Movies and TvShows featuring "stepladder" theme.

Arabesque (1966) follows a college professor who becomes entangled in a complex spy adventure in London, involving a shipping magnate and a plot to assassinate a political figure. With elements of mystery and intrigue, the professor must navigate a web of double agents and high-stake conspiracies to uncover the truth.

Berth Marks is a black-and-white silent film that follows the chaos that ensues when two vaudeville performers try to catch a train. With their slapstick comedy and buffoonery, they get into various misadventures, including jumping onto a moving train, ripping clothing, and standing on each other's backs.

In Homeless Hare, released in 1950, a homeless hare finds himself at a construction site and causes chaos with his antics. He gets hit with a brick, falls into wet cement, and plays with girder and hot rivets. The construction workers try to get rid of him, but the hare outsmarts them at every turn. The plot is filled with surrealism and slapstick comedy.

Beyond the Stars is a drama sci-fi movie that revolves around an astronaut who carries a secret tragedy. The plot follows the astronaut's journey as he deals with his mother-son relationship, alcoholism, and a promise made in the past. Along the way, he encounters various events such as a storm, rain, and a parking-a-car incident. The movie also touches upon themes of handicapped man, palm reading, and the significance of a whale. As the story unfolds, the astronaut's journey leads him to a greenhouse, a restaurant, and numerous encounters with his father. The suspense builds as he discovers a framed photograph and a spacesuit, eventually leading him to moon-crater and a telephone-call-in-bed scene. Through the use of a telescope, refrigerator, and map, the astronaut unravels the secrets of his past and comes face to face with black-man and black-woman characters. The movie also showcases the beauty of flowers and the complexity of arguments, culminating in a captivating moon walk scene. Drinking beer, space suits, and awakening moments add to the overall space sci-fi atmosphere. As the astronaut looks at himself in the mirror, he realizes the true extent of his journey and the vastness of outer space. The movie also features a model rocket and a powerful portrayal of a black American character looking at oneself in a mirror.

Head Over Heels is a surrealistic animated short film that tells the story of a couple living in a gravity-defying house. The husband lives on the ceiling while the wife lives on the floor, and they start to drift apart in their daily routines. However, when a series of unexpected events occur, they find a way to reconnect and rediscover their love for each other.

Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.

In 'I Can Hardly Wait,' a series of comedic mishaps and chaotic events unfold as three bumbling friends try to fix a broken bed, pull a tooth, and crack a safe, leading to hilarious consequences.

The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.

Andy "Sunshine" Wilson, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, catches a ride with motorist Luckenbach who is on a suicide mission, and nearly succeeds in his mission. Luckenbach is a great portrait artist suffering under the slight handicap of being unable to "do ears." The artist has painted a beautiful portrait of the wife of Pietro Cellini with the exception that her left ear is several times larger than it should be and not painted very well at that. Cellini also holds the keys to the city and Luckenbach getting the job of painting the city hall rides on Cellini's satisfaction with his wife's portrait. Andy accompanies the artist back to his studio, and this short being made in the pre-code days ensures the studio is filled with models wearing a little less than somewhat and less than that in a couple of cases.

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.

Frida, a housemaid from Eastern Europe, serves a doctor's family in 1980s Stockholm. As the family celebrates a centenary, Frida reflects on her life, love, and the changing times.