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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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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The Crush
Nominated for the 2011 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. Ardal Travis is in love. There's just one problem. He's an eight year old schoolboy and the object of his affection is his Second Class teacher, Miss Purdy. But when her boyfriend arrives on the scene Ardal is heartbroken. His...Watch Movie
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L'assenza
By chance, a man sees his double in an Italian film of the early 1960s. Fascinated, he returns to see the film again and again, only to find the images changing with every viewing. Becoming addicted to his own image, he travels to Paris for another encounter with his doppelganger. In the...Watch Movie
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Yes, We Love
Ten-year-old Birger hates marching with the boys' brigade. War hero Konrad refuses to listen to another sumptuous Constitution Day speech. Graduation queen Carina just cannot believe Morten isn't interested in her. And father-of-two Ola searches for his 'self' in a hunting lodge in arctic Svalbard.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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Wish 143
Nominated for the 2011 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. When a fifteen-year-old boy discovers he has months to live he is granted one wish from the Dreamscape Charity. However, David doesn't want to go to Disneyland or meet a star footballer, what he really wants is an hour alone with a...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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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
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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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Female Pervert
Phoebe is seeking a true connection, unfortunately she doesn't relate to people like most in "normal society." She starts making changes, and as her road to self improvement unfolds, her more eccentric interests lead her down a darker path. She meets a few men, hoping to spark a love connection....Watch Movie
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Charade
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant return to work with director Stanley Donen in the stylish and serpentine CHARADE, a blend of espionage thriller and romantic comedy that is today frequently described as the best movie Alfred Hitchcock never made. Bored and rich Reggie Lampert (Audrey Hepburn)...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
