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The History Boys
2006 • Drama
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their m…
Why matched: genres Drama
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008 • Adventure • Comedy • Family
When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way, they discover that Christmas…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
Withnail & I
1987 • Drama • Comedy
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment off…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Private Peaceful
2012 • Drama • Romance • War
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, an…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Blame It on the Bellboy
1992 • Comedy
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech looking for a little actio…
Why matched: genres Comedy
A Private Function
1984 • Comedy
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Hen…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Shanghai Surprise
1986 • Romance • Adventure • Crime
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them…
Why matched: genres Romance, Adventure
Funny Bones
1995 • Comedy
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Venus
2006 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
King Ralph
1991 • Comedy
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 • Crime • Comedy
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Guarding Tess
1994 • Drama • Comedy
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the curre…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Goldeneye
1989 • Drama • History • TV Movie
British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Sleepy Hollow
1999 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murd…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Ballet Shoes
2008 • Drama • Family
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Family
Gorky Park
1983 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his ow…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 • Science Fiction • Adventure • Comedy
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new editi…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Adventure
Bedtime Stories
2008 • Romance • Comedy • Family
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000 • Documentary
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 • Adventure • Fantasy
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Fantasy