Comedy

  • Claude Berri – Jean de Florette (1986)

    Claude Berri1981-1990ComedyDramaFrance

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    A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.Read More »

  • Mai Zetterling – Flickorna AKA The Girls (1968) (HD)

    Drama1961-1970ComedyMai ZetterlingSweden

    A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play “Lysistrata” in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.Read More »

  • Duncan Wood – Hancock (BBC version) (1961)

    1961-1970BBCComedyDuncan WoodTVUnited Kingdom

    Comedian Tony Hancock stars, in this BBC situation comedy TV series, as Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living in East Cheam.Read More »

  • Hermine Huntgeburth – Ruhe! Hier stirbt Lothar (2021)

    ComedyDramaGermanyHermine Huntgeburth

    When the misanthropic tile salesman Lothar is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he sells his business and gives his dog and all his money to an animal shelter and checks into a hospice, where it turns out that he was misdiagnosed.Read More »

  • Lucio Fulci – Uno strano tipo AKA The Strange Type (1963)

    1961-1970ComedyItalyLucio FulciMusical

    Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a “punk”, Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend’s newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.Read More »

  • Adrienne Shelly – Sudden Manhattan (1996)

    1991-2000Adrienne ShellyArthouseComedyUSA

    A comedic urban fantasy which graphs the foibles of a young Manhattan resident, Donna, who’s under seige in her own neighborhood. Laid off from her museum job, harassed by her love-obsessed landlord, and simply uninspired to leave her own apartment, Donna’s already complex life takes a turn for the worst when she inadvertently witnesses a murder. She then begins to doubt her own sanity as she encounters prophetic street poets, dysfunctional would-be boyfriends, and love-deranged friends.Read More »

  • Frantisek Cáp – Nas avto (1962)

    1961-1970ComedyFrantisek CápYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Summary:
    A photographer decides to buy a car with the money he’ll get for his prizewinning photo, but the postman brings only a diploma instead of money. Being subjected to the ridicule of their neighbors, his family decides to buy an used Buick, in spite of being against it at first. That would turn out to be a huge mistake, since the breakdowns are more often that they can afford.Read More »

  • Ray Dennis Steckler – Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966)

    1961-1970ActionComedyRay Dennis StecklerUSA

    It starts off seriously enough, with three thugs robbing an innocent young woman at night in the city, but then switches to Vin Saxon and Carolyn Brandt doing a goofy Elvis-like rock ‘n roll number (very charming though). The next day the thugs are bored. Picking a name at random out of the phone book, they decide to terrorize Carolyn Brandt. After some campy dramatic scenes, she is kidnapped by the goons. They decide to ransom her. After receiving the ransom call, Vin Saxon and the good-natured, but not-to-bright gardener sit around despondent, wondering what to do. “There’s only one thing to do!” exclaims Vin. The two rush off into the next room and become the costumed heroes Rat Pfink and Boo Boo!Read More »

  • Pedro Almodóvar – ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! AKA What Have I Done To Deserve This? (1984)

    1981-1990ComedyCultPedro AlmodóvarQueer Cinema(s)Spain

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    A dysfunctional family in Madrid: Gloria is a cleaning lady, hooked on No-Doze, living in a crowded flat with Antonio, her surly husband, a cabby who adores an aging German singer he used to chauffeur; he’s also a forger. One teen son sells heroin, the other sleeps with men. Her mother-in-law keeps bottled water and cupcakes under lock and key, selling them to the family. Two alcoholic writers cook up a plot to sell a manuscript as Hitler’s memoirs, if Antonio will transcribe it in Hitler’s hand. He agrees, so they ask the German singer to play the role of the original owner since her past affinity for Nazi memorabilia makes her a likely candidate. Meanwhile, Gloria has given away one son to a sex-crazed dentist, and grandma picks up a pet lizard. Can this chaos be tamed?Read More »

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