Comedy
Trading Places (1983) TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
Trading Places
6.8 (5 ratings) director: John Landis actor: Dan Aykroyd / Eddie Murphy
other title: Una poltrona per due / Bossen og bumsen
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rare Exports
director: Jalmari Helander actor: Onni Tommila / Jorma Tommila
other title: Trasporto eccezionale - Un racconto di Natale / Et fandens juleeventyr
Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData
When Harry Met Sally...
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Rob Reiner actor: Billy Crystal / Meg Ryan
other title: Harry, ti presento Sally... / Da Harry mødte Sally
Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry's determined not to let his attraction to Sally destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in a morning of panic, can the pair avoid succumbing to Harry's fears by remaining friends and admitting they just might be the perfect match for each other?
A Christmas Story (1983) TMDB
A Christmas Story
director: Bob Clark actor: Melinda Dillon / Darren McGavin
other title: Una storia di Natale / En Julehistorie
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
Saloon Bar (1940) IMDb WikiData
Saloon Bar
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Elizabeth Allan
On Christmas Eve, a group of pub regulars led by a bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempt to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man the next day.
Bernard and the Genie (1991) NeoDB IMDb Douban
Bernard and the Genie
director: Paul Welland actor: Lenny Henry / John Gabriel
other title: Bernie und der Weihnachtsgeist
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
Stalled (2013) Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Stalled
director: Christian James actor: Dan Palmer / Antonia Bernath
A janitor gets trapped in a women's restroom and encounters an all-out attack by a horde of zombies.
Comfort and Joy (1984) IMDb
Comfort and Joy
director: Bill Forsyth actor: Bill Paterson / Eleanor David
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
director: Jeremiah S. Chechik actor: Chevy Chase / Beverly D'Angelo
other title: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Un Natale esplosivo! / Fars fede juleferie
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
Volunteers (1985) IMDb WikiData
Volunteers
director: Nicholas Meyer actor: Tom Hanks / John Candy
other title: Un ponte di guai / Broen, der kvajede sig
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Bad Black (2016) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bad Black
director: Nabwana IGG actor: Nalwanga Gloria / Alan Hofmanis
A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.
Future Cops (1993) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
超級學校霸王
director: Wong Jing actor: Andy Lau / Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau
other title: Chao ji xue xiao ba wang
In the year 2043, an evil crime lord is trying to take over the world. Only one government official stands in his way, and plans to send him to prison, so The General and his minions Kent, Thai King, and Toyota travel to the year 1993 to kill the official before he has a chance to get into office. During a battle with The General's minions, the Future Cops Lung, Broom Man, Ti Man, and Ah-Sing hear of their evil plan and devise a plan of their own to travel back in time to protect the official.
Laser Mission (1989) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Laser Mission
director: BJ Davis actor: Brandon Lee / Debi A. Monahan
other title: fire mission / Misión láser
A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, could be used to make a laser cannon.
Gremlins (1984) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Gremlins
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Joe Dante actor: Zach Galligan / Phoebe Cates
other title: Gremlins - O Pequeno Monstro / Gremlins - Kleine Monster
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
Matinee (1993) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Matinee
director: Joe Dante actor: John Goodman / Cathy Moriarty
other title: Panik premiere / Pânico em Florida Beach
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8.3 (6 ratings) director: Robert Zemeckis actor: Bob Hoskins / Christopher Lloyd
other title: Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit / Hvem Snørede Roger Rabbit?
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Slings & Arrows (2003) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Slings & Arrows
director: Bob Martin / Susan Coyne actor: Paul Gross / Stephen Ouimette
other title: Slings and Arrows
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987) IMDb WikiData
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
director: John Fasano actor: Jon Mikl Thor / Jillian Peri
other title: Im Angesicht der Hölle / Al filo del infierno
At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their first night in the farmhouse after dinner, and weird little beasties suddenly appear, and strange things start to happen. Band members (and their tagalong girlfriends) begin to act strangely and vanish one by one. Soon, only John Triton remains, and he holds a secret. Finally, the evil shows itself and a battle between heaven and hell ensues....