Purple Violets (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Patti Petalson (Blair) struggles with the pressure of becoming the next important American writer.
Starring: Selma Blair, Edward Burns, Debra Messing, Patrick Wilson
Director: Edward Burns
Hackers (1995)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago
Director: Iain Softley
Little Boy (2015)
Comedy | Drama | War
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible…bring his father back from World War II.
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
The Little Death (2014)
Comedy
A truly original comedy about sex, love, relationships and taboo. In a multi story narrative, we peer behind the closed doors of a seemingly normal suburban street.
Starring: Bojana Novakovic, Damon Herriman, Josh Lawson, Kate Box, Patrick Brammall, Lisa McCunec
Director: Josh Lawson
People Places Things (2015)
Comedy
Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing parenting his young twin daughters and a classroom full of students while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Stephanie Allynne, Michael Chernus, Aundrea Gadsby, Gia Gadsby
Director: James C. Strouse
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Ten Thousand Saints / 10,000 Saints (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Jude Keffy-Horn-named after a Beatles song by his hippie parents-spends his high school days in small-town Vermont getting high with his best friend, Teddy. Beneath Jude's mind-numbing activities lurks a desire to reconnect with his estranged father, Les, who abandoned the family when Jude was nine. When Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude's mother sends him to live with Les in New York City's roiling and raw East Village. As Jude struggles to establish an identity within the cultural upheaval downtown, he forms an unlikely surrogate family with Teddy's straight-edge brother and a troubled, rich uptown girl.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson, Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch
Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
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The Curtain Rises / Maku ga agaru (2015)
Comedy
Saori (Kanako Momota) is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka (Haru Kuroki) begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko (Shiori Tamai), Garuru (Reni Takagi), Nakanishi (Momoka Ariyasu), Akemi (Ayaka Sasaki) decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.
Starring: Kanako Momota, Shiori Tamai, Reni Takagi, Momoka Ariyasu, Ayaka Sasaki, Haru Kuroki
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Full Strike / Chuen lik kau saat (2015)
Action | Comedy | Sport
Once the undisputed champion of badminton in Hong Kong, Ng Kau Sau has long been banished from the court thanks to her fiery temper. She never expected to pick up a racket again, until she meets Dan, Chiu and Kun, three recently freed criminals who are hoping to turn their lives around with badminton. Spurred on to return to the sport, Kau Sau teams up with perpetually drunken savant Champion Chik to coach the three ex-cons to victory in a badminton tournament for the ages.
Starring: Josie Ho, Ekin Cheng, Ronald Cheng, Wilfred Lau, Susan Shaw, Edmond Leung
Director: Chi-kin Kwok, Henri Wong
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Comedy | Music
A sequel to the 2012 musical comedy that follows Fat Amy and Beca through their senior year at Barden University.
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Camp, Hailee Steinfeld
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Felices 140 (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Elia cumple 40 años y, para celebrarlo, reúne en una lujosa casa rural a amigos y familiares. Tiene que decirles algo muy importante: es la ganadora del bote de 140 millones que el Euromillón sorteaba esa semana. A partir de ese momento, el ambiente empieza a enrarecerse y lo que, al principio, parecía alegría compartida da paso enseguida a toda clase de argucias para intentar quedarse con el dinero de la afortunada.
Starring: Maribel Verdú, Antonio de la Torre, Marian Álvar, Eduard Fernández, Nora Navas, Ginés García Millán, Paula Canci, Alex O'Dogherty, Marcos Ruiz
Director: Gracia Querejeta
Barely Lethal (2015)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Hailee Steinfeld, Sophie Turner, Dove Cameron, Thomas Mann
Director: Kyle Newman
Kingdom Come (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Family
When her husband passes away, Raynelle Slocumb (Whoopi Goldberg) calls the entire clan together, and family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs reunite.
Starring: LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Loretta Devine, Anthony Anderson, Toni Braxton, Cedric the Entertainer
Director: Doug McHenry
Jersey Girl (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sal is a wealthy and triumphant yuppie who normaly would not do everything in order to get a woman. But this time it is something special and he is about to give up his position for his love.
Starring: Jami Gertz, Dylan McDermott, Sheryl Lee, Aida Turturro, Molly Price, Joseph Mazzello
Director: David Burton Morris
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Stella is a highly successful, forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island, she encounters a strapping, young islander, Winston Shakespeare. His pursuits for her turn into a hot and steamy romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship, and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.
Starring: Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Richard Lawson, Glynn Turman
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life.
Starring: Ray Liotta, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Majorino, Don Ameche, Larry Miller, Joan Cusack
Director: Jessie Nelson
Burglar (1987)
Comedy | Crime
Whoopi Goldberg is the owner of a San Francisco bookstore who leads a secret life – bookseller by day, thief by night.
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G.W. Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, James Handy, Anne De Salvo, John Goodman
Director: Hugh Wilson
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared / The Centenarian Who Climbed Out the Window and Vanished / Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (2013)
Adventure | Comedy
The unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. For most people it would be the adventure of a lifetime, but Allan Karlsson's unexpected journey is not his first. For a century he's made the world uncertain, and now he is on the loose again.
Starring: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer, Jens Hultén, Bianca Cruzeiro
Director: Felix Herngren
I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2014)
Comedy | Horror
A young runner, on a zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real zombies overrun the set.
Starring: Harley Neville, Jocelyn Christian, Ben Baker, Reanin Johannink, Mike Edward, Andrew Laing, Simon Ward, Mark Neilson, Patrick Davies, Harry Love
Director: Guy Pigden
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The Magnificent Eleven (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A modernization of the classic western in which the Cowboys are a struggling local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as 'American Bob'.
Starring: Keith Allen, Sean Pertwee, Gary Lineker, Phillip Rhys, Jenna Harrison, Paul Barber, Robert Vaughn
Director: Jeremy Wooding
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Using the operatic style associated with Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, this offbeat comedy stars Robert Carlyle as a small-time hood who watches ex-wife Shirley Henderson turn down a marriage proposal by live-in boyfriend Rhys Ifans on a tabloid TV show. Believing this is a chance to reconnect with his ex and see his 12-year-old daughter again, Carlyle leaves Glasgow for the English Midlands and a showdown with Ifans.
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson, Finn Atkins
Director: Shane Meadows
