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Dumb and Dumber(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 2,761 votes)

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.

Directed by Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly - With Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Victoria Rowell, Teri Garr, ...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(2013)

PG
| 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 3,435 votes)

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

Directed by Ben Stiller - With Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Adam Scott, Adrian Martinez, Amy Stiller, Andy Richter, ...
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Bliss(2021)

1h 43min | Science Fiction, Romance / Love, Drama
2.8/5 (with 260 votes)

A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.

Directed by Mike Cahill - With Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Madeline Zima, Nesta Cooper, Joshua Leonard, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., ...

Life as a House(2001)

R
| 2h 5min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 175 votes)

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

Directed by Irwin Winkler - With Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone, Mary Steenburgen, Ian Somerhalder, ...
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Mayhem(2017)

NR
| 1h 26min | Action, Comedy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 272 votes)

A virus spreads through an office complex causing white collar workers to act out their worst impulses.

Directed by Joe Lynch - With Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Caroline Chikezie, Kerry Fox, Dallas Roberts, ...
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A Dog's Life(1918)

NR
| 34min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Charles Reisner, ...
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Validation(2007)

16min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 42 votes)

A cheerful parking attendant considers it his job to do more than validate parking. He wants to validate the customers themselves, delivering compliments about their appearances and the inner qualities behind them. Everyone who comes up to him with a ticket walks away validated as a worthwhile human being. Soon, the parking attendant becomes so popular that people line up for validation...

Directed by Kurt Kuenne - With Vicki Davis, T. J. Thyne

Lost in America(1985)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 56 votes)

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

Directed by Albert Brooks - With Julie Hagerty, Albert Brooks, Art Frankel, Garry Marshall, Larry King, Maggie Roswell, ...
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Frozen Land(2005)

2h 7min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 25 votes)

When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.

Directed by Aku Louhimies - With Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola, Petteri Summanen, Matleena Kuusniemi, Mikko Kouki, ...

Animals(2008)

1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
2.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Syd Jarrett is an unsuspecting, down-and-out man in a washed-up hick town who gets pulled into a sub-culture of blood-hungry creatures. He encounters Vic, a renegade whose animal instincts are stronger than his human ones. As things begin to get even worse, Jarrett realizes that his best chance for happiness, and survival, lies in his true love for Jane.

Believe in Me(1971)

1h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot prospect in his internship program. Pamela works at a children's book publishing company. The two meet via Pamela's brother, who is also Remy's good friend. They fall in love and get an apartment in the East Village of New York. Soon after, the couple begins to indulge in speed and barbiturates. They become heavily addicted. Remy is thrown out of medical school and Pamela quits her job. Remy soon finds himself in debt with the local dealer, Stutter, who introduces his customer to heroin as a revenge for his late bill. Pamela faces the prospect of getting sober at her brother's clinic, but must leave behind a destitute Remy in order to do it.

Directed by Stuart Hagmann - With Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset

Il toro(1994)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former company and smuggles it in Hungary to sell it for a large sum of money.

Directed by Carlo Mazzacurati - With Diego Abatantuono, Marco Messeri, Roberto Citran, Marco Paolini, Ugo Conti, Alberto Lattuada, ...
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Shadows on the Stairs(1941)

1h 4min | Mystery, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

Directed by D. Ross Lederman

Face to Face(2011)

1h 26min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by Michael Rymer - With Vince Colosimo, Sigrid Thornton, Luke Ford, Matthew Newton

Bad Little Angel(1939)

NR
| 1h 12min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Directed by Wilhelm Thiele - With Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds

Affectionately Yours(1941)

1h 28min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon - With Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, ...

Maryland(1940)

NR
| 1h 32min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.

Directed by Henry King - With Walter Brennan, Brenda Joyce, Charles Ruggles, Clarence Muse, Dick Jones, Ernest Whitman, ...

Polly of the Circus(1932)

NR
| 1h 9min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.

Directed by Alfred Santell - With Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton, Ruth Selwyn, Edward LeSaint, ...
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We Who Are Young(1940)

1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A man violates company policy by getting married.

Directed by Harold S. Bucquet - With Lana Turner, Gene Lockhart, Grant Mitchell, Henry Armetta, Jonathan Hale, Clarence Wilson, ...

Fugitives for a Night(1938)

NR
| 1h 3min | Mystery, Romance / Love

A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.

Directed by Leslie Goodwins - With Frank Albertson

Hard to Get(1938)

NR
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

Directed by Ray Enright - With Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Allen Jenkins, Bonita Granville, Charles Winninger, Grady Sutton, ...

Twenty Million Sweethearts(1934)

1h 29min | Music, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.

Directed by Ray Enright - With Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Allen Jenkins, Henry O'Neill, Oscar Apfel, ...

Make Me a Star(1932)

1h 26min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

Directed by William Beaudine - With Arthur Hoyt, Ben Turpin, Charles Sellon, Florence Roberts, Helen Jerome Eddy, Joan Blondell, ...

Draegerman Courage(1937)

58min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.

Directed by Louis King - With Barton MacLane, Henry O'Neill, Walter Miller, Paul Panzer, Addison Richards

No Marriage Ties(1933)

1h 12min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.

Directed by J. Walter Ruben - With Richard Dix

Sally, Irene and Mary(1938)

NR
| 1h 26min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Directed by William A. Seiter - With Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Jimmy Durante, Gregory Ratoff, Gypsy Rose Lee, Eddie Collins, ...

Chopping Block(2016)

1h 22min | Comedy, Horror
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

CHOPPING BLOCK follows a group of corporate guys who get laid off. Desperate times call for desperate measures. They decide to kidnap their ex-boss's daughter for ransom. Things take a bloody turn, when the boss's daughter just happens to be the only survivor of a masked psychopath. A masked psychopath still out for blood. Hilarity & bloodshed ensue...

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Use Your Imagination(1933)

17min | Romance / Love
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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The Chief(1933)

1h 5min | Comedy

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

Directed by Charles Reisner - With Ed Wynn, Chic Sale, Dorothy Mackaill, Mickey Rooney, C. Henry Gordon, Purnell Pratt, ...

Vehemence(2010)

2h 5min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love

A guy starts seeing the new office temp who is also the object of affection of her psychotic friend. The psycho embarks on terror campaign with dreadful consequences for the couple and the people closest to them.

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