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Comedy
Johnny Dill, a lingerie salesman, loses his girlfriend Judy Parker to his longtime friend, the charming lawyer William T. Allen. When he takes his assistant, Millie Gardner, to a movie, all she talks about is the manly gangster hero, Big Nick Maronie.
independent film
Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late-twenties living in New York City, are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams. Bobby is a struggling writer and Scott is a struggling musician. Despite being close friends, their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
Comedy
Comedy
When Muggs refuses to train for the Golden Gloves match unless he has his own private camp in the country, Danny placates his pal by enlisting members of the Vassey Street Boys' Club in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Arriving at the camp, Muggs refuses to accept the authority of Allen, the leader of the boys, and treats the facility as if it was his own private property. Later, Muggs has a chance to demonstrate his true nature when he risks his own life to save Al from being crushed by a falling tree.
Comedy, High School Comedy Film, Sitcom
Teacher, has taken her class on an excursion in Los Angeles. Problems begin when they get lost and the hotel they were supposed to stay at loses their reservations. After driving around they end up in an empty hotel.
Comedy, mystery film
The body of what appears to be lawyer and aspiring politician Clark C. McNaughton is brought to the Chandler Undertaking Parlor which is on 52nd Street, his face mangled from a car accident, but it is really the body of a man called Jack Lee who died in a car accident. It will be novice nineteen year old undertaker Tommy Freeman's (Harold Waldridge) first solo job.
Comedy
The film combines elements of storytelling and stand-up. It showcases Cho's unique style of sexually blunt monologue performance. The primary focus of the material is on Cho's ascension into stardom and her struggles with weight, drug addiction and sexual promiscuity.
Comedy drama
Student nurses at a large urban hospital cope with life's problems and career issues.
Drama, Science fiction
In the not so distant future, the world is faced with a global catastrophe. A biological contaminant is released into the atmosphere and over the following years, decimates nearly ninety percent of the world's population. Fleeing the poisoned planet, humanity relocates to a space station orbiting the Earth.
Comedy
After being swindled by their manager, Gracie Fields' concert party, the Keep Smiling Troupe, is in financial difficulty. They are rescued after a chance meeting, via his dog, with renowned pianist Rene Sidani, whose appearance attracts the crowds to their show at a seaside pavilion.
Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
Critically acclaimed screenwriter Byrdie Langdon becomes frustrated with the industry after her scripts are repeatedly rejected because she and her characters are too old. Byrdie recruits her nephew, Jason, to help sell her scripts. However, Jason's budding romance with an important studio executive could ruin their plans.
Comedy, Drama
romantic comedy
Comedy
Josh is the consummate temp employee, avoiding all long-term connections and responsibilities, both at work and in his personal life. However, by the time his agency places him at the Schuyler & Mitchell law firm, Josh is tired of his temporary life and agrees to take a permanent position at the firm. Josh has difficulty adapting to his new lifestyle, which manifests in his inability to complete his simple initial task: mailing seventeen important letters.
musical film
Jane Morrow applies for the job of a theater usherette, and encounters her matinée idol. After he takes a liking to her, he arranges for her to audition in front of an audience. Jane is a hit, making her idol less favorable.
Comedy
The opening scenes show the historical development of Steele's Bank in London as it adopts first steel pens and then typewriters during the nineteenth century. In 1934 the current head of the bank Jonathan Steele is as technology-obsessed as his predecessors and installs an intercom and constantly flies by plane. Steele strictly divides his life between work and pleasure.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
East Side Story is the story of Diego (René Alvarado), a young, closeted Latino, who helps his grandmother (Irene DeBari) run the family restaurant while carrying on a relationship with equally closeted Pablo (David Berón). Diego has long felt trapped by the conservative culture of East LA and plans to move away and open an upscale restaurant, hopefully with his lover, but Pablo views their relationship very differently - a point driven home when he begins dating Diego's Aunt Bianca (Gladise Jimenez). At the same time, Wesley and his boyfriend move in, gentrifying the neighborhood.
Comedy, documentary film, Documentation
Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Norman (Tom McCamus) is a nebbish junior scientist working at CERN in modern-day Geneva. His life takes a whole new turn when an attractive Canadian model named Erica (Lori Paton) and her Italian photographer boyfriend Umberto (Jacques Lussier) persuade him to allow them access to the plant for an Omni photo shoot. The next day, the three central characters are literally zapped back in time by a freak accident at the nuclear power plant in which none of them was an active participant.
Comedy
Comedy
Whilst holidaying in Ireland, British TV producer Randall comes across a village celebrating the birthday of the oldest man in the world, Patrick Farrell. Thinking Farrell's 110th birthday would make an ideal subject for a BBC documentary, Randall seeks to persuade him to agree to be filmed. However, Farrell proves difficult, is an old codger, cantankerous and disreputable, and will cooperate only if he can exploit the situation for his own ends.
Adventure, Comedy, documentary film
Comedy
An Edison catalog describes the film: Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns a somersault, and vanishes through the door.
Comedy, silent film
While serving in the American Army during World War I, Pat Kelly, a womanizing soldier, tells all the young women he romances to come and visit him in New York City after the war. Never expecting any of them to take him up on it, he gives his address as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, Mitzi Lavelle, one determined young French woman, comes to America looking for him.