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Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.
Mark | imdb: 3.8 |
Genre | comedy, musical, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom |
The comedy film sees TV Burp star Hill embark on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | action, comedy, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, Mexico |
Duration | 01:36 |
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, sport |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, musical, family, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school elite.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Italy |
Duration | 01:28 |
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure, western |
Country | USA |
Mitch Robbins 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:54 |
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:47 |
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only to learn that Price & Sons Shoes is failing. While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer, Lola. Her complaints about the inadequate footwear for her work combined with one of Charles' ex-employees, Lauren, leads to a suggestion to change the product to create a desperate chance to save the business: make men's fetish footwear. Lola is convinced to be their footwear designer and the transition begins. Now this disparate lot must struggle at this unorthodox idea while dealing both the prejudice of the staff, Lola's discomfort in the small town and the selfish manipulation of Charles' greedy fiancée who cannot see the greater good in Charles' dream.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:17 |
Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash's evil plan?
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, comedy, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:45 |
A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers. Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:29 |
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | fantastic, comedy, melodrama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, USA, France |
Duration | 02:04 |
Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, musical |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
Mark | imdb: 3.5 |
Genre | comedy, family, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:33 |
Zany adventure that follows The Spice Girls and their entourage (mostly fictional characters) - manager Clifford, his assistant Deborah, and filmmaker Piers (who is trying to shoot a documentary on "the real Spice Girls").
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Italy |
An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is sure to cause trouble in their mundane lives.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | comedy, family |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:46 |
The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:05 |
Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Sweden, France |
Duration | 02:21 |
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and dispatch an angel to collect him.