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buddy cop film, Comedy
Lee Yiu-ting (Aaron Kwok) and Wong Kai-chung (Eason Chan) are police officers of the Regional Crime Unit of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon respectively. Both of them are ace marksmen, as well as being very agile. They are elite members of the police force who have never met.
Comedy
The film follows a group of non-binary cross-dressing bikers called 'The Pink Angels' who journey along the California Coastline on their way to a 'ladies' Cotillion' (a drag-queen contest) in Los Angeles. The Angels are antagonised by both a rival biker gang and a nameless maniacal military general who obsesses over finding and capturing all 'long-hairs'. 'The General' is motivated by his hatred and resentment of the counter-culture movement, being himself a sort of relic of the past, and especially targets biker gangs in his anger.
musical film, romantic comedy
Eadie Allen is a student at Glen Moor College and the niece of a wealthy Boston socialite (Aunt Priscilla) in Back Bay. She has secretly taken a new job as a dancer in a seedy burlesque house where her talents are eventually recognized and she is given larger roles on the stage show by the manager, Tommy Foley. At the same time, Eadie is preparing a dance number for the college's annual Greek festival.
fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical comedy
Isko, a meek coconut vendor is being transported into Animasia, a fantasy world in order to save Princess Annaly from the ogre, ghoul and evil monsters who threatens the mystical kingdom and bring back the order and peace in the land.
romantic comedy
Jeannie McLean is a young Scottish woman who takes care of her tightfisted father, leaving her no time (and money) for herself. When he dies, she discovers he has left his "fortune" – 297 pounds – to her, nothing to her married sisters. She decides to have some fun for a change, starting with a trip to Vienna.
Comedy, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, while on vacation, Fancourt Babberley (Chaplin), known to his friends as Babbs, falls in love with Ela (Shannon) and schemes to help her father (Francis), who has lost heavily at roulette. Babbs sends him away and later learns the truth, starts for England with her chaperon Donna Lucia (Jenson). In the meantime, Babbs friends Jack (James) and Charlie (Harrison), on hearing that Donna, Charley's wealthy aunt from Brazil, will visit him, invite their girls Amy (Akin) and Kitty (Bonner) to a luncheon, hoping to propose to them.
Comedy
Near West Coast Studios in Hollywood, the gang is waging a street war against a rival group of kids; their ammunition primarily consisting of old vegetables. The battle is halted when Mary is called to act in one of the West Coast films. The rest of the gang tries to crash the studio gates and get a role in the picture, but the casting director throws them out.
romantic comedy
Comedy
Rosalind “Rosie” McGill works as a hat check girl at the luxurious Ritz Hotel. Alongside her loyal friend Polly, Rosie dreams of snagging a wealthy husband and leaving her humble circumstances behind. Her opportunity arises when Terry Vandeveer, a charming and wealthy bachelor from Boston, arrives at the Ritz with his companion Tippy Grayson.
Comedy
The fictional European microstate of Lampidorra has "no taxes, no quotas, no tariffs, no forms to fill in". Its two thousand residents make their money from the national (and legal) profession of smuggling to and from its neighbors: France, Italy, and Switzerland. However, the country falls on hard times and becomes bankrupt.
Drama, independent film, musical film, Tragicomedy
Erik (Kentucker Audley) quits his job at his step dad's (Greg Gaston) sporting goods store, mutually breaks up with his girlfriend Jessica (Shawna Wheeler) and meets a new girl Sarah (Amanda Harris). At a crossroads he decides to travel with Sarah to Chicago. His roommate (Timothy Morton) stays in Memphis to lounge at a baby pool in the front yard and perform at coffee shops.
LGBTQ-related film
A sequel to the 1977 film Outrageous!, Too Outrageous! is about the further adventures of Robin Turner, a gay hairdresser-turned-drag queen nightclub performer.
Comedy
Based on a series of plays by Alan Williams, an aging hippie and rock-fanatic-turned-stand-up-comic who calls himself ‘The Captain’ (Williams), convinces a couple of novice filmmakers (Deborah Drakeford and Oliver Dennis) to help him record his ‘pure thoughts’ – a filmic testament of his experiences and observations of the past three decades. What follows is a series of wildly complex, sardonic anecdotes and theories about rock ‘n’ roll, hero-worship, hallucinations, drugs, madness, paranoia, rebellion, nuclear dread and the search for individual integrity in a world on the brink of cultural and physical destruction. The title references…
Comedy drama, Crime, silent film
Small-town pitcher Thomas Kelly (Thomas Meighan) is sent to Spring training with his baseball team in Florida, but is fired by the team's jealous manager, Joe Cooley (Jack W. Johnston). Kelly is then talked into being the celebrity endorser for a Florida real estate firm, and his former teammates invest money in the firm through him.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
Captain Dike Conger, an officer with the Thirty-first Cavalry Regiment is instructed to determine whether the unit should use tanks instead of horses. Along with his mechanic, Master Sergeant “Three Star” Hennessy, Conger is opposed by those who want to continue using horses. Meanwhile, Conger agrees to go on a blind date arranged by his friend Captain Bob Marvin on the condition that his date be a civilian, not an "army girl", i.e., the daughter of an officer or soldier.
Comedy
Introducing the Kujus tells the story of five Nigerian siblings who are at crossroads. They do not want to return to their hometown in Badagry for the five-year remembrance of their mother's death. Mausi Kuju, with the help of Maugbe Kuju, orchestrates a plan to bring their other siblings together.
romantic comedy
Comedy
Amanda Afflick is a poor laundry woman working in London. She is too weak to do the hard work, but is always picked on and humiliated by her boss Madame Didier. Amanda is desperately in love with the handsome customer Horace Greensmith, but none of her colleagues thinks she has a chance of being his sweetheart.
romantic comedy
Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop is a carnival charlatan, scamming local shills out of their hard earned money.
stand-up comedy
Comedy
The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira careens across the American West with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grandkids.
Drama
On his deathbed, the King of Ruritania announces to his twin sons, Prince Rudolph and Prince Michael, that he must choose one of them to be the future king of Ruritania following his death. The king believes that the younger twin, Rudolph, is more fit to be king, and so chooses him for the throne. Prince Rudolph is shocked with his father's decision and Prince Michael is outraged and angry.
Comedy
Entertainers Bill and Susie Barton are on tour when Bill's old friend Tommy shows up soliciting funds for a new scheme, Time Ferry Services Limited. Bill has given Tommy $10,000 to help Professor Stewart McAndrew develop the Time Ball, a primitive time machine. Enraged, Susie goes to the lavish apartment where Tommy and the Professor are staying to demand the money back.
musical film, romantic comedy
A pair of Texas towns are trying to outdo one another in planning a huge fair. While one community has Jimmy Maxwell arranging the entertainment, the other brings in Jo Allen, who uses a ruse to learn about Jimmy's plans, pretending to be a school teacher named Judy while her friend Mr. Churchill passes himself off as "Joe" Allen.