Comedy

  • Georges Lautner – Le monocle noir AKA The Black Monocle (1961)

    Georges Lautner1961-1970ComedyCrimeFrance

    Synopsis:
    The Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle.Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono AKA My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1988)

    Nobuhiko Obayashi1981-1990ComedyDramaJapan
    Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono (1988)
    Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono (1988)

    It depicts a unique parent-child love through the appearance of a father and daughter reuniting for the first time in 15 years. A theatrical version of the tele feature aired on Nippon Television in 1988. The screenplay was co-written by Rio Kishida and Yo Saiki of “Prosperity of Vice.” The director is Nobuhiko Obayashi of “Futari”. The cinematographer is Yoshinao Sakamoto of “BEST GUY”.Read More »

  • Sergio Corbucci – Sono un fenomeno paranormale (1985)

    Sergio Corbucci1981-1990ComedyItaly
    Sono un fenomeno paranormale (1985)
    Sono un fenomeno paranormale (1985)

    Quote:
    Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that make the miracle cry out to everyone.Read More »

  • Juliana Rojas – Sinfonia da Necrópole AKA Necropolis Symphony (2014)

    Juliana Rojas2011-2020BrazilComedyMusical
    Sinfonia da Necrópole (2014)
    Sinfonia da Necrópole (2014)

    In the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of messing with the dead.Read More »

  • Robert Aldrich – The Longest Yard (1974)

    Robert Aldrich1971-1980ComedyCrimeUSA
    The Longest Yard (1974)
    The Longest Yard (1974)

    Ex-football star Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) ends up in a prison run by sadistic sports-nut Warden Hazen (Eddie Albert). Strong-armed into forming an inmate football team, Crewe manages to instill an esprit de corps previously lacking in the prisoners’ lives. Besides, they now have the chance to beat the guards’ football team, headed by the hissable Capt. Knauer (Ed Lauter). Hazen orders Crewe to throw the match; otherwise, Crewe will never get the pardon he’s been promised. The football game that follows consumes nearly a third of the picture.Read More »

  • Pál Sándor – Régi idök focija aka Football of The Good Old Days (1973)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaHungary
    Régi idök focija (1973)
    Régi idök focija (1973)

    „By the middle of the 70s, partly due to television, Hungarian films had lost much of their audience. The allure of disguised social criticism – one of the secret reasons why Hungarian films were so successful at foreign festivals – started to wear off. After 1968 social criticism became pointless. The first director to open up towards the audience (along with Zoltán Fábri) was Pál Sándor. Mourning the loss of left-wing ideals of freedom he recreated the illusion of a past community. The audience responded to his grotesque, nostalgic tone and the stories where the emphasis was always placed on the microclimate of human relationships. His “retro-films” were rich in self-irony. He never analysed and never criticised, he just told a story, created a poignant atmosphere and passionate characters. (Szeressétek Odor Emíliát – Love Emilia! 1968, Régi idők focija – Football of The Good Old Days 1973, Herkulesfürdői emlék – A Strange Role 1976, Szabadíts meg a gonosztól – Deliver Us from Evil 1978).Read More »

  • Lindsay Anderson – O Lucky Man! (1973)

    Lindsay Anderson1971-1980ComedyUnited Kingdom

    One man’s dreams of success take him on a Byzantine journey through the various stations of the British class system in this politically charged black comedy from director Lindsay Anderson. Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is an ambitious young man who is looking to get his foot on the first rung of the ladder of success by landing a job as a salesman. After the death of Imperial Coffee’s leading drummer in the North, Travis’ charm and enthusiasm so impresses manager Mr. Duff (Arthur Lowe) that he’s given the job, and after some coaching from Gloria Rowe (Rachel Roberts), Travis sets out to find his fortune in the coffee trade.Read More »

  • Tom Six – I Love Dries (2008)

    2001-2010ComedyNetherlandsTom Six
    I Love Dries (2008)
    I Love Dries (2008)

    The famous Dutch singer Dries Roelvink is abducted after a gig in a local discotheque. He ends up in a mobile home right in the middle of nowhere amongst two of his biggest “fans”: Freek and Teuntje. They are a friendly but unattractive couple who are missing one major thing in their lonely lives: a child of their own. But regrettably, they both can’t have any children. Meanwhile Freek and Teuntje are trying to let their Idol feel comfortable in their mobile home and gradually it becomes clear to him why he has been taken there.Read More »

  • Jack H. Harris – Unkissed Bride (1966)

    1961-1970ComedyJack H. HarrisUSA
    Unkissed Bride (1966)
    Unkissed Bride (1966)

    A young couple’s honeymoon is disrupted by the groom’s childhood obsession with Mother Goose. Unable to consummate the marriage, they head off to the psychiatrist, where the fun really begins (LSD as a treatment!?!).Read More »

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