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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 709 films · Page 14.
Christmas film, Drama, Komödie, Romance Film, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
A local newspaper, The Bulletin, is under new management and renamed The New Bulletin, with columnist Ann Mitchell being one of the staffers dismissed to "streamline" the paper, but not before being told to write one final column. Infuriat…
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Ruth Stoops is an inebriated addict in Nebraska who is capable of doing nearly anything to get money or drugs. She has four children, all of whom have been taken from her custody by the state because of her inability to care for them. One …
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Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film
Self-made multimillionaire F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to take the tobacco and food conglomerate company private in 1988 after receiving advanced news of the likely commercial failure of the company's smokeless cigarette c…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film
Republican senator Russell Kramer wins the presidential election, narrowly defeating archrival Democratic governor Matt Douglas. Four years later, Douglas wins a landslide victory over the now-incumbent Kramer. Another four years later, Kr…
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Komödie, Romance Film, comedy film
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments: 1 "Thou Shalt Worship No God Before Me" A man (Adam Brody) becomes a celebrity after falling out of a plane and becoming permanently embedded in the ground, thanks to a superstar a…
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Komödie, comedy film
Dr. Jeff Weitzman is a psychiatrist working in a sanitarium in New Jersey. His primary patients are Billy, Henry, Jack and Albert.
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Crime Comedy, Drama, drama film, spy film
In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men h…
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Drama Documentary, biographical film, musical film
The film follows Karen Carpenter from the time of her "discovery" in 1966 and her quick rise to stardom to her untimely death by cardiac arrest (secondary to anorexia nervosa) in 1983. It begins in Karen's parents' home in Downey, Californ…
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Satire On Media, Sitcom, comedy film, drama film
Ricky Hayman and Kate Newell work at the Good Buy Shopping Network, a home shopping channel run by John McBainbridge. Sales have been down over the last two years under Ricky's management, and Kate was brought in to come up with new ideas.…
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Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy film
Kay Hilliard, a former nightclub singer, discovers that her husband, theater producer Steven, is having an affair with showgirl Crystal Allen. Kay's friends Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter had known about the affair at a Manhattan salon, an…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gross Out Film, Japanese Animation Film, LGBTQ-related film, Reality Soap, Satire, comedy film, musical film
Foxxy Love discovers she can swear without being censored, and calls the network to find out why the TV show Drawn Together has been canceled due to The Suck My Taint Show (a parody of South Park). The Network Head, who has long harbored a…
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Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film
Inspired by his longtime love of drawing, and hoping to meet girls, Jerome enrolls at the Strathmore School of Art. His roommates are aspiring filmmaker Vince and closeted-gay fashion major Matthew. Jerome looks for love amongst the female…
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Drama, Groteske, Satire On Media, art film, comedy drama, independent film
The first narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada, who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon. However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her …
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Komödie, comedy film
One September morning, the Soviet Navy submarine Sprut draws too close to the New England coast when its captain wants to see North America and runs aground on a sandbar near Gloucester Island off the New England coast, with a population o…
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Komödie, comedy drama
In 1970, Insurance salesman Jeff Gerber lives in an all-white suburban neighborhood with his liberal-minded housewife Althea, who tolerates her husband's character flaws out of love. Every morning when Jeff wakes up, he spends some time un…
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Satire, comedy film, drama film
The film takes a non-linear approach to the life of Sir Richard "Greedy" McCreadie, a billionaire fashion mogul. After a recent disastrous appearance at a government inquiry into financial and ethical abuse within the fashion industry, McC…
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Horror, Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, Thriller, comedy horror, slasher film, teen film, thriller film
A paperboy delivers a newspaper to the house of District Attorney Bill Carson, who has planned a hunting trip. He warns his teenage daughter Paula to do her homework, not to allow boys in the house, and most importantly not to cut class. P…
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Komödie, Satire, comedy film, comedy thriller, drama film
Gruff American gangster Dickey pushes a broken-down stolen car along a causeway through rising seawater while his increasingly weak accomplice Albie lies inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound after a botched robbery. Cut off by the unexpec…
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Satire, comedy film, drama film
Ben, a veteran Hollywood producer, is suffering a number of professional and personal problems. His latest film, Fiercely, has a disastrous test screening, mostly because of its ending, which features the murder of its main character, play…
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Dark Comedy, Family Comedy, Komödie, Late Western, Raunchy comedy, Satire, Sexploitation Film, Slasher Horror, action film, drama film
Satire On Media, comedy drama, romantic comedy film
In 1920s Chicago, Chicago Examiner reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson has just quit his job to marry Peggy Grant and start a new career as convict Earl Williams is set to be executed. Ruthless, egomaniacal managing editor Walter Burns, de…
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documentary film, experimental film, independent film, non-narrative film, one-shot film, protest, satirical film, silent film
A non-narrative film, Paint Drying consists of 607 minutes (10 hours and 7 minutes) of a static view of white paint drying on a brick wall. The entire film is a single continuous shot, and there is no audio. It receives its title from the …
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Parodie, Political Satire, Satire, Satire On War
Ali Hassan works for Danka TV in Karachi, Pakistan, and dreams of migrating to the United States, but his visa applications are rejected for seven years straight in the aftermath of September 11 attacks. While covering a local event for hi…
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Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film
Poet Maxwell H. Brock regularly performs at The Yellow Door café. The dimwitted, impressionable busboy Walter Paisley hears him with admiration.
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