Weekend / Week End (1967)
Comedy | Drama
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Orfeu Negro / Black Orpheus (1959)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Starring: Marcel Camus, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Fausto Guerzoni, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia
Director: Marcel Camus
Les mariés de l'an deux / The Married Couple of the Year Two (1971)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
After his escape to America in the year 1787 Nicolas Phillibert wants to marry a rich American heiress. In his homeland France he is still married however to the pretty Charlotte. In order to obtain the divorce, he must return therefore to France. In confusions of the french revolution he soon gets between Royalisten and republicans. After numerous bold adventures he finds his life-merry wife as bride of the best sword fighter of the Bourbonen.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Prénom Carmen / First Name: Carmen (1983)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity.
Starring: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2010)
Animation | Comey | Family | Mystery
The gang goes on a trip to check on Velma's younger sister, Madelyn. She's been studying stage magic at the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, where apparently there have been sightings of a giant griffin. The gang decides to investigate.
Starring: Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey DeLisle, Mindy Cohn, Dave Attell
Director: Spike Brandt
Tromeo and Juliet / Tromeo & Juliet (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Updated to be set in the outskirts of New York City, Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy is transformed into a no-holes barred, punk-inflected Elizabethan stage send-up of the story of a doomed love.
Starring: Will Keenan, Lemmy, Debbie Rochon, Stephen Blackehart, Tiffany Shepis
Director: Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties / Garfield 2 (2006)
Animation | Comedy | Family
When Garfield follows his owner, Jon Arbuckle, to England, the U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle. Garfield savors the royal treatment afforded by his loyal four-legged subjects, but his reign is in jeopardy. The nefarious Lord Dargis is determined to do away with Garfield, so he can turn the castle into a resort. Garfield's bigger, better, more purr-fect world is soon turned upside down in this tale of two kitties.
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Bill Murray, Roger Rees, Lena Cardwell, Veronica Alicino
Director: Tim Hill
Garfield / Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Animation | Comedy | Family
Life couldn't be sweeter for Garfield, everyone's favorite feline. Parked on a comfortable chair in front of the television, feasting on his favorite dish, lasagna, and hurling insults at his beleaguered owner Jon, Garfield is the master of his universe.When Jon takes Garfield to visit beautiful veterinarian Liz Wilson, she gives Jon a pepped-up, tail-wagging, panting creature thatrepresents everything that Garfield loathes. Garfield, meet Odie, a lovable, dim-witted dog. The wise-cracking cat is, for the first time in his nine lives, left speechless. The clueless Odie chases his tail till he's dizzy, crashes into walls, and barks without cause, all to the unbridled delight of Jon who eagerly welcomes Odie into his home. Odie turns Garfield's perfect world upside down. Garfield's solution: OUT, DARN DOG. When the hapless hound disappears into the evil clutches of local celebrity Happy Chapman, you would think Garfield would rejoice. But he feels responsible for the fate of another. With uncharacteristic energy, courage and selflessness, Garfield manages to pull himself away from his lazy life and spring into action. He's on the unlikeliest of impossible missions: to save Odie.
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bill Murray, Evan Arnold, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Vanessa Christelle
Director: Peter Hewitt
The Details (2012)
Comedy
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Kerry Washington, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
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Adventure Time / Adventure Time with Finn & Jake (TV Series 2010- )
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Fantasy
Adventure Time, originally titled Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, follows two best friends: Finn (a 12-year old boy) and Jake (a wise 28-year-old dog with magical powers), and the surreal adventures undertaken by the duo as they traverse the mystical Land of Ooo. A world built for adventure, Ooo is filled to the brim with various landscapes for the two buddies to explore and bizarre characters to assist.
Starring: Jeremy Shada, John Di Maggio, Tom Kenny
Creator: Pendleton Ward
Trees Lounge (1996)
Comedy | Drama
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives, full of the colorful eccentrics one finds in such places, like the estranged husband, or the old boozer drinking himself to death. He drunkenly wanders through his life, still in love with his ex, desperate for some sort of meaning beyond the bar, some sort of meaning to his life.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: Steve Buscemi
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house. After several years, the real father returns to claim the girl from Michael, thinking that she will be an advantage for his political career.
Starring: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
ParaNorman (2012)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead, takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, John Goodman, Casey Affleck
Director: Sam Fell, Chris Butler
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
Comedy | Romance | Thriller
A New York detective/mama's boy loses his fiancee to a rich con man in las Vegas.
Starring: James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: Andrew Bergman
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Bob Barker, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers
Director: Dennis Dugan
Hope Springs (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart, Elisabeth Shue, Mimi Rogers
Director: David Frankel
Drop Dead Diva (TV Series 2009- )
Comedy | Drama
Drop Dead Diva is a spirited new comedic drama series that puts a uniquely compelling twist on the age-old battle between brains and beauty. The show tells the story of a shallow model-in-training who dies in a sudden accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney.
Starring: Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Jackson Hurst, Kate Levering, April Bowlby, Josh Stamberg, Ben Feldman
Creator: Josh Berman
Big Daddy (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed… and he can't return the kid.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Allen Covert
Director: Dennis Dugan
Nitro Circus: The Movie (2012)
Action | Comedy | Documentary
Travis Pastrana and his tight-knit, highly-skilled, adrenaline-addicted friends bring their impossible, ridiculous, insane and hysterical adventures to the big screen for the first time
Starring: Travis Pastrana, Jolene Van Vugt, Jim DeChamp, Gregg Godfrey, Jeremy Rawle, Tommy Passemante, Greg Powell, Erik Roner
Director: Gregg Godfrey, Jeremy Rawle
Danny Deckchair (2003)
Comedy | Romance
Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with helium balloons. A mighty thunderstorm blows him clean off the map, and spits him out far away over the lush green town of Clarence. In this new town, he rockets into the world of Glenda, the town's only parking cop. While the media back home becomes obsessed with the story of his disappearance, Danny gets to reinvent himself in this new town, and in his great adventure, he discovers a true soulmate in Glenda. Fate catches up with him eventually, as Danny's true identity is revealed and Trudy–now a tabloid celebrity–comes to the idyllic town to claim Danny and drag him back to Sydney. Danny, however, is a changed man; he's discovered what it means to be happy and has found a new self-worth…
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon, John Batchelor
Director: Jeff Balsmeyer
