Comedy

  • Cédric Klapisch – Chacun cherche son chat aka When the cats away (1996)

    1991-2000Cédric KlapischComedyFranceRomance

    Chloe, a young woman, is going on holidays. She entrusts her beloved cat to Madame Renée’s care. But one day Madame Renée (an old lady of the neighborhood) can not find the cat. Chloe starts searching the neighborhood… This is the pretext for the exploration of a quarter of Paris and his inhabitants.Read More »

  • Luigi Zampa – Frenesia dell’estate (1964)

    1961-1970ComedyItalyLuigi Zampa

    PLOT:
    Starring in this bustling summer comedy are Vittorio Gassman (an army captain terrified of falling in love with Gigi, a cabaret transvestite who instead turns out to be a charming girl), Amedeo Nazzari (icon of masculine beauty of our cinema of the 40’s, which lends himself to the irony of this film going into the shoes of a fashion wearer a bit too over the years, trying to win back his girlfriend, and boss, making her jealous by bragging a relationship with a girl, Foschina, much younger than him), Philippe Leroy (nonchalant young Tuscan who teaches swimming to beautiful foreign girls and meanwhile “plays” at being a small entrepreneur in the field of advertising, causing instead lots of trouble and involving poor Luigi into them) and Sandra Milo (buxom and “generous” hot donuts vendor, who ends up taking care of an ill-fated Spanish cyclist, played by Vittorio Congia).Read More »

  • Shady Srour – Hawa Moqaddas AKA Holy Air (2017)

    2011-2020ComedyIsraelShady Srour

    Adam is a Christian Arab living in Nazareth – member of a vanishing minority within a minority in the Holy Land and the Middle East. His wife Lamia is a strong, beautiful and progressive Arab woman, who runs a foundation for women’s rights. When Adam hears that Lamia is pregnant and his father falls very ill, he evaluates his life and realizes that he has not achieved much. Despite all his business ideas failing so far, he gives one last try to make it big. And what’s better to sell in the Holy Land other than the very air that Virgin Mary breathed during her annunciation?Read More »

  • Walter Boos – Schulmädchen-Report 12. Teil – Wenn das die Mammi wüßte AKA Carnal Campus (1978)

    1971-1980ComedyEroticaGermanyWalter Boos

    The framework action is this time the editorial meeting of a school newspaper. In five episodes, the film describes how school-age young women in search for (physical) love in precarious situations.Read More »

  • Tatsumi Kumashiro – Akai kami no onna AKA The Woman with Red Hair (1979)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaJapanTatsumi Kumashiro

    Synopsis
    At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss’ teenage daughter. Then, on the highway, he picks up a red-haired woman walking on the road back to his home. She ends up staying the night. Later, the woman reveals that she has left her husband and son, but refuses to divulge her name. On the other hand, the boss’ daughter informs Kozo’s colleague that she is pregnant. They decide to elope but, before that, he demands Kozo to let him have sex with the red-haired woman…Read More »

  • Claude Autant-Lara – Les Patates AKA Potatoes (1969)

    1961-1970Claude Autant-LaraComedyDramaFrance

    France, 1942. During the Nazi Occupation, the Ardennes falls in the “forbidden zone” between the German Occupied North and the Vichy governed South. Its inhabitants face starvation as movement of people and supplies into the area are strictly controlled. To save his family, Clovis risks his life crossing the boundary to get hold of potatoes which he intends to plant in a patch of unused land. Knowing that his family’s survival depends on the success of his scheme, Clovis becomes increasingly obsessed with his crop of potatoes…Read More »

  • Matthew Rankin – Une langue universelle AKA Universal Language (2024)

    2021-2030CanadaComedyDramaMatthew Rankin

    An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories finds a mysterious point of intersection in this tale set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran.Read More »

  • Sook-Yin Lee – Year of the Carnivore (2009)

    Drama2001-2010CanadaComedySook-Yin Lee

    Sammy Smalls is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective, catching shoplifters for her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. She is head over heels for scruffy musician Eugene Zaslavsky. He’s perfect for her, but doesn’t want to be in a relationship.

    After a disastrous one-night stand, Eugene suggests they play the field to get more experience. Following his advice, Sammy hatches a plan catapulting her on a quest that takes her through her neighbours’ bedroom, the public swimming pool, and finally to blackmailing shoplifters into giving her sex lessons in the woods behind the supermarket.Read More »

  • Nathan Silver – Between the Temples (2024)

    2021-2030ComedyNathan SilverUSA

    Quote:
    A cantor is locked in a crisis of faith and finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.Read More »

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