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Western
Joel Curtis is a young orphan who is living with his grandmother, Aggie Curtis, on her ranch. Joel finds an orphaned colt in the nearby woods, and names the horse Red. Joel learns that Grandma Curtis has extensive debts, and will be forced to sell her ranch to pay them off.
Drama, Science fiction
When an experiment to harvest a limitless pool of "dark energy" goes awry, scientists scramble to fix their deadly mistake before more lives are lost.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=5|Bouncing Babies (1929) Wheezer is jealous of his baby brother, who receives all of the attention from his family while Wheezer is ignored and expected to behave like a "big boy". After a failed attempt to prepare his own breakfast, for which he is spanked, Wheezer attempts to run away from home with Pete the Pup. After he meets Farina, they become the targets of Halloween pranks from the gang in their costumes.
teen film
After fifteen-year-old Nik's (Mack) favorite uncle passes away, she feels like the world is about to collapse and considers suicide. In addition to dealing with typical problems such as school, bullies, wearing braces, body changes, and babysitting, she overhears a portion of a conversation between her parents, causing her to believe that her father is having an affair with her recently widowed aunt, which considerably adds to her stress. She fears that her parents are going to divorce on her sixteenth birthday.
Comedy drama
The film is a family comedy chronicling a reluctantly Jewish man (Timothy Spall) who tries to re-unite his dysfunctional family in time for the Jewish celebration of Pesach so as to appease his ailing mother Honor Blackman. Although they are all from the same family his estranged children hardly seem like they are from the same planet. He must reunite his son the capitalist James Callis, his daughter the eco-warrior Rhona Mitra, his son the Buddhist Monk, and his last son, a born-again rabbi.
drama television series
Julie Longwell, the owner of a hair salon in the town of Dobbs Mill, is paid a visit by a social worker who tells her that her son is looking for her. Julie is shocked by the news and in a series of flashbacks recalls the circumstances of her son being sent for adoption. As a teenager, Julie was going steady with Steve Carson, though the relationship had the disapproval of Julie's mother, Iva Mae.
Comedy
While sailing their toy tugboat in a puddle outside their house, Wally and Spanky notice a moving van with a riding toy fire engine passing through the neighborhood. They quickly round up the rest of the gang and follow the moving van to its destination. The owner of the fire truck, a snobbish rich kid named Jerry, comes out to find a dozen strange children playing with his fire engine and shoos them all away, refusing to trade any sorts of collateral (pocket knives, gratitude) for even so little as a ride.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Family Comedy
Peter Robinson falls in love with the naïve country girl Fay and the worldly, wealthy and already-married Joan, and lives with them both (and Joan's husband) at his parents' house. However, one day Peter's parents unexpectedly return from holiday, and all hell breaks loose.
Adventure
The film opens by a lake on Saint Patrick's Day as the story's young hero, an Irish boy named Matthew O'Brien (David Alan Bailey), is playing hooky from school and fishing with his best friend, Timothy Ryan (Ernest Vaio). As the time approaches to return home, the two boys go their separate ways and Matt soon finds a magic frog which he places in his pocket. Deciding to take a short-cut home through the woods, Matt quickly finds himself lost and soon encounters a leprechaun (Frank Delfino) whose beard is caught in a log.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=5|Boxing Gloves (1929) Best friends Joe and Chubby's friendship is tested when their affections for Jean cause them to fight. Farina and Harry have been unsuccessfully trying to become fight promoters and see the feud as the basis of a boxing match.
Drama, Family Drama
The story concerns an American man who must travel to rural Japan after his estranged son dies there in a car crash. While there, he discovers some secrets his son has left behind. The Harimaya Bridge is a film about racism and forgiveness.
Adventure, family film
Jungle roamer Johnny Weissmuller (playing himself) is exploring the African waters of Magi somewhere in mid-Cannibal Valley. While doing so, he stumbles upon a corpse apparently killed by a crocodile. Weissmuller decides to report the death to John King, leader of the white colony in the Magi.
Drama
After her father dies, Patricia Warren, a girl of nine, must go from her home in Georgia to live with her wealthy but vain and egotistical aunt Elizabeth Ames in Boston. Pat insists on bringing her beloved dog Banjo, an English Setter, when she boards the train north. Since Pat does not want to leave her dog alone, she travels by Banjo's side in the baggage car, where she meets and befriends Bill, who works for the railroad.
Otto Phocus (Franklin Pangborn) is a haughty photographer hellbent on taking a formal portrait of a terrified Spanky (George McFarland). The little guy has been told by the gang that Phocus plans to "shoot" him; thinking the camera is a cannon. This leads Spanky to avoid having his picture taken, and his habit of punching Phocus in the face with regularity.
Family Comedy
Farmer Grant's children get him to buy a cow from another farmer. The children work hard to make the cow fit and healthy enough for the show ring. But at the last minute the other farmer, Kincaid, steals Calamity.
Drama, family film
Jenny Grey is a young girl who wants to be a competitive show rider but her father, Alan, doesn't approve, because his wife was killed in a riding accident. Jenny rides when she can and helps her neighbours deliver a foal. Alan sends Jenny to boarding school in Melbourne to forget the idea but she rides whenever she can.
Comedy, family film, teen film
It is the end of the semester and Logan's father invites them to his house. When Logan's father says that there is going to be a competition vs the boys and the girls, he gives them Tekmates. Who ever wins the competition will be on his show Gender Defenders, so the teams pick their own team leader.
After her mother's death, New York City fashion designer Lisa Rayborn returns to her hometown and family farm. Due to a weak economy, her brother Jim has converted the family business from a cattle farm into a sheep farm, despite their father's objections. To help out, Lisa decides she will stay to help on the farm.
Comedy, Family Drama
Young widow Carrie Lewellyn has a successful cookies business and four kids: Moira, Andrew "Drew", little Nathan and little Daisy. Widower Jim Barber, a furniture maker, also has four: Sandy, Jeff, Andrew "Andy" and Lily, plus a dog, Java. On their first weekend trip to Vegas together, they get married in the casino church.
Christmas film
A bumbling courier at a private adoption agency botches the delivery of a baby to its new parents in time for Christmas when he misplaces their baby en route.
Drama, Family Saga
The setting is a farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje, South Africa, during the 1870s. Fat Tant Sannie (Karin van der Laag) looks after her charges, the sweet Em (Anneke Weidemann) and the independent Lyndall (Kasha Kropinski), with a strict Biblical hand - it was Em's father's dying wish. Gentle Otto (Armin Mueller-Stahl), the farm manager, runs the farm and cares for Waldo, his son.
Comedy
The gang offers to help Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand which is doing poor business. Redecorating their barn as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla as the star vocalist. Unfortunately, their efforts attract only one patron—a surly, stone-faced new kid named Froggy.
Action, Adventure, children's film, fantasy film, Science fiction
Andy Colby (Randy Josselyn) is a 12-year-old boy with too much time on his hands and an addiction to movies. He goes to a local video store looking for a movie he hasn't seen and asks the crazy video store clerk (John Bluto), for a real adventure. He is given a new video that isn't even on the shelves yet.