Big Deal on Madonna Street is a lighthearted crime drama about a group of small-time crooks who plan an attempted burglary. The film explores their various misadventures and the challenges they face as they try to carry out the heist. Filled with humor and social commentary, Big Deal on Madonna Street combines elements of neorealism with satirical parody.
Carry On Behind is a comedy film set on an archaeological dig, where a group of characters get into various mishaps and comedic situations. With lots of slapstick humor and sexual innuendo, the film follows the misadventures of the archeologists and their interactions with each other and the locals.
Max Dugan Returns is a comedy-drama film from 1983. It follows Nora McPhee, a high school English teacher and single mother, whose life takes an unexpected turn when her estranged father, Max Dugan, shows up unannounced. Max, a con artist, carries a suitcase full of money and offers to help Nora and her son financially. As Nora navigates the challenges of her relationship with her father and the choices she has to make, she learns valuable lessons about family and love.
Good Sam follows the story of a do-gooder husband and wife who find themselves in a series of hilarious and heartwarming situations during the Christmas season. From their encounters with a Salvation Army band and a stuffed toy panda to their involvement in a charity fundraiser and a mugging, this movie navigates the ups and downs of their lives with humor and warmth.
Foreign Land is a fast-paced movie that follows the story of a young man who finds himself caught in a dangerous chase across different countries. As he tries to evade pursuit and stay alive, he encounters various obstacles and characters, including hitmen, criminals, and a blind man. The movie explores themes of love, death, and the criminal underworld.
Romance in Manhattan is a screwball comedy about a Czech immigrant taxi-driver who falls in love with a chorus girl. They face various obstacles, including deceit, tension, and treachery, as they navigate their way through the dire straits of the 1930s. With the backdrop of the Great Depression, this film explores themes of faith, resolvement, and betrayal.
A Season for Miracles follows a woman named Beth who takes her sister, who is on the run from the law, and her two children to a small town in Rhode Island. While hiding from the police, Beth and her family encounter a series of events that lead to miracles and a chance at finding love. The film explores themes of hope, family, and the magic of Christmas.
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
After their mother passes away, a group of siblings are left to navigate the challenges of life on their own, including dealing with an absentee father and facing secrets and betrayals within their family. They struggle to survive and protect each other, learning the importance of self-sufficiency and the power of sibling relationships.
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go straight and marry her. Mary buys a $1000 Liberty Bond as an investment, while Joe saves up and buys a taxi to start his own business. Then Maisie, Mary's wild and money-crazy sister, shows up, which leads to tragedy.
Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
A penniless barber schemes to marry his wealthy landlady for her money, but friends, foes-and the Gods-intervene.
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
Three specific and separate stories of life's passing parade are presented.
Members of two families illustrate correct and incorrect manner of taking care of their obligations to one another.
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