Farce
see all genres ›These witty cinematic missives comment on the absurdity of everyday life via sharp exaggeration and a few key injury-inducing pratfalls.
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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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Uncle Kent II
In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film UNCLE KENT, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world. Reuniting in the GREMLINS 2 of "Indie" sequels, Joe Swanberg, Jennifer Prediger and Tipper...Watch Movie
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1964 Academy Awards®, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling...Watch Movie
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Li'l Quinquin
Bruno Dumont proves as eccentric and engaging a director of comedy as he is of enigmatic art house drama with LI'L QUINQUIN, a four-part miniseries with the strangest genre mix this side of TWIN PEAKS. There is a tale of adolescent boredom and mischievous antics over a summer vacation in rural...Watch Movie
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The Seduction of Mimi
THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI is a raucous comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller. Giancarlo Giannini gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job,...Watch Movie
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Roland Young stars in H.G. Wells' light-hearted comedy about what happens when some bored celestials decide to give "an ordinary little fellow" the power to work miracles just to see what he will do with it. George, a draper's assistant, is suddenly endowed with the mystical...Watch Movie
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Hellaware
HELLAWARE gently satirizes the world of high-brow art through the eyes of a wannabe photographer who becomes consumed by the bright lights of mainstream success. Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite shit" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic...Watch Movie
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A Chairy Tale
In this Academy Award®-nominated short film, a chair (animated by Evelyn Lambart), refuses to be sat upon, forcing a young man to perform a sort of dance. The musical accompaniment is by Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal. This virtuoso film is the result of a collaboration between Norman McLaren and...Watch Movie
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS, a wildly comic fable, stars the beloved stone faced clown Toto as an Italian everyman, and Ninetto Davoli as his good-natured but empty headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as a...Watch Movie
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Not Now Darling
Based on Ray Cooney's record-breaking stage farce, NOT NOW DARLING follows the misadventures of insatiable womanizer Gilbert Bodley, the boss of an exclusive West End fur salon. In order to give up his mistress Janie an expensive mink coat without upsetting her jealous husband, Gilbert agrees to...Watch Movie
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The Millionaire
Decades before Leona Helmsley willed millions of dollars to her dog, this snappy Soviet animated film invented the same premise for an absurdist portrayal of the corrupting influence of wealth. The bulldog heir treats himself to all manner of luxury and finds that money is the only social...Watch Movie
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Puckoon
When an Irish Free State is set up in the 1920s, the border is drawn right through the middle of the village of Puckoon, through the middle of the pub and the churchyard. Based on Spike Milligan's much-loved novel, PUCKOON digs at the stupidity of the military and religion in this typically...Watch Movie
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Gertie the Dinosaur
Premiered in Winsor McCay's vaudeville act as a multi-media performance with McCay in person cracking a whip while commanding his cartoon dinosaur to obey him. A triumph of personality animation that inspired a generation to enter the movie cartoon field, among them Paul...Watch Movie
