Ed Wood (1994)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
From Hollywood's acclaimed director Tim Burton (Planet of the Apes, Batman Sleepy Hollow & Edward Scissorhands) comes and offbeat, true-life story of Hollywood's worst director, ED WOOD.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Lisa Marie
Director: Tim Burton
Hotel for Dogs (2009)
Comedy | Family
When their new guardians forbid 16-year old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday–and eventually for all Friday's canine friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."
Starring: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Don Cheadle, Johnny Simmons, Kyla Pratt, Troy Gentile
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Looking for Jackie / Jackie Chan: Kung Fu Master / Xun zhao Cheng Long (2009)
Action | Comedy | Family
Jackie Chan is the undefeated Kung Fu Master who dishes out the action in traditional Jackie Chan style. When a young boy sets out to learn how to fight from the Master himself, he not only witnesses some spectacular fights, but learns some important life lessons along the way.
Starring: Yishan Zhang, Jackie Chan
Director: Gangliang Fang, Ping Jiang
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: John Carpenter
Salaam Namaste (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The new millennium has begun and one must accept the reality that East Indians have immigrated everywhere on Earth. One such place where a number of Indians have made their new homes is Australia's Melbourne. A doctor, who does have problems translating some words into Hindi; Jignesh Pandya, who has come from Surat, India, where his parents operate and run "Archana Sarees" and has become a doctor; Ranjan Mathur who has recently immigrated, is now on the look-out for a wife, and does find one, after many hilarious misadventures, including one with a gorgeous hooker, Lisa; Then there is Ambar Malhotra or Ambi, who lived in Bangalore with her parents, quarreled with them because she did not want to marry someone of their choice, ended up coming to Australia on a student exchange program, studies medicine, but lands a job as a radio announcer with 101.5 FM "Salaam Namaste"; and finally there is Nikhil Arora alias Nicki…
Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Arshad Warsi, Tania Zaetta, Jugal Hansraj
Director: Siddharth Anand
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Comedy | Drama | War
A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.
Starring: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, J.T. Walsh
Director: Barry Levinson
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Curry & Pepper / Ga li la jiao (1990)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Romance
Two cops–both best friends and partners–both become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The two soon find themselves competing for screen time as well as the love of the reporter while after a murderous arms dealer.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Jacky Cheung, Ann Bridgewater, Eric Tsang, Barry Wong, Blackie Ko
Director: Blackie Ko
Detention (2011)
Comedy | Horror
A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom.
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Dane Cook, Will Wallace
Director: Joseph Kahn
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Radiostars (2012)
Comedy
Full professional failure and sentimental, Ben, who dreamed comic in New York, is back in Paris. He meets Alex, anchorman of the Breakfast Club, the Morning radio star. Cyril with a quadra assumed wrong, and Arnold, the charismatic leader of the band, they are rain or shine on Blast FM. Soon Ben is involved: he wrote for them. So he just joined the team, a tidal wave has hit the station: the hearing of breakfast is in freefall. It is bus they crisscross the roads of France to meet and conquer their audience. For these Parisians arrogant, this road trip a real radio born initiatory journey that shakes their certainties.
Starring: Manu Payet, Clovis Cornillac, Douglas Attal, Pascal Demolon, Benjamin Lavern, Côme Levin
Director: Romain Lévy
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
Director: Sharon Maguire
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Three Kings (1999)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War
Absurdly comic, highly kinetic, at times shockingly emotional, Three Kings begins when the Gulf War is over. Amid the partying and confusion, four American soldiers, determined to take home more than sand fleas, go off into the Iraqi desert to find millions in stolen Kuwaiti bullion. They are plunged into the heart of a democratic uprising that spins the day and their lives out of control.
Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Doug Jones, Cliff Curtis
Director: David O. Russell
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski now finds herself a thirty something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah is still living at home with their dad Joe, a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes. Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime scene clean-up business with her to make some quick cash. In no time, the girls are up to their elbows in murders, suicides and other…specialized situations. As they climb the ranks in a very dirty job, the sisters find a true respect for one another and the closeness they have always craved finally blossoms. By building their own improbable business, Rose and Norah open the door to the joys and challenges of being there for one another — no matter what — while creating a brighter future for the entire Lorkowski family.
Starring: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn, Mary Lynn Rajskub
Director: Christine Jeffs
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It's Complicated (2009)
Comedy | Romance
Jane is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has – after a decade of divorce – an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake. But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable – an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness, Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam, an architect hired to remodel Jane's kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own, Adam starts to fall for Jane, but soon realizes he's become part of a love triangle. Should Jane and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around? It's–complicated.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Lake Bell, John Krasinski, Hunter Parrish
Director: Nancy Meyers
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Gazon maudit / Bushwhacked / French Twist (1995)
Comedy
A bumbling delivery man must prove he is innocent of murder and accidentally ends up leading a scout troupe into the wilderness on his way to meet the man who framed him.
Starring: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat
Director: Josiane Balasko
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Donna Murphy, John Henry Cox, Alicia Keys
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Juan of the Dead / Juan de los Muertos (2011)
Comedy | Horror
When la Havana falls prey to a full-blown zombie invasion, slacker Juan and his friend decide to profit from the crisis and set up a zombie eradication business with the slogan 'Juan de los Muertos – we kill your loved ones'. Before long Juan finds himself in the money – as well as in the unfamiliar and somewhat uncomfortable role of local hero – as he and his partner expand their ever-expanding repertoire of inventive ways to kill zombies.
Starring: Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina, Andrea Duro, Andros Perugorría, Jazz Vilá
Director: Alejandro Brugués
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C'mon Man (2012)
Comedy
Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.
Starring: Tony Rock, Julie Alexander, Tee Ashira, Rodney Perry, Clifton Powell, Luenell, Anna Maria Horsford, Tommy Davidson, Joe Torry, Aries Spears, Kym Whitley, Earthquake, Marla Gibbs, Lavell Crawford
Director: Kenny Young
Find Me Guilty (2006)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Ron Silver, Alex Rocco, Richard DeDomenico, Jerry Grayson, Tony Ray Rossi
Director: Sidney Lumet
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Comedy | Romance
Divorce mediators John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are business partners and lifelong friends who share one truly unique springtime hobby–crashing weddings! Whatever the ethnicity of the wedding party–Jewish, Italian, Irish, Chinese, Hindu–the charismatic and charming duo always have clever back stories for inquisitive guests and inevitably become the hit of every reception, where they strictly adhere to their proven "rules of wedding crashing" to meet and pick up women aroused by the very thought of marriage. At the tail end of another successful season of toasting brides and grooms, Jeremy learns that the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary and his wife, Kathleen, is getting married in what is sure to be the Washington D.C. social event of the year. After infiltrating the lavish affair, John and Jeremy quickly set their sights on two bridesmaids, Claire and Gloria Cleary. With the lavish reception in full swing, Jeremy works his game plan to perfection in seducing Gloria, but John's flirtation banter with Claire is unexpectedly impeded by her pompous, Ivy League boyfriend Sack. Having uncharacteristically fallen hard and fast for Claire, John convinces a resistant Jeremy to bend the crashing rules and accept an invitation to an extended weekend party at the Cleary family compound. Once at the palatial waterfront estate, John and Jeremy endure a multitude of comical mishaps at the hands of the dysfunctional members of the Cleary family, but also learn a few unexpected lessons about love and relationships.
Starring: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Jane Seymour, Isla Fisher
Director: David Dobkin
High School (2010)
Comedy
A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Colin Hanks, Matt Bush, Cody Longo, Adhir Kalyan, Sean Marquette
Director: John Stalberg
