A bored accountant can’t win for losing. He is passed over for promotion at work, has a nagging shrew of a wife, and is generally disrespected by all he comes in contact with. He devises a scheme to get what he feels he is owed. After executing his well thought out plan of kidnap and ransom, things soon go straight to hell.
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Comedy
Life Is Sweet (1990) Mike Leigh, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Comedy, Drama
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend’s new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon.
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When Women Played Ding Dong (1971) Bruno Corbucci, Antonio Sabato, Aldo Giuffrè, Vittorio Caprioli, Comedy
Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at “Ding-Dong” keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers.
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Chicken Every Sunday (1949) George Seaton, Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Comedy
Tucson, Arizona, circa 1910: Emily Hefferan wants a divorce. In flashback, she recalls twenty years of marriage to Jim Hefferan, who sinks every cent of each new windfall in harebrained investments. Emily only keeps a roof over the family by taking in boarders…more and more of them. But Jim’s latest deal goes just a little too far.
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Heavenly Desire (1979) Jourdan Alexander, Serena, Johnnie Keyes, Seka, Adult, Comedy, Fantasy
The Devil recruits two seductive ghosts to try to make two virgins lose their virginity in a sorority house in order for them to gain entrance into Hell.
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Les États-Unis d’Albert / The United States Of Albert (2005) André Forcier, Éric Bruneau, Émilie Dequenne, Andréa Ferréol, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Albert Renaud, a young Quebec actor with aspirations to become the next Rudolph Valentino, sets off by train for Hollywood with a letter of recommendation from his drama teacher who is Mary Pickford’s aunt.
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Hot T Shirts (1980) Chuck Vincent, Ray Holland, Glenn Mure, Stephanie Lawlor, Comedy, Erotic
In order to avoid the closure a bar the owner and some friends organize a wet-T-shirt competition. As they thought this attracks new people and certainly money.
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Twenty Bucks (1993) Keva Rosenfeld, Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Elisabeth Shue, Comedy, Drama
The film follows a $20 bill from its ATM birth to its eventual demise. Along the way, the note weaves in and out of the lives of a street person, an aspiring writer, a stripper, two thieves, and many others in surprising and inventive ways.
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M’ agapas? / Love Me Not? (1989) Giorgos Panousopoulos, Andreas Barkoulis, Betty Livanou, Myrto Parashi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
The bitter-sweet story, told in flashbacks,of a man over fifty who spent his lifetime fascinated by women and the sexual power they exerted on him. This film celebrates eroticism. It contains sexually explicit scenes,male and female frontal nudity.
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Aozora Musume / The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara, Comedy, Drama
Ayako Wakao plays good-natured Yuko, the illegitimate daughter of a well-off executive, raised in the country by relatives. Journeying to Tokyo she finds Father’s Western-style house to be a nest of vipers straight out of There’s Always Tomorrow, replete with Terrible Children, a housekeeper who sees all, and a dog named Cal with his own doghouse. But Yuko meets it all with aplomb; she’s interested in one thing only, finding her real, cast off mother.
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