Comedy

  • Todd Louiso – Love Liza (2002)

    Todd Louiso2001-2010ComedyDramaUSA
    Love Liza (2002)
    Love Liza (2002)

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    Wilson Joel is a man in trouble. There’s a searing pain in his gut that he can’t tolerate and a dazed quietness to his struggle as he tries to maintain his equilibrium. Wilson is attempting to move on from the sudden and inexplicable suicide of his wife. His mother-in-law is there for him, but her sympathies turn quickly. He has an employer that seems to want to help him, and a workmate who wants him for herself. But nothing and no one can give Wilson solace; so, he seeks oblivion. It is not the usual alcohol or drugs. Wilson inhales fumes from gasoline cans and model airplane fuel and finds temporary salvation in the company of remote-control model enthusiasts. However, nothing that provides him relief really lasts.Read More »

  • Thomas McGuane – 92 in the Shade (1975)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaThomas McGuaneUSA
    92 in the Shade (1975)
    92 in the Shade (1975)

    “Adapted from his own superb, blackly comic novel of eastern seabord eccentrics, macho mythology and the ultimate Florida face-off, McGuane’s sole film as director is one of the most enjoyable messes ever to be suppressed as unsaleable. His literary talent lionised and his film reputation secure on scripts for Rancho Deluxe, Missouri Breaks and Tom Horn, McGuane here exhibits a totally appealing incompetence as director: the movie’s got all the coherence of an amiable narrative jam-session. Storywise, Fonda wants to set up as a Key West fishing guide; Oates claims a monopoly and threatens to kill him if he does. That’s it…except for the crazy-quilt interaction of cultishly-cast fringe characters, mouthing idiosyncratically lively dialogue and obviously having a ball. Jimmy Buffet’s songs might give you some hook for what’s going on, but the fun’s infectious anyway.” – TimeOut LondonRead More »

  • Ali Abdel-Khalek – El-Keif AKA The High (1985)

    Ali Abdel-Khalek1981-1990ComedyDramaEgypt
    El Keif (1985)
    El Keif (1985)

    As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it’s all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.Read More »

  • H.C. Potter – The Time of Your Life (1948)

    H.C. Potter1941-1950ComedyDramaUSA
    The Time of Your Life (1948)
    The Time of Your Life (1948)

    The film follows the adventures of a group of regulars at Nick’s ‘Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace’ in San Francisco. A sign outside tells people to come in as they are. At the center is the wealthy Joe (James Cagney), who has given up working to hold court at Nick’s (William Bendix) bar. He desires to live “a civilized life” without hurting anyone and believes the real truth in people is found in their dreams of themselves, not the hard facts of their actual existence.[4] Joe has a stooge named Tom (Wayne Morris), who runs his eccentric errands until a woman with a past named Kitty (Jeanne Cagney) comes in and steals Tom’s heart. Also appearing are Broderick Crawford as Krupp, Ward Bond as McCarthy, Tom Powers as Blick, and James Barton as Kit Carson.Read More »

  • Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things (2023)

    Yorgos Lanthimos2021-2030ComedyDramaIreland
    Poor Things (2023)
    Poor Things (2023)

    Bella is a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Under the scientist’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.Read More »

  • S. Shankar – Jeans (1998)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaIndiaS. Shankar
    Jeans (1998)
    Jeans (1998)

    Vishu and Ramu are a pair of Indian twins living in America with their father, Rajamani. When Madhumita (Aishwarya Rai) and her brother come to America to get medical treatment for their ailing grandmother, Vishu and Ramu end up meeting them at the airport. Vishu falls in love with Madhumita, and the couple has everyone’s blessing, except for Rajamani, who is estranged from his own twin brother. He only wants his sons to marry twin sisters, so Madhumita pretends to have a twin in order to please him. As Madhumita puts on a charade by creating Vaishnavi, all goes well, until Ramu falls in love with Vaishnavi. Now the truth must come out, before Madhumita has to marry both of Rajamani’s twin sons.
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  • John Waters – Cecil B. DeMented (2000)

    John Waters1991-2000CampComedyUSA
    Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
    Cecil B. DeMented (2000)

    Roger Ebert
    August 18, 2000

    My best guess is that John Waters produced the talent shows in his high school. There’s always been something cheerfully amateurish about his more personal films–a feeling that he and his friends have dreamed up a series of “skits” while hanging out together.

    “Cecil B. Demented” takes this tendency to an almost unwatchable extreme, in a home movie that’s like a bunch of kids goofing off.Read More »

  • Peter Schrøder – Det forsømte forår AKA Stolen Spring AKA The Lost Spring (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyDenmarkDramaPeter Schrøder
    Det forsømte forår (1993)
    Det forsømte forår (1993)

    At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer. Written by Allan SimonsenRead More »

  • Florian Gallenberger – Grüner wird’s nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon AKA As Green As It Gets (2018)

    2011-2020AdventureComedyFlorian GallenbergerGermany
    Grüner wird's nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon (2018)
    Grüner wird’s nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon (2018)

    Georg “Schorsch” Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, he grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself.Read More »

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