Comedy

  • Zbynek Brynych – Engel, die ihre Flügel verbrennen AKA Angels with Burnt Wings (1970)

    1961-1970ComedyDramaGermanyZbynek Brynych

    Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother’s apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert’s parents who are searching as well…Read More »

  • Brad Anderson – The Darien Gap (1996)

    1991-2000Brad AndersonComedyUSA

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    A twenty-something slacker is moving to the south in hopes of capturing a picture of the giant sloth, and finally make a fortune in this low-key affair. Lyn Vaus, a young man who still feels traumatized because their parents had been divorced two decades ago, is trying to go to Patagonia. Since he can not afford a transport, he decides to hitchhike. Unfortunately, he comes down to Panama to a place that is 80 miles from the Darien Gap, a huge swamp that somehow have to cross.Read More »

  • Candy Flip & Theo Meow – Die traurigen Mädchen aus den Bergen AKA The Sad Girls of the Mountains (2019)

    2011-2020Candy FlipComedyExploitationGermanyTheo Meow

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    Four depressive teenagers withdraw from patriarchal society to start a new life in a mountain hideout. They transform their misery and melancholia into pornography for their website “Sad Girls” – and use the money they earn to fund their survival. For them, sadness is an act of counter-cultural resistance. Just when everything seems to be going fine, the arrival of two gonzo reporters threatens to upset the fragile balance of this feminist micro-utopia. A mockumentary about about sad porn stars, feminism and fragile masculinities.Read More »

  • Alois Brummer – Gefährlicher Sex frühreifer Mädchen AKA Private School Girls (1972)

    Alois Brummer1971-1980ComedyEroticaGermany

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    The caretaker of a girls’ school is charged with lewd behavior, and a number of students testify at the trial.Read More »

  • Herbert Ross – Play It Again, Sam (1972) (HD)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaHerbert RossUSA

    Synopsis:
    A film critic obsessed with Casablanca (1942) seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.Read More »

  • Paul Bartel – Shelf Life (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyCultPaul BartelUSA

    Paul Bartel directed this film version of a performance art piece by O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, and Jim Turner, who play Tina, Pam, and Scotty — three grown-up kids who have spent the last thirty years sealed off in a backyard family bomb shelter. A prologue explains what happened: in 1963, when John Kennedy is assassinated, a typical middle-class family from Anaheim retreat to their backyard bomb shelter, afraid that the commies are coming. In 1993, they are still there — even Mom and Dad, who have since died, but the bones are laid out nicely on their bed. The brother and two sisters, in worn-out clothing, amuse themselves by playing silly little games (something called “Egyptian Fantasy” with Ken as the Pharaoh), engaging in absurd rounds of role playing (Tina as a high-school tease), and hurling senseless rebukes at one another (“I can’t hear you. I’ve got a set of encyclopedias up my butt” ).Read More »

  • Patricia Rozema – I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)

    Arthouse1981-1990CanadaComedyPatricia Rozema

    Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle’s art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.Read More »

  • Silvestre Jacobi – Roots Time (2006)

    2001-2010ComedyJamaicaSilvestre Jacobi

    Synopsis:
    Considered a reggae movie and documentary, that came out back in 2006 and it has also been dubbed “a Road Movie”.
    “Roots Time” is a Jamaica and Argentina production, and the film is directed by Silvester Jacobi for Mistikal Films. The project has been filmed in the island of Jamaica and tells the story of “Jah Bull” and “Baboo” and the colorful car that brings them places.Read More »

  • David Lynch – On the Air (1992)

    1991-2000ComedyDavid LynchTVUSA

    The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Only two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.Read More »

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