Staten Island / Little New York (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
In the shadow of Manhattan, the lives of three ambitious men intersect when Sully, a dim-witted septic tank cleaner, decides to rob $50,000 from the local mob boss.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel
Director: James DeMonaco
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Eureka (TV Series 2006-2012)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world’s geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) stumbles upon this odd town after wrecking his car and becoming stranded there. When the denizens of the town unleash an unknown scientific creation, Carter jumps in to try to restore order and consequently learns of one of the country’s best kept secrets.
Starring: Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston, Joe Morton, Chris Gauthier, Jordan Hinson, Niall Matter
Creator: Andrew Cosby, Jaime Paglia
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Comedy | Crime
Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Soon after, the two plant a story to gain the services of professional criminals Lackery and Shorty. Together, the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists and turns.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Director: Charles Crichton
Boudu sauvé des eaux / Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Comedy
Boudu is a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine, and is rescued by Monsieur Lestingois, a well-to-do bookseller with liberal ideas, who takes him home and tries to reconcile him with life and society. But Boudu is bored in this cosy little nest and uses his time to make trouble in the peaceful households around him.
Starring: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret, Max Dalban, Jean Dasté, Charles Granval
Director: Jean Renoir
Mad Money (2008)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Academy Award winner Diane Keaton, Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes are all in for the crime of their lives! Deep inside the most secure bank in America, three desperate women from very different worlds cook up the most unlikely heist of the century: Smuggle out millions of dollars in worn-out currency headed for a Federal Reserve shredder every day. Taking the cash is going to be easy…but getting away with it will be insane! Ted Danson, Christopher McDonald (Happy Gilmore), Roger Cross (24) and Stephen Root (Office Space) co-star in this wild comedy caper from the creator of Thelma & Louise about chasing your dreams, beating the system and paying the price for Mad Money!
Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root
Director: Callie Khouri
The Saphead (1920)
Comedy
Buster Keaton stars as Bertie Van Alstyne, the pampered son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Having known no other lifestyle but privilege, he wanders through a variety of misadventures-an attempt at courtship, a trip to an illegal gambling den, and a tumble onto the floor of the Stock Exchange-oblivious to the obstacles that stand before him.
Starring: Buster Keaton, Edward Jobson, Beulah Booker, Edward Connelly, Edward Alexander
Director: Herbert Blaché, Winchell Smith
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Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. In fact, it's a magic toy store and everything in it comes to life ó including the store itself. The Emporium only asks one thing of its customers: you must believe it to see it. But when Mr. Magorium, a 243ñyearñold eccentric, bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once remarkable Emporium.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Bateman, Zach Mills
Director: Zach Helm
Clerks II / Clerks 2: Hardly Clerkin (2006)
Comedy
Ten years ago best friends Dante Hicks and Randal Graves were New Jersey mini- mall clerks still slacking off together in their early 20s. Now working in the fast-food universe, Dante and Randal have managed to maintain, and even hone, their in- your-face attitudes, agile skill with vulgarities and unbridled love of screwing the customers. But they're also faced with such shocking prospects as marriage, leaving Jersey and finding real careers. Dante and Randal invade the world of Mooby's fast food restaurant, where the slogan is "I'm Eating It." Behind the counter, where the only other employees are an uber-nerd and an entirely too sexy manager, Dante and Randal are free to offend anybody and everybody who so much as orders fries in their inimitably irreverent way. But, even as riotous debates rage between them over such burning matters as George Lucas v. Peter Jackson v. Jesus, change is on the horizon. When Dante announces that he's going to leave Jersey forever and marry Emma Bunting, Randal plots a going-away party so shocking it will draw the police, the fire department and potential protests from PETA, while altering their lives forever.
Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith
Director: Kevin Smith
Clerks (1994)
Comedy
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razor-sharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service! Even while braving a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, the clerks manage to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home, and straighten out their offbeat love lives. The boss is nowhere in sight, so you can bet anything can –and WILL– happen when these guys are left to run the store!
Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa Spoonhauer, Scott Mosier
Director: Kevin Smith
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines / How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
This extraordinary comic version of the historic 1910 London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane race across the English Channel, offering 10,000 pounds to the winner. The escapades between the American, British, French, German, Italian and Japanese teams result in the most daring and hilarious in-flight acrobatic stunts ever caught on film.
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe
Director: Ken Annakin
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Everybody's Fine (2009)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore
Director: Kirk Jones
Bernie (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's alive.
Starring: Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Richard Linklater
Valentine's Day (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Valentine's Day follows the intertwining storylines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Kathy Bates, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Topher Grace, Shirley MacLaine, Anne Hathaway, Emma Roberts, Eric Dane, Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Patrick Dempsey, Queen Latifah, Taylor Swift, Hector Elizondo
Director: Garry Marshall
Vamperifica (2011)
Comedy | Horror
A clueless, flamboyant college kid discovers that the soul of a great vampire king resides within him. Now he must choose between his friends and his destiny.
Starring: Martin Yurkovic, Dreama Walker, Creighton James, Bonnie Swencionis, Jeff Ward
Director: Bruce Ornstein
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Billy Elliot (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Yorkshire, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim view of 11 year-old second son Billy's poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferred to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey, encourages Billy's desire, aroused by the teacher, who judged him talented enough for private lesson, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother's opposition to indispensable support.
Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells, Gary Lewis
Director: Stephen Daldry
Analyze That / Analyze This 2 (2002)
Comedy | Crime
Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Cathy Moriarty
Director: Harold Ramis
Analyze This (1999)
Comedy | Crime
A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Viterelli
Director: Harold Ramis
¡Three Amigos! (1986)
Adventure | Comedy | Western
When a villainous bandit terrorizes her small Mexican village, a real-life damsel in distress enlists the help of three goofy singing cowboy Hollywood stars–mistakenly believing that they are as heroic in person as they are onscreen. The wimpy actors think they are going south of the border to perform a one-time show for a large fee. As they arrive in the tiny oppressed village, they begin to realize that they are caught in a horrible case of mistaken identity and must truly fight for their lives against the evil marauder El Guapo. They cowardly run for their lives while the village is almost destroyed until they realize the importance of their mission and are forced to use real cunning and bravery to try to defeat the villain's hordes in order to prove that the Three Amigos are as truly as courageous and heroic as they appeared onscreen.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau
Director: John Landis
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Highbinders / The Medallion (2003)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Thriller
An action comedy following the exploits of an indomitable Hong Kong cop named Eddie, who, after a near-fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion, is suddenly transformed into a 'Highbinder'–an immortal warrior with superhuman powers. Eddie enlists the help of fellow agent Nicole to determine the secret of the medallion and face down the evil Highbinders who desperately want it back.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, Julian Sands, John Rhys-Davies
Director: Gordon Chan
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Castle (TV Series 2009-2016)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Rick Castle is one of the world's most successful crime authors. But when his rock star lifestyle isn't enough, this bad boy goes looking for new trouble and finds it working with smart, beautiful Detective Kate Beckett. Inspired by her professional record and intrigued by her buttoned-up personality, Castle's found the model for his bold new character whether she likes it or not. Now with the mayor's permission, Castle is on her case and in her way. Kate's initial disdain for Castle turns to grudging respect as he quickly proves that a background in plotting murders can be a valuable asset in catching killers. As they solve a new crime together each week, their partnership grows as does their love-hate relationship. These two may not always see eye to eye, but together they might just write a whole new chapter in crime-solving.
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Molly C. Quinn, Jon Huertas, Tamala Jones, Seamus Dever, Penny Johnson
Creator: Andrew W. Marlowe
