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romantic comedy
Powerful congresswoman Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater to receive an honorary degree. However, the college's board of trustees does not know that Agatha was expelled from the school years earlier for participating in an all-night date with young professor Dr. James Merrill, who is now the university's president.
Western
Con-woman Diana McQueen decides to skip out of town and leave her boss, Tom Rourke, behind. To avoid the conflict that would result by her quick disappearance, she switches places with a dying friend, who had planned on becoming a man's mail-order bride. Seeing that this is her only chance to escape, she takes on the role and lies to the unsuspecting frontiersman.
Drama, romance film
Geoffrey Griffin is in the midst of a camping trip with his estranged wife Jean Griffin, and their children Randy and Bob, at Yosemite National Park. His children and especially his wife are bored with the trip and uninterested in any family togetherness, despite his insistence. As the family is traveling back home, Griffin is driving the car while his wife and kids are being hauled in the camper behind him.
musical film
Connie Ward is a young woman who on the spur of the moment marries Bill Abbott, a trumpet player in Gene Morrison's swing band. She soon finds herself at odds with the cattiness and petty jealousies of the other band members' spouses, as they accompany their husbands on their cross-country train tour. Her discomfort is exacerbated by a flirtation between Abbott and Jaynie, the band's female vocalist.
romance film
Drama, Horror, romance film, Slasher
After being released from the institution in Québec where she was placed in after suffering a mental breakdown, housewife Alice Jarett relocates to another part of Canada with her husband Martin, a professor. The house the couple moves into was never finished, so Martin hires a cheap construction crew to complete it. One night, Alice is awakened by hammering in the basement, caused by a carpenter she had not seen with the rest of the crew.
Comedy, Drama, thriller film
While running through the streets of Oxford to attend the bestowing of an honorary degree on the Prime Minister, Mr. Sebastian runs into model and former Oxford mathematics student Rebecca (Becky) Howard. After insulting Sebastian on the spot, Becky is intrigued by him and follows him to the ceremony.
Drama, war film
It is 1940, prior to the American entry into World War II. After a simulated air raid against Los Angeles involving eighteen U.S. Army Air Corps Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, one of them goes down in the desert on its way back to base.
Drama, romance film
Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of twenty years with Sarah, and has three loving kids: 18-year-old Ben, 16-year-old Melissa, and 10-year-old Sam. His perfect life suddenly falls apart when his wife Sarah announces that she wants to enter a graduate school 200 miles away from home, as she regrets that she gave up her bohemian protester's life and promising writing career to become the wife of a conservative traditionalist. A devastated Oliver tries to prevent her from going and even offers to move with her, but Sarah has made up her mind: she will enroll in college and does…
romantic comedy
When Ari (Kevin Bacon) and Sam (Kyra Sedgwick) first meet they realize that there is chemistry between them. When they have sex with each other, they experience pyrokinesis. However, as their love affair does not run smoothly, their friends Liam (Bruce Martyn Payne) and Pia (Kristin Dattilo) intervene to try to help.
Comedy, Satire
Set in the artsy Chelsea, this satirical film centers on a young bohemian avant-garde composer Adrian, who becomes involved with a trendy New York art gallery owner, Madeleine. Adrian is a composer who makes music by breaking glass and kicking metal buckets. In contrast to Adrian is his brother Josh, a successful painter who happens to bring Madeline to one of his brother's concerts.
Comedy, musical film, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Sunny Side Up (1929) The film centres around a Will-they won't-they romance. Wealthy Jack Cromwell from Long Island runs off to New York City on account of his fiancee's relentless flirting. He attends an Independence Day block party where Molly Carr, from Yorkville, Manhattan, falls in love with him.
Comedy
Successful author Christopher "Kit" Madden is traveling to Los Angeles to work on the film adaptation of her bestselling book Here is Tomorrow, which was supposed to star Cary Grant as the Army Air Forces pilot hero Mark Winston. But she receives word that Grant has withdrawn and the producer now wants an unknown actor to play Winston opposite Lana Turner. Kit, on the train to Hollywood, is writing the producer that she'll accept nobody but Grant to star as Winston when she meets two Marine pilots, captain "Rusty" Thomas and first lieutenant "Dink" Watson, and instantly considers Rusty the best choice to play Winston.
