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Comedy
Channel 12 is in financial difficulties. The company board calls the bluff of managing director Sir Henry Usher (Fred Betts), forcing him to call in a systems expert to improve station operations. Station staff are initially surprised to learn that the expert, Dr Winter, is a woman, named Sheila (Cornelia Frances).
Comedy, musical film
Wealthy Jay Newport Bates breaks off an engagement after discovering his fiancée is a gold digger. He joins the Navy anonymously but his family insist he be chaperoned by Phil North. While on leave in Miami, Jay meets cigarette girl Teddy Collins, who once was engaged to Phil.
Comedy, Drama
In New Brighton, South Africa, 63-year-old librarian Sipho Makhaya is getting ready to receive the body of his brother Themba, recently deceased while in exile in London and a hero of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Nothing but the Truth investigates the contrast between those blacks who remained in South Africa and risked their lives to lead the fight against apartheid and those who returned victoriously after living in exile.
Comedy
Saturday Keitth, a budding poet, is persuaded to become manager of the Pelican Pub, after complaining about the food and service. With the help of his friend Quentin Cotton, the pub does well and becomes very popular. A priceless jewelled gauntlet is discovered, and while wearing it, Joanna Benbow, a guest at an Elizabethan masque in the grounds of the pub, is kidnapped.
Comedy horror, musical film
"Everyone knows someone who's had a run-in with an angry racoon. Some people even believe that racoons are smarter than people." Outside the small rural town of Independence, college buddies Ty Smallwood (Lehr Beidelschies) and Zach (Colin Scianamblo) join a small group of college students visiting the Raccoon Creek Campground to have what they hope will be the best summer break of their lives. Their hopes are dashed when they have run-ins with frat guys, rednecks, hippies, bible students, and an inept set of camp counselors.
Comedy horror, romantic comedy
Comedy, romance film
Ramy stays in his uncle, Hani's house at Montreal after Ramy's mother, Alya's death to study medicine. At night, Ramy meets Hani's son, Tamer who is in a band. Ramy meets Phenix who performs poetry.
Comedy
Harold Petts is a conscientious village postman who receives a promotion that takes him to London to be trained at London's busiest post office. However, after his first day in the big city, he is soon in trouble. In the main sorting office, he succeeds in beating the new mail sorting machine at pigeonholing letters for delivery (the machine blows up in the process).
Comedy
The film is a satire about a group of market women who deny their husbands sex in a bid to stir them into standing up for a young girl, who was compelled by her father to marry a man against her will. The film was shot in the heat of the #ChildNotBride conversation.
Comedy
Local builder Bob Grove has some temperamental differences with his Council Manager leaving him without materials to finish a housing estate. His son Jack recruits the services of Harry Mason of dubious character, to help him get hold of the materials he needs. Things turn sour when Bob and Jack are suspected of stealing, leading to a police investigation.
Comedy
Alexander Wood is a cheerful, well-intentioned and mechanically minded aircraftman. He is also dangerously accident-prone. Always on the lookout for things to fix and improve, he constantly creates chaos and arouses the anger of the airbase commander, the promotion-seeking Group Captain Kingsley.
Comedy
The production team of a new film, headed by hopeful director (Parks) and a conniving producer Dave Dallas (Eklund) hold several meetings at the Cannes Film Festival with the hope of achieving financial backing for their film.
romantic comedy
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Comedy
Dan Arland is a fun-loving playboy who has been away at sea in the Merchant Marine for several months. A pair of violinists in Dot Diamond's all-female band—Carol Dean and Lucy Banning—have no idea that Dan's been romancing both of them. Both end up waiting for him when his ship arrives in San Francisco for a seven-day leave.
Comedy horror, Zombie
The U.S. Government builds a subterranean nuclear power plant on top of an ancient Indian burial ground. As radiation brings the deceased natives back to life as zombies and turns everyone at the plant into blood-crazed zombies, a group of teenagers defends the area from imminent attack.
Comedy drama
The film lampoons the Hollywood motion-picture industry and is separated into two sections. Actor's Blood In New York. Broadway star Marcia Tillayou has been found shot dead in her apartment.
Dark Comedy, Parody
Three amateur cricketers, Wallis, Blake and Peacock, are found murdered, items of cricket equipment being the murder weapons, and after Boyd is bashed to death in a toilet cubicle with a cricket bat, police begin to suspect a serial killer. The victims had once been members of an under-12 boys' team involved in a bullying scandal. Surviving members of the team are taken by police to a "safe house" at Joadja for their protection, but are soon disobeying their orders, and one by one are picked off in gruesome and humiliating ways by a lanky moustachioed killer in traditional cricketers' apparel (cream trousers, jumper and bucket hat), later…
Comedy, Drama
romantic comedy
Kate Loughlin is a vivacious young actress struggling to get her big break in the London film industry. When she lands an audition for the lead role in a massive movie franchise based on the 'Prince of Chaos' novels by legendary author Horatio King, she goes after the opportunity with all guns blazing. However a sleazy agent trying to pimp her to the director Vincent Catalano, pushes her to the other extreme.
Comedy
Married couple Lorna (Imelda Staunton) and Ian (Rik Mayall) are living in the suburbs with their kids Jessica and Mark. Ian is unemployed, who is looking for a job, and Jessica's boyfriend Chas (Razaaq Adoti) is an auto-stealer. One day, Lorna's ex-partner, Jamie (Robert Lindsay), a businessman, arrives at the couple's house looking for an apparent wallet.
Animation, Comedy
Comedy
Alfalfa's Aunt Penelope sends the Switzers a telegram that says that she is coming to visit. She has given up her pursuits of being a sculptor and has turned to writing murder mysteries. Just before Alfalfa's parents leave to attend a meeting that night, Penelope reads Alfalfa's father, John, a page of her story, which is written in the form of a letter: Dear X, I have discovered that only my nephew stands between me and the Switzer millions!
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Comedy
Watching a military parade, the gang decides to enlist in order to "kill a million Japs". Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but finds him dead.