Jennifer, a young, ambitious executive running promotions at a failing Boston mall comes up with a genius promotional gimmick to save her workplace and position herself for advancement: hold a “Hunky Santa” contest to replace the old Mall Santa.
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Comedy
Cats Have No Vertigo / Os Gatos não Têm Vertigens (2014) António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Maria do Céu Guerra, João Jesus, Fernanda Serrano, Comedy, Drama
An 18 year old boy with a complicated life starts a criminal career but ends up on a rooftop of Lisbon. On the apartment below lives a recently widowed, lonely old lady. Against all odds and her family’s will, they become each others best company.
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Buddy (2003) Morten Tyldum, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Aksel Hennie, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years old and carefree. When his girlfriend Elisabeth dumps him for the boss of her trend bureau, his life falls into pieces. He feels like a loser. By coincidence some of Kristoffer’s video diaries end up with the producer of the popular talk show “Karsten Tonight” in TV2.
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The Cemetery Club (1993) Bill Duke, Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Diane Ladd, Comedy
This comedy filled with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and Lucille, whose husbands die one after another in just a few years. Even though the three friends, all in their 50’s, react quite differently on their husbands deaths they become even closer than what they were as couples. They frequently visit their husband’s graves together and talk about perspective lives.
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Candy Stripe Nurses (1974) Alan Holleb, Candice Rialson, Robin Mattson, María Rojo, Comedy, Thriller, Erotic
Young, pretty nurses and their hospital adventures.
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Wide Open (1974) Gustav Wiklund, Christina Lindberg, Kent-Arne Dahlgren, Solveig Andersson, Gunilla Larsson, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend’s attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.
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The Trouble with Women (1947) Sidney Lanfield, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Comedy
Milland is charming as Gilbert Sedley, an innocent professor – he’s apparently been isolated working in the Orient too long – who is baffled by his strong reactions to a young newspaper reporter, Kate Farrell (Teresa Wright). Why does he think of Niagara Falls whenever he’s around her?
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Tomboy (1985) Herb Freed, Betsy Russell, Gerard Christopher, Kristi Somers, Comedy
Scrappy, willful, and fiercely self-reliant spitfire hoyden automobile mechanic Tomasina ‘Tommy’ Boyd develops a huge crush on cocky race car driving dreamboat hunk Randy Starr after meeting Randy at a party held at a jerky rich guy’s house.
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Derakula / Dracula (2016) Siamak Ansari, Vishka Asayesh, Reza Attaran, Comedy, Drama
The Iranian family man Javad is kidnapped by a descendant of Dracula, whose wife has forced him to give up drinking human blood. They become friends, but things go disastrously awry when Javad tries to lessen the vampire’s cravings through the use of drugs.
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Wiener Blut / Viennese Spirit (1942) Willi Forst, Willy Fritsch, Maria Holst, Hans Moser, Comedy, Music
Willy Forst of course is famous for looking back on the ‘old Vienna’ in a mixture of nostalgia and gentle irony in his films, but “Wiener Blut” may be the one which most highlights the question of what makes the ‘true’ Viennese style. We get a first answer right at the beginning, when Forst himself masqueraded as a medieval alchemist mixes the ingredients for the brew of this film, which are ‘humour’, ‘frivolity’, ‘heart’, ‘history’ and most of all, ‘music’. And the film gets this mixture right.
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