finds himself obliged to care for an abandoned baby.
Comedy drama
romantic comedy
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Brad Jenkins, a 40-year-old gay college professor, is still uncomfortable in his own skin. After a disagreement with mother, he storms out of his home, claiming that he is "going somewhere where [he] is more normal." A sudden car accident propels him back to his youth and into a world in which gay is "normal" and straight is not accepted. Brad has to weigh whether to remain in the past and be "normal" or attempt to return to his old life.