A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n’ roll.Read More »
Comedy
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Amy Heckerling – Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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George Gallo – Trapped in Paradise (1994)
1991-2000ComedyGeorge GalloUSAResidents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers’ plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.Read More »
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Pasquale Festa Campanile & Massimo Franciosa – Le voci bianche (1964)
1961-1970ComedyDramaItalyMassimo FranciosaPasquale Festa CampanileQuote:
Set in the 17th century, Le voci bianche tells the story of a young Roman youth,
Meo (Paolo Ferrari), who embarks on a career as “castrato,” although he manages to
escape the mandatory castration. As a “castrati” he comes into contact with the upper
classes of his time, and becomes a kind of casanova with the often bored and sex
starved wives of the rich and wealthy. For an early directorial effort, this is a
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Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet – Les amours d’Anaïs AKA Anaïs in Love (2021)
2021-2030Charline Bourgeois-TacquetComedyFranceRomanceQuote:
Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Emilie – whom Anaïs also falls for. This is the story of a restless young woman. And the story of a profound desire.Read More » -
Hugh Wilson – Guarding Tess (1994)
Drama1991-2000ComedyHugh WilsonUSADoug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed. He wants off her detail. She is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands. Doug returns with no idea of how to continue dealing with her.Read More »
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Annelise Reenberg – Frøken Nitouche (1963)
1961-1970Annelise ReenbergComedyDenmarkMusicalA convent girl school’s music teacher has composed an operetta. He has to escort his best student to an arranged marriage, but they head for his theater premiere instead.Read More »
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Fred Olen Ray – Mob Boss (1990)
1981-1990ComedyEroticaFred Olen RayUSAA dying mob boss (William Hickey) gives the job to his goofy son (Eddie Deezen), who needs a crash course in how it’s done.Read More »
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King Ampaw – Kukurantumi AKA Kukurantumi: Road to Accra (1983)
1981-1990ComedyDramaGhanaKing AmpawQuote:
In this revealing African comedy-drama that contrasts the hectic life in Accra, the capital of Ghana, with the relative peace of Kukurantumi, a rural town, a truck driver makes runs between the two locations with few problems until he is forced to replace his truck. In order to raise the money to get a new vehicle, he sells some stolen watches and promises his daughter in marriage to a rich merchant. Rebelling against this fate, the daughter runs off to Accra with her boyfriend — but then nothing turns out quite like she had planned, and the rich merchant looks better with each passing day.Read More » -
Hal Roach – The Housekeeper’s Daughter (1939)
1931-1940ComedyCrimeHal RoachScrewball ComedyUSASynopsis
A gangster’s moll runs home to mother, with reporters and amateur detectives hot on her tail. Cast: Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan, Victor Mature.Read More »









