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The Addams Family(1991)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 1,990 votes)

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen(2004)

PG
| 1h 29min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 397 votes)

Lola is an ambitious teenager who aspires to be a famous stage actress, but ger dream of performing on Broadway suffers a setback when her family moves from New York City to suburban New Jersey. Determined to make the best of it, however, Lola embarks on a mission to become the most popular girl at her high school, a goal that sets her on a collision course with the catty Carla Santini.

Secondhand Lions(2003)

PG
| 1h 51min | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 335 votes)

The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.

All About Steve(2009)

PG-13
| 1h 39min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 442 votes)

After one short date, a brilliant crossword constructor decides that a CNN cameraman is her true love. Because the cameraman's job takes him hither and yon, she crisscrosses the country, turning up at media events as she tries to convince him they are perfect for each other.

Rules Don't Apply(2016)

PG-13
| 2h 7min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 217 votes)

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

Hello, My Name Is Doris(2015)

R
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 214 votes)

A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.

Benny & Joon(1993)

PG
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 342 votes)

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

You Can't Take It with You(1938)

NR
| 2h 6min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 163 votes)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Whatever Works(2009)

PG-13
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 779 votes)

Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works.".

Juliet of the Spirits(1965)

2h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 141 votes)

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

Auntie Mame(1958)

3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

Exit Through the Gift Shop(2010)

R
| 1h 27min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 379 votes)

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

Directed by Banksy - With Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Mr. Brainwash, Rhys Ifans, Invader, André, ...
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The Old Dark House(1932)

NR
| 1h 12min | Comedy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 102 votes)

Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

PG
| 1h 56min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

Angel(2007)

2h 14min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.8/5 (with 60 votes)

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.

Buddy(1997)

PG
| 1h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.4/5 (with 29 votes)

An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

Grey Gardens(1976)

PG
| 1h 35min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 91 votes)

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

Life Is Sweet(1990)

R
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 67 votes)

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. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film's subject.

Bates Motel(1987)

PG
| 1h 35min | Horror, Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
2.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Alex West is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Bates' California hometown and with a little help from a teenage runaway, Willie, Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?

Roseanna's Grave(1997)

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.

Laughter in Paradise(1951)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.

Directed by Mario Zampi - With Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton, Hugh Griffith, G. D. H. Cole, ...

Hairshirt(1998)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Romance / Love
1.8/5 (with 6 votes)

A self-obsessed man runs through one woman after another in this screwball comedy. One of his rejected former lovers decides to take it upon herself to see to it that he never develops another relationship.

Directed by Dean Paraskevopoulos - With Katie Wright, Rebecca Gayheart, Stefan Brogren

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession(2004)

2h 1min | History, Documentary
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

Vernon, Florida(1981)

55min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

Directed by Errol Morris

The Cat and the Canary(1939)

NR
| 1h 12min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 26 votes)

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story(2019)

1h 40min | Documentary, Music, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

The hilarious and bizarre story of Frank Sidebottom, the cult British comedian in a papier mâché head, and the secretive life of Chris Sievey, the artist trapped inside.

Rich Man, Poor Girl(1938)

1h 12min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Lilian's Story(1996)

1h 34min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve out a place for herself. As she explores Sydney and the people who live and work around her she sees others looking for love. Lilian shows us it is never too late to change your life and that even unusual choices can bring contentment.

Rubin & Ed(1991)

1h 22min | Adventure, Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed's ex-wife Rula and an elusive Andy Warhol critic.

Directed by Trent Harris - With Crispin Glover

All She Wishes(2015)

1h 30min | Fantasy, Comedy, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

When her birthday wish magically summons wacky Hollywood actor Drake to her small Midwestern town, Sophie has to figure out how to help him fit in until she can get him back home. But Drake is more interested in helping Sophie stand out.

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