Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. Read More »
Comedy
Le farceur / The Joker (1960) Philippe de Broca, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Palau, Comedy
Edouard Berlon (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponisbly from one affair to another. Read More »
Sonntagsfahrer / Sunday Drivers (1963) Gerhard Klein, Angelica Domröse, Erika Dunkelmann, Gerd Ehlers, Comedy, Drama
“Sunday Drivers” is an uneasy road comedy in which disgruntled “bourgeois remnants” set out from Leipzig for Berlin, where they plan to sell their cars and cross to the West. Read More »
Eat with Me (2014) David Au, Sharon Omi, Teddy Chen Culver, Nicole Sullivan, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Emma only knows one way how to add spice to her life… by squirting it from a bottle of hot sauce. Read More »
After Sex (2007) Eric Amadio, Marc Blucas, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Comedy, Drama, Romance
After Sex is a background to examine intimacy and vulnerability. Looks at the complexity of modern day relationships told through eight separate couples. Read More »
I Lived with You (1933) Maurice Elvey, Ivor Novello, Ursula Jeans, Ida Lupino, Comedy, Romance
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. Read More »
Me and My Gal (1932) Raoul Walsh, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen’s sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
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Spook Busters (1946) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille, Comedy, Mystery
The Bowery Boys–Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck–start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Read More »
Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan (1951) Vittorio De Sica, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Read More »
Buta to gunkan / Pigs and Battleships (1961) Shôhei Imamura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Kinta is caught in the mesh of poverty and opts out by joining the local yakuza gang. His greed draws him into the drug dealing, pimping, and racketeering that fill the gang’s coffers. Read More »
I nostri mariti (1966) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Alberto Sordi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Alessandro Cutolo, Comedy, Romance
Movies in three episodes due to three different hands. In the first, D’Amico, a young man is attracted by a rather masculine woman. Read More »
Cinderella (1957) Ralph Nelson, Julie Andrews, Ilka Chase, Edie Adams, Musical, Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Believed lost since its one-night-only television broadcast in March of 1957, the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s made-for-TV musical features then-rising Broadway star Julie Andrews Read More »
Adiós Amigo (1976) Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor, James Brown, Action, Comedy, Western
Hold your horses and hang on to your hat. Richard Pryor and Fred Williamson are riding into town in the funniest, wildest western this side of the Rio Grande. Read More »
Das fidele Gefängnis / The Merry Jail (1917) Ernst Lubitsch, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Paul Biensfeldt, Comedy
Based on Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, the actions of ‘The Merry Jail’ occur over the course of a single eventful day and night. Read More »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Michael Anderson, John Farrow, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. Read More »