Comedy

  • Georgi Daneliya – Mimino (1977)

    1971-1980ComedyGeorgi DaneliyaUSSR

    Mimino is a Georgian helicopter pilot, carrying all sort of stuff (humans, animals, objects… and movies) to and from the isolated villages in the astoundingly beautiful Georgian valleys.

    His dream is to become a jet pilot, traveling the world and enjoying the company of nice hostesses, and for this reason he moves to Moskva aiming to obtain his promotion. While in Moskva orchestrating his way to meet Aeroflot executives, he stumbles on an Armenian truck driver with whom he’ll have to share struggles in the big metropolis.Read More »

  • Dudley Nichols – Government Girl (1943)

    1941-1950ClassicsComedyDudley NicholsUSA

     

    Plot:
    Washington DC in the war. The machinery of government is a hive of endless if not seamless activity. Arnament production is the name of the game, by fair means or foul. Ed Browne, more used to making cars in Detroit, is having to try and get planes made in this maelstrom. Luckily or unluckily, he finds he has a secretary who knows the political ropes – and her own mind.Read More »

  • Karel Zeman – Baron Prasil (1962) (HD)

    1961-1970AdventureComedyCzech RepublicKarel Zeman

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    The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.Read More »

  • Claude Mulot – Les Petites écolières AKA Little Schoolgirls (1980)

    1971-1980Claude MulotComedyEroticaFrance

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    Synopsis
    Brigitte Lahaie runs a whorehouse that is raided by the cops again. The raid interrupts hooker Marilyn Jess’s session with a transvestite politician. When he is led away she returns to her magazine with a perfect bored pout on her face. The policeman in charge suggests, ironically, that Brigitte runs a school. So she opens a school for sex for young ladies, teaching the lessons herself and employing Alban Ceray and Dominique Aveline as tutors/demonstrators. Four girls enroll. She sells tickets for the graduation cermeony where the students demonstrate their newly acquired skills in a series of hard core mini-plays on stage. Brigitte performs too, with the winner of a raffle among the audience. Then the establishment is raided yet again.Read More »

  • Juan José Campanella – El Hijo de la novia aka Son of the Bride [+Extras] (2001)

    2001-2010ArgentinaComedyDramaJuan José Campanella

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    Quote:
    A great feel-good type of film. Campanella lives up to promise and delivers yet again, as he dives head first into the story of a forty-something going through a mid-life crisis. Ricardo Darin (Rafael Belvedere) shows us why he’s one of South America’s biggest stars as he puts in a performance to rival “Nine Queens” (another great Argentinian film). He’s complemented by Natalia Verbeke who plays his girlfriend (and who is in possession of the world’s greatest smile) and Héctor Alterio and Norma Aleandro who play his parents. Aleandro in particular contributes some magnificent scenes, playing an aged woman struggling to cope with mental illness. A really good film that will restore your faith in humanity….A bit corny?? oh well…. Funny, original, and well put together. Recommended for everyone!!Read More »

  • Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov – Luna Papa (1999)

    Drama1991-2000Bakhtyar KhudojnazarovComedyRussia
    Luna Papa (1999)
    Luna Papa (1999)

    The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.Read More »

  • Kentucker Audley – Open Five (2010)

    USA2001-2010ArthouseComedyKentucker AudleyMumblecore

    A blend of reality and fiction, “Open Five” follows the story of Jake, a struggling musician and his sidekick, Kentucker, a maker of “poor” films and what happens when two girls (Lucy and Rose) venture down to Memphis for a long weekend. Written by K Audley

    “a loamy, bittersweet ramble through the emotional and practical tangles of its young artists’ lives, as well as through the inner and outer life of Memphis itself, with its vigorous musical scene and its gospel churches and Graceland itself. Open Five should be distributed and made available on a big screen at a local movie theatre; in any case, its free online presence is a rare gift.”
    Richard Brody, The New YorkerRead More »

  • Lynn Shelton – Humpday (2009)

    2001-2010ComedyLynn SheltonMumblecoreUSA

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    College buddies Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Justin Leonard) are reunited in Seattle when the latter comes crashing into his pal’s marital bliss, in more ways than one. As a kind of bet – Andrew is involved in a porn-themed art project – they agree it would be pretty far out if two straight men were to have sex on camera. While drunk, they volunteer and set a date.
    In the cold light of day, neither wants to be the one to back down: the funniest idea in Lynn Shelton’s bracing, superbly-acted low-budget comedy is how this now-or-never challenge becomes a clinching test of machismo. Ben knows his wife (Alycia Delmore) is never going to be cool with it, and bottles out of asking. To be fair, the film does a fair amount of squirming itself, but not before giving honest and hilarious thought to the carnal intricacies of the whole project.Read More »

  • Aleksandr Ptushko – Skazka o poteryannom vremeni aka A Tale of Lost Times (1964)

    1961-1970Aleksandr PtushkoComedyFantasyUSSR

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    Quote:
    One day, four sorcerers appeared out of the blue in the streets of a small town. These evil old people had long been dreaming of getting back their former vigor and youth. But to do that, they had to find people who would aimlessly waste their time. And they were very lucky: four schoolchildren had proved ideal guinea pigs for the magicians. The kids and the old people changed their roles for a while. You can’t even imagine what happened! The schoolchildren had to hide for some time in an abandoned house on the outskirts of the town – they just couldn’t appear before their parents as bearded, bent, old persons. Meanwhile, the sorcerers had their fun at school in the guise of their victims. And only on a certain day and at a certain hour, time could be turned back again…
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