Adventure
Zarak Khan is the son of chief Haji who is caught embracing one of his father's wives, Salma. Zarak's father sentences both to torture and death but they are saved by The Mullah, an imam. The exiled Zarak becomes a bandit chief and an enemy of the British Empire.
romantic comedy
Astor, a zoology major, has dreamed of being with Mila since childhood. One night, after drunken revelry on his birthday, he brings her home to care for her. One thing leads to another, and a brief awkward courtship begins.
Crime, Drama, teen film, trial film
Alex Cutler and Cliff Petrie are 17-year-old teens who have been close friends since they were young. Alex is the most popular guy in school, with a promising future, while Cliff is an introverted teen who has never had a girlfriend. Lily Becker, an attractive cheerleader who is very popular despite the fact that she is known for being promiscuous, has been dating Alex for a while and is planning to marry him after graduation.
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, Tragicomedy
Eva and Kat's humble, yet carefree, life in their London canal boat is turned upside down when Eva gives Kat an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she's always envisaged with Eva. When Kat's best friend from Barcelona, Roger, stops by to party with them, the three toy around with the idea of creating a baby together.
romance film, war film
In the summer of 1942, something is dramatically changing for the small community of Brandon, Manitoba as hundreds of young men from all over the world descend on this sleepy hamlet. In this newly found excitement of meeting newcomers, Lill (Christianne Hirt), a young prairie farm wife whose husband is already overseas for two years, and LAC Lachlan Curry (Russell Crowe), a gallant Australian airman are fated to meet. He has come to train at the Royal Canadian Air Force air base nearby to become a pilot.
Drama
Tyvian Jones, a Welsh author from a working-class coal mining background, comes to Venice, rich and famous from the success of his first novel and its film adaptation by the Italian director Sergio Branco Mallone. Sergio and Tyvian compete for the affections of Sergio's assistant Francesca, who falls in love with Tyvian and gets engaged to him, but wants to keep her job with Sergio. Tyvian resents Sergio's demands on Francesca's time, but still accepts an advance from Sergio to begin writing a new novel, which Sergio hopes to film.
Drama, romance film
Laurence Rains is annoyed when architect Hilary Clarke insists he must enlarge the first aid room in his factory to satisfy government regulations, even though it has the best safety record in the country. He encounters her once again, now a nurse trainee assisting a doctor treating one of his employees. He finds out that Clarke only became an architect to please her father, who had no sons to follow in his profession.
romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=20|Show People (1928) Peggy Pepper wants to be an actress in motion pictures, so her father drives her across the country from their home in Georgia to Hollywood. After some initial disillusionment, Peggy meets Billy Boone in a studio commissary; he tells her to show up at his set if she wants work. Peggy goes and gets sprayed with seltzer water at her first entrance.
romantic comedy
Bored New York office girl Teddy goes to a vacation camp in the mountains, called Camp Kare Free, for rest and to get away from the noisy, busy, city life; the noisy, busy typing pool where she works, and the equally noisy, crowded apartment where she lives with four generations of her family. She also wants to avoid advances from Emil Beatty; her mother desperately wants her to marry him. The resort was recommended by her friend, Fay Coleman, who has already been there for a while, spending time with her boyfriend, Mac.
Drama, fantasy film, romantic comedy
Allison Pyke is an angel who receives smartphone notifications for miracles to perform in exchange for points (the Miracle on the Hudson earns her 40,000 points). She has been trapped in New York City for nine years trying to earn 10,000 points to be admitted into heaven for having led a life that was "good but not too good" as Megan Dorsey. As part of her cover, she works as a waitress and regularly has sex with her boss James Barker.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Nicole is in love with her boyfriend Robbie and is ready to start talking about marriage. Unfortunately for her, he hasn’t even thought about a future with her. She moves to San Francisco to start a new life, and ends up with Robbie's brother Brian as her roommate for one month.