A Cat in Paris / Une vie de chat (2010)
Animation | Comedy
A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.
Starring: Dominique Blanc, Bruno Salomone, Jean Benguigui, Bernadette Lafont, Oriane Zani
Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol
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The Ant Bully (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
When you're as small as an ant, the world is big – and adventure is bigger! That's what young Lucas discovers after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks "the Destroyer" to their size… and turns an anthill into a mountain of thrills, action and laughs! Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti head the voice cast of this rollicking, warm-hearted family treat.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Zach Tyler Eisen
Director: John A. Davis
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The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011)
Comedy
An Airplane!-style parody of recent sword-and-sandal films, centered on Troy's greatest general, Awesomest Maximus, who is intensely loyal to his father-in-law, King Looney, but isn't terribly bright. Goaded by his ambitious wife, the Princess Hottessa, Awesomest finds himself on a diplomatic mission to Greece that goes horribly awry, leading to a war in which he must face the seemingly undefeatable Greek warrior, Testiclees.
Starring: Will Sasso, Kristanna Loken, Rip Torn, Ian Ziering, Sophie Monk, Ian Ziering, Tony Cox
Director: Jeff Kanew
Be Cool (2005)
Comedy | Crime
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music exec on the way.
Starring: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin
Director: F. Gary Gray
Get Shorty (1995)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
Starring: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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License to Drive (1988)
Comedy
Les doesn't have a driving license yet, but to impress his gorgeous date Mercedes he borrows his grandpa's Cadillac for a night out… and has to witness the poor car going through more and more intense maltreatments.
Starring: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Heather Graham
Director: Greg Beeman
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Kate McKay is all business and has no time for anyone, especially her ex-boyfriend neighbor, who keeps claiming he discovered a portal in time. He is true however and upon a trip back to the 1800's an inquisitive, gentlemanly duke named Leopold follows him back to the modern day. Leopold is fascinated by a modern woman like Kate who herself begins to appreciate his old fashioned ways.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber
Director: James Mangold
The Waterboy (1998)
Comedy | Sport
Bobby Boucher, a socially inept 31-year-old from the swamps of Louisiana, is home schooled and sheltered by his over-protective Mama. His only contact with society is his waterboy job for a college team where the players relentlessly make fun of him, and his coach doesn't let him fight back. This all changes when Bobby gets a new coach who lets him stand up for himself. Bobby finally releases years of pent up rage and is transformed into the most devastating tackler on the team. Now Bobby has to learn how to play football and go to college, all behind his Mama's back. Let's just hope Mama doesn't find out.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed
Director: Frank Coraci
Shanghai Noon (2000)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Western
Acrobatic Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang comes to the Wild West to rescue beautiful, kidnapped Princess Pei Pei. Upon transporting her ransom, Chon finds himself on the very train that Roy O'Bannon, an outlaw of dubious competence, plans to rob. They reluctantly become partners when faced with bad-seed Marshall Van Cleef who'd rather neither one of them make it off the train alive.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill, Roger Yuan, Xander Berkeley
Director: Tom Dey
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Comedy | Music | Romance
Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery, Helen Hunt, Shannen Doherty
Director: Alan Metter
Paris (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The story begins with Pierre, a young man unexpectedly confronted with his own mortality. For the next 24 hours, his tour through the city will weave with those of his beloved sister, his neighbours (some known, some not), their friends and workmates, and their interconnected stories of love, familial bonds, loneliness and compassion come together in unexpected ways.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, François Cluzet, Karin Viard, Mélanie Laurent, Gilles Lellouche, Zinedine Soualem, Julie Ferrier, Maurice Bénichou, Olivia Bonamy, Audrey Marnay
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Männerherzen 2 / Männerherzen… und die ganz ganz große Liebe / Men in the City 2 (2011)
Comedy
Part 2 of the male Beziehungskarussels keeps the level of its predecessor. And that creates long since not every sequel. Therefore the weaknesses have remained well. A few episodes are hilarious, others rather embarrassed or angry. What are they, any person may decide for themselves.
Starring: Pasquale Aleardi, Johannes Allmayer, Thomas Bading
Director: Simon Verhoeven
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Monsieur Lazhar / Bachir Lazhar (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir's painful former life; nor that he is at risk of being deported at any moment. Adapted from Evelyne de la Cheneliere's play, Bachir Lazhar depicts the encounter between two distant worlds and the power of self-expression. Using great sensitivity and humor, Philippe Falardeau follows a humble man who is ready to transcend his own loss in order to accompany children beyond the silence and taboo of death.
Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx
Director: Philippe Falardeau
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Joe Somebody (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by the office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal make-over and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds himself the center of attention, ascending the corporate ladder and growing in popularity. He's determined to show everyone in his life that he is not a nobody, but a force to be reckoned with.
Starring: Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Kelly Lynch
Director: John Pasquin
Beautiful Lies / De vrais mensonges (2010)
Comedy | Romance
30-year-old Emilie runs a hairdressing salon where she provides an endless stream of well-meaning advice to her clients and friends, but the only person she cannot seem to help is her own mother. Jean, a young man who works for Emilie, is secretly in love with her but a pathological shyness prevents him from declaring his feelings. Finally, unable to contain himself, he opens his heart in a passionate anonymous letter, but Emilie has other plans…
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila, Stéphanie Lagarde, Judith Chemla
Director: Pierre Salvadori
New Year's Eve (2011)
Comedy | Romance
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Starring: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Alyssa Milano, Katherine Heigl, Jon Bon Jovi, Sofía Vergara, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Hilary Swank
Director: Garry Marshall
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Nine Months (1995)
Comedy | Romance
Samuels life is perfect. That is, until he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. Now he must face the issues that come with being an expecting father, in a most entertaining way.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum, Robin Williams
Director: Chris Columbus
Sand Sharks (2011)
Comedy | Horror | Thriller
An underwater earthquake cracks open a crater deep beneath the ocean's surface unleashing a prehistoric predator. On the sleepy island of White Sands, local teens drink and party beside a beach bonfire. One of them wanders off after a pretty girl and disappears, leaving only a severed hand behind.
Starring: Julie Marie Berman, D.T. Carney, Christina Corigliano, Gina Holden, Corin Nemec, Vanessa Lee Evigan, Brooke Hogan
Director: Mark Atkins
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Garden State (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a retarded quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and his doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own.
Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Kenneth Graymez, George C. Wolfe
Director: Zach Braff
I Love Hong Kong 2012 / I Love Hong Kong 2 / Wo Ai Xiang Gang: Xi Shang Jia Xi (2012)
Comedy
Kuok is famous weather forecast announcer, who dreams to be in the headlines, but failed to do so even when he is about to retire. One day, he finds out that the world is facing a deadly threat and the chance arises to him to become a news sensation. This is when the fun, laughter and havoc come in place.
Starring: Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo, Bosco Wong, Denise Ho, Shui-Fan Fung, Shaw Yin Yin, Chi Wah Wong, Xinyu Zhang, William So, Cheung-Ching Mak
Director: Wilson Chin, Shu-Kai Chung
