Episodes (TV Series 2011- )
Comedy
"Episodes" centers on a U.K. show by a British couple that is turned into an Americanized sitcom.
Starring: Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, John Pankow, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Mircea Monroe, Daisy Haggard, Joseph May, Genevieve O'Reilly, Demetri Goritsas, Jacob Anderson, Trevor White
Creator: David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik
Mistress (1992)
Comedy | Drama
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
Starring: Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro, Martin Landau, Eli Wallach, Robert Wuhl
Director: Barry Primus
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Comedy | Romance | War
Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.
Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, Bill Neff
Director: Howard Hawks
Dave (1993)
Comedy | Romance
To avoid a potentially explosive scandal when the U.S. President goes into a coma, an affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance, is put in his place.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley
Director: Ivan Reitman
Houseboat (1958)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli, Murray Hamilton
Director: Melville Shavelson
Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011)
Comedy | Music
A singer-songwriter hits the road with a self-appointed music revolutionary.
Starring: Ryan O'Nan, Michael Weston, Arielle Kebbel, Andrew McCarthy, Jason Ritter, Wilmer Valderrama, Christopher McDonald, Melissa Leo, Jake Miller
Director: Ryan O'Nan
Play It Again, Sam / Aspirins for Three (1972)
Comedy | Romance
A recent divorce gets romantic advice from the ghost of Humphrey Bogart.
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jennifer Salt, Joy Bang, Susan Anspach
Director: Herbert Ross
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson
Director: Rob Letterman
Dealin' with Idiots (2013)
Comedy
Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.
Starring: Jeff Garlin, Steve Agee, Fred Willard, Kerri Kenney, Jami Gertz, Bob Odenkirk, J.B. Smoove, Gina Gershon, Timothy Olyphant, Richard Kind, Nia Vardalos
Director: Jeff Garlin
Nadine (1987)
Comedy
Working in an Austin, Texas, beauty parlour in 1954, Nadine Hightower endeavours to retrieve some 'art studies' she injudiciously had taken. Her visit to the photographer leaves him dead and her in possession of highly valuable plans of a proposed new road. With both the police and the murderous villains after her she enlists the help of her (almost) ex-husband Vernon, the none too successful owner of the Bluebonnet Bar. Fortunately the thugs are as much no-hopers as the Hightowers.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly, Jerry Stiller, Jay Patterson
Director: Robert Benton
Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
A down-and-dirty modern day musical set in the world of working-class New York which tells the story of one man's journey into infidelity and redemption.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore
Director: John Turturro
Lunarcy! (2012)
Comedy | Documentary
With wry humor and affection, Simon Ennis' "Lunarcy!" follows a disparate group of dreamers and schemers who all have one thing in common: they've devoted their lives to the Moon. From the young man who's resolved to depart for Luna (permanently) to the ex-ventriloquist who's made millions selling Moon lots.
Starring: Alan Bean, Christopher Carson, Matthew Goodman, Joe Gutheinz, Dennis Hope, Peter Kokh, Jaymie Matthews
Director: Simon Ennis
The Boy Inside / The King and I / Ôsama to boku (2012)
Comedy
On the night of Mikihiko's (Tori Matsuzaka) 18th birthday, Mikihiko thinks of childhood friend Morio (Masaki Suda). Morio has been in vegetative state since the age of 6 after being involved in an accident. One day, Moria awakens from his vegetative state. Morio still has the mind of a 6-year-old…
Starring: Masaki Suda, Tôri Matsuzaka, Hiroki Aiba, Fumi Nikaidô, Masataka Nakagauchi, Miyuki Matsuda
Director: Tetsu Maeda
Pretty Bird (2008)
Comedy
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, David Hornsby, Kristen Wiig, Elizabeth Marvel, Denis O'Hare, Garret Dillahunt
Director: Paul Schneider
Naked (1993)
Comedy | Drama
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very much like his own.
Starring: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
Director: Mike Leigh
Coffee Town (2012)
Comedy
Will is a 30-something website manager who uses local café, Coffee Town, as his office. When the owners of the shop discuss plans to convert Coffee Town into a bar, Will enlists the help of his two best friends Chad and Gino to save his freeloading existence. In order to thwart the plans of Coffee Town's owners, the trio stages a robbery to create the illusion of an unsafe neighborhood not suitable for the proposed venue. Also standing in their way is Sam, a disgruntled barista with delusions of grandeur and Will's heartache over unrequited love for Becca.
Starring: Glenn Howerton, Steve Little, Ben Schwartz, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Groban, Josh Perry, Kristen Riley, Jake Johnson
Director: Brad Copeland
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Street Trash (1987)
Comedy | Horror
When a liquor store owner finds a case of "Viper" (a cheap wine) in his cellar, he decides to sell it to the local hobos at one dollar a bottle, unaware of its true properties. The drinks causes its consumers to melt, very messily. Two homeless lads find themselves up against the effects of the toxic brew, as well as going head to head with "Bronson", a deranged Vietnam veteran with sociopathic tendencies, and the owner of the junkyard they live in…
Starring: Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil, Vic Noto, Mark Sferrazza, Jane Arakawa, Nicole Potter
Director: J. Michael Muro
Rage of the Undead / Zomvideo / Zonbideo (2011)
Comedy | Horror
Aiko and Hashimoto discover among some VHS tapes a video called "A Guide to Surviving from Zombies". It is a video with a series of indications that will help them face the invasion of living dead taking place in Japan. Who knew it might really happen!?
Starring: Saki Nakajima, Jtarô Sugisaku, Miyuki Torii, Maimi Yajima
Director: Kenji Murakami
Do Not Disturb (1965)
Comedy
Janet and Mike Harper rent a house in the English countryside from Vanessa Courtwright after Mike, an American wool company executive, moves his office to London to stimulate foreign trade.
Starring: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner
Director: Ralph Levy
He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)
Comedy
When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change… she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make her own movie, starring herself (of course) as herself, and any A-list celebrity she can land along the way. From seducing the Karate Kid to kidnapping Hollywood's biggest name in comedy, Halley will stop at nothing to get her movie made even it means hurting the only people who truly care about her.
Starring: Halley Feiffer, Ryan Spahn, Ben Stiller, Jesse Eisenberg, Ralph Macchio, Michael Urie
Director: Michael Urie
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