Greased Lightning (1977)
Action | Biography | Comedy | Drama | Sport
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.
Starring: Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier, Cleavon Little, Vincent Gardenia, Earl Hindman
Director: Michael Schultz
In Stereo (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
David and Brenda are perfect for each other, and everyone knows it except David and Brenda. After they break up, due to mutual immaturity, they voyage through a romantic Purgatory that shakes both of them to their core, until they realize what's apparent, and work out a design for being together that they refuse to call "being together". A sharply observed, dark comedy about the complexity of modern relationships, In Stereo is a humorous look into the lives of confused 30 somethings trying to figure it all out.
Starring: Beau Garrett, Maggie Geha, Aimee Mullins, Mario Cantone, Melissa Bolona, Micah Hauptman
Director: Mel Rodriguez III
The Wonderful Wedding / Da xi lin men (2015)
Comedy
Centers on the wedding of a cross-straits couple and the fallout that comes as both families try to come to terms with differences in culture.
Starring: Ruby Lin, Dong-xue Li, Mei-Hsiu Lin, Gou-Liang Chu, Hsi-shun Kou
Director: Chaoliang Huang
700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police/ Boku tachi to chûzai san no 700 nichi sensô (2008)
Comedy
After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kumiko Asô
Director: Renpei Tsukamoto
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
Action | Comedy
The sequel follows James' Paul Blart who attends a Security Guard Expo in Las Vegas with his daughter. Despite being teased by casino security and other attendees, Blart takes on a group of dangerous art thieves.
Starring: Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Neal McDonough, Shirley Knight, Eduardo Verástegui, D.B. Woodside
Director: Andy Fickman
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel / Indian Palace: Suite royale (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Two hopeful new arrivals at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful quickly learn that there is only a single room left to rent.
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton
Director: John Madden
StarStruck (2010)
Comedy | Family | Musical
Down-to-earth Jessica Olsen goes to Los Angeles with nothing more in mind than visiting her grandparents while her sister Sara desperately wants to meet her favorite pop star, Christopher Wilde. When Sara convinces her younger sister to accompany her to a nightclub where Christopher is rumored to be performing, it is Jessica who gets to spend some time with the rising star after she meets Christopher, literally by accident. While showing Jessica his favorite sites around the city, Christopher realizes that following his heart might be more important than doing what's best for his career.
Starring: Sterling Knight, Danielle Campbell, Maggie Castle, Brandon Mychal Smith, Chelsea Kane, Matt Winston
Director: Michael Grossman
Mr. Magoo (1997)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance
It was the worst jewel heist in history, and the only witness to the crime didn't see a thing.
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer Garner
Director: Stanley Tong
The Hospital (1971)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
Black comedy in which a suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
Starring: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Robert Walden, Barnard Hughes, Stephen Elliott
Director: Arthur Hiller
Staten Island Summer (2015)
Comedy
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Starring: Graham Phillips, Zack Pearlman
Director: Rhys Thomas
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
An eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle
Director: Tim Burton
While We're Young (2014)
Comedy | Drama
An uptight documentarian and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, Maria Dizzia, Adam Horovitz, Matthew Maher, Peter Yarrow
Director: Noah Baumbach
Behaving Badly (2014)
Comedy
Teenager Rick Stevens, has a crush on Nina Pennington, they form a friendship and embark on a rock n' roll journey together while Nina deals with her overbearing boyfriend, Kevin.
Starring: Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue, Dylan McDermott, Lachlan Buchanan
Director: Tim Garrick
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After Frances's seemingly happy San Francisco marriage ends abruptly, she goes into a funk. Urged by her friends to move on, she joins a bus tour of Tuscany where, on the spur of the moment, she buys a crumbling villa. She assembles a crew of oddballs and immigrants to repair the house; over the next year, as they work, she welcomes one of her New York friends who's pregnant and at loose ends, and she seeks love, first (tenuously) with her married real estate agent, then with a charming stranger. Although life gets in the way of love, Frances's wishes come true in unexpected ways, and there's always the Tuscan sun.
Starring: Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Don McManus, Elden Henson
Director: Audrey Wells
Bon Lin / Bon to Lin chan (2014)
Comedy
Natsuko Yotsuya (Ema Sakura) is a teenager and she is also known as Bon. She lives in a town and has a friend, Miyu-chan, who lives with her boyfriend in Tokyo. Miyu-chan though is abused by her boyfriend. To bring back her friend back, Natsuko and her childhood friend Rintaro Tomoda (Mahiro Takasugi), also known as Lin, go to Tokyo together. With the help of a man, who they met through an internet forum for "boys’ love" manga fans, they head to Miyu-chan's house.
Starring: Emma Sakura, Mahiro Takasugi, Hakushu Tôgetsuan, Rino Higa
Director: Keiichi Kobayashi
Chloe and Theo (2015)
Comedy | Drama
From the northern ice comes a gentler kind of hero.
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Lori Tan Chinn, Mira Sorvino, Christopher Backus, Larry King, Theo Ikummaq
Director: Ezna Sands
Only When I Laugh (1981)
Comedy | Drama
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
Starring: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes, John Bennett Perry
Director: Glenn Jordan
Hero at Large (1980)
Comedy | Romance
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Starring: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Bellaver, Neill Barry
Director: Martin Davidson
Starting Over (1979)
Comedy | Romance
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation – seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him – he realizes where his loyalty lies.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen, Austin Pendleton
Director: Alan J. Pakula
A Little Chaos (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Madame Sabine De Barra is an unlikely candidate for the landscape architect of the still-to-be-completed palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical ordered designs of the man who hires her; the famous architect Le Notre. However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Notre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV. But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassionate nature help to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun King and the heart of Le Notre.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Jennifer Ehle, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Matthias Schoenaerts
Director: Alan Rickman
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