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Action Comedy, Horror
The Long Pig is a secret restaurant whose wealthy regulars know that the meat on the menu comes from people. When the elderly owner decides to sell up rather than leave the business to his son, the son, Steven, kills him and takes charge. He then turns the basement into a venue where abducted fighters are made to battle each other, with the losers killed and cooked for the diners, who bet on the matches as they eat.
Comedy, romance film
Jean (Pom Boyd) and Kate (Gina Moxley) are two "nearing-thirty" best friends, who share a flat in contemporary Dublin and support themselves by working as street performers in the city. The two women do battle with the conflicting pressures of friendship, family, love and the struggle for success. The unsettled Jean has a major attitude problem, and while she rejects the older generation as represented by her interfering mother Nora (Rosaleen Linehan), she is also unable to fully embrace the alternative lifestyle of her boyfriend musician, Martin (Sean Hughes), her partner Kate and their gay friend Orla (Cathy White).
Comedy, silent film
Arthur Wells, a timid daydreamer with poetic ambitions and a chronic fear of almost everything, earns his keep working as a baggage porter in "Lunon," where he's often mocked for being more skittish than strong. One day, while clumsily hauling trunks aboard a steamer bound for Africa, Arthur is startled by a monkey leaping onto his shoulders. In a panic, he bolts into the nearest private cabin—unwittingly barging in on the famously aloof Lord Melville Dryden, a hardened British explorer and confirmed woman-hater.
Comedy
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen and her brother Willie Barton dream of being in the movies: Helen as a star, Willie as a director. Film-producing con-artists descend on the family, and comedy ensues.
Comedy
Comedy
romantic comedy
Comedy
Lizette acquires four front-row tickets to the Dan Hill concert in Toronto, Ontario - one for her, one for her husband, Terry (Scott Renderer), one for Simon (Andrew Miller), and one for Simon's date. At the very last minute, Simon's date cancels and the group decides to invite Cheryl Ann to fill the seat. Cheryl Ann becomes a memorable character not far into the film.
Comedy
A vicar who lives in the country with his daughter and grandson discovers he owns a share in a racehorse. He must now put his principles aside and attempt to save the church by gambling. A doping scandal ensues.
romantic comedy
Determined to better herself, Maisie Ravier graduates from the Benson Business School in Los Angeles, but has to fend off the advances of Mr. Benson. She encounters the same problem at her first few job interviews: what the male bosses are interested in is not her secretarial skills.
independent film
Box Elder follows best friends and roommates, John Scott (Sklar) Alex, Nick, and Chad (Haas) through their final years of college at the University of Missouri. The loose narrative structure is anchored by John's breakup with his girlfriend Laura (Hina Abdullah). The four dudes party, eat sandwiches, and repeatedly ignore their scholastic responsibilities.
musical film, musical comedy
Freddie Trimball is a high school student. He happens to bear an amazing resemblance to Frankie Troy, one of the most popular young singers in the country. Tired of working and tired of being pursued by bobby-soxers and other fans, Frankie tells his managers he needs a break.
romance film, romantic comedy, silent film
Set in San Francisco during the early 1900s, the film revolves around Amarilly, the daughter of a widowed scrubwoman. Amarilly is proud of her hard-working Irish family, and takes care of her five roughhouse brothers. She is engaged to bartender Terry McGowan, who gets her a job as a cigarette girl in his cafe after a fire unfairly causes her to lose her job as a theater scrubwoman.
Comedy
Philip Trent, the star of a series of Hollywood mystery films, is tired of their receptiveness and goes on an ocean cruise to get away from it. However, on board an apparent murder takes place, only for it to turn out to be an invention of the author of the novels on which his films are based. Things take another turn when a real body is discovered on the ship.
musical film, romantic comedy, sport film
George Gullip is a Daily Sun compositor who wins a large sum at the races. He collects three ten-pound notes but, unable to spend them at the bar, exchanges them for six five-pound notes, which turn out to be counterfeit. Gullip is determined to find the criminals and in so doing goes "undercover" as a waiter and a wrestler, before various clues suggest the villain is Gullip's own boss at the newspaper.
Comedy
Sally (Juanita Quigley) is a new student at the school that the gang goes to. Upon Sally's arrival, Alfalfa and Spanky literally fall over each other trying to get her attention, leaving the gang's traditional sweetheart Darla in the lurch. But when it turns out that Sally cannot stand either one of the boys, she and Darla cook up a scheme to dampen their romantic aspirations.
Comedy, Computeranimation, musical film, Pirate Film
Comedy, musical film, Silly Movie
Crime, mystery film
On the last day of the school year, plain 25-year-old teacher Anne Gladden has her student Willy write punishment lines on the blackboard. After the class is dismissed, she releases the boy and tells him that few can do what they want in life, so they might as well make the best of what they have. She is overheard by Margaret Ree, an older teacher.
boxing film, Comedy
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Superhero
Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel follows Gavin Lucas/Surge, an openly gay superhero, as he confronts two threats: his old enemy Metal Master, recently paroled from prison, and a new psychic villain named Augur. Augur seeks revenge against retired superhero Omen, his former mentor, by harnessing the power of Celinedionium hidden beneath a Las Vegas casino. Assisted by his allies, Surge tracks Augur to Hoover Dam, where a battle temporarily stops the villain's plan.
Comedy
Comedy
Steve Trent, head of Red Circle Cabs, tries to buy John Cassidy's independent taxi business. When Cassidy turns him down, Trent then orders his cabbies to drive Cassidy off the road. Cassidy is injured and his cab is wrecked.
romantic comedy
With production down and his health failing, Jim Gannon has only one logging season to groom his son Buck to replace him as the logging camp boss. However, Buck is more interested in courting Honey, a singer and dancer on a carnival boat that travels from camp to camp. Against orders from his father, he takes his crew to the boat where he proposes to Honey and promises her that he will quit his job and move to the city.