Tagged: genre: comedy

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Rare Exports

Rare Exports is a Finnish film that follows the excavations of a “sacred” tomb of what some believed to be the original Santa Claus, who instead of giving good kids gifts, punishes naughty ones. Little Pietari, an awkward little boy, is the only inhabitant of the Korvatunturi mountains who suspects what they have unleashed, as supplies begin to get stolen and kids begin to disappear.

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Peep World

Peep World is a dysfunctional family comedy about how the naked truth can mend inevitable familial discontent.

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Irene (1940)

Largely forgotten musical romance from RKO Radio Pictures, starring Academy Award winner Ray Milland and Anna Neagle. The film features a stunning technicolor sequence.

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Personal Property

Personal Property is a 1937 romantic comedy helmed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Robert Taylor and the original blonde bombshell, Jean Harlow.

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Hula Girls

Hula Girls, set in the 1960s, follows a group of girls that set out to learn to hula dance in order to save their town from the decline of the coal mining industry. The heads of families are losing their jobs, and tensions arise from the fact that they want to open a Hawaiian center in a really cold city.

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Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Makoto Konno, your typical, tomboy-ish high school student. One day Makoto falls in a classroom and she suddenly has the ability to travel through time as she wishes.

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Paco and the Magical Book

Tetsuya Nakashima’s Paco and the Magical Book tells the story of grumpy old Okunuki (Yakusho) as he enters a board meeting and is sent to a hospital, in which he meets a whole bunch of picturesque characters, including a little girl named Paco who can only retain memories for a day.

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Summer Wars

Summer Wars is part techie-adventure, part family-dramedy. Coming from Japan, home of some of the finest quality animation, it’s got luscious art and flawless animation technique.

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Just Go with It

Just Go with It is a romantic comedy about loser plastic surgeon Danny, who pretends to be trapped in a fail marriage to get laid, and his assistant, single-mother of two Katherine, who ends up going to Hawaii with him and her kids because Danny is trying to pick up way-too-young, kid-loving but sexy Palmer.

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Dream High

Six students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars. In between struggles and moments of joy, they find out their true selves.