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Horror, horror film
A woman is driving down a road when she crashes. She then sees a light, before hyenas attack and kill her and her baby. The woman's husband, Gannon (Costas Mandylor), teams up with veteran tracker "Crazy" Briggs (Meshach Taylor) to track down and kill the hyenas.
Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film
Young Robert "Bibi" Bonnard is raised in Ottawa, Ontario with his parents, Jacques and Susan, and his grandfather, Grandpère. Across the street is his uncle, amiable drunkard Louis, who ignores the complaints of his hard-working dressmaker wife Felice and her worries about the future of their daughter Yvonne. Louis is anxious about meeting his prospective son-in-law, Alfred Grattin, a teetotaler bank clerk.
Christmas film, Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy film
Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who finds herself needing a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom who's always too busy to take care of her kids. Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major hit ad for his company.
Komödie, comedy film, crossover fiction, parody film
Willie Piper is in a nickelodeon watching a silent film: "Eliza and the Bloodhounds" a melodrama which ends with a mother and small child escaping in a snowstorm across a frozen river from a pack of hounds. He gets thrown out for being too demonstrative in the film. His friend Harry Pierce is waiting outside, he shows him an advert in a newspaper looking for people to invest $5,000 in a motion picture studio, exactly the amount of cash they have.
family film, fantasy film
Family Comedy, Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film
Because of the repercussions left from his last adventure, Munchie must appear before a celestial court presided over by Kronus. The tribunal proceeds to blame Munchie for a number of historical calamities, including the sinking of Atlantis, the crash of the Hindenburg, the cataclysm of Vesuvius and the meltdown of Chernobyl. As punishment, he is sentenced to help single mother Linda McClelland.
Family Comedy, Fantasy, vampire film
In Transylvania, a woman in her kitchen cooks a jelly pudding. A dog suddenly appears from nowhere and eats the pudding when she leaves the kitchen. The woman witnesses the dog suddenly disappear.
Western, children's literature, drama film
Ken McLaughlin's mustang mare Flicka gives birth to an all-white colt that, unknown to Ken's dad, Rob, was actually sired by a neighboring rancher's thoroughbred racehorse, Appalachia, rather than Rob's own stallion, Banner. The colt, nicknamed "Goblin", proves to be difficult, but Ken trains him to race. Ken's mother, Nell, officially names the colt Thunderhead after the billowing white clouds she sees overhead.
Drama
In 1944 Frank Stirn moves his family to Wisconsin to become a barber for the US Army and a prisoner-of-war camp it oversees at Fort McCoy. Bitter that he is unable to fight because he is 4F, Frank takes a stand when a Nazi officer threatens his wife.
comedy, family film
When Fred wins the big prize on the "Make A Deal or Don't" game show, he and Wilma plan a vacation with Barney and Betty to Count Rockula's spooky castle in Rocksylvania which has now been turned into a tourist resort. Unfortunately, during the trip, Fred and Barney accidentally stumble across Rockula's old laboratory, where his unfinished Frankenstone monster sleeps, and forget to close the window when they leave the lab. Lightning subsequently strikes the machines in the lab, providing Frankenstone with life.
Drama, drama film
Eleven-year-old Chris Marino returns home after a brief stay with relatives, prompted by his mother Mary's worsening schizophrenia. At home, Mary's delusions and paranoia draw neighborhood scorn and repeated police visits. Her condition culminates in a violent episode in which she grabs a knife; Chris intervenes and is accidentally cut on the arm, after which officers Baker Act her and she is institutionalized.
Komödie, comedy
Marsha Robinson is a famous TV personality and has her own lifestyle and cooking show. She lives in Beverly Hills, California with her dentist husband Doug, her daughter Jane and her son Roger. The show takes her and her family to Hawaii.
Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy film
Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, the neighbourhood nice guys are led by Fatty (real name Hubert Finn), an ambitious ten-year-old with an eye for making a quid. From shady frog jumping contests to a fixed goat race, Fatty uses his enterprise to raise enough money to buy a crystal set (radio without a separate power supply) that is worth seventeen shillings & sixpence (17/6), more than his Dad is able to save up in a year. Bruiser Murphy the bully and his gang try to stop him.
Adventure, adventure film
The film starts with a prologue scene set in Bolivia in 1908. Butch Cassidy writes a letter to his family, enclosing a belt buckle engraved with a treasure map. Cassidy and his accomplice, Harry Longabaugh (the "Sundance Kid"), attempt to elude capture when their hideout is surrounded by Bolivian police.
Christmas film, Family Drama, drama television program, family film
Joel Wallace (Schneider), is a widower raising a daughter, Felice (Jenna Boyd). In her Christmas letter to Santa Claus, Felice wishes for a new mother for Christmas. The letter is intercepted by a local news producer who cancels reporter Mary Maloney's vacation and sends her to investigate the Wallace family as a human interest story.
Christmas film, Tragic Comedy Film
Bertram "Bert" O'Riley is a retired Hollywood actor who has been estranged from his former wife, Brenda, and only daughter Marie for decades. Despite this, Bert keeps busy with his many friends from show business and his days are mostly spent playing chess with his former agent and best friend, Karl Sugarman, and getting coffee with Karl, Adam, Jack, and Roxie. Bert is considering selling his home and moving into a retirement home, but little does he know, Marie has moved to Los Angeles with her ten year-old daughter, Rebecca, whom Bert has never met.
Adventure, Komödie, comedy film
Bud Jones and Lou Hotchkiss are wrestling promoters in Brooklyn. Their star, the proud Abdullah, no longer wishes to follow the script for their prearranged bouts, especially as he is supposed to lose his next match. Abdullah leaves America to return to his homeland of Algeria.
Family Drama, drama film
Twenty-three-year-old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada.
Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film
Tenderhearted and neurotic Greg is "in love with love", but finds his affections largely unrequited by those around him. At his job at Hoskins Public Relations Firm, he is frequently the butt of his coworkers jokes. He is given the task of managing Dirk Martin, an obnoxious, over-the-hill surfer who is slated to appear in his own television series.
Drama, drama film
Drama, Family Drama
Vitus is a gifted child whose musical talent leads his parents to push him toward a career as a pianist. Instead, he prefers spending time in his eccentric grandfather’s workshop and longs for a more ordinary childhood. After falling from a balcony, he is regarded as an ordinary boy.
biographical film, documentary film, family film
Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
A tough undercover cop named John (Cuba Gooding Jr.) inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when Mike (Devon Bostick), a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five-year-old sister, Angel (Arcadia Kendal) within his care. After Mike is killed, Angel is kidnapped and trapped in an underground drug ring. John then sets out to save the girl with the help of Father Porter (Christian Slater).
Family Comedy, comedy film
A family of middle-aged children decides to clean out years of accumulated stuff from their elderly mother's residencewithout her knowledge. So, one morning, they task (by bribing) her teenage granddaughter to take the cranky old lady out for the day. Upon returning in the early evening, and after the family shows her all the new household items and furniture, and how clean the place now is, retired school teacher Nan informs them all that she had stored 50 years of savings (from pension income, renting the basement apartment, what she had previously inherited, and, as she puts it, “whatever your Dad didn’t drink”) in her mattress,…