Comedy

  • H.C. Potter – Hellzapoppin’ (1941)

    1941-1950ComedyH.C. PotterMusicalScrewball ComedyUSA

    Plot: Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines them an absurd story. They have to support Jeff and Kitty in setting up a musical revue in their garden and want to bring it up on Broadway. If Jeff is successful he can marry Kitty. But there is his rich friend Woody, who also loves Kitty, Chick’s sister Betty, who’s in love with a false Russian count, and detective Quimby. They all make the thing very complicated for Ole and Chick. After some mistakes they think that Kitty isn’t the right girl for Jeff and they start sabotaging the show, but the Broadway producer is impressed and signs the contract. That’s the story the writer tells them. For this he’s sued by the director.Read More »

  • Werner Nekes – Johnny Flash (1986)

    1981-1990CampComedyGermanyWerner Nekes

    Synopsis: The unemployed electrician Juergen Potzkothen (Helge Schneider) lives with his mother (Andreas Kunze) and dreams of happiness as a pop singer. When he presents a demo tape to the artist agent Terrence Toi (also Andreas Kunze), he is -rather coincidentally- dedicated and gets the artist’s name Johnny Flash. But the music editor Cornelia Dom wants him for her music broadcast commitment too. Naive Juergen now stands inbetween the emerging rivalry of both music agents and their commercial interests. Ultimately, however, he gives the vocal performance in Tois broadcast and hits the big breakthrough to a large overnight star.Read More »

  • Takashi Miike – Bijitâ Q AKA Visitor Q (2001)

    2001-2010AsianComedyJapanTakashi Miike

    Synopsis;
    A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.

    A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. “Q”, a perfect stranger somehow gets involved and enter the bizzare family who’s son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict…Read More »

  • Jean Girault – La soupe aux choux AKA The Cabbage Soup (1981)

    1981-1990ComedyFranceJean GiraultSci-Fi

    Synopsis:
    One evening, two old French farmers, Le Glaude (Louis de Funès) and Cicisse (Jean Carmet), start a farting contest which seems to provoke a lighting storm. What actually happens is that they send a signal to aliens and one (Jacques Villeret) arrives to change their lives.Read More »

  • José Luis Marquès – Fuckland (2000)

    1991-2000ArgentinaComedyDramaJosé Luis Marquès

    From All Movie Guide:
    In this offbeat comedy-drama, a man from Argentina (Fabian Stratas) with a curiously strong patriotic streak decides it’s high time someone from his country did something about the Falkland Islands, the British-controlled territory that was claimed by Argentina during a brief and ill-starred conflict during the 1980s. The man launches his own private campaign against the British by visiting the Falklands and romancing a woman from England (Camilla Heaney), with the intention of getting her pregnant and abandoning her later on. Read More »

  • Philippe Agostini – L’âge heureux [+Interview] (1966)

    1961-1970ComedyFrancePhilippe AgostiniTV

    – Interview with Delphine Desyeux (dancer) included

    Delphine’s dream is to become a ballerina; another young dancer, Julie, is jealous of her.Read More »

  • Claude Zidi – Les ripoux AKA My New Partner (1984)

    France1981-1990Claude ZidiComedyCrime

    Synopsis:
    Inspector René Boirond has been policing a crime-ridden neighbourhood of Paris for over twenty years. In that time, he has learned that the best way to do his job is to turn a blind eye to most of the petty criminality that surrounds him and adopt a live and let live approach to dealing with crooks, pimps and other lowlife. Of course, the backhanders he receives by way of recompense is always a welcome supplement to his meagre salary. René’s mutually advantageous system is suddenly placed in jeopardy when François Lesbuche, a young and enthusiastic cop straight out of police school, is assigned to work with him.Read More »

  • Dimos Avdeliodis – I earini synaxis ton agrofylakon AKA The four seasons of the law (1999)

    Drama1991-2000ComedyDimos AvdeliodisGreece

    Plot
    Chios Island, 1960. Due to the sudden death of the field guard at the village of Tholopotami, the Community Council urgently asks for a replacement from the area’s Agronomist. All the remaining, available field guards refuse to work at that village because of its bad reputation and because of the fact that their co-worker passed away while on duty. But when the Community Council raise up the issue again, offering this time a higher salary to the one who will accept the position, 4 candidates turn up…Read More »

  • Peter Brook, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson – Red White And Zero (1967)

    1961-1970ComedyDramaLindsay AndersonPeter BrookTony RichardsonUnited Kingdom

    A film in three parts
    Part One – The Ride of The Valkyrie

    An opera singer must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance.Read More »

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