Comedy
see all genres ›Expressly designed to amuse, comedies use physical humor, sight gags, parody, farce and satire as they upend social convention and deliver belly laughs. Aristotle traced the origins of comedy back to boisterous phallic rituals. A survey of contemporary comedy places him not far off the mark.
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Genres / Comedy
SUB-GENRES · Black Comedy · Anarchic Comedy · Farce · Mockumentary · Parody · Political Satire · Romantic Comedy · Screwball Comedy · Slapstick · Coming of Age · Dysfunctional Family
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That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel's final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle to the director's lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Matthieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flare,...Watch Movie
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A Shock to the System
A middle-aged advertising executive loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man. In frustration, he accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train... and gets away with the death. Realizing that committing murder might be a little easier than he previously...Watch Movie
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Time Piece
Very simply, TIME PIECE is the story of Everyman, frustrated by the typical tasks of a typical day. In Jim Henson's Academy Award®-nominated short, the narrative is presented without dialogue. The man's experiences, actual or conceptual, are visualized through stream-of-consciousness editing,...Watch Movie
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Dogtooth
Graceful, enigmatic and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children...Watch Movie
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The Trial
Adapted from the novel by Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL stars Anthony Perkins as Joseph K., an innocent victim charged with an unnamed crime. Masterfully directed by Orson Welles, who sets a riveting, maddening and brilliantly disturbing pace. While the source for THE TRIAL is described as "restored" it...Watch Movie
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Marriage Italian Style
One of the most famous and funniest Italian comedies of all time, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress for Sophia Loren at the Academy Awards®. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman...Watch Movie
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The Big Easy
When a hood's murder triggers a bloody gangland drug war, detective Remy McSain is on the scene. He's a smooth-talkin' cop who fits right in with the easy style of Cajun country. Remy meets his match in Anne Osborne a no-nonsense Assistant District Attorney in town to investigate police...Watch Movie
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Mood Indigo
Eminently inventive auteur Michel Gondry finds inspiration from french novelist Boris Vian's cult novel to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris. Set in a charmingly surreal Paris, Duris plays wealthy bachelor Colin, whose...Watch Movie
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Spider Baby
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of ten or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their...Watch Movie
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A Summer's Tale
Gaspard, a recent university graduate, arrives at the seaside in Bretagne for three weeks' vacation before starting a new job. He's hoping his sort-of girlfriend, the fickle Léna, will join him there; but as the days pass, he welcomes the interest of Margot, a student of ethnology working as a...Watch Movie
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Who am I This Time?
Mix together a small town community theatre's shy leading man and the lovely telephone worker who moves into town and you have a perfect recipe for a delightful romantic comedy. Academy Award® winners Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken star as the couple who discover that...Watch Movie
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Natural Selection
Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW and nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Actress for Rachael Harris, NATURAL SELECTION is a wonderfully irreverent comedy about a devoted Texas housewife whose carefully ordered world is turned upside...Watch Movie
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Dark Star
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest...Watch Movie
