Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »
Comedy
Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel, Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Comedy, Drama
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Read More »
Rum Runners (1971) Robert Enrico, Lino Ventura, Brigitte Bardot, Bill Travers, Adventure, Comedy
In the prohibition years, the ‘rumrunners’ travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. Read More »
Smoking/No Smoking (1993) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Peter Hudson, Comedy
In Yorkshire, Toby Teasdale is the alcoholic director of a school and married with two children with Celia Teasdale that is very unhappy. Read More »
Freak Orlando (1981) Ulrike Ottinger, Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins, Comedy, Fantasy
In the form of a “small theater of the world”, a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors Read More »
Vagabond Lady (1935) Sam Taylor, Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, Reginald Denny, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. Read More »
Two Tickets to Paris (1962) Greg Garrison, Joey Dee, Gary Crosby, Kay Medford, Comedy, Musical
In this musical, fairly light movie, two young people, Joey and Piper are in love. Read More »
The Devil to Pay! (1930) George Fitzmaurice, Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Frederick Kerr, Comedy, Romance
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. Read More »
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman, Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Comedy, Romance
It’s late nineteenth century Sweden. Middle aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his nineteen year old current wife Anne Egerman’s two-year marriage has not yet been consummated. Read More »
The Great Morgan (1946) Nat Perrin, Frank Morgan, Leon Ames, Carlos Ramírez, Comedy, Musical
The film is considered one of the more unusual in the MGM canon in that it is a compilation film built around a slight plot line, with a running time of less than 60 minutes. Read More »