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The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 • Romance • Comedy • Fantasy
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecil…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Dottie Gets Spanked
1993 • Drama • Comedy
A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Still of the Night
1982 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the pa…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985 • Comedy • Action
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Why matched: genres Comedy, Action
Off Beat
1986 • Comedy
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take…
Why matched: genres Comedy
WarGames
1983 • Drama • Thriller • Science Fiction
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Departm…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Used People
1992 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Shoot the Moon
1982 • Drama • Romance
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Stardust Memories
1980 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Crocodile Dundee
1986 • Adventure • Comedy
When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured com…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
Tune in Tomorrow...
1990 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, retu…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981 • Drama • Crime • Action
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, whi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Flamingo Kid
1984 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his fathe…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Arthur
1981 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
So Fine
1981 • Comedy
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Money Pit
1986 • Romance • Comedy
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare.…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Annie
1982 • Drama • Comedy • Family
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Deconstructing Harry
1997 • Drama • Comedy
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Marathon Man
1976 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller